Piedmont Young Farmers Dinner Sunday, Sept. 1 The 6:30 p.m. seating is sold out. Limited seating remains for the 8:30 p.m. service. Reservations are $35 for the four-course vegetarian meal, or $50 with wine pairings. Piedmont Restaurant 401-B2 Foster St. Durham 919-683-1213 Many great Triangle restaurants celebrate the work of area farmers by prominently sourcing […]
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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Chef Michael Twitty explores the culinary traditions of slaves
Michael Twitty and the Harvest Festival Saturday, Sept. 7, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Historic Stagville 5828 Old Oxford Highway, Durham A day of historic crafts, workshops on healthy eating and genealogy. Small tastings open to the public from 11–11:30 a.m. and 1–1:45 p.m. Michael Twitty will speak about African foodways of the 18th and 19th centuries. […]
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Deen debacle boosts awareness of effort to get ‘into the heads and bellies’ of enslaved persons
Michael Twitty has dedicated his life’s work to the study of African slave foodways and how they spread from the Southeastern seaboard. That’s where thousands of shackled, malnourished people emerged from hellish journeys to find odd comfort in growing conditions reasonably similar to their homelands. It was on these plantations and farms that displaced Africans […]
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Author Miriam Rubin shares dozens of recipes for tomatoes
Miriam Rubin Cooking class 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 3 A Southern Season 201 S. Estes Drive Chapel Hill 919-929-7133 $40 Book signings 10 a.m., Sunday, Aug. 4La Farm Bakery 4248 NW Cary Parkway Cary 919-657-0657 3 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 4 with Kelly Alexander, author of PeachesQuail Ridge Books & Music 3522 Wade Ave. Raleigh 919-828-1588 […]
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POPera series continues with performance at Alley Twenty Six
POPera Monday, July 29 6–8 p.m., free CAM Raleigh 409 W. Martin St. The opera will highlight music from the October production of Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte (School for Lovers) and include announcement of the 2013–14 season. Lightning creased the night sky and rain fell in windswept torrents as star-crossed lovers gasped for breath, paid […]
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Calorie bombs dominate Cowfish’s quirky fusion menu
The Cowfish CAPTRUST Tower at North Hills 4208 Six Forks Road, Suite 100 Raleigh 919-784-0400 Lunch daily 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Dinner Monday–Thursday 4–11 p.m. Friday–Saturday 4 p.m.–midnight Sunday 4–10 p.m. The Cowfish, which opened in CAPTRUST Tower at North Hills in April, welcomes diners with an engaging and playful décor anchored by a cocktail-shaped aquarium. […]
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The Fiction Kitchen Is the Real Deal for Vegetarian Dining
The Fiction Kitchen creatively converts your garden-variety produce into inspiring dishes that appeal equally to those who choose not to consume animal products and those who do.
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Entrepreneur Scott Maitland toasts Chapel Hill with TOPO spirits
In 1994 as a UNC law student, Scott Maitland heard that a chain restaurant was on the verge of inking a deal to open in one of the prime spots on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. The idea of a corporate logo crowning the top of the hill in his adopted hometown was more than […]
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Mixologists demystify the craft bar experience
Have you heard the one about the guy who walks into a bar and is so blown away by the range of booze that all he can think to order is a 7&7? It’s a lot like the one about the blonde bachelorette party that can’t count how many gins are on the list so […]
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610 Magnolia Chef Edward Lee brings Smoke & Pickles to Fearrington Village
Edward Lee Smoke & Pickles June 5, 6 p.m. Roost Beer Garden, Fearrington Village, Pittsboro $85 includes dinner by Fearrington Chef Colin Bedford, a beer tasting and a signed copy of the book Edward Lee‘s new Smoke & Pickles book should come with a consumer warning label: Exercise caution when starting this book because you […]
