There are no surfboards or tacky tiki torches at Surf Club, a bar that quietly opened in mid-December on the corner of Rigsbee Avenue and Corporation Street in an area of Old North Durham that is increasingly becoming a hub of the city’s nightlife (294-9661). Instead, the squat brick former office building houses an oversized […]
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Meet-and-Three: Durham’s Current Cafeteria
Debra Craig and Sook Rha at Current Cafeteria in Durham. Sook “Sue” Rha, a Korean native and former bookkeeper with no formal cooking experience, surveyed the sandwich stand she purchased with her husband, Bong Kya Rha, on North Roxboro Road. There was eight-month old food in the refrigerators and a menu she knew little about: […]
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Johnston County Hams: The secret is in the curing
I come from a ham town and everyone knows it. The mention of Smithfield conjures pork. But to most, it is factory farms, picket lines and Paula Deen, things associated with Virginia’s monolithic Smithfield Foods, one of the world’s largest (and most destructive) producers of pork. “We get a lot of complaints about Smithfield hams […]
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At The Coffee Pot in Smithfield, everyone is a regular
The Coffee Pot 817 S. Brightleaf Blvd. Smithfield 919-934-9053 Monday–Friday 6 a.m.–2 p.m. When I set out to write a column on Southern plate lunch restaurants, I had one thing in mind: The Coffee Pot of Smithfield. Anchoring one end of a small strip of rotating shops (vacuum repair, tattoos, Internet sweepstakes) on a stretch […]
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Classes at The Cookery; Christmas at The Carolina Inn
Just as all of the universities in the Triangle are slowing down their class schedules for winter break, The Cookery (durhamcookery.com) in Durham is gearing up. Beginning Saturday, the local culinary incubator and certified kitchen space will launch a series of new courses for the winter months. The Cookery’s co-owner Nick Johnson says, “These classes […]
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Meet-and-Three: The Coffee Pot of Smithfield
Owners Carolyn Artis and Tyron Pearce at The Coffee Pot in Smithfield When I set out to write a column on Southern plate lunch restaurants, I had one thing in mind: The Coffee Pot of Smithfield. Anchoring one end of a small strip of rotating shops (vacuum repair, tattoos, Internet sweepstakes) on a stretch of […]
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Thanksgiving prep
This illustration was originally published on our Big Bite food blog.
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DaisyCakes and Pullen Place
Not far from where DaisyCakes (eatdaisycakes.com) used to park its airstream full of cupcakes on Saturday mornings during the Durham Farmers’ Market, its signature pink flower covers a glass door. A little over a week ago, the mobile cupcake shop opened a brick-and-mortar store at 401A Foster St. Inside, it’s not all cupcakes. There are […]
