This town and its surrounding hamlets occupy only a few square miles in the corners of Randolph and Moore counties, yet they’re home to dozens of potters, one of the densest concentrations in the world. To paraphrase an old saw: You can’t throw a pot without hitting one.
Sure, cornbread is common in many Southern Thanksgiving dressings, but it’s elemental in mountain dressing.
A dish of dressing that’s rich with crumbled cornbread, dirt-candy sweet potatoes, and sage-scented sausage is a blessing anywhere, but the taste is unmistakably eastern North Carolina.
The outcome of this classic combination is never in jeopardy, and the flavor is reassuringly delicious.
Some people might quibble over whether this type of dressing is the same thing as oyster pie. Well, it might be, but not on Thanksgiving.
An end-of-summer trek along NC Highway 66 in Stokes County provides plenty of kicks — as well as eats — and endless views of the Sauratown Mountains.
Farm-to-fork dining gets a posh polish in a historic bank building in Washington.
The stockings are hung, the cookies are out, and the house is now miraculously quiet. Just one more thing to do before bed: make the breakfast dish that’s become a tradition.
Ambrosia was such a treat that many families reserved a cut-glass or crystal bowl solely for displaying and serving it.
