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OLIVE & CO., Ridgeland, Oxford, and Hattiesburg, joliveco.com * Simply Duo Cheese Sandies, BILLIE'S PECANS, 747 Broad St, Crenshaw, 800.624.7404, billiespecans.com * Red coffee mug and holiday blend "Frosty's Favorite" coffee, CUPS ESPRESSO CAFE, multiple locations, cupsespressocafe.com * Custom earring from PAM WARREN DESIGNS, 662.571.8104, designsbypamwarren.com * Fig and mayhaw jellies, SHADY ACRES, 624 Hwy.

Both jalapeno jelly and mayhaw jelly are quintessentially Southern, but if you can't find either of them, I've found that chopping up fresh jalapenos and mixing it with apple, peach, or apricot jelly does it for me.

and 2:01 a.m., A&E) The guys help Godwin, who rarely asks for favors, pick up a hot tub; Phil and Kay teach Sadie and John Luke how to make mayhaw jelly.

Spreading mayhaw jelly on yellow toast, he said, I saw it laying in the

(A special recommendation: If you go, be sure to try some of the lodge's homemade mayhaw jelly on the biscuits.) Needless to say, hunters always left the table feeling well fortified for the day's activities.

However, I have advised the plums that I am thinking of easier-care alternatives: medlars, loquat, mayhaw, and hardy kiwi.

"People look for things that are different, things that grow in the wild -- muscadine, mayhaw, dewberry, wild plumb or prickly pear -- things that I can pick," she says.

Oasis Specialty Foods showed off an extensive line of fruit-based salsas, dressings, preserves, mustards, grilling sauces, and jellies, all in distinctive flavors such as Amaretto Peach Pecan Preserves, Maw-Maw's Mayhaw Jelly, Roasted Raspberry Chipotle Sauce, and Peachy-Keen Salsa.

There is an old tractor and a concession area selling Swamp Gravy souvenirs and mayhaw jelly.

OLIVE & CO., Ridgeland, Oxford, and Hattiesburg, joliveco.com * Simply Duo Cheese Sandies, BILLIE'S PECANS, 747 Broad St., Crenshaw, 800.624.7404, billiespecans.com * Red coffee mug and holiday blend "Frosty's Favorite" coffee, CUPS ESPRESSO CAFE, multiple locations, cupsespressocafe.com * Custom earring from PAM WARREN DESIGNS, 662.571.8104, designsbypamwarren.com * Fig and mayhaw jellies, SHADY ACRES, 624 Hwy.

The city's existing annual events--for example, MusicFest, the South Arkansas Mayhaw Festival, the Boomtown Classic--serve as the basis for future events.

This is the first year that the thorny mayhaw trees have enough fruit to use and I have waited in lip-licking suspense for the three years since they were planted.