{"id":4097,"date":"2011-02-07T10:25:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T15:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2011-02-07T11:01:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T16:01:20","slug":"a-guide-to-eating-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2011\/02\/a-guide-to-eating-3\/","title":{"rendered":"A GUIDE TO EATING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/eater1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/eater1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"eater1\" width=\"200\" height=\"77\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3924\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Oyster education<br \/>\n<\/strong>Tip of the hat to the folks at the Seaview Crab Company (the first blue fish place you pass on Carolina Beach Road as you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re heading south out of Wilmington toward Pleasure Island) for an education on the characteristics of various local oysters.<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Topsail Singles they offered were the most briny by far, the Pamlicos the largest and plumpest and the Stump Sound Wilds were a happy medium. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re looking for more uniformity than you get in a bulky, multiple-oyster cluster, choose Stump Sound singles for the same taste in a consistent size.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/oyster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/oyster.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"oyster\" width=\"200\" height=\"244\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/oyster.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/oyster-65x80.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re gonna shuck \u00e2\u20ac\u2122em yourself, please remember that you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t toss out your shells anymore: they were banned from landfills in 2009 in order to promote their use in oyster-bed restoration. (Those uniform cultivated oysters from Stump Sound are partly the result of this effort.)<br \/>\nSo take those shells to Squids\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, which for years has offered a recycling service for them, or to the new shell recycling area at the Orange County landfill. In early December, representatives of the State Division of Marine Fisheries made their first pick-up of shells from the landfill, carting off 600 bushels that will go right back to the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first-class oyster beds.<br \/>\nBut while we can all take pride in this, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the season to rest on one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s laurels. The harvest keeps coming in and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work to be done.<br \/>\nBe sure to do your part and, please, be careful with the knife and use a glove.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winging it<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Tis the season of major sporting events, with the biggest snacking day of the year coming up Sunday. In honor of the spirit of the season, The Eater put out a request to readers to suggest the top spots for wings in our little community. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a subject taken lightly.<br \/>\nThere was quite a bit of debate over breading versus non-breading and who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s keeping closest to the traditional recipes.<br \/>\nFor old-time aficionados, the wings at the long-departed Tijuana Fats are the gold standard. Fats\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 wings were pretty much the straight butter-tossed and sauced variety. And for the second year in a row, there is general agreement that the best spot for that particular variety is Armadillo Grill. Southern Rail, right across the street, also scored high in the traditional category. Must be something about that intersection.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chicken-wings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chicken-wings.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"chicken-wings\" width=\"200\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chicken-wings.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chicken-wings-87x80.jpg 87w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFor more exotic variations, there were favorites all around.<br \/>\nBada Wings, which has a sauce for every occasion, came in highly rated, especially for its boneless variety. You can even get them wrapped in a tortilla. (Bada also sells its wings by the pound rather than the count, which makes a bunch of sense.)<br \/>\nTyler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got some props too for their wonderful take on the Thai chili variation. They also serve a more standard version with escalating heat measured, of course, in the number of beers required to douse the flames.<br \/>\nFor judging the hotter wings, we relied on the asbestos-lined palate of this newspaper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s managing editor, who has a fondness for Milltown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recipe. He writes: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The wings at Milltown with sriracha sauce are an interesting departure from the traditional variety, and plenty tasty. A pleasant little sting, nice texture and relatively meaty (for a wing, that is). Add a couple Belgian buddies \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Chimay Tripel and a cone of frites \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got yourself a meal there.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oyster education Tip of the hat to the folks at the Seaview Crab Company (the first blue fish place you pass on Carolina Beach Road as you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re heading south out of Wilmington toward Pleasure Island) for an education on the characteristics of various local oysters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4102,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions\/4102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}