Apr 29, 2022
When it comes to beer, we talk a lot about hops, but what about barley? Aaron Goss of Carolina Malt House in Cleveland, NC was a hobby beermaker who started to malt his own barley for fun while obtaining his law degree and MBA from Wake Forest University. After he learned that almost all of the beer consumed in the...
Apr 22, 2022
Chef Ashley Boyd's self-written tagline on Instagram is “restaurant kid for life.” She is the culinary director of 300 East in Charlotte, NC, the family business where she spent long afternoons as a child and later worked in various positions as age allowed. After graduating from the School of the Art Institute of...
Apr 15, 2022
There is some delicious restaurant cooking happening in Charlotte, NC, and when I talk to many of the chefs responsible for it, more often than not, they point to Freshlist as one of their day-to-day partners making that possible. CEO Jesse Leadbetter was in sports licensing when he started growing his own food and it...
Apr 8, 2022
Charcuterie boards are lighting up social media these days, but have you ever considered seafood charcuterie? According to a Johns Hopkins research study, nearly half of the US’ seafood supply goes to waste, and there are few people in the food system who know how to counteract that. Enter Eric Montagne, a chef who is...
Apr 1, 2022
Fancy dining isn’t all fluff. At Wild Common in Charleston, SC, Orlando Pagán puts his culinary passion on the plate with every service. He left Puerto Rico after high school to attend Johnson & Wales in Miami, and following graduation, spent three years at the Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove. In San Francisco, he cooked...