CityView Magazine - Fayetteville, NC
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tive lands. For hours they go on. Let's hear it for Uganda! Give it up for Okinawa! Viva Mexico! At the International Folk Festival, you can go around the world in one hour, in one square mile. The celebration starts this year on Friday, September 27 and carries on until 6 p.m. Sunday, September 29. CLASSIC NORTH CAROLINA All this talk of foreign lands and exotic dishes can leave one feeling worldly and sophisticated. So, now let's talk some turkey. Who says you have to wait until the fourth Thursday in November to throw down a big turkey meal? In Raeford, they do it for a whole week in the middle of September during the North Carolina Turkey Festival. Small wonder we have such a festival: North Carolina ranks second in the nation for growing turkeys. All this poultry pageantry starts Saturday, September 14, with the Turkey Throw Down, a wrestling tournament at Hoke County High School. On through the week, there's a parade (Thursday, September 19, 5:30 p.m., Main Street), the Stuffin' and Stompin' Turkey Dinner (Friday, September 20, 5 p.m.-8 p.m., West Hoke Middle School) and the grand finale, Super Saturday (September 21, Main Street, all day). The headline event of Super Saturday is the turkey-cooking contest, which begins at 9 a.m. If you're not a bonafide North Carolina resident, tough turkey – you're not eligible to enter. Otherwise, if you are a certified resident of the Old North State, come on into the coop. You can bake, broil or grill your turkey, add your turkey to a salad or make a turkey soup, as long as you have one pound of turkey in your recipe. There's another white meat that's much celebrated in North Carolina – pork. In these parts, barbecue is a noun, barbecue is sacred, and barbecue is always pork – no ifs, ands or buts (unless it's a Boston butt) – about it. I fancy myself a North Carolina barbecue purist who's very particular about our state dish. It has to be cooked with wood or charcoal; gas and elec- Jernigan-Warren Funeral Home Family Owned and Operated Since 1933 910.483.1331 | 545 Ramsey Street | Fayetteville, NC 28301 | www.JerniganWarren.com CityViewNC.com | 45