Barbecue did more than save Samuel Dillard’s grocery business in the 1950s. For more than five decades, it sustained a family, employed friends and neighbors, and gave folks in South Durham a common table. Sam Dillard, a Mississippi native and Tuskegee University graduate, started with a grocery store in 1953. In those days, customers expected […]
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It’s CSA sign-up time at Core Sound Seafood
With the onset of spring comes the promise of bountiful farmers markets and boxes of food from community-supported agriculture. Alongside meat and producelongtime staples of the CSAsa wider selection of fresh North Carolina seafood will be available. On April 7, Core Sound Seafood (www.coresoundseafood.org) will begin its 10-week spring season, delivering shares of eastern North […]
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Dillard’s Bar-B-Q Closes Its Doors
On the serving line at Dillard’s Bar-B-Q this evening, a hand scrawled sign hung in sad irony: “New Item . . . Diced Potatoes.” The Durham restaurant, a staple since 1953, served its final customers today—or, at least it tried. Twenty minutes after the restaurant was scheduled to close at 5:30 p.m., Kim Walker, a […]
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Food truck gatherings in Durham and Carrboro; two food books
Durham resident Crystal Dreisbach counts numerous community organizers and planners among her friends. So last spring when someone blurted out “I love Durham so much I wish that I could marry it,” a plan was born. “What an idea for a community event,” Dreisbach says. Thus began a long engagement and plans for a wedding, […]
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Pi(e), potatoes and Paddy
Emily Hilliard, a graduate student in the folklore program at UNC-Chapel Hill who writes a blog devoted to all things pie (nothinginthehouse.blogspot.com), doesn’t turn down a piece of the pastry when National Pie Day rolls around each Jan. 23. But Hilliard reserves her real celebration for Pi(e) Day, a pun of a holiday held on […]
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Big Spoon; Taste Carolina; BillyGoat Brewing
At age 5, Mark Overbay wandered into his parents’ kitchen, spotted his dad digging into a jar of peanut butter and blurted out “big spoon!” The phrase stuck. Friends and family have called Overbay’s father “Big Spoon” ever since. So when Overbay launched his own label of local, handmade peanut butter, choosing a name for […]
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Old Havana Sandwich Shop; Will and Pop’s; inaugural Good Food Awards
The age-old contest for the Best Pork Sandwich in the Piedmont title just gained another entrant. At Old Havana Sandwich Shop (310 E. Main St., Durham, www.oldhavanaeats.com, 667-9525), a counter restaurant that opened last week, the pork in question isn’t barbecue, but rather, a Cuban sandwich. And according to Elizabeth Turnbullwho co-owns Old Havana with […]
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Durham’s Fish Shack Closes
Sadly, Big Mouth Billy Basses—the plastic, singing fish that were popular 10 years ago and thrust back into the light of day on the walls at Durham’s Fish Shack (2512 University Drive)—will soon return to their dusty spots in local attics. According to Dan Ferguson, who owns the Fish Shack and its neighbor, the Original […]
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Can you locally source 10 percent of your food spending?
Sometimes bragging is good. Turns out, letting others know how much you spend on local food can be not only gratifying but useful as well. Teisha Wymore, who manages The 10% Campaign, would certainly like to hear more about it. “I hear it all the time: ‘I’m already doing it, I already go to the […]
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Capital Club 16’s Veggie Week; Triangle Restaurant Week; Allagash Beer Dinner at Busy Bee
This week in the Triangle, it’s all about specials, as multiple venues offer deals and features that stretch for days. Vegetarians can take refuge at Capital Club 16 (16 W. Martin St., Raleigh, www.capitalclub16.com, 747-9345) for Veggie Week, which kicked off yesterday and continues through Jan. 24. Don’t be deceived by the title; the restaurant […]