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 […]
Calabash Night Returns 8/16
Greetings from Carrboro, The Schnoz loved it. Well, the Schnoz and his wife loved it. And the rest is history. It’s one of those stories that proves the adage that you earn your luck. World War 2 had just ended. And radio is king. Among the pantheon of the airwave gods is Jimmy Durante – the ultimate […]
We’re in a pickle…
Greetings from Carrboro, A father of a friend of mine is a small town minister in eastern NC. He also happens to be a really good mechanic. And in the spirit of “good works” he helps the members of his church when a tractor breaks down or a well pump dies. There’s no AAA for […]
Hollywood, here I come!
Greetings from Carrboro, I just hope that I fit in. Because my tan game is sincerely lacking. And I’m sure that I wear the all-too-wrong shoes. God, I sorta feel like a teenager about to start at a shiny-new school. And I’m like 50. But Hollywood, as you know, is not famous for being kind. […]
Tomato & Wine Dinner with The NC Tomatoman 7/17
Greetings from Carrboro, Summertime wine often gets the short end of the stick. They’re sort of the air-headed blond jokes of the oenological world – the insipid sips that chose to take off for the beach and work on their tan rather than diligently attending a prestigious wine school summer enrichment program. I’m sure that you […]
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