What’s a sonker? Ask bakers in and around Mount Airy, and you’ll get a thousand different answers. One thing’s for certain: It’s a North Carolina original.
5 on the Flat-Top: Concord Grill
This Person County restaurant may not look like much — that is, until a big, juicy thick burger dripping with freshly melted cheese comes through the takeout window.
The Secret Ingredient
A canning party at this writer’s home is about more than making jams and relish. It’s a time of bustling about the kitchen, bonding over boiling water, and solving the world’s problems to the ping of lids popping into place. It’s about deep friendship.
The Crab Shack is Here to Stay
More than 45 years ago, a fishing family started a seafood market to sell their catch. The market expanded into a mainstay restaurant in Salter Path whose varied menu includes a seasonal special that celebrates coastal resilience.
The Prescott Is Where Everybody Knows Your Name
A Kernersville chef brings the intimacy and familiarity of a local diner to high-end entrées — and even a fancy burger — that defy small-town expectations.
A New Spin on the Veggie Plate
You know the vegetable plates we get at our favorite meat-and-three diners? A growing number of vegetarian and vegan restaurants across the state are taking that old idea to new levels, offering creative vegetable combinations and alternatives to meat that put a contemporary twist on Southern classics.
The Close-Knit Community of North Carolina’s Yarn Shops
When the threads of life get tangled, there’s one place where North Carolina knitters go to get advice, share joys and sorrows, and create something together: the couch at their favorite yarn shop.
Forsyth Seafood Market Brings a Beaufort Bounty to Winston-Salem
True to their Beaufort heritage, a mother and daughter bring the bounty of the coast to their Winston-Salem fish market and restaurant, where seafood and friendship keep spirits afloat.
When the Smoke Cleared: Growing Up in a Tobacco Town
Bittersweet memories of growing up in a tobacco town reveal the complicated relationship between a community’s main industry and the families who paid dearly for it.
