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Frances Dowell

Chicken and Pastry, or What Have You

We are so excited that this week’s NC Food Blog installment also introduces you to our new online exhibits feature! This exhibition introduces the history and process of Chicken and Pastry making through both written and visual documentation. From our fieldwork archives, Edith Green of Columbus County, North Carolina, is pictured teaching NC Folk fieldworker… Read More →

Filed Under: Destinations, Eastern NC, Food, Southeastern NC, Uncategorized Tagged With: Christopher Fowler, Frances Dowell, Steve Kruger, Trista Porter

Apple Stack Cake

by Frances Dowell I  recently finished writing a novel set in the fictional mountain town of Stone Gap, North Carolina.  In one chapter, twelve-year-old Arie Mae Sparks is invited to a picnic by her so-called betters, and her mother insists she bring an apple stack cake as an offering. Arie Mae is torn. On the… Read More →

Filed Under: Food, Uncategorized, Western NC Tagged With: Apple Stack Cake, Frances Dowell

June is North Carolina Blueberry Month

By Frances Dowell The civilized blueberry moved to North Carolina in the early half of the 20th century. Wild blueberries have been growing in the piney woods of the eastern shores since the beginning of time (or thereabouts), but it wasn’t until one Harold Huntington of Montclair, NJ, cleared a thousand acres in Pender County… Read More →

Filed Under: Central NC, Eastern NC, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized, Western NC Tagged With: Blueberries, Blueberry Dessert, Burgaw NC, Frances Dowell, NC Blueberry Month

Pomegranate Kitchen, Durham, NC

by Frances O’Roark Dowell Imagine a kitchen that’s not unlike your own, only bigger and better equipped, with a cash box on the counter and a menu on the wall. Imagine the air thick with ginger, cumin and cinnamon. Now imagine a friend—your most hospitable, generous friend—standing before a flotilla of simmering pots, calling out… Read More →

Filed Under: Central NC, Destinations, Food, Uncategorized Tagged With: Assh Reshteh, Durham County, Durham NC, Fesenjoon Stew, Frances Dowell, Ghorme Sabzi Stew, Iranian Cooking, locally-sourced ingredients, Mally Rafizadeh, Mirza Ghassemi Stew, Persian ice cream, Pomegranate Kitchen, Straw Valley Cafe

February is NC Sweet Potato Month!

Sweet Potatoes ‘R’ Us Just how important is the sweet potato in the NC swing of things? Well, not only does it have a 501(c)3 charitable foundation and a newsletter, it has its own blog. I’m hard pressed to think of another vegetable that can make such a claim. The sweet potato is the official… Read More →

Filed Under: Central NC, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged With: All Saint's Episcopal Churchwomen, Concore NC, Frances Dowell, NC Potato Commission, NC Sweet Potato Month, Snow Hill NC, Spencer the sweet potato, The Churchmouse Cookbook

Christ the King Moravian Sugar Cake

From Murphy to Manteo, our state is a ribbon-wrapped highway where almost all roads lead to a tasteful discovery. Sharing the stories behind both well-known and hidden treasures, our NCFood blog invites you along with us on a tasting journey. With the holiday season well upon us, we thought our sweetest gift to you would… Read More →

Filed Under: Food, Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged With: Christ the King Church, Durham NC, Frances Dowell, Love Feasts, Matt Lardie, Moravian Sugar Cake, The Shops at Old Salem

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