HOLIDAY HEROES: FIVE FAVORITE WAYS TO SHARE HOLIDAY SPIRIT WITH A DISTINCT TAR HEEL TASTE.

AuthorKinney, Ben

As we enter the holiday season, I'll share some great N.C. food items that are great gifts for clients, employees or anyone else you would like to share a little holiday spirit with. Take these with a grain of salt--though, I wouldn't actually take any more salt, as there is quite a bit already in these ideas. Seriously, we hope you have the best of the season and a very prosperous New Year in 2020. Thanks for being a part of what we do.

Dewey's Bakery's cream horns.

I spent a good part of my childhood in Winston-Salem, so Dewey's was always a go-to for my family. Whether it was Moravian cookies, love feast buns or sugar cake, there was always something good in the kitchen. But 1 had a real affinity for their cream horns. The inside is a light frosting made of what seems like cream cheese and Cool Whip, which are two of my three food groups. The outside puff pastry crust is covered in powdered sugar and so flaky you are definitely wearing it after you eat. Word to the wise: Don't wear black when eating them, and make sure you clean yourself up before you drive; otherwise you look like a scene out of Scarface with all that powdered sugar on you. deweys.com

George's Sauces. My brother-in-law from Wilson introduced this Nashville-based eastern-style sauce to me a few years back. It's vinegar-based with pepper flakes, but I think it has a little sugar as well, which makes a very nice sweet-and-sour, hot mixture that I've never had before. Of course, it's perfect on smoked pig. Here's one of my favorite ways to use it: Soak a whole chicken in it overnight, sit it on a half-can of Budweiser, and then grill for an hour or two over indirect heat, and you have some serious beer-can chicken, Hoss! georgesbbqsauce.com

Mt. Olive Pickles. My father-in-law used to give everyone a box of four to five assorted jars of pickles from the pickle capital of the world, Mount Olive, every Christmas. My wife wasn't too impressed, but I loved...

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