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<br /> ENO Publishers Narrative 2016 OCAC Spring Application
<br /> by Rob Neufeld
<br /> • 27 Views of Raleigh: The City of Oaks in Prose & Poetry; introduction by Wilton
<br /> Barnhardt
<br /> • 27 Views of Charlotte: The Queen City in Prose & Poetry; introduction by Jack
<br /> Claiborne
<br /> Proposed Uses for the Grant Funds
<br /> At the intersection of food and story, The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food
<br /> will offer a collection of essays about the best meal, food and memory, the best family tradition,
<br /> a cherished food ritual, a dreaded food ritual, a favorite recipe, the worst recipe, the worst meal,
<br /> the funniest meal. These food-related stories are set in North Carolina, many right here in
<br /> Orange County, and approach food from a range of angles: meals and manners, cooking and
<br /> ingredients, recipes and recollections. The pieces include a humorous story about a career mom
<br /> (now retired in Chapel Hill) with not much interest in food, becoming an accidental food
<br /> columnist for a local paper; a vegetarian chef, who declared herself a vegan to her Chapel Hill
<br /> parents when she was nine, grappling with her husband's obsession with pork; a once-a-year
<br /> childhood outing to a "fancy" restaurant. An Orange County goat farmer describes his journey
<br /> with his goats from Northern Orange to a halal butcher from Afghanistan who has set up shop
<br /> in Sanford. One contributor takes us to the annual celebratory Blue Monday shad fry along the
<br /> Cape Fear River.
<br /> Among the North Carolina writers and chefs who regale us with stories are Lee Smith,
<br /> Frances Mayes, Daniel Wallace, Marianne Gingher, Wiley Cash, Jill McCorkle, Jaki Shelton
<br /> Green, Michael Malone, Paul Cuadros, and Emily Wallace. It also includes stories by chefs
<br /> Vivian Howard (of PBS's "A Chef's Life") and Crook's Corner's popular chef Bill Smith,
<br /> noted food anthropologists Marcie Cohen Ferris and Elizabeth Engelhardt, as well as cookbook
<br /> authors, Nancie McDermott and Bridgette Lacy. We estimate that more than half of our thirty-
<br /> five contributors will be residents and/or former residents of Orange County, arguably the
<br /> state's most influential food trend-setter and literary hub.
<br /> The editor and introduction writer for the The Carolina Table is celebrated author and
<br /> University of North Carolina creative writing professor,Randall Kenan, a long-time Orange
<br /> County resident. He will spend the summer assembling and editing the volume,which we plan
<br /> to introduce late this Fall.
<br /> Writes Randall, "The founding father of food writing, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, once
<br /> wrote, `Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.' Of all the fifty states—with the
<br /> possible exception of Louisiana—North Carolina's bounty most accurately defines its
<br /> inhabitants,happily, fully,richly, and colorfully. From our fish and our shellfish,to our poultry
<br /> and pork, our bumper crops of sweet potatoes and cucumbers, and so much more, it is not
<br /> simply the quantity and quality of our foodstuff,but what we do with it that tells our story. Our
<br /> foodways contain our history, our culture, our priorities, our health, our wealth, and our poverty.
<br /> "The collection of voices in The Carolina Table speaks to that very diversity and
<br /> character,"he continues. "It is a snapshot of the Old North State in the early twenty-first
<br /> century,not merely looking back,but looking forward as well. Should someone look for a
<br /> definition of what it means to be a North Carolinian now,this anthology will give a very solid,
<br /> and flavorful, idea."
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