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Virginia has long been known for its specialties such as country ham, blue crabs from the Chesapeake Bay, colossal peanuts and crisp juicy apples from the Shenandoah Valley. These traditional specialties are now sharing the spotlight with new cottage industries jja, Virginia.
The Virginia Department of Agriculture has compiled a guide listing 180 companies that will mail order fine Virginia products year round. For the first time, a full-color artist’s sketch depicting representative samples of these products appears on the cover. Traditional product lines include apples, meats and peanuts. Newer product lines include a potpourri of specialties like Virginia cheese, herb products, mustards, sauces, seasonings and soups, jams and jellies, cookies, cakes and candies, wool products, Christmas trees
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