We knew snow was coming on Tuesday of this week, but the word was 1 to 3 inches here in my part of central North Carolina. Turned out to be much more than that — ten to twelve inches around here, though it varied considerably from place to place. My friend Kathleen Purvis writes about…
Way on back in 1999, when we were in the process of moving from our Southern California home to Piedmont North Carolina, my husband Will came on ahead to begin his new job in RTP, the high tech-biotech research centered business park created back in the 50’s, on land between Durham, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill….
On first hearing that our Let’s Lunch theme for July was ‘Barbecue’, I felt concerned, because I do not have a massive brick chimney with a big ol’ pit to hold massive portions of pork (either whole hog or pork shoulders) in proximity to glowing hickory wood coals for many hours, with a vinegar-kissed…
