The restaurant’s shrimp and
grits dish costs $13. On the menu,
the dish is described as such: “
‘Old School Mill’ stone ground
white corn grits cooked with
smoked mozzarella and sharp
white cheddar served with shrimp
and two eggs as you wish.”
Old School ships pallets of
white and yellow grits about once
a month to Portland, Ore. and San
Francisco.
Robin said she recently got a
call from a man in Seattle who
said he was “ecstatic” to find the
Old School Mill grits in a specialty
food store.
Their reach extends as far
northeast as Noah’s Restaurant
in Stonington, Conn., which uses
Old School grits.
The company has shipped its
products to many other places
including Ben’s Next Door
restaurant in Washington, D.C.,
Jaemor Farms and Stripling
General store locations in Georgia,
Oak Alley Plantation in Louisiana
and the Scanga Meat Company in
Colorado.
Old School products have also
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appeared in numerous magazines
including Our State, Saveur and
most recently, the October edition
of Cooking with Paula Deen.
In North Carolina, the
products can be found at any of
the Mass General Store location,
the Appalachian Mercantile in
Bryson City and the Village Diner
in Hillsborough.
Chef Geoff Bragg, who has
worked at the Culinary School
of Charlotte, comes to the
distribution center in Stanfield
every two to three months to
purchase grits.
In Stanly County, Old
School products can be found
at the Albemarle Sweet Shop,
ACE Hardware in Locust and the
Moonset General Store.
“When we first conceived the
idea of opening Moonset General
Store, we automatically thought of
local brands that we could carry,”
owners Laura and William Fields
said. “Old School Mill was the first
to come to mind because our
families have enjoyed their quality
products for years.”
Half of Old School’s products
Sherry Mauldin measuring
ingredients for use in Old
School Mill recipes.