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NJ woman wins $1 million in national bake-off
(The Associated Press) Simple ingredients and a dash of luck made amateur baker Sue Compton’s dessert recipe the winner of the 44th Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest and earned her a mention on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”

The company announced Wednesday that Compton, of Delanco, N.J., won $1 million in prize money and a line of kitchen appliances for her “Mini Ice Cream Cookie Cups.”

Guide to Pick Your Own farms in the Charlotte region
(Data presentation by Ted Mellnik, tmellnik@charlotteobserver.com)

Creamery comes into its own
(By Andrea Weigl, andrea.weigl@newsobserver.com) On a late-winter Saturday at the Carrboro farmers’ market, people gathered around the Chapel Hill Creamery table despite the chill.

Next to a sign that read “Farmhouse cheese – Jersey Dairy with intensive rotational grazing” were rows of cheese: fresh and smoked mozzarella, paneer, Asiago, “Pheta,” a Camembert-style cheese called Carolina Moon, a younger version called New Moon, a young tangy cheese called Dairlyand Farmers’ Cheese, and Hickory Grove, the creamery’s Muenster-like signature cheese.

Thanks to Conservatove Rumblings Blog for this update and story. Providing great iinsight at http://ianessling.com/blog/.