CityView Magazine

Editor’s Corner WHAT’S PLAYING ON MY IPOD N Correction The phone number for Just Desserts Bakery and Cafe (“On the Sweet Side,” Page 32) in our February/March issue should have read 860.2253. CityView strives for accuracy and apologizes for this error. ot a lot. Cool apps, WiFi technology and more memory than I’ll ever need but not a single song – none, nada, zero, zilch – on my iPod Touch. It’s not as if I don’t have anything to listen to, I do, if you count close to 100 hours of books and newscasts. (You don’t?) But there I was pleading with friends both far and near to vote in the Fayetteville Dogwood Festival’s first-ever contest to pick the headlining musical act. I pulled out all the stops: email, text, Facebook, instant message. But I knew that I had hit the height of desperation when a long-lost contact responded to my pleas with a text message: “OK but who is this?” We can’t help it if we’re a little fanatical – Fayetteville’s signature event just keeps getting better. So does our annual spring issue devoted to everything Dogwood. That’s not all. We also bring you the second installment of our popular series on Stone Manor. Writer Mike Ryan takes us back in time to the founding of the preschool at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (recognize anyone?). And Jason Brady takes us into the woods with a group of volunteers who help wounded warriors get back to the outdoors they love. But the star of this show is Fayetteville’s biggest party, the annual Dogwood Festival. We have the full scoop on entertainment, food, music, children’s activities and the volunteers who spend hundreds of hours to make it all happen. Three days, 200,000 people and a cast of characters behind the scenes. 10 | April/May • 2010 We introduce you to a few of those characters and get an early fix of festival food. I’m talking the kind of food most of us never make at home unless your kitchen is equipped for deep-fried Oreos, curly fries and fresh-squeezed lemonade, in which case, can I come over? Don’t rule it out; we found some of the best Dogwood chefs right here in our own backyard. Chefs like James and Annie Quick, the husband-wife duo behind the shiny kitchen on wheels that can be found parked in their Bunnlevel driveway during the week and on the road most weekends. James tells me that he had to start cooking just to keep an eye on all of those men lined up at his wife’s window to buy nachos, corndogs, funnel cakes and their top-secret fish and chips. At no small risk to ourselves, we provide the recipe on Page 45. We even tell you how to make the festival’s famous chicken served in a pineapple. Turns out that yummy creation had its start right here thanks to the partnership of Scott Adams and Angel Li who are perhaps better known, with a little help from singer Missy Elliot, as All in My Grill. Yep, I’m humming right now. Who knows, I just might add her to my iPod.CV Allison Williams, Editor

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