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. A gourmet is a person with a discriminating palate and who is knowledgeable in fine food and drink. ... Drawing of a self-service store. ... The cover of the first Eatons catalog, published in 1884. ... Nickname: The Southern Part of Heaven Location in North Carolina Coordinates: Country United States State North Carolina Counties Orange, Durham, and Chatham Founded 1793 Mayor Kevin C. Foy Area    - City 51. ...

History

A Southern Season was created in 1975 by Michael Cooper Barefoot as a coffee roastery. In 1978, it was operating primarily as a retail store offering gourmet specialty food items in Chapel Hill. By 2003, it had moved up to a 59,000 square foot space in Chapel Hill's University Mall, making it one of the largest specialty-only gourmet markets in the United States. French roasted coffee beans // Roasting coffee is the transformation of the chemical and physical properties of green coffee beans into roasted coffee products. ... University Mall is an upscale regional mall managed by Kane Realty Corporation, and is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the corner of U.S. 15-501 and Estes Drive. ...

Revenues from all its business lines in 2005 were around $25 million.

Offerings

• A Southern Season retail store
• Weathervane, a restaurant located in the store
• CLASS -- offered cooking classes in a specially-designed space in the store
• Web and catalog-based mail order based in Hillsborough, North Carolina (2.5 million catalogs distributed a year[1])
• "Taste! A Southern Season" store located in Raleigh-Durham International Airport, operated by The Paradies Shops[2]

Hillsborough is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States. ... Raleigh-Durham International Airport (IATA: RDU, ICAO: KRDU, FAA LID: RDU) is located 9 miles (14. ...

External link

• A Southern Season