Bill Smith

The Chapel Hill, North Carolina, restaurant closed after nearly forty years of putting Southern food on the map. It also introduced the writer Daniel Wallace to the life—and wife—he dreamed of

A taste of summer from Chapel Hill mainstay Crook’s Corner

The crowd-pleaser dessert

Here’s where you’ll find the G&G editors outside the office in the next twelve months

For Bill Smith, the chef who has quietly kept Chapel Hill, North Carolina’s beloved Crook’s Corner at the heart of the Southern culinary universe for more than twenty years, food always revolves around family—the one he’s related to and the one he isn’t

A tour of Crook’s Corner in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

The Crook's Corner chef has helped set the course of Southern food for more than twenty years