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A4 I FEBRUARY 28,2018 BERTIE LEDGER-ADVANCE Opinion Billy Graham and N.C. eateries... Billy Graham loved Bridges barbecue in Shelby, his family’s friend Sally Pereira told Charlotte Observer reporter Bruce Hen derson for an article about Graham’s pri vate life and common touch. Other North Carolinians sing the praises of Bridges, too. Famed nov elist Ron Rash, when asked about his favorite place to eat, answered emphatically, “Bridges Barbecue in Shel by.” Good, but there is a prob lem, as any barbecue lover can explain. There are two Bridges barbecues in Shelby. They are both mighty good and both have their ardent fans. These two Bridges barbe cues belong on everyone’s The fabric of Bertie County since 1832 D.G. Martin Today In North Carolina bucket list of North Carolina’s iconic eat eries, the ones we should be sure to visit before we die. Coincidentally, 1 am working on such a list for a chapter in a new Roadside Eater ies book. Here are some of my candidates for in clusion in any list of North Carolina’s icon ic eateries. *The group of seafood restaurants in Cal abash: Together an icon for fresh seafood. *Sanitary Fish Market, Morehead City; Open since 1938 and now seats up to 500 people. *Bum’s and Skylight Inn barbecues, Ayden: Two restaurants in the same small town that have attracted worldwide atten tion and praise. * Meadow, Benson: Bountiful buffet. Sad news, though. Long-time owner Julia Raynor died on Feb. 10. *Wilber’s Barbecue, Goldsboro: Wilber Shirley is still the king of eastern N.C. bar becue. *B’s Barbecue, Greenville: As described in Our State Magazine, “No phone, no frills, and no equal.” *Cypress Grill, Jamesville: Down by the river, but open only during the season from January through April. *King’s BBQ, Kinston: Offering world fa mous chicken and barbecue since 1936. *Ralph’s BBQ, Roanoke Rapids: Much more than barbecue with a wonderful buf fet. *Sunnyside Oyster Bar, Williamston: Has been in operation since 1935 and is a main stay in Martin County. *Parker’s Barbecue, Wilson: Feeding the families of eastern North Carolina and be yond for over 40 years. *Mama Dip’s Kitchen, Chapel Hill: South ern cooking at its best. *Merritt’s Grill, Chapel Hill: Mouth-wa tering bacon and tomato sandwiches. *Keaton’s Barbecue, Cool Springs: Unique barbecued-fried chicken. *Bullock’s Bar-B-Que, Durham: A fixture serving a diverse clientele since 1952. *Lexington Barbecue #1, Lexington; Called “Honeymonks” by insiders, a holy site for Piedmont style barbecue. *Big Ed’s, Raleigh downtown: Gathering place for powerful legislators and hard working taxpayers. *Short Sugar’s Pitt Bar-B-Que, Reidsville; Boasts about being voted Best Bar-B-Q in the nation by members of the United States Congress. *Red and Alston Bridges barbecues, Shelby: Both great. But note that WSOC-TV reports that Billy Graham’s favorite was re ally Red Bridges Barbecue Lodge. *Johnson’s Drive-In, Siler City: Claxton’s legendary hamburgers are a crowd-drawer at lunchtime. *Stephenson’s Bar-B-Que, Willow Springs: Since 1958, when the late Paul Stephenson switched from growing hogs to cooking them. 1 would like to hear from you, too. Share your thoughts about the list by writing me at nceateries@yahoo.com D.G. Martin hosts “North Carolina Book- watch,” which airs Sundays at 11 a.m. and Thursdays at 5 p.m. on UNC-TV. 5;an os: THR5oU&H TSoOiAU- /WSOf/ir N'x&t: The trial birthday cake disaster.. s-gt Leslie Beachboard Small Town Girl In six short weeks, my young est child, Cheyenne Grace, will be turning 7 years old. Cheyenne Grace takes birthdays seriously, especially the birthday cake. So 1 decided we should start planning now. She has been planning this year’s birthday celebra tion since the day after her birthday last year. The one thing she has made clear is she wants a unicorn cake. I decided last Fri day to call the local and popular bakery to put in an order for her birthday. I quickly began to panic when 1 was told she was completely booked for April 14. After I had a mini-tantrum sitting in the carpool line at her school, I decided I would look into what options I did have. One option I did have would be to attempt to make the cake on my own from scratch. 1 had done it in the past and had survived it. 1 made her a three-tiered Minnie Mouse cake for her third birth day. I stayed up all night baking, making icing and praying the cake came out edible. It didn’t come out as a complete disaster other than the fondant-icing ear drooped overnight due to the hu midity. researched recipes for cake batter and homemade butter cream icing. I decided I would try to make a trial cake over the weekend. It wouldn’t be the actual cake. 1 wanted to see if I could make a decent homemade cake. I went to Walmart with a list in hand and purchased all of the needed ingredients, including neon food coloring and several bottles of bright-colored sprin kles. Later that evening, I decided I would hope for the best and at tempt to bake a cake. I mixed the ingredients precise ly, separated the batter into two bowls and added food coloring to each. After the batter was in the pans, I placed the pans in the oven and decided to move on to the icing. I was about 10 minutes into mix ing the icing when the oven began to smoke. The cakes has run over the pans and spilled out into the bottom of the oven. I just stood there, wondering what I had 1 done. As I scraped burnt cake batter from the oven, I decided 1 would try it again. After 1 cleaned the mess up, I mixed more batter and tried again. The same thing happened, ex cept 1 caught it early and decided to scoop some of the batter out of the pan. The finished product was the ugliest cake I had ever seen. Half of the cake was flat as a pancake. I divided the icing into two bowls and decided to make some orange and some green. As I stirred in the food coloring, 1 noticed the icing was not thick enough to hold its position. 1 decided I was going to ice this cake and enjoy it, whether it was ugly or not. When Cheyenne Grace saw the cake, her smile lit up the room. She was excited and squealed, “It was the most beautiful cake.” Gabriel walked through the kitchen and just stared at it. After a few moments he walked over to me, patted me on the back and said, “You tried mama.” Later on that evening, we sat down, cut the ugly cake and en joyed some of it. Cheyenne Grace even ate two pieces. The lesson I learned was two fold; first, there is no need to cry over a cake disaster, and sec ond, I may need to find someone to make her birthday cake to peserve my sanity. “A party without a cake is just a meeting.” - Julia Child Leslie Beachboard is a Staff Writ er for Bertie Ledger-Advance and the Martin County Enterprise & Weekly Herald. She can be reached via email at lbeachboard@ncweek- lies.com. Time for spring sports... Jim Green Around Here Although the calendar still says we are in wintertime, this week marks the start of spring sports in Bertie and Martin counties. On any given day, there could be as many as 16-24 events going on combined be tween the county’s high schools and middle schools. I would like to publicize your team’s sports re sults in our news paper each week. But to do that, I need your help. If you have not done so, I need up dated schedules and numerical rosters with first and last names. Please inform me of any changes to schedules or rosters. There are several ways for coaches to get me the informa tion - by telephone, by email, by fax, or by a program such as Max- Preps, Game Changer or NC Prep Track/NC Milesplit. Because of the volume of events each week, and limited space available, these results should be sent to me or posted on the ap propriate aforementioned web sites as soon as possible after they have concluded. I check my email and these sites multiple times daily. Here are a few tips about infor mation I am looking for. • Baseball and softball: You may post your information to MaxPreps and/or Game Changer or another program. If necessary, send the appropriate information link to my email address. Max- Preps does not have an area for a scoring summary, so you may have to include it separately. Pitching and batting stats should be accurate - meaning, pitchers should be listed in or der of starter, then relievers, who earned the win, who pinch-hit for whom, etc. If Game Changer is your meth od, please send your login infor mation to my email address so I may access the information. You are also welcome to send game information to my email address, either by writing it out longhand or taking a picture of each side of your scorebook and emailing the sheets to me. Please use the largest saved set tings on your camera so that may print out those sheets. Be sure to include the date of the event and the opponent. • Track: Track results can be sent to my email address. I can also be notified by you when they are on NC Milespiit.com or NC Prep Track.com. • Tennis: Full game reports, which include singles and dou bles results, can be emailed, or faxed. Please include first and last names of all players. • Golf: Match results can be sent to my email or faxed in. The same tips apply for those com. coaches who want to publicize their middle school teams. The best tip I always provide coaches is to get me that day’s information by the next day if at all possible. Space runs out quick ly, and I would like to include as many teams as possible each week in the newspaper. You should send game results regardless of whether you see me with a camera at your event or not, unless we have made other arrangements (when I can, I take pictures of the scorebooks when I am at the event for the duration). Many days I am photographing more than one event in different locations. Please do not wait long to post/ send results. I photograph several events per week and try to rotate that coverage as best I can. Hav ing results sent in consistently - not just when you’re winning - will help me plan future coverage. Rarely will I be able to publish results turned in more than a cou ple of days late. The goal is to have as many teams in the newspaper each week. Organization and diligence are important. If you have any questions, please feel free to call me (252-794-3185 or 252-792-1181) or email me at jgreen@ncweeklies.com. Jim Green is Sports Editor of the Bertie Ledger-Advance. He can be reached at Jgreen@ncweeklies. Bertie Ledger-Advance The fabric of Bertie County since 1832 The Bertie Ledqer-Aovance was established in 1928 through fHE HERfTAGE OF ThE WINDSOR LEDGER AND ThE AuLANDER ADVANCE. The newspaper traces its history to 1832 when it was first published AS the Windsor Herald and Bertie County Register Kyle Stephens Group Publisher kstephens@ncweeklies.com Ihadd White Editor twhite@ncweeklies.com Jim Green Sports Editor jgreen@ncweeklies.com Leslie Beachboard Staff Writer lbeachboard@ncweeklies.com Deborah Griffin Staff Writer dgriffin@ncweeklies.com Michelle Leicester Creative Services mieicescer@ncwceklies.com Jessica Mobley Advertising Manager jmobley@ncweeklies.com Lanny Hiday Copy Editor bertienews@ncweeklies.com The Bertie Ledger-Advance (ISSN 051-700) IS published EACH Wednesday for $26.69 (plus tax) per year (n Bertie, Hertford, Martin, Northamp ton, Chowan and Washington counties) by Cooke Communica tions North Carolina, LLC, 109 S. King St., Windsor, NC 27983. Periooioals postage paid at Windsor, NC and entered at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: ADDRESS CHANGES TO THE Bertie Ledger-Advance, P.O. Box 69, Windsor, NC 27983. 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