The Back Shelf

Everything here works a shift in the kitchen before it earns a label. Three things we cook with, two things we wear, and a card that buys supper for somebody else.

ShippingPantry goods travel anywhere in the lower 48 — flat $8, free over $75, packed Tuesdays. Pie does not ship. Pie will never ship.

Working ingredients

Bottled and tinned in the back room, off the same batch the kitchen pulls from.

Amber sorghum syrup in a glass bottle with a cream label on a walnut counter

Holler Sorghum Syrup

$18

16 oz bottle

Single-field sorghum from Sourwood Gap Farm, pressed and simmered the week it's cut. The same bottle we lacquer the meatloaf with. Pour it on anything with a crumb.

Bottle of red pepper vinegar with whole peppers visible inside, warm window light

Marquee Pepper Vinegar

$12

10 oz bottle

Cider vinegar steeped with pequin and ripe cowhorn peppers grown in Hominy Valley. Sits on every table in the house; now it can sit on yours.

Open brass-colored tin of dark dry rub spice blend on butcher paper

Filling Station Dry Rub

$14

6 oz tin

Coffee, sorghum sugar, smoked paprika, and enough black pepper to mean it. What the patty melt gets before the griddle. The tin is worth keeping.

Wear the marquee

Printed in Marshall, forty minutes down the mountain, on stock that survives a kitchen.

Oxblood-red t-shirt with a cream marquee arrow graphic, folded on a walnut table

Marquee Tee

$32

S–3XL, cream on oxblood

Heavyweight cotton tee with the H&H marquee arrow across the chest and SUPPER NIGHTLY down the sleeve. Pre-washed so it fits like you've had it for years.

Two-Lane Cap

$28

One size, brass snapback

Mustard-gold twill crown, oxblood bill, the arrow mark stitched front and center. Built by a fourth-generation hatmaker in Marion, NC.

Ticket-stub style gift card in oxblood and cream lying on checked linen

Supper Gift Card

$100

$50 / $100 / $200

A card good for supper, pie, provisions, or all three. Printed on ticket stock, mailed in a lined envelope with a handwritten hold-the-date.

Ready when you are — review your check.