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
Few plants can beautify a lowly utility pole the way a flowering trumpet creeper vine can. Subtle it is not. Long after many wildflowers have wilted in the midsummer heat,
Few plants can beautify a lowly utility pole the way a flowering trumpet creeper vine can. Subtle it is not. Long after many wildflowers have wilted in the midsummer heat,
Few plants can beautify a lowly utility pole the way a flowering trumpet creeper vine can. Subtle it is not. Long after many wildflowers have wilted in the midsummer heat,
Few plants can beautify a lowly utility pole the way a flowering trumpet creeper vine can.
Subtle it is not. Long after many wildflowers have wilted in the midsummer heat, trumpet creeper cranks out flamboyant scarlet-orange blossoms. The vine climbs its way over anything in its path, scaling trees, rocks, fences, and walls. In the woods, it cascades down from the canopy like a vernal waterfall. In the backyard, it will run away like a train. But wherever it grows, trumpet creeper gives as much as it takes, and its beauty is more than skin deep. Hummingbirds drink deeply of its copious nectar. Sphinx moth caterpillars feed on its leaves. Warblers and thrashers and wrens nest in its dense tendrils, protected by a vine gone wild.
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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.