We’re capping our Middle Georgia Gift Box release at just 40 boxes! Don’t dither: Buy your box today.
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This is Cindy Epps of Cindy’s Bits and Pieces, the foremost cheese wafer operation in Dry Branch, and likely the whole of Georgia. In this picture, she’s standing on my Macon doorstep, delivering containers of sharp cheddar straws, threaded with red pepper flakes and nutted with pecan crumbs.
Epps is such a kind soul that I suspect she’d bring her wafers to your door too, if circumstances allowed it. But this newsletter is read from coast to coast, and Epps is awfully busy: For the last 11 years, Epps has hand shaped every wafer she sells at produce markets and in hotel gift shops.
(This summer, Epps acquired an Italian cookie cutter; she’s christened it Flossie, in honor of a great-great aunt who was Macon’s first nurse anesthetist, as well as an enthusiastic home baker who believed there was no pastry problem that lemon glaze couldn’t fix.)
Fortunately, The Food Section is here to serve as your middleman.
As promised, we’re this week rolling out our first-ever themed gift box, the product of intensive backroad scouring and off-grid sampling. In addition to Epps’ cheese wafers, each virtual tasting tour of Middle Georgia includes a dozen items that represent the best of the region’s culinary scene, ranging from chocolate pecans to barbecue sauce. More importantly, each curated component is accompanied by its backstory, chronicled by TFS.
Around the newsroom, we’ve referred to these packages as gift boxes from the start, since we envisioned readers buying them for the upcoming holidays. But now that the boxes are fully assembled, it’s hard to imagine folks not wanting to keep the treasure chests for themselves.
And, speaking of treasure, while each box is mostly the same as the rest, we’re randomly slipping in some surcees for a few lucky buyers. Among the extras that you might find in your box is a TFS apron, the newest addition to our online merch shop. (Don’t want to risk missing out? Buy one here!)
Another bonus is a Macon Bacon pink ticket, which entitles its holder to four all-you-can-eat game passes. It’s important to note that at the Macon Bacon ballpark—the former home field of Pete Rose, Vince Coleman, and Chipper Jones—you can add bacon crumbles to whatever you order.
But for the pork garnishing to start, you need to snag a TFS Middle Georgia box, priced at $40 (plus shipping) for paying subscribers, or $55 (plus shipping) for the general reading public. Because that’s a small price to pay to go to bat for independent food journalism, I suspect these boxes won’t last long.
Order up!
Still on the fence? Feast your eyes on just two examples of how deliciousness is defined in Middle Georgia.
TFS boxes are only available in the continental U.S. Please allow 2-3 weeks for shipping.
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