A Southern Season is a gourmet food retail and mail-order store based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The store offers an enormous selection of gift baskets, specialty foods, wines, cheeses, coffees, teas, gourmet delicatessen foods, condiments, confections, cookware, utensils, and dinnerware. The store contains a state-of-the-art cooking school, a restaurant, and a card and flower shop. A Southern Season also offers free daily gourmet food “tastings” to its walk-in customers.

Gourmet Food Store Online - Specialty gourmet food store!At Home Gourmet™ hand selects all of our gourmet food products. Our gourmet food store is a an online gourmet retailer of gourmet food products such herbs and spices, wild berry products, jellies, jams, gourmet gift baskets, candies and sauces other specialty gourmet food products. Enjoy!

The 525 chickens tested by Consumer Reports for its January issue were purchased from supermarkets, bulk retailers, gourmet shops and natural food stores in 23 states. Eighty-one percent of the chickens tested were contaminated with campylobacter, 15% with salmonella and 13% with both.