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Deborah P. Miller

The Past Becomes a Present

by Deborah Miller I hit my early 30’s with a couple of significant, but soon to be important, strangers in my how-fast-can-I-run life. One was my second husband, who I hadn’t quite met yet, the other was my kitchen where I mostly kept the beer cold, the coffee hot, and stashed take-out as I hurried… Read More →

Filed Under: Central NC, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged With: Deborah P. Miller, Mud Hens, Wagoner Family Cookbook

Tang Comes to Yadkin County

by Deborah Miller Gernie and Rachel Wagoner, AKA my grandparents, had a small tobacco farm in Yadkin County. Brooks Crossroads, to be exact, a scant 7 ½ miles west of Yadkinville. And on this farm they had a duck … and an old mule, chickens, a couple of grapevines, a huge vegetable garden, and a… Read More →

Filed Under: Central NC, Food, Uncategorized Tagged With: Brooks Crossroads, Coffee Direct, Deborah P. Miller, Flat Rock Baptist Church, Gernie and Rachel Wagoner, Southern Season, Tang, The Fresh Market, Tobacco farm, Yadkin County, Yadkinville

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