Moments before the winner of the Southeast Regional Brewers Cup is announced, Jonathan Bonchak of Counter Culture Coffee and his colleague, Colin Whitcomb of Madcap Coffee in Washington, D.C., look as nervous as beauty pageant contestants. Rattled by the tension, Bonchak instinctively bear-hugs his colleague in a moment of coffee camaraderie. Bonchak has spent months […]
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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Jonathan Bonchak of Counter Culture Coffee gives tips on brewing an award-winning cup
For Jonathan Bonchak, it was time to make the coffee. Stepping out of his office last week at the Durham headquarters of Counter Culture Coffee, he was in the zone in the company’s airy training room. Soon he would demonstrate his exacting pour-over technique for judges at the 2014 Big Eastern Brewer’s Cup champion. “I […]
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Stanbury shows Raleigh its adventurous spirit
Stanbury 938 N. Blount St., Raleigh 919-977-4321 Tuesday–Thursday 5–10 p.m. Friday–Saturday 5–11 p.m. $$ Since it opened near the burgeoning North Person district last fall, Stanbury has established itself as one of Raleigh’s most successful neighborhood eateries. Reservations are a must, even on weeknights, if you want to be part of the crowd that can […]
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Wiley Cash wins first Crook’s Corner Book Prize
Wiley Cash of Wilmington, author of A Land More Kind Than Home, was celebrated Monday night at Crook’s Corner as the inaugural recipient of the famed Chapel Hill eatery’s namesake book prize. The contest was open to first-time novelists whose published works were set in the South. More than 100 writers from across the country […]
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Escazu’s new line of micro-batch chocolates
Flavor profiles of micro-batch chocolates Spain The most complex of the four, the recipe was documented in 1631 in A Curious Treatise of the Nature and Quality of Chocolate. Cacao is ground with amber-hued piloncillo sugar, star anise, cinnamon,cornmeal, nuts, pasilla chili and other spices. Xochiaya Hallot Parson says this pre-Columbian beverage, described by Cortez […]
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Make mine a double: GerDan’s beer-infused caramels
GerDan Chocolates [email protected] @gerdantweetz 919-570-1544 Yes, yes, yes! Scenes reminiscent of Meg Ryan’s climactic moment from When Harry Met Sally played out at the Midtown Farmers’ Market at North Hills in Raleigh, where Dan and Geraldine Doren sell their handmade GerDan Chocolates and Brew Chews. The latter are soft, buttery caramels infused with craft beers. […]
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For Belinda Ellis, homemade biscuits are more than merely delicious
If you’re making your list and checking it twice for Thanksgiving, scratch off that tube of refrigerated biscuits. The same goes for those bland lumps from the freezer case. In no more time than it takes to pick up a few things at the grocery store, you can make a batch of biscuits from scratch […]
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John Egerton recalled as a traditionalist and progressive who honored Southern foodways
News of the death Thursday morning of Southern journalist John Egerton, 78, an eloquent civil rights historian and co-founder of the Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA), deeply affected his many friends and admirers in the Triangle. “I feel as though a great tree has fallen,” says Marcie Cohen Ferris, an early SFA president who teaches about […]
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Reminiscing about Crook’s Corner, Chef John Currence discusses autobiography at Joule, Garden Terrace
Chef John Currence’s first book is both badass autobiography and an affectionate embrace of his adopted home of Oxford, Miss. But his first restaurant job as a cook, and the place he reveres for launching his career, is Crook’s Corner in Chapel Hill. “Honestly, I had hoped we’d wrap up the tour with a big […]
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Crook’s Corner announces finalists for its book prize
Four writers are a step closer to fame today with the announcement that they are finalists in the inaugural Crook’s Corner Book Prize. Patterned on Parisian literary cafés, the grand prize, to be awarded on Jan. 6, will confer not only bragging rights and $1,000 prize but also a free glass of wine every night […]
