Steer wrestling, a practice credited to legendary cowboy and rodeo star Bill Pickett, usually involves leaping onto a steer from the back of a specially trained horse. At the Madison
Put ramekins on a baking sheet. Bake for 25-35 minutes, until puffed and golden. Remove from oven, and let stand for 5 minutes. With a flexible spatula, remove strata to
Celebrate the Season Tree-Lighting Ceremony, Sylva — Dec 3 Enjoy live music while watching the tree outside the Jackson County Historic Courthouse light up for the first time this season.
Celebrate the Season Tree-Lighting Ceremony, Sylva — Dec 3 Enjoy live music while watching the tree outside the Jackson County Historic Courthouse light up for the first time this season.
Celebrate the Season Tree-Lighting Ceremony, Sylva — Dec 3 Enjoy live music while watching the tree outside the Jackson County Historic Courthouse light up for the first time this season.
Enjoy live music while watching the tree outside the Jackson County Historic Courthouse light up for the first time this season. Before the ceremony, do a little holiday shopping at the stores downtown.
View 18th- and 19th-century period Christmas decorations and lights on a tour of the historic Hope Mansion and King Bazemore House. Then, head outside to enjoy live holiday music, refreshments, and horse-drawn carriage and wagon rides.
Celebrate the holidays during this outdoor festival at Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities. Visitors can meet Santa and Mrs. Claus; browse goods from vendors and artisans; indulge in hot chocolate, cookies, and other treats; view decorated window displays; and enjoy a variety of other activities.
A cast of local performers and special guests will gather to produce the fourth season of this Broadway-style show, featuring religious and secular holiday tunes, dancing, and comedy skits.
Shana McDowell sells Mexican, milk chocolate, peppermint, and salted caramel hot chocolate bombs — among other flavors — at the WNC Farmers Market and her storefront bakery. photograph by Tim Robison
Enjoy a Hot Chocolate Bomb
Shana McDowell is the Asheville Cake Lady. photograph by Tim Robison
In the months leading up to Christmas, Shana McDowell — aka the Asheville Cake Lady — makes thousands of hot chocolate bombs with her daughters, Leigha and Lizzy. They meticulously measure homemade cocoa mix and count out every marshmallow that they place into a tempered chocolate ball. As they work, McDowell thinks of the kids who will drink her treats, their faces registering surprise and delight as they watch their dark chocolate raspberry, salted caramel, chai, or classic milk chocolate ball dissolve in warm milk, sending marshmallows floating to the surface. The McDowells know that holiday cheer doesn’t always come in gift-wrapped packages. Sometimes, it comes in mugs. — Chloe Klingstedt
This tiny city block in downtown Greensboro once had a gigantic reputation. Not so much for its charbroiled beef patties — though they, too, were plentiful — but for its colorful characters and their wild shenanigans.
In the 1950s, as Americans hit freshly paved roads in shiny new cars during the postwar boom, a new kind of restaurant took shape: the drive-in. From those first thin patties to the elaborate gourmet hamburgers of today, North Carolina has spent the past 80 years making burger history.