Southern-Made Food Gifts You Should Always Keep On Hand

Buy It: $7.50; savannahbee.com

This sweet, mellow honey is perfect in a cup of tea or drizzled over a hot biscuit.

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Choose from a selection of cookie flavors, but don’t let the name scare you. The only thing supernatural about these cookies is how quickly they disappear.

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You know it's Southern if it is spicy and pickled. These make the perfect addition to your next cheese tray.

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Send your guests home with the makings of a comforting, Southern pancake breakfast.

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All you need is water, tea, and the sun to produce a pitcher of this peach-flavored refreshing drink.

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Brew a pot of this chicory coffee and fill your home with the wonderful aromas of New Orleans.

Buy It: $12.99; frenchbroadchocolates.com

For baking or just nibbling, your foodie friend will love receiving North Carolina’s French Broad chocolates as a gift.

Buy It: $9; muddypondsorghum.net

Made in Tennessee, the smoky sweetness of this syrup is delicious in everything from cookies to barbecue sauce.

Buy It: $4.50; deltabluesrice.com

Delta Blues rice is grown, milled, and packaged on a multi-generational family farm in the Mississippi Delta.

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Vivian Howard, of North Carolina's Chef & the Farmer restaurant and star of A Chef's Life on PBS, created this Southern-inspired rub, perfect for peel n' eats, low country boils or your favorite fresh catch.

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Straight from Yazoo City, Mississippi, anyone will enjoy receiving this Southern party staple.

Buy It: $9.99; holmstedfines.com

These Southern-made chutneys will put the finishing touch on any holiday cheese board.

Buy It: $4.45; mcewenandsons.com

The Southern Living Test Kitchen dubbed these Alabama grits the “best grits in the South.”

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This unique blend of spices will bring that authentic Cajun flavor to all your dishes.

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These minis are great to stash in your backpack, purse, or picnic basket and take on the road.

Buy It: $25; bullsbaysaltworks.com

Two South Carolina favorites, French Broad Chocolates and Bulls Bay Saltworks, have teamed up to bring us this delicious artisan chocolate bar gift set.

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Your friend may raise her eyebrows when you gift her with a jar of Duke’s. But once she adds it to her next bowl of chicken salad, she will sit down and write you a heartfelt thank you note.

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Treat your friends and family to these classic Southern indulgencies—and buy yourself a box, as well.

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Give these as gifts and your friends will understand why Goo Goos are the South’s favorite candy treat.