Eight Great Things to Do in North Myrtle Beach
While there are hotels of various sizes here, the shoreline along Ocean Drive through North Myrtle Beach is lined with beach houses rather than resorts and attractions. Some of these beach houses are mini-mansions with swimming pools, elevators and lush landscaping, while others are modest single family-style dwellings. Ocean Drive through this town isn’t as full of traffic slowing down to look at amusement parks and other...
Fall is for Food Festivals in the South
Taste of the New South September 4-7, 2015, Pinehurst, NC Over Labor Day weekend the legendary Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina will host Taste of the New South, a food and wine celebration to focus on traditional foods prepared with contemporary flair. The village of Pinehurst was designed by Frank Law Olmsted, the landscape architect of Central Park. Even without the dozens of championship golf courses and picturesque horse farms...
Spectacular Southern Food Served at Durham’s Taste 2015
Durham proved once again what an amazing food city it is becoming at the recent Taste 2015 events. The three-day food event kicked off with a VIP reception on Friday, April 23, 2015 hosted by 2011 James Beard winner Andrea Reusing. Proceeds from ticket sales went to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. I attended several of the Taste 2015 events as a guest of event producers, Shannon Media, publishers of Chapel Hill...
In Awe of Asheville
When I announced five years ago that we were moving to North Carolina, my writer and artist friends assumed we’d move to Asheville. “It’s the creative capital of North Carolina,” I heard repeatedly. While a creative capital sounded good, due to my husband’s job, we wound up in a small town called Hillsborough. Turns out Hillsborough is the literary capital of the South with more writers living here any...
TerraVita Serves Up the World in North Carolina
The capstone of the TerraVita Food and Drink Festival in Chapel Hill, N.C. was called the Carolina Table–East Meets West. As apropos as that sounds, it could easily have been called South Meets the World. There is no doubt that pork is still king in the South, but pheasant, bison, lamb and duck are reaching for the crown. Same goes with barbeque sauce–that legacy souse of the South that differs from region to region....
Year-Around Activities at California’s Big Bear Mountain Resorts
Southern California’s Inland Valley is presided over by the mountain patriarchs called Baldy, San Jacinto and Big Bear. These giants are as much a part of the daily experience to valley residents as the ocean is to those who live on the coast. Valley residents watch the sun coming up from behind them, enjoy the magnificent clouds that form at their peaks, play and explore them every month of the year, and navigate by them. The...
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