Posts Tagged "Food"

Great type + great food, a marriage of two favorites that look so good you don’t want to ruin by eating. Anna Garforth  created this tasty poster using biscuits. After seeing this, I want to dice up some cookie dough with an Exacto so bad. Okay, now I’m hungry. Check out the rest of Anna’s  experimental work here.

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This one is for all you local Durhamite OK Greatsters -

Two weekends ago was the third installment of what I hope continues to be a really amazing event in Durham – the Yum Yum Supper.  Quote the Yum Yum website:

The Yum Yum Supper Club is a fresh bunch of humans interested in a cooperative exploration of food, timely celebrations, and the tilting of the planet in the North Carolina Piedmont.

Sounds awesome, right?  It was.  For the not insignificant price of $28 pp, I had high expectations for the night.  It started off with some casual conversations and drinks at the Central Park Pavilion(where the farmers market is held) – sangria and wine – along with some bocce ball and croquet on the field.  Wandering around I noticed a table with some peculiar objects:

Getting better, I thought.  What better way to celebrate the true downtown heritage of Durham than finishing off a hopefully-delicious meal with a post-prandial cigarette and tie-on moustache (apologies for all crappy iphone pics)

So finally the dinner bell was rung and we sat down at a beautifully set table with a bottle of wine between nearly every other seat (big thumbs up).  What followed was a truly delicious meal, filled with local ingredients (bacon or pork belly was featured in every course, including the chocolate chip and bacon cookies for dessert – amazing – and yes there was a veggie option), and great company.  The chef, Chris Holloway of Southern Season, put out unbelievable food for over 100 YumYummers and then prior to the dessert course, (said cookies and jack and coke floats – I’m salivating now thinking about those) came out and gave one of the most impassioned “I Love Durham” + “I Love Food” speeches I’ve heard anywhere, and everyone got all warm and fuzzy (or maybe just drunk on wine).

Anyway, there’s more photos on the site (including a sort of horrible, sort of hilarious one of me and my lovely in moustaches) and more details about the club.  Looks like the next one will be sometime in the fall, so all y’all locals makes sure you check it out.

Needless to say, my $28 expectations were wholeheartedly exceeded on all fronts.

Gear up Durhamites, The DOUGHMAN is coming on May 29, 2010.

For those of you that don’t know about the DOUGHMAN, it’s probably the coolest event you’ll ever hear about.  It’s the world’s premiere team-relay-quadrathalon-slash-eating-contest and it’s coming back to Durham for the third year after a ridiculously successful 2009 race which was featured on Man vs. Food.  This local tour-de-gastronomic-force will feature some of our favorite Durham delights like Hog Heaven, Local Yogurt, Dain’s, LocoPops, and more.  Each leg of the relay journey involves casually enjoying wolfing a meal at one of these fine establishments and then heading off on an athletic event (running, biking, ‘water activity’) and then meeting the whole team for a final dessert course and sprint to the finish line.

The DOUGHMAN is also a charity event, and has raised over $12,000 for the Durham Inner City Gardeners (DIG) through sponsorship and donations over the last two years.  This  year, SeeSaw Studio will also be a beneficiary of the event.

So why talk about this on OK Great?  Well first of all, it’s Durham, it’s awesome, and that’s just what we do here.  Secondly, last year’s poster was designed by some of the talented folks writing for this blog, and this year, we (myself and a partner) were given the unenviable task of trying to follow up their great work from last year (see above, click to embiggify).  Hopefully ya’ll like the poster, and maybe you’ll even see it around town over the next months before the big date.

If you are interested in participating, rally up a team of three of your pals, head over to www.doughman.org starting on March 1, and sign up your team.  And start training!

And if you’re not into the whole athletic side of things, but want to get involved with the whole eating delicious local food side of things, the DOUGHMAN will also be hosting their second annual Local Foods Banquet at Durham Central Park Pavilion on the Saturday evening following the race – more deets about that will be coming soon on their website.

As we’ve been pulling together portfolio photos for our new site (i swear it’s coming soon) we’ve realized that you can’t just put any two photos side by side. That stuff takes thought, people!

Tara Donne does a good job of pairing her own photographs, and makes me want to add “food photographer” and “photo styling” to the long list of jobs I think I’d like.

A la an earlier conversation about a poster we’re designing for a relay race that involves eating meals while you race (see our previous post about The Doughman), here is designer Olle Hemmendorff’s interpretation of Nike’s Air Max 90.  Thanks, Nicole!

Mmm…hungry?

Indie NC (the blog version) launched this morning! Today’s post is an interview with Charlotte boutique Lark & Key. Indie NC will cover all kinds of NC-related good stuff, like street style, food, art, design, and business. And I’m going to be contributing weekly, so look for me over at Indie NC!

Indie NC (the blog version) launched this morning! Today’s post is an interview with Charlotte boutique Lark & Key. Indie NC will cover all kinds of NC-related good stuff, like street style, food, art, design, and business. And I’m going to be contributing weekly, so look for me over at Indie NC!