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.