AltWeeklies Wire
Raise a toast to Champagne's sparkling personalitynew
The best thing about Champagne? It can be drunk morning, noon and night, and in all four seasons.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
05-14-2013 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Champagne
Foodopoly lifts the veil on our food systemnew
Wenonah Hauter's book examines the history and political machine behind agribusiness consolidation, the pharmaceutical industry, factory farming, food safety and even the co-opting of "organic."
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
05-10-2013 |
Food+Drink
After a year of tragedy and setback, comedian Tig Notaro returnsnew
Tig Notaro probably has the biggest balls of any comic working today.
Sustenance and survival: the story of Yamazushinew
No comparison, no competitor: Serving a grandiose eight-course Japanese tasting menu and seating only 10 diners per night, a meal at Yamazushi is unrivaled by any other restaurant in the area.
INDY Week |
Victoria Bouloubasis |
05-02-2013 |
Food+Drink
A new dance adaptation of a Harlem Renaissance classicnew
Like Jean Toomer's book that inspired it, CANE is a hybrid, a mix of choreography, videography and experimental set design and sound.
Chris Tucker is alive and doing very wellnew
Tucker says the $12 million he owed in back taxes "connected me back with my audience. Because they can relate to that, because they got their own problems."
What to pair with Rieslingsnew
Kabinett? Spätlese? Ah, those confusing German wine labels. It's not as complicated as it seems, but if you're daunted by the nomenclature—and by sweet wines, generally—start out simple.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
04-10-2013 |
Food+Drink
Battered but unbowed, Mike Daisey brings his new show to Durhamnew
American Utopias—which tackles Burning Man, Disney World and Zuccotti Park, the locus of Occupy Wall Street—is an outgrowth of Daisey's long interest in mythmaking and totemic objects.
Tags: Mike Daisey
Mincemeat: the Darling Mutt of Piesnew
"Hi, this is Lauren, Eric Hodge's wife," began the voicemail. Drawing out every word, she declared: "I'm calling to defend the mince pie."
INDY Week |
Victoria Bouloubasis |
12-06-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Mincemeat pie recipe
When life gives you lemons, make lemon meringuenew
Brooke Erceg has spent seven years working on her grandmother's lemon meringue recipe: "In a way, I think she wanted me to figure them out on my own. Just like she did. One pie at a time."
INDY Week |
Victoria Bouloubasis |
12-06-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: lemon meringue recipe
A Twist on Apple Pienew
Emily Elizabeth Hilliard undoubtedly deserves the title "pie girl." In 2005, well before food blogs (or pies) were en vogue, she began blogging about the pastry at nothinginthehouse.com.
INDY Week |
Emily Wallace |
12-06-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: apple pie recipe
Sweet potato pie: better than pumpkinnew
In Vardaman, Miss., you had to wear heels to compete for the title of Sweet Potato Queen. April McGreger, aka the Farmer's Daughter, wobbled in such shoes: "I knew very early I wouldn't be a Sweet Potato Queen."
INDY Week |
Emily Wallace |
12-05-2012 |
Food+Drink
Hang up the hangovernew
Stay horizontal. Swallow some vitamins. And never, ever overindulge again.
INDY Week |
Julie Johnson |
12-05-2012 |
Food+Drink
Will N.C. State basketball return to its glory days?new
The Wolfpack's disappearance from the upper echelon of ACC basketball has been long, painful and in some ways surprising. Now, as the 2012–13 season gets under way, the world seems to have turned again.
Positive hatenew
With the election finally over, friends and families can stop arguing over politics and return to stoking a far more beloved partisan divide: UNC vs. Duke.
