Forget those perforated ice-cream sandwiches from your childhood. Made with local ingredients like Maple View Farm ice cream and Counter Culture Coffee, today’s treats are the gourmet grown-up sandwiches dreams are made of. Here, my personal fave five: Rose’s Meat Market and Sweet Shop, 121 N. Gregson St., Durham I blame Rose’s mouth-watering Instagram photos […]
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Guests at The Carolina Inn can soon take home something sweet to remind them of their stay. Thanks to a partnership with Just Bee Apiary, The Inn is producing its own honey. Just last week they harvested their first batch. It’s been months in the making – back in April, the staff painted and decorated empty beehive boxes before they were installed
After years of serving up diner fare at Elmo’s Diner in Carrboro, owner Cindy McMahan thought, “I can only cook so much meatloaf and chicken and dumplings.” Make no mistake – she’s a big fan of the crowd-pleasing pancakes and omelets – but she figured a little variety can be good. Cindy added dishes to the Elmo’s regular lineup, but then she decided to veer completely off menu with a whole
Mixed herb arrangement $75 University Florist Handpainted birdhouse gourd by Rosemarie Hunter, $88 WomanCraft Set of 8 garden markers and pot $32.99 Wild Bird Center Pail and hand tools $8.99 and $2.99/each Fifth Season Gardening Kitras Art Glass balls $35-$49 Cameron’s Antique watering can $145 Whitehall Antiques Solar lantern by Allsop $24.95 Twig Bellezza Bloom
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Panama walnut picture frames $60-$65 SOUTH Magnifying glass $29 Night Gallery – Branching Out Rectangular tray in Skate Petrol by Bodrum Linens $120 Southern Season Gold star $20 La Boutique Lane English elongated diamond motif brass push-rod candlesticks $400 Whitehall Antiques Mediterraneo bowl by Alessi $180 Details Wooden cheese/cutting boards by Elijah Leed $85 and
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Captivated by the underwater activity she saw while snorkeling at age 10 in Hawaii, Lia Barrett (right) was disappointed she couldn’t bring any fish home to Chapel Hill. After her family trip, she got her hands on a Jacques Cousteau book and spent her teenage years covering her bedroom walls with vivid paintings of fish inspired
It doesn’t get any more Chapel Hill than chatting with Bill Smith at Crook’s Corner. Over a PBR, the bespectacled chef dove into the rich history of the pickled peach ice cream that’s been served in his family since the 1880s. Bill’s great-grandmother’s grandmother was an outspoken abolitionist who took in and adopted Tom Angel,
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Kathy Buck, 66 Sarah Buck Casey, 45 Emily Buck Walters, 33 Owners, Purple Puddle & Puddle Baby How did your gift, flower and stationery store Purple Puddle come to be? What about your adjoining children’s store Puddle Baby? Kathy: I was the ultimate shopper, and for seven years [I was involved with] the country store for
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Friday, May 8 6-8pm: Add some art to your weekend by attending the “A Process of Engagement: a Participatory Installation by Mary Ann Anderson” at the Ackland Museum Store. Visitors are encouraged to participate by moving around the small paintings (cut from larger paintings) now through the end of the month. 6-9pm: Meet artists Kathy Alderman and Elaine Pelkey-Herrick
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At most bars, tequila is something you slug (and more often than not, there’s some wincing involved). At Calavera, it is savored. With more than 50 types on the menu, patrons are encouraged to order a flight of three. As owner Kenneth Yowell says, “From the vanilla and caramel flavors of a great añejo to the pepper
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