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
Want to stay in the know with North Carolina’s latest events? Subscribe to our We Live Here newsletter! Ocracoke: Fig Festival What: Celebrate Ocracoke’s local fig history and culture with all kinds of
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Ocracoke: Fig Festival
What: Celebrate Ocracoke’s local fig history and culture with all kinds of fig-infused fun. A marketplace will offer dozens of preserves and treats, and visitors can compete in a fig cake bake-off, among other activities.
What: Grab a lawn chair for a hoppin’ evening in The Glass Jug Beer Lab’s beer garden. A handful of hop-forward breweries will serve samples while blues musicians perform.
What: Ahoy, landlubbers: Learn about the history of pirates on the Outer Banks when Blackbeard’s crew invades Jockey’s Ridge Crossing in Nags Head or a realistic 18th-century living-history encampment.
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.