The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997314400 ISBN 13: 9780997314403

Publisher: Eno Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

At the intersection of food and story, The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food offers dozens of stories by Tar Heel writers about the best meal, food memory, noteworthy family tradition, cherished food ritual, dreaded food ritual, fail-safe recipes, worst recipe, worst meal, funniest meal. Written by many of North Carolina’s best-known novelists, journalists, and chefs, the book is edited by Randall Kenan.  It includes pieces by Lee Smith, Daniel Wallace, Celia Rivenbark, Michael Parker, Jill McCorkle, and Marcie Cohen Ferris. It also includes stories by chefs and cookbook authors such as Crook’s Corner’s popular chef Bill Smith. The book features stories on everything from shad roe fries to Thanksgiving turkey disasters to a reluctant carnivore attending a ribfest. 

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Review

"Read The Carolina Table and you pull up your chair to the best groaning boards in the state."

--Frances Mayes, who wrote most recently Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir

"If it's true that by knowing what we eat, we know who we are, then The Carolina Table serves us up a cultural treasury of Southern food and how to cook it, eat it and pass it down through generations. This is our Anatomy of the Culinary. " --Michael Malone, author of Handling Sin and Uncivil Seasons

"Smart, inclusive, generous...The Carolina Table sets a national standard for food writing." --John T Edge

From the Inside Flap

At the intersection of food and story, The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food will offer a collection of essays about the best meal, food and memory, the best family tradition, a cherished food ritual, a dreaded food ritual, a favorite recipe, the worst recipe, the worst meal, the funniest meal. These food-related stories are set in North Carolina, though geography is sometimes secondary to the main theme, which is food in any form: meals and manners, cooking and ingredients, recipes and recollections. The pieces include a humorous story by Michael Parker about his mother's soup disaster; a tour of Duplin County barbeque joints by Celia Rivenbark; Hal Crowther's evening as a reluctant carnivore at a ribfest; chef Cathy Cleary's favorite tomato pie. Writer and goat farmer Tom Rankin writes about taking his goats to be slaughtered by a halal butcher from Afghanistan in Sanford. John McElwee takes us to the annual celebratory Blue Monday shad fry along the Cape Fear River. Some of North Carolina's favorite writers and chefs regale us with stories: Lee Smith, Frances Mayes, Daniel Wallace, Marianne Gingher, Wiley Cash, Bland Simpson, Jill McCorkle, Jaki Shelton Green, Michael Malone, and Wilton Barnhardt. It also includes stories by chefs Vivian Howard (of PBS's "A Chef's Life") and Crook's Corner's popular chef Bill Smith, and noted cookbook authors Marcie Cohen Ferris and Nancie McDermott.

About this edition

• Publisher: Eno Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0997314400
• ISBN 13: 9780997314403
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210
• Editor: Kenan Randall