A lifetimes fascination with food somehow led to importing pottery from Europe. Initially we marketed through home parties. During our first Christmas season we realized people were looking for gifts rather than items for themselves so we decided to make our bowls and cups into baskets by going back into the kitchen. After filling them with gourmet goodies we made ourselves, the phone never stopped ringing with people looking for more.
I adapted this recipe from one I clipped out of a magazine what seems like a lifetime ago. It was at least pre Katrina and pre 9/11 and you could get away with carrying on all sorts of things on a plane. On a trip to New Orleans I bo...