Description: At the intersection of food and story, The Carolina Table offers dozens of stories by Tar Heel writers about the best meal, food memory, noteworthy family tradition, cherished food ritual, dreaded food ritual, fail-safe recipes, worst recipe, worst meal, funniest meal. Written by many of the state's best-known novelists, journalists, and chefs.
Review Quotes:
"Read The Carolina Table and you pull up your chair to the best groaning boards in the state."
--Frances Mayes, who wrote most recently Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir
"If it's true that by knowing what we eat, we know who we are, then The Carolina Table serves us up a cultural treasury of Southern food and how to cook it, eat it and pass it down through generations. This is our Anatomy of the Culinary. " --Michael Malone, author of Handling Sin and Uncivil Seasons
"Smart, inclusive, generous...The Carolina Table sets a national standard for food writing." --John T Edge