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Recipes

A Recipe for Chess Cake

By Lea Efird Almost all of my earliest memories take place in Albemarle, North Carolina in my grandparents’ old house, one they sold when I was four or so. I remember constantly playing with my cousin Hunter, only 10 weeks older than me, as if he were my twin brother (we did look just alike,… Read More →

Filed Under: Eastern NC, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged With: A Recipe for Chess Cake, Albemarle NC, Lea Efird, Stanly County NC, UNC APPLES intern

Starving for Food or Fellowship

by Malinda Dunlap Fillingim If you ever find yourself starving for food or fellowship in North Carolina, find a church that’s hosting a dinner on the grounds, otherwise known as a potluck or covered-dish supper. You won’t leave hungry. I came across a bound index card collection of recipes compiled by the women of Wilmington’s… Read More →

Filed Under: Eastern NC, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged With: dinner on the grounds, Grace United Methodist Church, Malinda Dunlap Fillingim, Wilmington NC

Keeping Wild Foods in Our Culinary Culture

by Ray Linville Is cooking with wild foods out of place in today’s modern society? Because it’s so old-fashioned, I was surprised by how many kids had entered the Wild Food Cooking Contest in Richmond County.  It’s the event of the spring in Ellerbe, NC, when youth and adults show off their skills for cooking… Read More →

Filed Under: Central NC, Destinations, Food, Products, Recipes, Uncategorized, Western NC Tagged With: cake, contest, fish, fowl, fruit, game, nut, Ray Linville, Richmond County, Rockingham County, Sandhills, wild food

My Life in Pie

by Malinda Fillingim I knew something was wrong when my step-father, Carl, the Marine from Walnut Cove, told me he was taking me to a restaurant in downtown Swansboro looking over the White Oak River. We never went out to eat unless we were out of town, or something bad had happened. I couldn’t think… Read More →

Filed Under: Eastern NC, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged With: Lemon Meringue Pie, Malinda Dunlap Fillingim, Swansboro NC

“Chowder Taster”—Touring a Clam Chowder Cook-Off at the Ocracoke Community Center

by Leanne E. Smith “The rainy weather cooperated with us,” Karen Lovejoy joked the Saturday before Easter 2015 during the First Annual Clam Chowder Cook-off on Ocracoke Island that showcased four entries in the Ocracoke-traditional category and seven for non-traditional. The mid-day event was a fundraiser for the Ocracoke Childcare Center, also known as the… Read More →

Filed Under: Destinations, Eastern NC, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged With: Dick Tunnel’s Clam Chowder, Leanne Smith, Ocracoke Chowder Cook-Off, Okracoke Childcare Center

Making Mac and Cheese Better with N.C. Mountain Cheese

by Ray Linville What’s the most important ingredient in macaroni and cheese? Except for the love that the preparer personally adds, is one item more important than anything else? The questions may seem frivolous because today the recipe at home can be quite simple – unless you’re Thomas Jefferson, who was so consumed with serving… Read More →

Filed Under: Central NC, Destinations, Eastern NC, Food, New South, Products, Recipes, Southeastern NC, Uncategorized, Western NC Tagged With: agriculture, Ashe County, Ashley Christensen, cheese, Chef James Hemins, dairy, farmers market, Got to Be NC, Jeff Lee, macaroni, Ray Linville

Recipe for Belonging

by Malinda Fillingim Back in 1972, when I first moved to my step-father’s hometown of Walnut Cove, I was a lonely 13 year old surrounded by people who had grown up together and whose families had lived in the same community for generations. I had to find my own path and create my own sense… Read More →

Filed Under: Central NC, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged With: Malinda Dunlap Fillingim, Stokes County NC, Wanut Cover NC

Neuse River Fish Stew – a guest post by NC barbecue expert Bob Garner

by Bob Garner [Editor’s note: We were so excited to receive an email from Winston-Salem’s John F. Blair Publishing asking if we’d be interested in having Bob Garner write a guest post for NCFood. Bob Garner? THE North Carolina barbecue expert? You bet your prized hog, we were interested! Especially since his new book Foods… Read More →

Filed Under: Destinations, Eastern NC, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bob Garner, Foods That Make You Say MMM_MMM, Ken's Grill, La Grange NC, Neuse River

Collards a lo Cubano

by Sarah Bryan Verlie Helsabeck Freeman was a vivid woman. She had a cat named Mr. Cat, a set of dentures that she took out of her mouth and clacked at frightened great-grandchildren, and—as she warned overly curious visitors who might snoop around the house—a booger in her basement. (To readers who aren’t from North… Read More →

Filed Under: Central NC, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged With: Carolinian-Cuban Collard Greens, collards a lo Cubano, Ellerbe NC, Sarah Bryan

“A Martin County Thing”—Chicken Mull

by Leanne E. Smith Sixty-five gallons of chicken mull disappeared in less than a couple of hours on Saturday, October 25, 2014, when the town of Bear Grass in Martin County, NC, held its First Annual Chicken Mull Festival. Bear Grass is in the middle of Martin County in Eastern North Carolina, about 20 miles… Read More →

Filed Under: Eastern NC, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bear Grass NC, Chicken Mull, Chicken Mull Festival, Leanne E. Smith

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