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A Feast For the Eyes

Text and photos by Sol Weiner At the North Carolina State Fair, a 100-pound watermelon is not just a 100-pound watermelon, nor is the first-prize pumpkin pie just a dessert. Like The Treachery of Images by René Magritte, which famously declared “This is not a pipe” below an image of that very object, food on… Read More →

Filed Under: Central NC, Destinations, Food, Uncategorized Tagged With: canning, cookoff, garden, Raleigh, Sol Weiner, state fair, Wake County

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