North Carolina cheese was the secret ingredient for the semifinal round of the Got To Be NC competition dining series at 1705 Prime in Raleigh on Monday night. The sold-out crowd of 120 diners was served six courses for the Fire In The Triangle match-up between Chef Ryan Payne of Weathervane in Chapel Hill and […]
D.L. Anderson
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Mr. Percy’s Run; plus, a moonshine bibliography
In 1958, The Saturday Evening Post introduced the nation to Percy Flowers: “The state producing the heaviest flow of bootleg booze is North Carolina, where in 1957 Alcohol and Tobacco Tax seizures exceeded 42,000 gallons, almost a fifth of the national total, and for years North Carolina’s number one bootlegger has been J. Percy Flowers, […]
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Karen refugees rebuild their lives in the Triangle
Jones Ferry Road swoops through Carrboro and curves toward the country, where it isn’t unusual to happen upon farmland tucked among the trees. On a two-and-a-half acre farm, workers wearing straw hats tend the plush rows of produce. At the farm gate, there is a sign written in curly, upward script mimicking the thin, coiling […]
