Who We Are

None of us is a “professional” in the kitchen. What we are is a group of people who cook well (if we do say so ourselves), love food,  and love the stories behind the recipes.

Julie Summerell is a 40 year old mother of two living in rural Central North Carolina. Originally from South Jersey, the clash of food cultures she’s grown to love is head spinning and joyous.

You’d Better Eat This is a spinoff of Julie’s blog of personal essays, Are You Gonna Eat That? It was developed after a flurry of comments on one post about the histories behind family heirloom recipes and the fact that so many have been lost.

Julie thinks there’s nothing better than a bucket of hot wings with beer. Unless it’s a plate of barbecue with some hush puppies. Or a hoagie dripping with oil and shedding lettuce. Or a Moravian Sugar Cake requiring the licking of fingers. Or…

Miss Terioso is a) a professional musician/vocalist, b) a professional research librarian and c) a professional goofball (not necessarily in that order).  She measures her kitchen triumphs by the smiles, sounds (or lack thereof!) and amount of leftovers.  Little pleases her more than to see the last bit of a successful dish furtively disappear.

You’ll be seeing Miss Terioso on Mondays.

Catherine is a jack of all coffee and master of grammar & usage. She is bad at most day jobs but tries her damndest at them; she likes to (try to) support her apartment habit during her latest attempt to make progress on her beloved little novel and other writing projects.

She is a junkie of: notebooks & pens (she is in perpetual pursuit of the perfect pen), well-pulled Americanos, cozy hoodies, Twitter, sports (Go Seahawks!!!), the comics section, and food p0rn. She fantasizes in detail about creating fabulous food for people, and hopes one day to host a Superbowl party you will never forget.

She is generally a foible waiting to happen & doesn’t mind at all if you laugh.

You’ll be seeing Catherine on Sundays.

Zachary MacRostie will try any recipe once.  He will eat most anything put in front of him. He will swear at the tv during cooking shows the way people do watching sporting events.

He developed his love for cooking and eating in his mother’s kitchen when he discovered that the reward for helping paid off with the licking of bowls and spoons.  They still talk about cooking and recipe tweaks at least once a week.

And just for the record, Zac was considered a sandwich artist, way before Subway coined the phrase.

You’ll be seeing Zac on Saturdays.