Starting Thursday, October 31 through Sunday, November 3, Fire, Flour & Fork, Richmond’s food and drink festival, will celebrate its sixth year. The festival caught our attention in 2017 and made a deep impression on us. Maybe it was its commitment to producing authentic events that tell the stories of
Let’s play a game called “Pick Your Favorite Austrian.” Let me guess: you’ve gone with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wolfgang Puck, or maybe even Mozart (you’re so classy). Me? I’m going with August Zang. You see, without Auggie Z., we wouldn’t have croissants and all the other delicious viennoiserie. And then life
Did you know that the Southern biscuit was considered a luxury pre-Civil War? (We still think it’s a luxurious food staple). When I was a girl, I spent my summers in the West Virginia mountains with my grandparents. Each morning the smell of homemade biscuits would make its way into
If you’re trying to emulate the eating practices of your favorite NFL quarterbacks, you won’t always need to break the bank… but in some cases you definitely will! With the possible exception of National Hockey League goaltender, the role of quarterback in the NFL is the most important and stress-inducing
As part of Third Friday Durham, Vert & Vogue hosts a Happy Hour series every month. It’s a chance for the community to drink cocktails (on the house) and hear from an inspiring mover and shaker. Speakers in the past have included: James Beard award-winning chef and activist, Andrea Reusing
James Beard award-winning author of Bitters and Amaro, Brad Thomas Parsons, will be at Kingfisher in Durham, NC on Friday, November 1 and at The Crunkleton in Charlotte, NC on Saturday, November 2. He will share his new book “Last Call: Bartenders on Their Final Drink and the Wisdom and Rituals of Closing
The incredible Randi Weinstein is bringing her FAB event to Raleigh. For those of you who may not know what FAB is, it’s a weekend of educational and inspirational workshops created by women, for women in the hospitality industry! She is taking the show on the road next month with a
October is the month for you to share your restaurant photos to the CurEat App for a chance to win $50 One of the first restaurants a friend and her husband took me to when I interned in NYC in 2008 was a small country style, Italian restaurant located in
When you think of Boston, you think of Red Sox, tea parties and seafood. For a long time, Boston’s seafood restaurants were mediocre at best, with few lobster standouts and the occasional beer-guzzling oyster bar. Like much of America’s food scene, Boston chefs started to reclaim the mantle and worked
Are you from Detroit? If you’re like me, you claim Detroit, but you’re not a Detroiter in the truest sense of the word. In my case, my claim on a Motor City identity is tentative at best. In fact, I’m such a Southfielder that it’s downright sickening. Even though I
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