{"id":4458,"date":"2011-06-06T09:20:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T13:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=4458"},"modified":"2011-06-06T10:19:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T14:19:11","slug":"the-eater-a-guide-to-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2011\/06\/the-eater-a-guide-to-eating\/","title":{"rendered":"THE EATER: 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><em>by Kirk Ross<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>2010 catch sees an increase<br \/>\n<\/strong>The report is in on the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s commercial fisheries 2010 catch, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a surprising increase in the haul, despite higher fuel prices and a rough economy. <!--more-->Overall, the commercial harvest was up 4 percent over 2009 and is at its highest level since 2005.<br \/>\nThe biggest percentage jump came in oyster landings, which increased 81 percent due to strong growth in production and oyster beds, particularly in western Pamlico Sound.<br \/>\nAccording to the report, blue crabs remained the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top commercial seafood in both pounds harvested and dockside value, with 30.7 million pounds of blue crabs sold at the docks, a 2 percent increase from 2009. The landings had a dockside value of $26.5 million.<br \/>\nOther species toping the list are Atlantic croaker (7.3 million pounds), shrimp (6 million), summer flounder (3.3 million) and bluefish (3.2 million).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mangia! Mangia!<br \/>\n<\/strong>In Roma, Federico Fellini\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s love letter to his favorite city, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a section where he recalls his early days there as a young newspaper reporter. In it, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a long, lingering scene of food and frolic in a piazza that is just positively mythic.<br \/>\nDining al fresco is getting to be a lost art. Maybe we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve grown so busy that we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand the added chaos of street sounds and sidewalk hubbub and feel we must take our meals in quiet with dim lights and soft music.<br \/>\nStick to that script and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re missing a special opportunity this time of year, when the students are gone, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plenty of elbowroom and the weather is not too toasty and somewhat chancy. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just something about the extra abandon of a meal under the stars in the South in warm weather when it could cut loose raining anytime.<br \/>\nWhile there are not too many piazzas around here where you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see anything like the scene from Roma, there are a few lively spots worth noting if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re willing to add outdoor adventure to an evening out.<br \/>\nTop of the list for The Eater and those responding to a call for best spots to dine outdoors is Crook\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Corner, which has a lovely fountain and a menu full of items that ring true to the season. Also high on the list is Vimala\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s little outdoor section of The Courtyard and the stretch on West Franklin where diners from Carolina Brewery, Elaine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Tallula\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s are lined along the sidewalk. Carrboro also has a couple of spots worth noting, especially the back patio of Acme and the pebble-lined front yard at Provence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Messing with the farmers<br \/>\n<\/strong>This area loves its farmers, but apparently the North Carolina General Assembly does not. Several thoughtful and successful agriculture programs are being zeroed out in House and Senate versions of the state budget, including the grant from the North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund that supported the Carrboro Farmers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Market\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Truck Bucks program. The bucks will still be there for EBT recipients, but the market has had to hastily install an ATM for people who normally used their credit cards to get the bucks to buy groceries.<br \/>\nThe raid on the Tobacco Trust Fund and the Golden Leaf Foundation, which has supported farmers converting from tobacco to local and organic agriculture, are just some of the many ways the legislature has tinkered with state ag policy.<br \/>\nCuts for the Land Loss Prevention Project and the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Meat and Poultry Inspection Division are also likely to pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kirk Ross 2010 catch sees an increase The report is in on the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s commercial fisheries 2010 catch, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a surprising increase in the haul, despite higher fuel prices and a rough economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-eater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4460,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions\/4460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}