Eat & Drink
Growing up in Durham, John May never imagined he’d be executive chef at one of the city’s prominent restaurants. In fact, he hardly thought about cooking at all. The new Piedmont chef was 23 in 2009 when he first cooked a meal for anyone but himself. A dinner of seared […]
Carolina Jubilee is a two-day event presented by Carolina Farm Trust – who’s mission is to protect farmland and foster an ecosystem of sustainable farming – that celebrates N.C. food, music and farms. Proceeds from ticket sales will go directly to farmers, including Blue Whistler Farm, right outside of Durham. They […]
The rediscovery of old-vine plantings throughout Spain, and the effort to modernize their production, has produced a bumper crop of deeply flavored wines that bring satisfaction to both palate and pocketbook. Today’s wine, from the district known as Cariñena is made from 100% Cariñena (Carignan) grapes! Located within the larger north-central […]
Wherever you turn today, there’s yet another rosé wine. I love rosé and am glad to see it selling better than ever. But what about Provence, an area in southeastern France where rosé has been arguably made for 26 centuries? It makes rosé wine because that’s what works best. Today’s […]
Chef Chelsea Mock describes the look on customers’ faces when they first enter the gate at Boheme as one of the best sights of her day. “It’s a sense of awe,” she says. “It starts this journey that you’re taking along with us.” That journey typically begins in the restaurant […]
When a mechanical failure let a fire get out of control in his restaurant this past April, there may have been some resulting drama, but you wouldn’t know it by talking to Tommy Bullock. The son of the couple who started Bullock’s Bar-B-Cue 64 years ago, he grew up working the […]
Cocoa Cinnamon owners Areli and Leon Grodski de Barrera have a third and final location in the works. This installment is a micro-roastery that will supply Cocoa Cinnamon coffee to all three locations and feature rotating guest roasters’ coffees as well. The design of the new location at 2013 Chapel Hill Road […]
I have been extolling the wines from Washington state’s “Horse Heaven Hills” viticultural area for years. In 2003 I wrote, “Someday people will talk about Horse Heaven Hills in the same manor as they discuss the Napa and Sonoma Valleys.” Those days are here, and the changes occurring in Washington […]
Meet the man behind all that pasta. Josh, who has lived in the area for 10 years, headed up the kitchen at Mateo since its beginnings in 2012 before opening Italian trattoria Mothers & Sons with Chef Matthew Kelly in June. What late summer ingredient are you looking forward to incorporating into your dishes? For obvious reasons, tomatoes – they […]
Somewhat quietly, Mattie Beason has established himself as the foremost cider expert in our area. His love for hard cider led him, along with his business partner John Eisensmith, to transform their Six Plates Wine Bar on Erwin Road into Black Twig Cider House earlier this year. It’s the only cider […]
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