Limited Release · Made in Texas
The original Sweet Potato Pie Syrup. Slow-cooked in small batches, wax-sealed like a fine spirit. For those who prefer to discover before the crowd.
Season's batch — limited quantities remaining
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A word from the founder
"I built this from a kitchen that never got credit for what it created. Black Southern food shaped American flavor — the slow cook, the layered spice, the sweetness that earns itself. I started Foragé Atelier because I refused to watch that lineage get repackaged by someone who didn't live it. This is intentional. This is limited. And you found it at the right time."
Karmen Michael Smith
Founder & Creative Director · Foragé Atelier™
This Season's Offering
Toasted marshmallow. Warm spice. Deep caramel body. A syrup rooted in Black Southern kitchens — refined for your morning latte, your evening cocktail, your table.
Pairs With
Bourbon · Espresso
Available In
15 oz · 30 oz
Release
Seasonal · Limited
Origin
Made in Texas
Each bottle is slow-cooked, wax-sealed, and released in limited seasonal quantities. Not because we can't make more — but because it wouldn't be the same if we did.
The Origin
"Sweet potato pie was never meant
to travel fast. It lived where
time slowed."
Foragé Atelier was born from kitchens in the Black South — where food was more than sustenance. It was ritual. It was love. It was memory. Every bottle carries that lineage forward.
Read Our StoryThe Promise
There is a pattern in American food culture. Something is created in a Black kitchen — the technique, the flavor, the ritual — and years later it reappears on a menu somewhere else, with a different name and a higher price, and no acknowledgment of where it came from.
Foragé Atelier exists as a correction to that pattern. Not a reaction — a correction. We are not chasing trend cycles or optimizing for volume. We are moving with intention, at the pace that craft demands, honoring the lineage that made this flavor possible in the first place.
Every bottle is produced in limited runs. Every name on every label belongs to someone real. Every season closes when it closes — and does not reopen. This is what it looks like when Black Southern luxury refuses to be extracted. It looks like this. It tastes like this. And it was here first.
The Atelier
Founding Members hear first — before each season opens, before allocations are set, before the batch is announced publicly. This is not a newsletter. It is access.
We respect your privacy. No noise — only what matters.