North Carolina

Food & Drink
Pickle-Brined Dipped Chicken
North Carolina’s answer to Nashville hot chicken

Style
A Southern-Minded Sport Coat
Chapel Hill’s Alexander Julian fashions a sport coat to beat the Southern heat

What's in Season
Why You Should Be Cooking with Pimento Peppers
One taste of an Ashe County pimento, and you may shun watery bell peppers for good

Arts & Culture
Brilliant Blooms: See the Dahlias in North Carolina
Detour-worthy dahlia destinations in Western North Carolina

Drinks
When Two Southern Icons Collide…
Combining two North Carolina favorites

Garden Variety
A Southern Mountain Garden
A revival landscape in Highlands, North Carolina

In the Garden
A Secret Southern Garden
A jewel box garden in Raleigh, North Carolina

Arts
Burk Uzzle: A Life in Pictures
Three summer exhibitions explore the remarkable career of North Carolina’s Burk Uzzle

Food & Drink
Blackberry and Peach Cobbler
The crowd-pleaser dessert

Interview
Catching Up With The Avett Brothers
The Avett Brothers return with a new album and a new outlook

Food & Drink
Southern Road Trip: Tar Heel Eats
Turning back the clock to a time when the midday meal was king

Food & Drink
Dispatch From the Road: Lunching Across North Carolina
Tag along with writer Jed Portman on a road trip through the Tar Heel State in search of rib-sticking meals

Gardens
Olmsted’s Southern Stand
How the father of landscape architecture left his final fingerprints on the South

Fork in the Road
A Bold Move in Barbecue
North Carolina pit master Sam Jones is breathing new fire into the old-school smokehouse

Arts
Damian Stamer: Painting the Past
A North Carolina painter finds that you can go home again—maybe

Good Dog
All in a Dog’s Work
A bold little spaniel with strange business of her own

Sporting Scene
The Quail Field Primeval
How a North Carolina plantation turned back the clock on bobwhite habitat

The Southern Agenda
The Southern Agenda: April/May 2016
Goings-on in the South and beyond

Sporting Scene
North Carolina’s George Hi Plantation
Where the quail feel right at home

Travel
Holiday, USA: Festive Southern Town Names
A few of our favorite holiday-named Southern locales that wear their yuletide spirit proudly