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Dish
- Home is where the hearth is
- As bread has improved, so have bread books
- A master bakes success at Cary's La Farm Bakery
- Building bread, ovens and community at Weaver Street Market
- Bread and politics in downtown Durham
- How a cinnamon bun became a taste of heaven
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Dish
I started making bread in self-defense. The offense that provoked my defense was the closing of the Polish bakery in Cambridge, Mass. The elderly couple running it, disdainful of my needs, decided to retire to Arizona. Or maybe it was Australia. What did I care?
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Dish
The good news is that there are a few really fine bread books out there, and there's the further good news that excellent, small artisanal bakeries have been making a comeback in the United States, and in France, for quite a while now.
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Dish
For the Vatinets, the partnership with Whole Foods and the media attention from Rachel Ray come at a good—albeit busy—time; they are planning to open a second Triangle store later this year.
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Dish
In 1990, I left my desk job to become a bread baker. Not that I was an expert, although I'd spent plenty of time in restaurant kitchens and traveled in Europe and San Francisco enough to know what I was looking for—and that we didn't have anything like it around here.
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Dish
In the midst of harried wait staff, sailor-mouthed cooks and box-laden produce deliverymen, there is but one calm soul in the frenetic cauldron of Rue Cler's kitchen: Kevin Farmer.
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Dish
As a very young child I was baptized into the University Presbyterian Church of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and taught to believe that bread was the body sacrificed for me. All I knew was that it tasted great—yeasty and a little sweet.
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Now Serving
New restaurants and happenings
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Reading
Alex Mindt gets around. According to his bio, he "has lived in every region in the country" and has had more than 50 jobs, from strawberry picker to professional gambler.
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Theater
Urgent memo to both hands theater company and the public that first fell in love with them: There's some folks you've got to see and (particularly) hear.
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Arts Feature
Hidden behind pyramid-like mounds of construction dirt and tucked deep inside the innermost chamber of the North Carolina Museum of Art lies a little piece of ancient history.
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On the Boards
The Gratitude of Wasps is the first world-premiere production from Chapel Hill's Deep Dish Theater Company.
- by V.C. Rogers, Jack McDonald and Megan Stein
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Record Review
Music from the Film Coney Island; A Brief History of the Big Fat Gap; Other Places; From the Bureau of Robotic Affairs
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Music Feature
"Maybe music has become ... well...." On the eve of his third year as the owner of Local 506, Glenn Boothe wants to finish his sentence with "less important." But he can't to do it.
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Latin Beat
I came to Puerto Rico to see El Dia Nacional de la Salsa, a stadium concert extravaganza paying homage to the living gladiators of the genre.
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calendar
Movie times are good from Friday, May 4 through Thursday, May 10 except where noted.
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Film Review
Declaring that Spider-Man 3 is the best third act in any movie series based on a comic book ought to be qualification enough for the film's deification.
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North Carolina
The fourth time was the charm for comprehensive sex education Tuesday—or at least a beginning.
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Wake County
Legislation introduced last week would appropriate $500,000 from the state's general fund to the City of Raleigh for the struggling MEAC basketball tournament.
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National
Despite an appearance by presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani and an upbeat tenor that infused the corridors of the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel last weekend, conservatives conceded the albatross of the Bush administration is dragging down the party's hopes of retaining the presidency in 2008.
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Q&A
Ann Akland is the advocacy team leader and past president of the Wake County chapter of NAMI, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
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Orange County
It started, as things do these days, with a rumor on a blog.
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Wake County
Compass/CCI won the contract to clean up PCB and dioxin contamination at Ward Transformer, an 11-acre Superfund site near the Raleigh-Durham airport and Brier Creek Commons Shopping Center.
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Living Green
Yard and kitchen waste is responsible for about one-third of landfill space.
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Front Porch
Once upon a time, in a May long ago, six (or seven?) starry-eyed, excitable boys and girls left their predictable college lives and moved to the country. They found an old farmhouse surrounded by 60 acres of woods and fields, three miles from the nearest paved road. Rent was $30 a month.
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Editorial
Long before anyone in the Triangle was putting focaccia, ciabatta and batards on their shopping lists, there was Ninth Street Bakery.
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"What about the single moms of all ethnic backgrounds working multiple honest minimum-wage jobs to make ends meet?" —Larry Rubin
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First Person
And I thought to myself, "Nope, we're gonna do this. It's for the best. I don't need to be back out here."
- by Mike Kelly and Jeffrey E. Stern
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Mexican Tacos!
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Zork Asks
This policy statement came floating in from Oviest knows where; we wondered if you could tell us who said it...
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MUSIC: Get Out
Send a Kid to Camp Benefit at Down Yonder Farm; Jello Biafra at Blend; Bone Thugs-N-Harmony at Cat's Cradle; more
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Heroes & Zeros
According to ABC News, Tobias said there was "no sex"—just massages. He says he recently switched to a service "with Central Americans" providing the massages.
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Citizen
Weren't we supposed to have a City Council election in Raleigh this year? And indeed we will, in October, candidates or not. Because one thing we're not short of in the Cap City is issues, notwithstanding that few so far are running on any of them.
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8 Days a Week
Awesome Color and Hazerai
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Spotlight
Friday's auction will offer acrylics, prints, watercolors, photographs and sculpture donated by 25 area professionals, plus work by 20 students and three faculty members.
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Spotlight
Car racing is an unusual subject for a Bollywood movie, but in Ta Ra Rum Pum, the track scenes filmed at the N.C. Speedway in Rockingham crackle.
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Spotlight
On their third and most challenging album to date, The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn, the Casady sisters discovered a different kind of nightlife.
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Spotlight
Tell someone that a 55-year-old man named Tamás Erdélyi has a new bluegrass duo based in upstate New York with his girlfriend, and you likely won't earn much interest.
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8 Days a Week
Captured by Robots; Comedian Bill Burr
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8 Days a Week
A night at the Wake County Speedway; First Friday
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8 Days a Week
Blonde Redhead; Strawberry Festival
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8 Days a Week
Wildflower Hike; Mindy Smith
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8 Days a Week
Some Like It Hot; MC Frontalot
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8 Days a Week
Brother Ali
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8 Days a Week
The Old Haunts; N.C. Songwriters Co-op; Live Bird Show
