We are proud to announce the opening of our new Food as a Verb store.

It's coming online, ready for your holiday shopping. We're finishing up a few details today and tomorrow.

This Friday morning, we'll begin offering t-shirts and hats for sale.

We have our old-school originals, with words that embody our work and community.

And we are formally unveiling our new We Love Farmers! t-shirt for 2026.

We're sold-out of our first edition 2024 hats, but have gobs of our new hats, which are yummy-soft and trucker-cool.

This Friday morning, we'll send out an email with a link to our online store.

Plus, all members of The Table will receive an additional email with a code for 15% off all merch.

These hats and shirts make great presents: original, comfy and unlike any other under the tree this season.

As always, we're so thankful for you all.

• Still shopping?

This holiday season, remember Divine Goods and Adelaide Naumann.

Adelaide is a homegrown Chattanoogan with a perfect entrepreneurial story: in 2017, she began making a few gift boxes for Valentine's Day. Some champagne, raspberry jam, chocolates from Belle's ... all assembled in her home basement.

"I made a dozen," she said. "They sold out in two days."

So, she launched her own business — Divine Goods — which now sells gift boxes to families, neighbors, businesses and corporations from coast-to-coast.

Not long ago, the Lookout Mountain native (but Texan-at-heart),  fell in love with Marfa-based Liz Lambert's technicolor-softest-ever robe.

"Now, they're part of a special gift basket, along with an Evergreen latika white tea shower steamers, a candle from Aydry & Co., coconut lip scrub and Moodcast's 'Homebody' room and linen spray," I wrote in a recent Mountain Mirror profile.

Each gift box begins with music; Adelaide picks up a song or artist in her mind, turning it over and over — from the Black Keys to Glenn Miller — until she can imagine the perfect gifts to suit the thematic song.

Holidays, college exam gift boxes, birthdays, boxes to cure the winter blues or kick-off 2026.

She curates gifts from big names in NYC and Atlanta and the west coast, along with small boutique vendors here in Chattanooga.

And Divine Goods?

"My middle name is Divine," she said. "Adelaide Divine Davenport."

She's a proud partner of Food as a Verb, and a good friend. We're honored to spotlight Divine Goods — and Adelaide's kindness and vision — this holiday season.

Story ideas, questions, feedback? Interested in partnering with us? Email: david@foodasaverb.com

This story is 100% human generated; no AI chatbot was used in the creation of this content.

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