Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 Greetings from Carrboro, Most of them are handwritten. Simple index cards, often front and back, the name of the dish underlined at the top left. Each one is attributed deliberately in parenthesis “(Clara, Mrs. R. D. Bunn)” at the top right. There are hundreds of them. My grandmother organized the recipes […]
Acme Thanksgiving reservations available now!
Greetings from Carrboro, Potlucks are scary. Because, face it, a lot of people can’t cook. Ok, shouldn’t cook. Yet they somehow still feel guiltily tied to the mast of that sinking culinary ship and oh-so-kindly drag us along for the ride. Thank god there’s no equivalent assembly demanding everyone sport clothes that they made themselves. Lord knows, […]
Meet the Makers Dinner 10/9: Haand Porcelain Pottery
Thursday, September 19, 2019 Greetings from Carrboro, The fancy plates had a gold rim. But no monogram; that wasn’t my mother’s style. Dad jovially called it “the good stuff” to mask the unspoken threat of what would happen to me if I broke anything. It was always unduly stressful setting the table on those days […]
Salt & Smoke Festival tickets ON SALE NOW!
CLICK HERE TO BUY SALT & SMOKE TICKETS Greetings from Carrboro, It’s hard for me to let things go. I have boxes in the attic full of the myriad dreams of who I wanted to be. My Wilson A2000 baseball glove that I haven’t used in 30+ years. The first 50 pages of that great […]
Mount Eden wine dinner 9/25
Greetings from Carrboro, Naming a business is hard. Naming a winery is next to impossible. It’s too fraught. There was a good stretch in the 80’s and 90’s where the rule was pick a romantic animal, provide a suitable adjective and, voila, your winery was named. You know the ones. Wild Horse. Screaming Eagle. Flying Fox. It […]
Acme Drag Brunch 8/28
Greetings from Carrboro, Drag Brunch is having a moment. To be clear to all my fellow southerners, Drag Brunch does not involve race tracks or funny cars or the NHRA. That would definitely be more of a Busch Light and Twinkies and nacho cheese kind of brunch. And, no, it’s also not a show on ESPN2. Personally, I […]
Our new gateway to delicious
Wednesday, August 21, 2019 Greetings from Carrboro, When you take away the chef coats and fancy clogs, the sous vide wands and chamber sealers, restaurants are still pretty primitive. We use sharp metal to cut things and hot metal to cook things. Water boils and oil sizzles and line cooks swear. Hogs smoke overnight and […]
Rosé Soirée party on the patio
Greetings from Carrboro, Sometimes English doesn’t cut it. Call it culinary intuition, but I have the strong sense that Eggs Benedict would not have the same yum-appeal if Hollandaise instead was hung with the moniker “lukewarm citrus butter gravy.” You with me? Needless to say, the french version sounds much more delicious. It may just be […]
Seems like yesterday…
Thursday, August 8, 2019 Greetings from Carrboro, My first shift was brunch. It was August and hot as hell. I washed dishes. Pots and pans, really – and anything else my manager told me to clean. No one told me that my shift was over until that same boss yelled at me close to 6:30 […]
No excuse necessary
Thursday, August 1, 2019 Greetings from Carrboro, Poor August. It’s the only month without a major holiday. Though, to be honest, it really looks like Grab Some Nuts Day on the 3rd is poised for a serious calendarial breakout. In modern lingo, it’s #trending. But for now, August remains bereft of any honest-to-god, signature day. […]
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