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