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Bless Your Spoon: Make a homemade pie
By Stephanie Williams Dean If you’re not a baker but want to make a homemade pie this Thanksgiving, ...
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Bless Your Spoon: Birthdays at The Dynasty
By Stephanie Williams Dean Growing up, when my birthday rolled around in early November, Mamma would ask where ...
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Bless Your Spoon: Halloween dressing as something you’re not
By Stephanie Williams Dean In grade school, taking a break from class wasn’t called recess but play period. ...
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Bless Your Spoon: Time for fall foods
By Stephanie Williams Dean Fall is a good time to cozy up with friends. The season’s a good ...
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Bless Your Spoon: The fairest of them all
By Stephanie Williams Dean Something about fall makes me feel nostalgic — it’s my favorite season. Part of ...
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Bless Your Spoon: So much glory and good food in such little time
By Stephanie Williams Dean The drive to West Virginia was like a tantalizing snack before carving into the ...
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Bless Your Spoon: Mennonite apple butter boiling
By Stephanie Williams Dean Have car, will travel. Recently, I navigated hairpin curves down into a mountain valley ...
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Bless Your Spoon — Growing muscadines: A man for all seasons
By Stephanie Williams Dean Robert Bolt’s title for a play, “A Man for All Seasons,” was borrowed from ...
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Bless Your Spoon: A full measure of food and history
By Stephanie Williams Dean Food references are juicy ingredients in any story, and I’m hooked. But when a ...
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Bless Your Spoon: Wildacres Retreat a gift for all senses
By Stephanie Williams Dean Driving from Marion up to Little Switzerland, I was witness to some of the ...
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Bless Your Spoon: Return to school stirs food memories
By Stephanie Williams Dean Recently, a friend and Davie County native shared a few food memories from his ...
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Bless Your Spoon: The last of the tomatoes
Summertime means red, ripe tomatoes, and today's fresh tomato recipes are the perfect way to take advantage of the bountiful crop.
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Bless Your Spoon: Beat the heat by chilling out
By Stephanie Williams Dean Beat the summer heat by chilling out with one of these frosty, crowd-pleasing treats. ...
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Bless Your Spoon: Friendship is maintained eating catfish
By Stephanie Williams Dean I’m a bonafide catfish lover. About once a month, my family members would meet ...
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Bless Your Spoon: Hotel to the stars and 5-star dining
By Stephanie Williams Dean Back in the ’70s, I had stars in my eyes when working at the ...
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Bless Your Spoon: The Edwards retirement party
By Stephanie Williams Dean The Edwards – I envision a portrait of humanitarianism when thinking of Beth and ...
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Bless Your Spoon — What’s in a name — the renaming of recipes
By Stephanie Williams Dean There are a few rules for naming recipes. A book published in 1920, “The ...
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Natalie Lyons named to chancellor’s list at UNCG
Congratulations to Natalie Lyons for being named to the chancellor’s list for the spring semester at the University ...
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Bless Your Spoon — A little paint and salad — the blues and greens in life
By Stephanie Williams Dean My favorite thing to paint is food, go figure. But it was creation, colorful ...
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Bless Your Spoon — On good ol’ country fare – food for stars
By Stephanie Williams Dean Many cookbooks in my collection were gifts from loving friends, calling for a double ...
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Bless Your Spoon: Weddings steeped in history and good taste
By Stephanie Williams Dean A wedding day is such a sweet spot in life. The month of June ...
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Bless Your Spoon: Gifts of fathers
By Stephanie Williams Dean There are two food loves I got from Dad — his fondness for sardines ...
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Bless Your Spoon: Time for pool parties and cookouts
By Stephanie Williams Dean By the time June rolls around, swim season has officially opened and so have ...
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Bless Your Spoon: Good picnic fare and being a good steward leads to ‘good life’
By Stephanie Williams Dean During summer, an outdoor family picnic is how I define living “the good life.” ...
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Bless Your Spoon: Serving others when serving coffee and cake
By Stephanie Williams Dean For many of us, coffee’s our morning drink of choice upon waking. The hot ...
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Bless Your Spoon: Ham Club is not about ‘country’ hams
By Stephanie Williams Dean When invited to attend a Ham Club meeting and dinner, I expected to hear ...
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Bless Your Spoon: Food’s a great way to show you care
By Stephanie Williams Dean Coming across an Arbor Acres Retirement Community cookbook was fortuitous. Years ago, I was ...