½ cup cracker crumbs
½ cup butter, melted
1 pint oysters
1 cup fine bread crumbs
Salt, pepper, and paprika to taste
Combine ¼ cup cracker crumbs and ¼ cup melted butter in a shallow, greased baking dish. Spread evenly in a thin layer. Cover with half of the oysters, and season to taste. Make a second layer of cracker crumbs and melted butter. Cover with remaining oysters, season, and top with bread crumbs. Moisten with oyster liquor. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 30 minutes.
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To commemorate our 90th anniversary, we’ve compiled a time line that highlights the stories, contributors, and themes that have shaped this magazine — and your view of the Old North State — using nine decades of our own words.
From its northernmost point in Corolla to its southern terminus on Cedar Island, this scenic byway — bound between sound and sea — links the islands and communities of the Outer Banks.
Us? An icon? Well, after 90 years and more than 2,000 issues celebrating North Carolina from mountains to coast, we hope you’ll agree that we’ve earned the title.
After nearly a century — or just a couple of years — these seafood restaurants have become coastal icons, the places we know, love, and return to again and again.
