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Tag Archives: Chapel Hill
Farm Fresh Orange County — in print!
I had a great time (but it was work, too!) organizing and writing content for a special 8-page guide to finding farm-fresh food and fun in Orange County. The booklet is first appearing in the March/April issue of Chapel Hill … Continue reading
Do not miss this year’s TerraVITA food festival
Food and farm-fresh friends, I don’t mean to harp on this, but if you haven’t gotten your tickets to TerraVITA, one of the state’s leading food and beverage festivals, you’d better do it soon. The three-day spectacular is in Chapel … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Orange County
Tagged Chapel Hill
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Summer, and Farm Fresh tour, are winding down
It must be the end of summer — tomorrow is my last day of Farm Fresh promotion for a month. Now that’s a switch, after a busy schedule from March through July. So tomorrow please join me for the farewell-to-summer … Continue reading
Friday night with Bill Friday: a big thrill
I should be saying something erudite about my meeting and interview with University of North Carolina Chancellor Emeritus Bill Friday. Instead, this is my summary: A thrill and a half! I got the call on a Monday asking if I … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Orange County, Television
Tagged Bill Friday, Chapel Hill, NC People North Carolina People, UNC, William Friday, Yonat Shimron
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Coming up: farm tour, party, picnic, local fish — and more!
No surprise that spring is positively bursting with farm/food news. At the top of my list is the Piedmont Farm Tour in the Triangle this weekend, sponsored by the awesome Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA). Everything about this yearly happening … Continue reading
Posted in Chatham County, Family travel, Farm Fresh events, Food, Livestock, Orange County, Poultry, Wake County
Tagged CFSA, Chapel Hill, CSF, farm internships, Farm to Fork Picnic, Fickle Creek Farm, local fish, Margaret's Cantina, Meet and Eat, Pie Pushers, Piedmont Farm Tour, sustainable seafood, Walking Fish
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Andrea Reusing, season by season
Andrea Reusing’s first cookbook, “Cooking in the Moment,” will make Triangle residents proud. Over the years, Andrea, chef/co-founder at the Asian-inspired Lantern in Chapel Hill, has made quite a national name for herself through her creative cooking and reliance on … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Dining, Durham County, Food, Orange County, Recipes
Tagged A year of Seasonal Recipes, Ayrshire Farm, Betsy and Alex Hitt, Braeburn Farm, Brinkley Farms, Cane Creek Farm, Carrboro Farmers' Market, Chapel Hill, Chapel HIll Creamery, Chicken Bridge Bakery, Clarkson Potter, cookbook, Cooking in the Moment, Coon Rock Farm, Durham Farmers Market, farmers' markets, Fickle Creek Farm, Flyleaf Books, Hen and Dumplings, Johnny's, Lantern, Lantern cookbook, Lil Farm, Mac McCaughan, Merge Records, Peregrine Farm, Superchunk
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Walk, talk, eat with Taste Carolina
Saturday was a lovely day for a gourmet food tour! I hopped aboard Taste Carolina’s downtown Durham tour, led on this day by local resident Dean Michaels. (Tours also are held in Raleigh and Chapel Hill-Carrboro, and starting in March, … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Durham County, Food, Forsyth County, Guilford County, Orange County, Wake County
Tagged Carrboro, Chapel Hill, durham, food tours, LocoPops, Parker and Otis, Piedmont, Raleigh, Rue Cler, Scratch, Toast, Tyler's Taproom
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Mushroom magic at Pickards Mountain
If you can identify the mushrooms we have illustrated this with, you get a shoutout and a link, if you want. Thanks! The folks at Pickards Mountain Eco-Institute in Chapel Hill/Orange County are starting in on their fall bounty of … Continue reading
Stay, play, and learn on a farm near you
Want to spend a night, a weekend, or longer on a farm? My book will give you more than two dozen options in NC. In the meantime, you can read about five of them in the September issue of Southern … Continue reading
Posted in Buncombe County, Christmas trees, Family travel, Food, Haywood County, Madison County, Orange County, Perquimans County
Tagged Asheville, Belted Galloway, Boyd Mountain Log Cabins and Tree Farm, Briar Rose Farm, Chapel Hill, choose-and-cut trees, Cloud 9 Farm, farm lodging, farmstay, Fickle Creek Farm, Fraser firs, Hertford, Springfield House Bed and Breakfast, Waynesville
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