Products | Bite Magazine’s Summer Bite Box : Stephen Jones Favorites

Bite Magazine is excited to release the second edition of its popular Bite Box program featuring selections from Chef Stephen Jones of The Larder + The Delta and Desoto Central Market. The customized collection showcases goods produced by Arizona makers.  Jones’ selections bring to mind a summertime picnic with a loaf of artisan bread, cheese, honey, two spectacular caramels and even juice, tea and a candle.

Each quarter, Bite Magazine asks an outstanding local to appoint a Bite Box with 8-10 of their favorite Arizona-made goods. These aren’t just mini-sized teases of regional components. Instead, they’re everything from hearty loaves of bread and large bottles of barbecue sauce, to T-shirts, tote bags and home décor items—everything intended for you and your friends to partake of the best Arizona has to offer.

“Our curators are on the forefront of Arizona’s makers community,” said Michelle Jacoby, publisher and editor-in-chief of Bite Magazine. “The Bite Box is a way for them to share their discoveries of amazing local products with us and our readers.”

Each Bite Box consists of 8-10 full sized quantities of locally made foods and commodities. The cost is $65 (plus tax) for an individual release or $180 (plus tax) for a subscription to the remaining three editions for 2017.

What will you find in Stephen Jones’ Bite Box? Here’s a taste:

• Tracy Dempsey Originals Fernet Branca Caramels
• Crow’s Dairy Pepper Feta Cheese
• McClendon’s Select Desert Blossom Honey
• Radish “Beets Me” Cold Pressed Juice
• Noble Bread Super Seed Loaf
• Teaspressa Charles Grey Tea
• Salted Serenity Sweets Salted Dark Chocolate Espresso Caramels
• Burn Candle Company Candle

The Bite Box: Stephen Jones Edition can be bought at biteboxaz.squarespace.com. Sales will be open through May 31. The box will be on call for pick up or delivery in mid-June. Details will be communicated directly to purchasers after placing their order.

The 2107 Bite Box program began with collections from Aaron Chamberlin of Phoenix Public Market Café, St. Francis and the soon-to-open Tempe Public Market Café, whose box was released this spring.  Sales from Chamberlin’s box are now closed. The remaining 2017 Bite Boxes are:

• Summer Edition: Stephen Jones, The Delta + The Larder & Desoto Central Market
• Fall Edition: Country Velador, Super Chunk & New Wave Market
• Winter Edition: Editor’s Holiday Picks

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