10 of the Best North Carolina Recipes - Big Bear's Wife (2024)

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Fried Green Tomatoes

An iconic dish, fried green tomatoes, can be found at every barbecue restaurant in the area. This dish combines two Southern favorites: unripe green tomatoes and pimento cheese. Fried green tomatoes are unripe to provide a solid foundation for being fried.

The harvests gathered by colonial farmers included an expansive number of crops: beans, squash, peas, okra, pumpkins, peppers, tomatoes, and peanuts. Maize (corn), and later rice and potatoes were grown in place of wheat and barley which were common European crops that did not take readily to eastern American soil.

North Carolina likes to get specific when it comes to its state foods. It has a state red berry, the strawberry, and a state blue berry, the blueberry. The Scuppernong grape is also North Carolina's state fruit, the sweet potato is its state vegetable, and milk is its state drink.

North Carolina is known for: Its geographic and topographical diversity — from the highest mountains in Eastern America in the west to the amazing barrier islands of the Outer Banks and Cape Lookout, with the rolling hills of the Piedmont and the flat coastal plain in between.

Pepsi-Cola got its start in New Bern, where pharmacist Caleb Davis Bradham invented the beverage in 1898 as a refreshing remedy for indigestion. Today, the Birthplace of Pepsi store stands at the same site where Bradham's Drug Store once operated.

North Carolina's local and regional food system includes the production of apples, blackberries, blueberries, figs, kiwifruit, muscadine grapes, pecans, peaches, nectarines, raspberries, and strawberries.

Animal bones found in cooking pits and trash dumps show they ate deer, bear, raccoon, opossum, rabbit, turkey, and turtle. Fish and shellfish—such as clams and oysters—formed an important part of these American Indians' diets. Archaeologists made one unusual find in Onslow County in 1995.

For lunch many colonists would have had bread, meat or cheese along with water, beer or cider. Most cheese making was done at home, and was very hard work. At dinnertime the colonial people might have had a meat stew, meat pies, or more of that porridge, and again beer, water or coder to drink.

Red Bird Puffed Peppermints — Lexington

Named for North Carolina's state bird, the cardinal, these soft, crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth mints have been made by Piedmont Candy Company since 1933, when founder Edward Ebelein revived the brand from his previous business.

(a) The official fruit of the State of North Carolina is the Muscadine grape (Vitis genus). (b) The official red berry of the State is the strawberry (Fragaria genus). (c) The official blue berry of the State is the blueberry (Vaccinium genus).

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The General Assembly adopted milk as the official State Beverage on June 12, 1987. (North Carolina Session Laws, 1987, c.

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx speaks during a past Forsyth County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner. If you go by who got featured in a front-page article last week in The New York Times, the answer is easy. Virginia Foxx.

You might see Michael Jordan, James Taylor, J. Cole, Evan Rachel Wood and Steph Curry in your hometown. These are just a few famous people who call North Carolina home.

On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully piloted the world's first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina's Outer Banks.

North Carolina's Top Side Dish

The top five most popular holiday side dishes include mashed potatoes, stuffing/dressing, mac & cheese, yams/ sweet potatoes, and green bean casserole.