Three of my favorite outdoors things — beer, barbecue and bluegrass — on one day in downtown Raleigh, the North Carolina Cuegrass Festival. According to the web site, “The Pit’s famous barbecue, cooked by The Pit’s legendary pitmaster Ed Mitchell, and North Carolina beers from LoneRider, Mother Earth, Carolina Brewing Company and Big Boss, will …
My maternal grandmother was Lithuanian and she was definitely the family matriarch. We spent many weekends and most holidays with her, grandpa (the Irish one) and lots of aunts, uncles and cousins. Grandma was always trying to fatten us up and lived in a neighborhood full of bakeries (Lithuanian, Portuguese and Italian) in east Cambridge …
Today it’s all about sexting, gingerbread, Tarantino clapper, abbatoir and beer. Everyone in a relationship should read this one about sexting, yes, sexting. Don’t be a prude, let your honey know that you’re thinking about him (or her), you don’t need to get explicit. I first met Natasha Crawford at Ignite Raleigh. She was a …
Here are some items that tickled my fancy today. Julia fans, another book! Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced that it will publish in December “As Always, Julia,” more than 200 letters written from 1952 to 1966 between Julia Child and her agent Avis DeVoto. A few weekends ago I was lucky enough to spend the day …
Grabbing the Gusto 