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Category Archives: Triangle
Summer, and Farm Fresh tour, are winding down
It must be the end of summer — tomorrow is my last day of Farm Fresh promotion for a month. Now that’s a switch, after a busy schedule from March through July. So tomorrow please join me for the farewell-to-summer … Continue reading
Food and race; High Country tour; learn to write, paint and cook in a day; food classes; and more!
Mark your calendars for these farm-food events in the Tiangle and the mountains: Thursday, Aug. 4: “Eating the Other: Food, Race and You,” discussion of race as it relates to agribusiness, farmers’ markets and the slow food culture. At Southwest Regional … Continue reading
Guidebook author’s dream come true
A guidebook writer couldn’t ask for more than this blog post from pastry chef and local-food lover Jenni Field for SavorNC magazine. She writes about how her husband bought her my book for their anniversary (thank you, husband!) and, more importantly, … Continue reading
Posted in Family travel, Farmers, Food, Granville County, Livestock, Meat, Road travel
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Can you afford fresh food? Heck, yeah
I don’t always have an answer for people who say that eating organic, seasonal meals is too expensive. From now on, I’m telling them to check out Linda Watson‘s “Wildly Affordable Organic.” The book’s subtitle is key: “Eat Fabulous Food, Get … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Dining, Environmental, Recipes, Wake County
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Bee there, freshest fish, food tours and more
It’s time again for Quick Bites, a harvest of Farm Fresh news. How sweet it is: TONIGHT, July 27, at 6 pm (movie at 9:15), Market Restaurant in Raleigh will host a music and movie night in its parking lot, featuring … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, Books, Dining, Durham County, Environmental, Food, Food policy, Forsyth County, Guilford County, Orange County, Wake County
Tagged 10% Campaign, American Wasteland, CEFS, CSF, food tours, Jonathan Bloom, Local Catch, Market Restaurant, Ode magazine, Taste Carolina, Vanishing of the Bees, Walking Fish
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Farm Fresh NC and Fickle Creek share video spotlight
What a great gift for Fickle Creek Farm, my book “Farm Fresh North Carolina,” and the Piedmont Farm Tour. The state’s former (as of June) tourism marketing agency, Charlotte-based LKM, commissioned a video about agritourism in general and the book … Continue reading
Posted in Farm Fresh book events, Farmers, Food, Livestock, Lodging, Media, Orange County
Tagged agritourism, farm stays, Fickle Creek Farm, tourism, Visitnc.com
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Special ‘Farm Fresh’ dinner May 18 at Zely & Ritz, Raleigh
I can’t wait for this one. On Wednesday, May 18, I’m teaming up with two Raleigh entries in my book — Zely & Ritz and The Little Herb House (their write-ups are at the end of this post) for a … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Farm Fresh book events, Wake County
Tagged Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh, The Little Herb House
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Nice book pairing in the Raleigh, Charlotte papers
Thanks to Andrea Weigl at the News & Observer for the most-excellent article on “Farm Fresh” and also on Sheri Castle and her great book, “The New Southern Garden Cookbook.” It was a fine pairing of books — first the … Continue reading
Friday night with Bill Friday: a big thrill
I should be saying something erudite about my meeting and interview with University of North Carolina Chancellor Emeritus Bill Friday. Instead, this is my summary: A thrill and a half! I got the call on a Monday asking if I … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Orange County, Television
Tagged Bill Friday, Chapel Hill, NC People North Carolina People, UNC, William Friday, Yonat Shimron
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In Durham, a special sit-down dinner with Pie Pushers
One of the upsides* to all the rain and subsequent slow traffic on the Piedmont Farm Tour yesterday was the opportunity to see the Pie Pushers’ full profile, instead of how I usually see Mike Hacker and Becky Cascio — as faces … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Durham County, Food, Orange County
Tagged Fickle Creek Farm, Four Leaf Farm, Pie Pushers, Piedmont Farm Tour, Watt's Grocery
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Coming up: farm tour, party, picnic, local fish — and more!
No surprise that spring is positively bursting with farm/food news. At the top of my list is the Piedmont Farm Tour in the Triangle this weekend, sponsored by the awesome Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA). Everything about this yearly happening … Continue reading
Posted in Chatham County, Family travel, Farm Fresh events, Food, Livestock, Orange County, Poultry, Wake County
Tagged CFSA, Chapel Hill, CSF, farm internships, Farm to Fork Picnic, Fickle Creek Farm, local fish, Margaret's Cantina, Meet and Eat, Pie Pushers, Piedmont Farm Tour, sustainable seafood, Walking Fish
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Andrea Reusing, season by season
Andrea Reusing’s first cookbook, “Cooking in the Moment,” will make Triangle residents proud. Over the years, Andrea, chef/co-founder at the Asian-inspired Lantern in Chapel Hill, has made quite a national name for herself through her creative cooking and reliance on … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Dining, Durham County, Food, Orange County, Recipes
Tagged A year of Seasonal Recipes, Ayrshire Farm, Betsy and Alex Hitt, Braeburn Farm, Brinkley Farms, Cane Creek Farm, Carrboro Farmers' Market, Chapel Hill, Chapel HIll Creamery, Chicken Bridge Bakery, Clarkson Potter, cookbook, Cooking in the Moment, Coon Rock Farm, Durham Farmers Market, farmers' markets, Fickle Creek Farm, Flyleaf Books, Hen and Dumplings, Johnny's, Lantern, Lantern cookbook, Lil Farm, Mac McCaughan, Merge Records, Peregrine Farm, Superchunk
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Kudos to our two James Beard finalists!
North Carolina placed two of five chefs vying for Best Southeast chef award from the James Beard Foundation. For the second year in a row, the Triangle’s own Andrea Reusing made the cut with her Asian-tinged locally sourced fare at Lantern in Chapel … Continue reading
Posted in Jackson County, Orange County
Tagged Andrea Reusing, Blackberry Farm, Canyon Kitchen, John Fleer, Lantern, Lonesome Valley
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Farm-food-photo events this week in Raleigh, Pittsboro
Thursday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, 3522 Wade Ave., Raleigh. “Farm Fresh North Carolina” author Diane Daniel will host the conversation “From Farm to Fork” with chef and James Beard semifinalist Scott Crawford of Herons at The Umstead … Continue reading
Thanks for the best coming-out party ever!
Thanks to the more than 250 people (!) who came out to Fullsteam Brewery last night to celebrate farms, farmers, and the launch of “Farm Fresh North Carolina.” (Oh yeah, and beer and local sausages and live bluegrass, too.) You … Continue reading
Posted in Beer, Durham County, Orange County
Tagged chef, farm to table, Fickle Creek Farm, Flyleaf Books, Four Leaf Farm, Fullsteam Brewery, local foods, Panciuto
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Read all about it in News & Observer
Nice story today by Elizabeth Shestak in her Morsel column in the Durham News and Chapel Hill News, the local sections of the News & Observer. I haven’t seen the Chapel Hill version, but the Durham one includes this photo of … Continue reading
Posted in Clay County, Durham County, Media, Orange County
Tagged agritourism, alpacas, farm travel, Fickle Creek Farm, guidebook, Morsel
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Nice ‘Farm Fresh’ coverage in today’s Herald-Sun
Nice piece in today’s Herald Sun (my hometown paper!) on “Farm Fresh.” About this excerpt: “The Durham writer grew up in Raleigh and returned to the Triangle after several years in Florida and Boston. What she found was an area … Continue reading
