Once youâve chopped all the dried fruits and nuts and cured the cake for several days, youâre left with something very sweet â a gift to share with friends and loved ones all season long.
Once youâve chopped all the dried fruits and nuts and cured the cake for several days, youâre left with something very sweet â a gift to share with friends and loved ones all season long.
From pies to pork and beer to biscuits, these North Carolina flavors call us back to the people, places, and tables we grew up around.
We lean on them, get by with a little help from them, and â winter, spring, summer, or fall â we know theyâll come when we call. In this season of thanks, we serve up a meal for our friends.
Our terrain shifts fast, from high, wet mountains to surf and sand. And with those changes comes a wealth of plants and animals that make North Carolina one of the richest places in the country.
At BHAWK in Southern Pines, Brad and Jess Halling have built something beyond a distillery. Itâs a place where gratitude for extraordinary service is poured into every bottle.
Marked up, stained, printed, and passed down, treasured recipes hold more than flavor: They often honor the people whoâve shaped our lives.
Draped in a fudgy caramel icing, this cake was the star of homecoming meals at Big Sandy United Methodist Church. Today, each slice still carries memories by the bite.
On the Friday after Thanksgiving, an heirloom recipe brings sisters, cousins, daughters, and granddaughters together for a tradition thatâs become its own kind of inheritance.
Once youâve chopped all the dried fruits and nuts and cured the cake for several days, youâre left with something very sweet â a gift to share with friends and loved ones all season long.
From pumpkin-studded pasta and apple custard cake to game-day sliders and hot wings, readers settled into fall with familiar flavors. Find the ones they returned to time and again this month.
With buttery flavor tucked inside a stubborn shell, pecans reward a little patience â especially when family gathers around the nut bowl to lend a hand.
Unlike some stickies, which have a pinwheel shape, this recipe calls for simply arranging drops of biscuit dough over a base of pecans and caramel sauce then baking until puffed and steaming.
From brunch inside an art museum to boardwalk bites and beachside murals, hereâs where to eat, explore, and take in New Hanover Countyâs creative side.
From a veteran-owned brewery to a neighborhood coffee roaster, these six Sandhills spots pour community into every pint, cup, and glass.
From pumpkin patches and tractor rides to seasonal sweet treats, autumn activities await your whole crew in Dallas, Gastonia, Belmont, and beyond.
Sing carols, brunch with Santa, and settle into Southern hospitality at the cityâs most iconic estates, Reynolda House and The Graylyn Estate.
Once brimming with neighborhood diners and family-owned shops, this iconic downtown stretch is stirring back to life thanks to the hopeful locals who still believe in its mile-long magic.
Visit a community art gallery, shop for vintage threads, and rest up in a boutique hotel along this revived passage in Lenoir County.
Explore wooded trails, visit pottersâ studios, and dine in downtown establishments in the heart of our state where thereâs always a reason to return.
At BHAWK in Southern Pines, Brad and Jess Halling have built something beyond a distillery. Itâs a place where gratitude for extraordinary service is poured into every bottle.
It took this writer almost 65 years to realize he had a lifetime of stories worth sharing â just like you.
Workshops at The Monti, a nonprofit based in the Triangle area, help people harness the power of storytelling to entertain, instruct, heal, motivate, inspire, and even change a life.
A good tale is meant to be shared â and so is the art of telling it. Nearly three decades ago, North Carolina storytellers gathered to do just that.
Guy Parker rarely spoke of the battles he survived as one of the countryâs first Black Marines. But the values he brought home shaped his family, his community, and his beloved barbecue restaurant in Goldsboro.
In the 1940s, a massive hangar cropped up in the fields of northeastern North Carolina. Inside, it housed light-as-air zeppelins, designed by the Navy to usher convoys safely around German U-boats lurking in the Atlantic, earning them the moniker âShepherds of the Fleets.â
During World War II, the Navy began deploying blimps from Pasquotank County to combat a deadly threat off the North Carolina coast.
When it comes to the history of space exploration, the pathway to the heavens runs right across North Carolina.
