Greetings from Carrboro, The earliest photographs of me are sincerely prophetic. In them, I more closely resemble a rather jolly bag of potatoes packed into a woefully undersized romper than an actual child. If that didn’t speak to the seriousness of baby-me’s appetite for pleasure, my seven chins certainly did the trick. It makes […]
We’re open all weekend!
Greetings from Carrboro, Snow, shmow. Whether a lot or a little, Acme will be open. All weekend long. Even if you share with us that decidedly southern genetic defect to purchase large quantities of sliced bread and gallons of milk at the mere mention of icy precipitation, you shouldn’t really want to eat any of it. Because, […]
New Year’s at Acme
Greetings from Carrboro, It couldn’t hurt. Really. The way I see it, anything that purports to provide a yearlong spate of health, luck, and wealth is worth a shot. You with me? And it’s not like you have to eat a bowl of fire ants or light your hair on fire to be the beneficiary […]
Acme Feast of the Ribs
Greetings from Carrboro, Gold. Franckincense. Myrrh. Ribs. That was the original lineup as described in the Dead Sea scrolls. I swear. You can look it up. The ancient story goes that along their epic route, the wise men got wise. And sort of had an epiphany on the way to Epiphany. Basically, they ate the ribs. Every […]
🎁 December at Acme
Greetings from Carrboro, The leaf won’t budge. Not an inch. In fact, the shiny new leaf that I had planned to turn over seems glued, nailed, and riveted to the ground with a rather large, angry gorilla standing on it for good measure. Again. December is like that. Well, December is like that for me. […]
Bubbly Dinner at Acme 12/14
Greetings from Carrboro, Yes. It’s true. My family drank Cold Duck. OK, not the kids – we got Meier’s sparkling grape juice that was on the wrong side of delicious. But the holiday table was all about bubbly beverages and festive stemware. One day it would just appear in the refrigerator right next to the […]
Weekend At Acme 11/11 – 11/13 & Thanksgiving Menu
Greetings from Carrboro, The only day that my sister ate sweet potatoes was Thanksgiving. It was a family tradition – Senator Russell’s Sweet Potatoes. With an emphatic, brace-yourself emphasis on the sweet part. It was more a concoction of butter and brown sugar and pecans and, well, more brown sugar whipped into something akin to […]
Halloween @ Acme
Greetings from Carrboro, Not only was I not allowed to dress up as anything scary, but my mom gave out apples. Shiny, grocery store apples. Red Delicious, if I were to guess. It was a wee-bit better than handing out little toothbrushes, but still everyone ritually skipped our house like the plague. Even the littlest kids […]
Thanksgiving @ Acme
Greetings from Carrboro, I start to sweat at the first whiff of potpourri. That certain pre-industrial age ethos that can infiltrate Thanksgiving – sort of a Norman Rockwell meets Virginia Dare meets Survivor cocktail – gives me the heebie-jeebies. For the uninitiated, you have to be careful. Once consumed, I don’t believe that there is […]
Elk Cove Wine Dinner: October 26th
October 14, 2016 Greetings from Carrboro, Peter was more than a little bit crazy. Affable, but crazy. Quitting his pharmaceutical day job in RTP, he struck out on his own to find his rightful fortune in the world of wine distribution. Easy, right? Cue all of us cringing. Somehow we know that stories like this never […]
