Hi All,I signed up on the Serious Eats watercooler group to exchange a food box with a partner. I got someone in CT. Any ideas on what I should send her in terms of Atlanta food? Or something that we can get here that she can't get there? I'm thinking Patak bacon but not exactly sure how to manage getting it there without compromising the quality. Freeze it and put it in a insulated bag? What other items would you recommend? I need about $35 worth of things. Savory, sweet, coffee tea, etc. just not mushrooms (!). Thanks in advance.
Sad about Ms. Ann!Thanks so much for all of the great suggestions. Things are starting to come together now - I'm thinking some "southern" foods but also just some gourmet foods (preferably produced in GA), since this is a food board-related exchange. Patak bacon is going in there for sure.I can't believe it, but I did NOT know about the Georgia section of BHFM. I'm headed there tomorrow to check it out. Lately I've been sucked into the vortex that is the new European aisle.
The one time I had a ghetto burger at Ms. Ann's I enjoyed it. You are right, though, Mike - she did use those nasty tubes of beef product. Guess it was the toppings that made it.Greg - thanks for the update. I should have posted this sooner - I found that out last Thursday. The new European aisle sign includes a "local products" section, but, as I found out from the hipster cheese monger, the GA section is indeed on a central column in the produce section. Almost everything was very expensive but I did end up getting a bag of local caramel popcorn snack. Wish they had told me about the other section with the additional jams and honey.It was interesting, part of what I decided while thinking about this box is that Atlanta is in some ways defined by the large number of cultures represented here now. I ended up with some Southern things: White Lily flour, grits, GA caramel kettle corn, Chachere's jambalaya mix, Asher blue cheese from GA, Patak bacon. The rest are things that are from all over that I thought would be fun to receive myself: Korean fried cracker ball snack, Hungarian Szeged paprika, Chinese "organic" green tea, Korean shrimp crackers, Badia saffron, Korean Pepero almond and chocolate sticks , Japanese bourbon chocolate cookies, Thai green curry paste packet, Indonesian coconut veggie stew packet, and Swedish citron salt flakes.