Last month at Chapel Hill’s TerraVita Food & Drink Festival, hundreds of people signed up to take scheduled classes with leading chefs and food advocates from across the South. Joe Kwon was not among them. The charismatic cellist for The Avett Brothers instead took advantage of a break in touring to attend barbecue school at […]
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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Durham’s Kathy Hester—our vegan slow-cooking hero—to appear on Cook the Book
Following the success of Saturday’s debut online cook-along with Chapel Hill’s Nancie McDermott, Cook the Book With Denise and Jenni has scheduled its second event with another local talent: Kathy Hester of Durham. Hester, a prolific writer of vegan cookbooks recently featured in the INDY, will select a recipe from her new release, The Easy […]
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Nancie McDermott explores the soups of the South with a little online help
Cook the Book: Southern Soups & Stews Saturday, Nov. 7, 4 p.m. free For an online link, register on Facebook through “Cook the Book With Denise and Jenni.” The mail brought more than Jenni Field was expecting. In early September, the Garner baker and recipe developer, who blogs as Pastry Chef Online, received the latest […]
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Botulism? Boycotts? Security breaches? Drama arrives at the N.C. State Fair’s canning contest
Somewhere in my house, there is a photo of a much younger me, looking stunned to have won a red ribbon on my first try at the Indiana State Fair. I was bested only by my inspiration, the perennial winner Mrs. Imogene Orme. Other hobbies have come and gone, but my obsessive passion for canning […]
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Comfort me in cooking: Ruth Reichl rediscovers the life affirming call of her kitchen
We’ve all sought consolation from disappointment in food. For Ruth Reichl, the act of cooking became a life saver of sorts. A glamorous career of writing for some of the country’s most distinguished food publications crashed without warning in October 2009, when Condé Nast pulled the plug on Gourmet. Reichl had been the magazine’s editor […]
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Carrie Schleiffer joins Durham’s Alley Twenty Six
The revolving kitchen door has spun again, this time in two prominent Durham bars and restaurants. Chef Carrie Schleiffer has left Scott Howell’s bustling Bar Virgile, which she helped open in December, to assist Shannon Healy in expanding the food menu at craft cocktail bar Alley Twenty Six. The transition was a quiet one, with […]
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Chapel Hill’s TerraVita is a food-and-drink festival with a mission
TerraVita Thursday, Oct. 8–Saturday, Oct. 10 www.terravitaevent.com Two years ago, Colleen Minton nearly pulled the plug on TerraVita, her thriving food-and-drink festival in Chapel Hill. Even with a team of dedicated volunteers, the event was growing at a pace she worried she could not sustain. But Minton pressed on through TerraVita’s fifth anniversary and now […]
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More on that unwieldy Durham restaurant name “Hattie Mae Williams Called Me Captain”
Gray Brooks’ earliest food memory involves his highchair, where he’d happily eat scrambled egg-and-jelly sandwiches fixed by Hattie Mae Williams. “That was my go-to dish,” says Brooks, co-owner of Durham’s Pizzeria Toro and partner in the upscale diner that will be featured at the overhauled Jack Tar Hotel. “Hattie Mae was all about doing what […]
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The first-ever Chapel Hill-Carrboro Small Plate Crawl starts tonight
More than 20 restaurants are expected to participate in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Small Plate Crawl, a new dining event that launches Tuesday and continues through Thursday. This undertaking marks the expansion of a popular series of events first staged in 2009 in Hendersonville, N.C., by Asheville-based food blogger Laura Huff, or Carolina Epicurean. “It was […]
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Carolina Inn’s Crossroads reopens with more approachable look, menu
Nearly four months after closing for major renovations, the restaurant and lounge at Chapel Hill’s Carolina Inn have traded spaces and reopened with a new look and name. The Inn announced the planned renovation of Carolina Crossroads—now named Crossroads Chapel Hill— in March at the institution’s 90th anniversary celebration. The new digs look so different […]
