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by encore magazine voted Best vegetarian Food Lovey’s Celebrating 11 Years Your LOCAL Health Food Store and Café Organic Produce and Groceries Salad, Soup, Hot & Juice bars Cafe • Catering • Supplements Health & Beauty Aids Wheat & Gluten-Free foods specials: Lovey’s Brand Supplements 15% off Massey Medicinals 15% off 910-509-0331 Landfall Shopping Center • 1319 Military Cutoff Road www.loveysmarket.com Larry Casey adds the veggie mixture to the stew pot. Vegetables came later, perhaps in the version Haskins, who is said to have embellished Matthews’ recipe, made famous at an 1828 rally for Andrew Jackson. As with most American dishes, Brunswick stew seems an amalgamation of influences. For example, the corn and lima beans bring Native American succotash to mind. “It seems safe to say that Indians were making stews with wild game long before any Europeans arrived, and in that sense, there was Brunswick stew before there was a Brunswick,” the late Southern cuisine authority John Egerton wrote in “Southern Food: At Home, On the Road, In History” (Alfred A. Knopf, 1987). “When I was a kid, I didn’t know any-thing about it except we cooked it and we loved it,” Casey says. 76 WBM march 2014 Brunswick stew tastes good, no matter the version, and that seems to be the sole consensus. Casey’s sweet, black peppery version with corn, lima beans, green beans, tomatoes, pork and chicken lands on the Casey’s Buffet specials board every Thursday and most other days of the week due to high demand. Casey’s Brunswick stew set the standard for the recipe that chef Scott Grimm would then develop for Dockside Restaurant’s menu. After grow-ing up on Brunswick stew in Raleigh and sampling Casey’s, Grimm raised the bar. He sautéed onions, carrots and celery; added garlic, thyme and cayenne pep-per, apple cider vinegar and homemade barbecue sauce. Corn, tomatoes and lima beans went in along with braised pork and grilled chicken breast. “It’s one of those recipes you can kind of tweak and do what you want,”


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