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By: ilinap

ilinap — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:13:36 +0000

Mmmmmm….Kopps frozen custard is amazing!

By: Randy Kennedy

Randy Kennedy — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:52:35 +0000

Very cool, Dean.

Interesting background info on your life experiences shaping your appreciation of the ultimate vittles.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:16:14 +0000

I’m working with the site TownMe.com, which aims to provide local information and interesting facts about Durham and other cities. We’ve read a bunch of blogs about Durham and felt yours would be great to include in our Durham Blog Directory, which we created to feature awesome local blogs. Please check out the site (www.townme.com), and if you get a chance, we’d love to have your feedback. I’m at stephanie@townme.com.

Thanks!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:57:03 +0000

Hi Dean -

This is pretty random. I stumbled upon your blog when reading about Bryan Zupon, who I just learned ran an underground restaurant at Duke for two years. I graduated from Duke in 2005, and also was a manager for the basketball team oddly enough. I will be back down to attend Fuqua in the summer. I live in New York City and am a big food guy and wanted to get involved with the food scene at business school, and perhaps as a career. Would love to get in touch and share stories of basketball and food when I get down there. Best, Josh

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:25:13 +0000

Just found your blog when googling Greg Cox and ‘Allen and Sons’ and was thoroughly entertained. I’ve always been obsessed with food and regularly test out new restaurants in the area. Love Zely & Ritz, Watts Grocery, Revolution, Maximillian’s Pizza Kitchen to name a few. Unlike Mr. Varmint, I have never cooked a pig however, I am past due visiting Allen and Sons and plan to go this weekend. Thanks so much for the entertainment….your blog is well written!

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:16:25 +0000

Hey Dean!
I love your story of formative UNC years – what a great life you have led and are leading; with an open and fun spirit about it all, teaching yourself (with questions and great! travels!) along the way. This is very admirable –

By: Victoria

Victoria — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:01:28 +0000

Hey Dean…stumbled upon your blog looking for info on a restaurant in Chapel Hill. I always loved your posts on egullet and heard your pig pickins are epic

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:26:59 +0000

Hi! Just wanted to clear up that Ciao Osteria has closed permanently and will not be opening in the Marketplace on Lake Boone Trail. 618 Bistro will be opening along with JK Steakhouse and others…

By: panthur

panthur — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:49:52 +0000

I like your blog – found it through facebook. I’ve added you to my blogroll. I also do some local Raleigh restaurant reviews. http://demandy.com. Keep it up!

By: Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:32:40 +0000

My boyfriend and I just came across your blog and I wish we’d seen it sooner. We started a food-themed photo blog several years ago and it contains a lot of entries for Triangle restaurants. It was meant to be a personal record of meals we enjoyed preparing at home or dining out, so it’s not as interesting as yours (we’re too busy/lazy to write much). We’ve enjoyed reading your earlier entries and getting ideas for places to go in the area and dishes to try at home. Frazier’s and Vivace are two of our favorite restaurants, so we’ll be visiting Coquette soon. Thanks!

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:04:14 +0000

I just found your blog. I started a blog of my own that was basically in the same spirit, but I figured it that blogging isn’t for me. I think I’ll just read yours . . . btw, which part of NW PA are you originally from? Anywhere near Mercer County, by chance?

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:15:00 +0000

Dean:
I was just turned onto your website and I am already hooked. I am 2 1/2 years new to this area living in North Durham. Do you travel to Durham for any dining experiences? The Durham Marriott is redefining it’s restaurant with a renovation of it’s interior and menu. They have an awesome Exec Chef who cooks real food and is too good for a hotel restaurant. Durham is having a complete overhall of it’s down town and now with the new performing arts center I am hoping it will become a place to be seen rather than avoided.
Just wanted to share and I look forward to keeping up with varmintbites.com. Thanks!

By: Benjamin Knight

Benjamin Knight — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:21:44 +0000

Beach traveling foodies from the Triangle, be sure to stop at Chef & the Farmer in Kinston. Yes Kinston!!! Moreton Neal loved it (check to Metro Mag review), and you will too. Visit http://www.chefandthefarmer to get a peak of one of the best restaurants in the state.

By: Elizabeth (Beth) Wiegand

Elizabeth (Beth) Wiegand — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:48:14 +0000

Hey….always enjoyed your eGullet comments.
Just had Twelve Bones in Asheville for my daughter’s graduation party from UNC-Asheville this weekend. I think we are spoiled here in Raleigh with Ed’s and The Pit and Allen & Sons and Wilber’s…BUT…Twelve Bones is just fantastic. Awesome ribs, and the sides….oh my. They’re only open weekdays for lunch, with a line wrapped around the building for eating both indoors and under a huge roof outdoors. Chef/owner from Louisiana. Sweet, smoky ‘cue done right over hot wood coals.
Check out my recently released THE OUTER BANKS COOKBOOK from Globe Pequot Press, and my blog “carolinafoodie.blogspot.com”. We’ve got very similar interests! BW

By: didion

didion — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:33:45 +0000

you’ve got a great blog going here. hope you don’t mind, but we’re linking to you off our site (http://www.didionville.com). don’t worry, though: you won’t be bombarded with hits. our traffic comes primarily from grandparents and some friends in los angeles. cheers!

By: Steven Meralevitz

Steven Meralevitz — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:42:27 +0000

Mazel Tov on hanging out your cyber-shingle, Dean!

I still remember the “Ode to Varmint: If Sandburg Went to Raleigh” thread from Pig Pickins’ past…

By: Varmint

Varmint — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:59:27 +0000

Mary, Mary, Mary. All you had to do is ask, as it’s one of the simplest desserts ever. I don’t hide recipes, I share them (although it’s rare when I use one). I’ll write about this cobbler in the summer, when the berries are plentiful, but drop me an email, and I’ll get the recipe to you.

By: Mary Williams

Mary Williams — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:47:06 +0000

Love the blog, Dean. Good stuff. Now, when will you divulge the recipe for blackberry cobbler and cinnamon ice cream. I’m not kidding – I had THREE helpings of it at your summer associate dinner!! Completely addictive.