Greetings from Carrboro, I have a decidedly cavalier attitude towards time. It’s a heady mixture of denial, hubris, and fear that would make Don Quixote proud. So not surprisingly, here I am, lance lowered, charging at Christmas. Again. This has been an annual joust for quite a while. Hell, I should probably start selling tickets. […]
Brunswick Stew Feast 12/6
Greetings from Carrboro, At some point we moved out into the county. I was 12 or 13. And the line between rural and suburban was fairly clear. The gas station sold bait and loosely wrapped sausage biscuits. And a large, sun-faded poster of Dolly Parton was taped to the wood-paneled wall behind the cash […]
Think: less suffering and more sauce
Greetings from Carrboro, Black Friday and Cyber Monday meet Righteous Rib-licious Wednesday. Think: less suffering and more sauce. No camping in parking lots. No promo code searching. And no freaking elves. Just a great meal. You see, at Acme, we completely understand that dinner is way better than shopping. And that you deserve a break. Anyway, it’s still November. There’s […]
Who wants ’em?
Greetings from Carrboro, Nope. That nervous excitement you’re experiencing isn’t some residual buzz from the 37 boxes of Nerds you ate last night. That’s the other feeling. This is something decidedly more primal. I like to call it the Salt & Smoke effect. It has occasionally led to uncontrollable whoops of “yee-haw!” in the middle of the […]
Acme Halloween / Lowcountry Boil
Greetings from Carrboro, I’m not a candy person. To be honest, trick-or-cheeseburger is more my style. But I get that it’s hard-wired in some people. Case in point, I have a daughter who auto-drools if she’s within 600 yards of a family-size bag of sour gummy bears (Haribo, please). Even in the dead of winter. […]
All the cool kids are doing it
Greetings from Carrboro, Cauliflower is the new kale. Or, maybe cauliflower is the new Brussels sprouts. It’s confusing. I know that some of you adhere to the belief that Brussels sprouts supplanted the aforementioned kale as the “it” vegetable sometime last April. And that you are either in that camp or you’re not. It’s […]
The Horseshoe Over the Back Door
October 12, 2017 Greetings from Carrboro, Restaurant people rationalize. We share a sort of gambler’s mentality – something akin to an optimism fueled by pessimism. Or, you know, the other way around. At the end of each night, the tealeaves are collectively read in some fruitless attempt to understand the whims and torment of humanity. […]
Burgundy Wine Dinner 10/18
Greetings from Carrboro, It’s so much easier now. Thank god. You no longer have to nervously tiptoe through the minefield of mediocrity that defined wine for most of my lifetime. No deciphering odd foreign words or perusing wine encyclopedias to figure out what the hell you just bought. Or, more importantly, to find out whether […]
Turkey Day reservations
Greetings from Carrboro, A friend of mine was given a pair of Dutch wooden gardening clogs. You know the ones. With windmills. And then, in a fit, she made the rather fateful decision to actually wear the gifted clogs while working in her Orange County garden. Why not give ‘em a try? Tradition and […]
Half-y Hour starts Thursday
Greetings from Carrboro, The Eastern Shore of Virginia isn’t a big place. It’s a stretch of land that descends south out of Maryland and frames the Chesapeake Bay with the mainland. There are farms, a few small towns, and plenty of early American history. Creeks and streams carve the western edge with names clearly given […]
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