Southern Living No Taste Like Home: A Celebration of Regional Southern Cooking and Hometown Flavor by Kelly Alexander & Editors of Southern Living Magazine

Author:Kelly Alexander & Editors of Southern Living Magazine [Alexander, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: CKB000000 CKB030000 CKB002060, Cooking
Publisher: Oxmoor House
Published: 2013-10-08T00:00:00+00:00

Its charms may pale in the light of Atlanta and the banking center that is Charlotte, but Raleigh is an honest-to-goodness big city—and proud of it.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the quintessential Southern college town. Yes, folks do say that about Oxford, Mississippi, and about Athens, Georgia. And those are idyllic places, for sure—but Chapel Hill is special. It’s a bit more liberal, a little more relaxed, and a lot more intellectual than its peers. Perhaps that’s because Chapel Hill was built to house the university.

When the University of North Carolina board of trustees selected the site for the university in 1793, they established a committee to create a town adjacent to the school. Town lots were auctioned when the ground was broken for the university.

The quiet winding streets, wooded lawns, stone walls, and little shops surrounding the university were designed to foster the charming mystique of small-town Southern life.

Franklin Street, which was named for Benjamin Franklin, is the main drag in Chapel Hill. Running the length of the university, it’s bordered on one side by the school and on the other by grand historic homes and numerous coffee shops, museums, restaurants, salons, bookstores, a retro movie theater, and more of precisely what you’d expect to find in a college town.

“Mayberry meets M.I.T.” is how The New York Times aptly described it. What Chapel Hill has that Mayberry didn’t is a white-hot restaurant scene complete with nationally award-winning venues, a beloved biweekly farmers’ market, and bars that range from typical sports-watching venues to the kind that age the bourbon on the premises.

For all its grown-up attractions and big-city pleasures, the North Carolina Piedmont is also an incredibly rustic pocket of the United States, rife with tradition, blessed with stunning natural resources, and rich with a vibrant culture.

You’ll discover significant literary heritage, baseball history, folklore, and folk art in these foothills. You can explore woods, hiking trails, and wilderness habitats. You can float and fish a fine collection of rivers and rapids, and you’ll ooh and aah at spectacular waterfalls. And yes, oh yes, you can eat barbecue.

North Carolina barbecue is a beloved style of cooking hog with a vinegar-based sauce. A source of much regional pride, it’s often served with sides of distinction: flavorful beans, greens like chard and cress, red and green tomatoes, peppers of every hue, squash, corn, and fennel. It’s tempting to call these unadulterated flavors “simple,” but the truth is more like “straightforwardly delicious.” You can find these flavors in Raleigh’s hipper-than-thou restaurants—and also due north across the North Carolina border and into Virginia.

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