Posted in Recipes, Tar Heelia on November 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
November 30th is National Mousse Day. You may be surprised what all you can turn into a mousse. “Asparagus Mousse” from Peace Cookbook. “Blue Cheese Mousse” “Spam Mousse” from Dixie Classic Fair for Northwest North Carolina: Favorite Recipes from Friends of the Fair. “Malay Mousse” from High Hampton Hospitality. “Cucumber Mousse” from Home Cookin’. “Maple [...]
Posted in Recipes on November 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In her 11/28/12 article, My house is home to a bid bug, Andrea Weigl tells of how her affinity for community and church cookbooks all started with a hunt for southern recipes. Some recipes mentioned include pickles, preserves, cheese biscuits, tuna casserole, spoon bread, and lemon chess pie. So we scoured our cookbook collection to [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on November 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
There’s great material throughout the yearbooks in the North Carolina High School Yearbooks collection on DigitalNC. We’ve pulled out a few of our favorite senior superlatives for a Flickr slideshow. The superlatives range from Most Studious to Most Vivacious and include great photos from high schools in Fayetteville, Burlington, Mocksville, and a handful of other [...]
Posted in On This Day, tagged nc tornadoes on November 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1988: An unprecedented late-fall tornado rips through the Raleigh area and parts of Eastern North Carolina, killing four and injuring 157. Tornado season is generally April through early June, but a rare combination of low pressure, warm air and moisture broke with meteorological convention.
Posted in On This Day, tagged gov angus mclean, gov harry byrd, us highway 1 on November 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1927: Gov. Angus McLean of North Carolina and Gov. Harry Byrd of Virginia unlock a ceremonial gate across the section of U.S. 1 now linking their states. The nation’s first major border-to-border highway will eventually cover 2,467 miles from Canada to Key West. In North Carolina it enters in Warren County, [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged american canopy, andy griffith, eric rutkow, national lumber manufacturers association, tree farms on November 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
“Throughout the postwar years the [National Lumber Manufacturers Association] and its lobbying arms… even recruited celebrity endorsements. In the 1960s, Andy Griffith, perhaps the most recognized television personality of the age, served as an official spokesman for tree farms. In one of his recorded messages, he explained ” ‘See I’m a tree farmer myself. My [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged coca-cola, frederick allen, secret formula, wilson nc on November 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“[By 1903] it hardly mattered that Coca-Cola contained nothing but the merest trace of either drug named in its trademark. People were growing frightened….’Every ingredient [in Coca-Cola] is a poison,’ the Wilson (N.C.) Daily News warned its readers, ‘and not long hence each unhappy victim of this pernicious tipple, like the opium fiend of the [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia on November 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Several new titles just added to “New in the North Carolina Collection.” To see the full list simply click on the link in the entry or click on the “New in the North Carolina Collection” tab at the top of the page. As always, full citations for all the new titles can be found in [...]
Posted in Recipes on November 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From Kitchen Kapers. “Thanksgiving Turkey and Gravy” from Granny’s Drawers: Four Generations of Family Favorites. “Thanksgiving Eve Opossum” from A Taste of the Old and the New. “Sweet Potato Cornbread Stuffing” from Well, Shut My Mouth! The Sweet Potatoes Restaurant Cookbook. “Yams Gone Tipsy” from Favorite Recipes of the Lower Cape Fear. “Mama’s Rolls” “Green [...]
