Welcome to the Winston-Salem Journal’s Food Blog
Between the two of us, we do a lot of eating and cooking.
It’s rare that Laura gets to spend more than a few days in a row eating at home.
Michael spends part of his days testing recipes, scouring the state for its best wines and trolling the supermarkets for new and interesting foods.
Even when we’re not eating or cooking, we’re thinking, reading or talking about food. Cashiers at the grocery store will ask Michael what he’s going to do with the bok choy in his cart. Friends at parties will inevitably dominate conversations with such questions as how to make a pound cake, or where to find a good recipe for gumbo.
Laura gets a constant stream of e-mail from people looking for a place to meet their friends for lunch, or from someone out-of-town looking for a special restaurant for dinner.
A Laura aside: Michael probably doesn’t know this, but when I moved my desk over from the other end of the Journal’s newsroom in early January, I was so excited to be able to talk about food with someone. Finally, I wasn’t crazy for asking someone, very earnestly and seriously, about topics such as the origins of fondue. We’ve spent time lately talking about Easter dinner and the joy of eggs.
So, yeah, we like to talk about food and we already write about it. But with this blog, we hope to start more immediate and informal conversation. We’d like to help build a place for people to come talk about food in the Triad and beyond. We might tell you about the story behind a story in the paper, or open our notebooks to the bits that didn’t make it in print. We might give you a heads up on a new restaurant, or changes at an established one. Occasionally, we might do a Q and A with a member of the local food establishment, or point out larger trends in the food world.
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By Michael Hastings on 03/18/2008 (3:54 pm)
Comments
The new “joint” sounds good, but please do keep the vinegar to a minimum! Vinegar is a great cleaner,but not exactly a seasoning in my book! Most NC food is rather bland.
Linda H on 09/17/2008 (10:46 am)
Hi Linda,
We have just what you want.Soon to open downtown Winston is Bib’s Downtown,we will be a local old school rib joint with a downtown spin that will feature Slow cooked Pulled Pork,St.Louis cut Ribs,
(WE MESS WITH TEXAS)Beef Brisket,Chicken,
Turkey and alot of surprises coming fresh off the smoker.
We are not Eastern or Western we are BESTERN.Hoping this will be something really fresh for downtown Winston-Salem.
I will post on this blog with a opening date in Oct.Everyone have a blessed day.
Pig Daddy
pig daddy on 09/05/2008 (9:23 am)
We like to go to “The Lighthouse”, “Mr Waffle” and “Grecian Corner”.
What we miss about home is Memphis Bar-B-Que, although “Pig Pickens” is good and comes close to satisfying our taste of home. We will eat the NC BBQ, but really prefer Memphis style because of the more intense smokiness.
I miss Toddle Houses! My grandfather worked for the home office when I was a little girl. My mom guarded her Toddle House pecan pie recipe !
Linda Hill on 09/01/2008 (3:06 pm)
Tiffany,
The lack of a grocery downtown has been widespread complaint as more people move there. A downtown grocery - a real one, not just a glorified convenience store - has become the Holy Grail of downtown boosters. But I don’t see it happening soon. Most grocery stores say they need a lot of space, and they need the parking, etc. to drum up the traffic to pay for the location. I have a hunch that a more realistic solution would be the kind of convenience stores such as the ones you see in larger cities. In Brooklyn, my friend lives around the corner and across the street from a great deli. It’s a drug store, a wine shop, a newsstand and a small grocery rolled into one. They have German chocolate and Italian gelato and California Zinfandels. They have newspapers. They have milk and half and half and butter. It’s unquestionably expensive, but in a pinch, when you run out of something like sugar in the middle of baking a cake, it works. But I suspect we just don’t have the concentration of people living downtown to support those stores yet.
Laura Giovanelli on 07/02/2008 (11:35 am)
I think there should be an affordable grocery store downtown. Sure Kingz has opened and some of their things are affordable, and the Farmer’s Market is wonderful, but I don’t want to take a bus just to buy groceries.
Tiffany on 06/30/2008 (4:23 pm)
Winston,
let’s talk downtown eats,where is everyone.
What do you like downtown?
What do you not like downtown?
What would you like to eat downtown?
What is there to much of,or not enough of?
I would love to know what you think Winston!
pig daddy
pig daddy on 04/04/2008 (10:25 am)
Linda H,
What are some of your yummy choices in winston that you like best,and what is it
that makes them yummy?
pig daddy
pig daddy on 03/25/2008 (2:43 pm)
Be sure to e-mail me when you can divulge more, Pig Daddy!
Laura Giovanelli on 03/24/2008 (5:18 pm)
Laura,yes i do have alot of family history in downtown, and can’t wait to make more of it.Would like to tell you more about our project,but not at liberty at this time.Coming very soon,and would love to tell you more at that time.
Looking forward to having something very
special for downtown Winston-Salem.
Hope everyone had a great Easter & good eats. pig daddy
pig daddy on 03/24/2008 (12:02 pm)
The new blog sounds great, count me in! I’ve never “blogged” before, so I guess that makes me a blog virgin!
Since we are renovating, we have no kitchen and are eating out a lot! There are some yummy choices here in W-S.
Linda H on 03/23/2008 (12:11 pm)
Pig Daddy, you have a lot of history here! Can you tell us more about your project? Does it involve BBQ…or perhaps bacon? Both?
Laura Giovanelli on 03/20/2008 (12:49 pm)
Good Job,
Thanks for giving a outlet for great food info. I have a lot of family history in downtown Winston-Salem eating houses, from
Biddy’s in the 1930s to the famous
Toddle House, my father & gradfather having
a meat market in the old city market downtown, & my grandmother feeding city workers out of her home in the 1930s & ‘40s, to myself with a restaurant project
opening in Downtown Winston-Salem soon.
It’s really good to watch downtown come alive after being asleep for so many years. WAKE UP WINSTON, IT"S TIME TO EAT!
Thanks, Pig Daddy
pig daddy on 03/20/2008 (9:19 am)
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