Jane Hobson Snyder

⇒ Author Linda Long visits the Triangle March 8-11, 2008 My first friend who was a vegan spent 20 minutes each morning assembling parcels of acceptable food. She’d finally venture out, a stranger in a strange land, carting around nutrients like a peasant on a Siberian train. Stashed in her car, shoved in a pocket: […]

Shopping list 2 lemons for water and zest 7 limes 1.5 cups almond milk ¾ cup young thai coconut meat + 1 cup coconut water 1 ¼ cup sucanat (naturally granulated sugar cane) 2 T coconut oil natural cocoa powder vanilla bean x 2 white wine vinegar evoo karo Merlot 3 sweet onions 1 celery […]

What did you think of us taste-testing your recipes? I’m so enchanted that you did this. It’s adventurous. I’m in awe. But I think you should have had parting gifts of Charlie Trotter’s mignardises! That is the easiest recipe in the whole bookfive ingredients in a processor, and then however you want to shape or […]

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Holidays are all about ritual, religious or otherwise, and if you’re in danger of forgetting that, there’s no one like your family to remind you. Some families stomp around in the cold chasing visions of the perfect tree. Some hang wiry old mistletoe from the chandelier and guffaw anytime anyone passes under. Some pop popcorn […]

It’s been said many a time that I resemble the staunchly cute Rachael Ray. OK, my 5-year-old said it, once, last Christmas, when my hair was longer and I spent an afternoon baking pies. But never let it be said I can’t do one thing just as well as she can: find a deal. Ray’s […]

Two weeks ago Monday, I had three precious hours to myself and a crucial choice to make. Should I go train for an upcoming triathlon (my first) or meet some friends for a bite and a beer? My training buddy, Lena, always a pragmatic woman, solved the dilemma by inaugurating our first bi-weekly Five Points […]

Editor’s note: Each month in If I Were You, Jane Hobson Snyder will ask Triangle residents to share their dining haunts and secret finds in a particular category. This month, we’re tackling power lunches; look for romantic picnic spots, hippest clubs and favorite athletic events in future columns. I think back on my mid-to-late 20s […]

I’ll bet you a new pair of hiking boots the word “cuisine” isn’t heard much in and around mountainous Ashe County. The northwesternmost corner of North Carolina, it has always attracted a few tourists who canoe-the-New (River) in summertime and choose-and-cut (trees) at Christmastime, but its landscape alone is reason enough to visit. At the […]