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Editor’s Welcome
Our Season of So Much
Our State Great 8
Finding Mayberry
Carolina Classic: The Coziest Month
Our State Quiz
Carolina Comfort Foods
by Alan Hodge
Family Tradition
Fried Turkey Day
by Drew Perry
History
The Marines of Montford Point
by Kevin Maurer
Food
Sizzle and Savor
Recipes: Think Outside the Piecrust
by Lynn Wells
Restaurant: Where Everyone Eats
Travel & Culture
A Shorter Route to Nowhere
City Portrait: Wilmington
Studio Tour: Burk Uzzle
Books & Music
Giving Thanks
The best Thanksgiving setting comes with character.
by Susan Stafford Kelly
Photo Essay
Home for Thanksgiving
Four of North Carolina’s best chefs invite us into their home kitchens.
Ramblin’ Man: Gravel Dreams
Getting onto the unpaved road is good for the soul.
by T. Edward Nickens
Features: The Restaurant Issue
A Chef’s Town
Vivian Howard, a TV show, and Kinston’s rise to culinary mecca.
by Jeremy Markovich
A Daily Slice of Life
Urban Ministries of Durham defies all free-food stereotypes.
by Elizabeth Shestak
The Blind Pig Supper Club
The Speedway Club
Table 16
by Jeri Rowe
S&T’s Soda Shoppe
by Adam Lucas
The Beefmastor Inn
by Adam Lucas
