Cackalacky isn’t just a great place to live: Now it’s a zippy sauce for your steak. The versatile Cackalacky condiment, which its Chapel Hill-based inventors pitch as an all-natural dressing, dip and topping, is now available at Greenlife Grocery. Cackalacky corporate isn’t revealing its secret 20-ingredient recipe, but the company will trade a Cackalacky bumper sticker for a proof of purchase trimmed from any Cackalacky bottle. Check out www.cackalacky.com for more info.
With 50 wines on offer at Flat Rock Playhouse’s annual benefit gala, the actors may not be the only ones breaking legs. Fortunately, sponsor The Fresh Market is also providing a buffet of hors d’oeuvres, so attendees supporting the well-regarded theater program won’t have to drink on empty stomachs. The gala will be held at the Fresh Market in Hendersonville on Tuesday, May 8, at 7 p.m.; tickets are $30 and may be purchased at the store or theater.
Two of Asheville’s top lunch spots—Early Girl Eatery and 12 Bones Smokehouse—are profiled in this month’s edition of US Airway’s in-flight magazine. Food writer John T. Edge set out to see how travelers, bereft of kitchens in which to prepare the goodies gathered at farmer’s markets (chilling a just-plucked tomato in the hotel mini-bar doesn’t count), might experience local-food scenes by way of restaurants. “My time at table in Asheville revealed a town embracing and, to a certain extent, remaking the local food movement to suit its resources and purposes,” he concludes.
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