For more than 25 years, the NC Specialty Foods Association has supported local artisans and helped them promote their specialty foods to consumers and retailers around the state, country and world. Scroll through the slideshow below to discover nine of these local North Carolina products you should try (or gift) this holiday season. Learn more about other members and their products at ncspecialtyfoods.org.

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Sea Monster Sauces

Wilmington-based Sea Monster Sauces offers unique barbecue and hot sauces to the Southeast. Varieties include Surfer Slappin! Sauce, our flagship and top-selling sauce for wings, barbecue and seafood, and Danger Berry, a strawberry habanero hot sauce.

(910) 547-7727

seamonstersauces.com

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NCField&FamilySummer2026
Flip through the pages of the Summer 2026 edition of North Carolina Field and Family magazine. In this issue, find vineyard adventures at U-pick muscadine grape farms, explore the oasis of Manteo, learn more about on-farm markets, enjoy peak berry season with summer berry recipes, read about riveting research on hemp fiber and so much more.

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