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3 weeks ago | 
thelocalpalate.com | Emily Havener |Amber Chase |TLP's Partners
In Charleston, Nikko Cagalanan is making kamayan a Filipino tradition worth traveling forNikko Cagalanan grew up in the Philippines, where it’s common to have multiple generations living in one household. Even everyday meals were a big production, serving 10 to 20 people. “Comparing in the US, with me and my wife, it’s just the two of us,” he says; he and restaurateur and business partner Paula Kramer tied the knot last fall.
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1 month ago | 
thelocalpalate.com | Emily Havener |TLP's Partners
Take a look at 5 things Alton Brown keeps in his fridge. Alton Brown launches his farewell culinary variety tour, Last Bite, on February 13, in the same month his 10th book, Food for Thought (Gallery Books, 2025), hits stores.
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1 month ago | 
thelocalpalate.com | Emily Havener |TLP's Partners
Finding Home Across the Pond Across Europe in the last decade, there’s been a burgeoning trend of Southern-inspired restaurants, food trucks, and diners cropping up from Poland to Portugal. These eateries serve some truly fantastic dishes that represent the cuisines and traditions of the South. You’ll find Louisianan jambalaya, Appalachian chow-chow, and Floridian key lime pie in cafes and restaurants throughout the Old World.
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1 month ago | 
thelocalpalate.com | Emily Havener
Talking cookbooks and secret baking projects with Joy WilsonI recently had the pleasure of attending a scone-making class taught by cookbook author, recipe developer, and editor Joy Wilson at the Charleston Wine & Food Festival, where Wilson, better known as Joy the Baker, shared not only her practical and creative baking tips but some of the personal skills she’s developed that make her baking so magical.
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1 month ago | 
thelocalpalate.com | Emily Havener
Cooking for the Culture feels like a mirror of Toya Boudy as she slowly reveals herself to us. It’s filled with stories about her childhood in the kitchen learning techniques from her parents for stretching food, which, she says, “take roux knowledge,” and cooking for pay as a teenager at a corner convenience store.
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2 months ago | 
thelocalpalate.com | Emily Havener
Getaway Smoky Mountain Escape By: Emily Havener Images courtesy of Ben Finch Photography Since Cataloochee Ranch was founded in 1939, hospitality in a beautiful setting has been a part of its fabric, with multiple generations of families vacationing there yearly.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
thelocalpalate.com | Emily Havener |Veronica Meewes |Lia Picard
Tampa’s diverse cigar culture is steeped in historyAt the corner of North Florida Avenue and East Francis Avenue in sunny Tampa, Florida, a soaring brick cathedral has overlooked the neighborhood for nearly 120 years. For decades it served as a spiritual center for the Tampa Heights neighborhood. Now the institution worships a different deity: cigars.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
thelocalpalate.com | Emily Havener |Erin Murray
Dates are a Charleston chef’s sleeper ingredient to marry flavors in his iconic celery saladImage courtesy of Rusty RossWhen Jason Stanhope was brainstorming the recipe for his now-famous celery salad at Lowland in Charleston, he’d been inspired by celery salads at other restaurants, among them James London’s Chubby Fish and The Four Horseman in Brooklyn. However, in Stanhope’s version, “dates were a nonnegotiable,” he says.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
thelocalpalate.com | Emily Havener |TLP's Partners |Lauren Titus
This is what multiplatinum musician, Darius Rucker, keeps in his fridge “I love the holidays—putting on a great record and eating all the things you only get to eat that time of year!” says Darius Rucker. In addition to his multiplatinum career as a musician, he knows how to put out an impressive spread for celebration.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
thelocalpalate.com | Emily Havener
Exceptional offerings focus on truly local sources in this charming townOnce known as an upscale commuter’s neighborhood with easy access to Raleigh, Cary is now its own worthwhile dining, shopping, and vacationing destination. Academy and Chatham streets run perpendicular as prime thoroughfares for drinking, dining, and nightlife, but nothing is truly off the beaten path in this easily walkable town.
