Greetings from Carrboro, It’s a holiday tradition. Though, to be honest, I can’t point to the exact day on the advent calendar. But it seems to always be about now. Quite religiously I wake up one morning and abandon a good 60% of what I’d hoped to accomplish pre-Christmas. It’s not the crazy stuff like handmade wreaths and […]
Acme’s Holiday Dinner Tour – The Prime Rib Extravaganza, now available to order!
Greetings from Carrboro, I’ll give it to you straight; I really, really don’t like Jingle Bell Rock. At all. Even with Earth, Wind, and Fire re-releasing September as December to cash in on Christmas, Jingle Bell Rock is still the season’s anthem most likely to make me visibly cringe. Somehow blatantly co-opting and corrupting the name of a classic holiday song makes it […]
Our sister restaurant is OPEN!
Greetings from Carrboro, One by one, she brought them home from Chapel Hill. I imagine each recipe as her quixotic attempt at 70’s-style culinary enlightenment for our poor southern souls. Peace, Love, and the Moosewood Cookbook. I distinctly remember the ratatouille. And several run-ins with various renditions of chickpeas that required stealthily devoured pre-dinner ham […]
It’s been 6 months
Greetings from Carrboro, I could only see the smallest part. A hard brown nub about six, maybe seven feet up. I pulled myself onto a branch and stared at it for what must have been 20 minutes. Until then my sole tangible measure of time was the clearly dated pencil lines on the frame of […]
We’re been practicing our accents all week
Greetings from Carrboro, It was like the man couldn’t hear me. His baffled expression melted my grown-up facade of coat and tie and proper professional seriousness – I had a briefcase! So I said it again, louder, standing tall in hopes of exuding street smarts. “Bagel with cream cheese and coffee with cream.” Then less […]
Toujours Provence Staycation
Greetings from Carrboro, There’s “Sentinel.” And “Gazette.” “Observer” is clearly popular in these parts. But I must be honest, any culture that had a newspaper named after garlic mayo wins my heart. No question. I get the sense that their collective priorities are in righteous order. With our modern media mania, it’s rather hard to imagine […]
Aloooohaaa dinnertime
Greetings from Carrboro, I stood, slack-jawed, and pointed. The guy working with me looked up and squinted in the bright sun, “oh, that’s a whale.” Just like that – as if he were pointing out a 2015 Hyundai. His practiced deadpan nonchalance was clearly intended to signal the superiority of his “native” status – shaka, […]
Taking the labor out of labor day
Greetings from Carrboro, No one’s going to stop you. I hope you know that. The decision to wholeheartedly put the “Labor” in Labor Day is completely your call. Certainly all of us agree that it’s barrels o’ fun to shop for groceries on a holiday weekend – especially in 2020. And even more fun to […]
Acme on the Patio OPEN FRIDAY!
Greetings from Carrboro, The first time I swung a pickaxe to break up the ground, it bounced. Hardscrabble would have been a generous description – 75 years as a parking lot is not an ideal history for arable soil. But my belligerent youth eventually overcame any semblance of intelligent self-care and after close to six hours of […]
Old School San Fran Staycation
August 6th, 2020 Greetings from Carrboro, Coors beer and croissants. That’s what my mother brought back from her first trip to San Francisco. The dinner table unveiling had the ceremonial air of Hemingway returning from a safari but with her 6-pack of stiff, slender cans of Coors replacing the water buffalo head. Later, she confessed to […]
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