Sheri Castle has happy memories of dinners in her childhood home in Watauga County, where nearly every meal included cabbage, potatoes, beans, or squash grown in mountain soil. “Or all of them,” says Castle, a prolific food and cookbook writer who has lived in Chapel Hill since 1978, when she came east to attend UNC. […]
Jill Warren Lucas
Bio: Jill Warren Lucas is a freelance food writer and project manager for INDY Week's Finder: Guide to Wake County.Link: http://eatingmywords-jwl.blogspot.comTwitter: http://twitter.com/jwlucasnc
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Crook’s Corner Book Prize Winner Hide Is a Historical Portrait of Gay Oppression Inspired by the Modern Variety
As a professor of creative writing at the University of Mississippi, Tom Franklin reads a lot of fiction by aspiring authors. Even when it’s very good, it tends to have a numbing familiarity. That wasn’t the case, however, with Hide, the debut novel by Greensboro native Matthew Griffin, which on Monday won the 2017 Crook’s […]
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A Vintage White House Cookbook by 1887’s Martha Stewart Turns Up at a Local Library Sale—But Wait for the Twist
For many bargain lovers, it’s all about the thrill of the hunt, that pulse-racing moment when you are the first to spot a keeper among the discarded. As you consider it from every angle, your hands tremblebut not so much that you can’t open your wallet to pay the pittance being asked and escape before […]
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Matthew Griffin Snags 2017 Crook’s Corner Book Prize for His Graceful Novel, Hide
Greensboro native Matthew Griffin has won the fourth-annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize for a debut novel set in the South. Griffin, now based in New Orleans, attended the ceremony to accept the honor, which was selected by Tom Franklin, a novelist and writing professor at the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Announced Monday night during […]
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Raleigh Entrepreneur Launches CurEat App, Where Local Chefs and Other Influencers Curate Restaurant Listings
Steve Mangano has seen too many food industry colleagues burned by angry reviews on Yelp and other dining apps. “There are only so many meals you can have in your life and you want them to be good,” says Mangano, who has been involved with Durham revitalization projects including Dos Perros restaurant, the former Revolution […]
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The Smithsonian Honors “Southern-Latino” Cookbook Author Sandra Gutierrez
Two years ago, museum curator Ariana Curtis tasked her team at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum with identifying Latino immigrants who had achieved a distinct version of the American dream by explicitly expressing their culture, through anything from creative arts and construction to social justice and celebrations. They came across Sandra Gutierrez, a Cary cookbook […]
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A New Local Cookbook, Southern Breads, Celebrates a Storied Southern Staple
SOUTHERN BREADS: RECIPES, STORIES AND TRADITIONS Friday, Dec. 9, 4 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh Saturday, Dec. 10, 1 p.m. The Regulator Bookshop, Durham Saturday, Dec. 10, 5 p.m. Cup-A-Joe, Hillsborough Sunday, Dec. 11, noon Whisk, Cary Certain smells can return Marilyn Markel to a time when her curly gray locks were dark and her […]
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The Tomato Man Can: Craig LeHoullier Sheds Light on His “Epic” Research at Sustainable Agriculture Conference
Epic Tomatoes for the Southeast Sunday, November 6, 9 a.m. Sustainable Agriculture Conference Durham Must register: www.carolinafarmstewards.org It’s fair to say that no one was more surprised than Craig LeHoullier when the Raleigh author’s first book, Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time, recently snagged the 2016 Media Awards […]
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Fair Game Beverage Company Distills Fine Caribbean Rum—in Pittsboro
For many of us, rum is not our first choice for a sophisticated drink. It was, perhaps, the first hard liquor of college, swilled not long after the taillights of your parents’ car faded from view. Mixed with warm Coke and tossed back with the false bravado of the uninitiated, it delivered a swift, stomach-churning […]
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After Italy’s Earthquake, Il Palio Will Donate Proceeds From Two Fundraiser Dinners This Week
For the past two years, Il Palio has sent executive chef Teddy Diggs to Italy to master classic techniques, bring back traditional recipes, and scout the best ingredients. He was directly involved in the latter in July, when he hiked the majestic mountains of Norcia at the southeastern edge of Umbria with the Chapel Hill […]