In Awe of Asheville

In Awe of Asheville

When I first announced that we were moving to North Carolina, my writer and artist friends assumed we’d move to Asheville. “It’s the creative capital of North Carolina,” I heard repeatedly. While a creative capital sounded good, due to my...
Southern Food Makes Great Gifts for the Hard to Please

Any Day in Puerto Vallarta

It could be any day along the Pacific coast of Mexico, but on this day it’s Puerto Vallarta. The morning broke with a puff of clouds lolling upon the Pacific, casting a veil across the fishing boat dropping anchor in Banderas Bay. Tourists drop their lines into...
Southern Food Makes Great Gifts for the Hard to Please

TerraVita Serves Up the World in North Carolina

The capstone of the TerraVita Food and Drink Festival in Chapel Hill, N.C. was called the Carolina Table–East Meets West. As apropos as that sounds, it could easily have been called South Meets the World. There is no doubt that pork is still king in the South,...