For generations, coastal North Carolinians have prepared and savored time-honored recipes that are as much a part of their tradition as boatbuilding and netmaking. Home-cooked meals using the great variety of seasonal foods remain central to family life. In this collection Nancy Davis and Kathy Hart have preserved an important part of the heritage of this region.

Here thirty-four Tar Heel cooks offer recipes that can't be found in popular cookbooks or on restaurant menus. In Edenton, Frances Drane Inglis shares her recipe for plum pudding from the pages of a nineteenth-century family...

My book, Young Lover, is about a woman named Kayla, who find herself falling for a younger man named G that is almost twice her age. One morning, she needed work done on her car, and the car shop that Kayla took her car to was where G worked. They started a conversation about their previous relationships, and they thought they had a lot in common. Even though Kayla didn't agree with what G was saying, she continued to pretend. After hearing each other's experiences, they decided that they would date. In the beginning, everything was going fine like the average relationships, but later Kayla...

My book, Young Lover, is about a woman named Kayla, who find herself falling for a younger man named G that is almost twice her age. One morning, she needed work done on her car, and the car shop that Kayla took her car to was where G worked. They started a conversation about their previous relationships, and they thought they had a lot in common. Even though Kayla didn't agree with what G was saying, she continued to pretend. After hearing each other's experiences, they decided that they would date. In the beginning, everything was going fine like the average relationships, but later Kayla...