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By Peg Todloski, WSM Wine Buyer
Thanksgiving is one of the more traditional holidays that we celebrate. Roasted turkey, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce...Traditional? Yes. Boring? No. If you create the same meal each year, or for those of you who buck tradition like this vegaquarian here, there are just as many wines to pair up to this tasty feast as there are ways to cook a squash or spruce up that cranberry relish. However repetitive this meal may seem, since it only happens once every 12 months, we still get excited over it year after year. We spend countless hours planning, cooking and talking on the phone with every possible friend and family member before the big day even gets here. More
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We over-indulge in all the delicious salty-sweet-buttery-tangy flavors the meal has to offer, then we take naps and go back into the kitchen for leftovers before the day is even over! This holiday IS one of my favorites, and no, it's not because I eat turkey, and NO, I don't like football. It's a favorite because all the people I like get together and cook, and hang around together for hours. The idea is to actually NOT rush through the day; the cooking gets started before the sun comes up and inevitably we all hang out, eat, talk, eat, drink, laugh and eat some more well into the evening. That's the kind of day that I can really sink my teeth into.

Thanksgiving used to be easy to match wines with, only because the meal was always the same. Well, that sure has changed over the years. There are vegetarians, vegaquarians, vegans and those who just don't like turkey. So, what's a girl to do? Get creative! Use the regular rules to pair up food and wine. Nice warm reds for savory dishes, fruity whites for salty ones. All this really means is that not only can you be creative with your meal, you can be creative with your wines. Knock the socks off your guests this year with some wonderfully elegant and belly-warming wines from the Weaver Street Market Wine Department.

Here are some fabulous wines that will fit your Thanksgiving dinner and make it shine, no matter what kind of meal you are planning.
Le Paradou Viognier - This French Viognier has nice weight and intensity. Flavors of pineapple, lemon, baked apples with nice spicy ginger notes up front. A touch creamy with good balance and a long, lingering finish. Perfect with ham or savory poultry dishes. On sale - $11.49.
Garofoli Rosso Conero "Piancarda" - 100% Montepulciano from the Marches region of Italy. This red is well balanced with good earthiness and persistent flavors of black cherry, and a touch of spice. Medium weight with good acidity. Matches well with poultry and pork dishes. On sale - $12.99.
Domaine de Fennouillet Vin du pays de Vaucluse Rouge - This southern French red is a pure pleasure to drink. It is medium weight with a fine, silky texture, flavors of warm ripe fruit and a hint of smoke. Perfect with warm, savory dishes like turkey and stuffing or mushroom casserole. On sale - $9.49.
Le Bihan Viellefont Cotes du Duras Rouge - This French red is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Malbec and Petite Verdot. It is medium to full-bodied with flavors of currants, black cherry and tea leaves. Nice, fine tannins and lots of flavor. This delicious red will dress up any meal. On sale - $11.99.

Weekly Produce Specials
New crop! Organic
Pink Lady Apples
3 lb. bags
2/$10.00

super low price!
Local, NC, Organic
Sweet Potatoes

$1.00 lb

from Pine Knot Farm
Sweet & Juicy
Florida Tangerines

12/$3.00

Weekly Meat & Seafood Specials
Local, Smoked Ham
Boneless Pork Halves

$6.99 lb

All Natural
Niman Ranch
Beef Chuck Roasts

$3.99 lb
USDA Choice, All Natural
save 60¢ lb
Jumbo
Peeled Shrimp

$8.99 lb

save $3.00 lb
WSM Scratch-made Pie Crusts
Ready-to-Bake, Frozen Pie Crust
Weaver Street Market has a stash of all-natural, hand-made, all-butter pie crusts ready for you to fill with your favorite fruit for a delicious, fresh, home-made pie baked in your own oven.

Look in the frozen section of each store.
Breakfast Goodies & All-Natural Desserts
Drop by or spcial order yummy breakfast items to make holiday breakfast a snap! With relatives and friends stopping in, let us help start your morning right with some of our scrumptious breakfast goodies. We have a case full of rich butter croissants, filled croissants, scones, and muffins!

The pastry bakers are working overtime to make sure your holiday table is full of delicious desserts, too! All the classic pies are back to make sweet Thanksgiving memories: Apple, Bourbon Pecan, Pumpkin, and Sweet Potato! We also have vegan options: Pumpkin, Pecan-Maple, and Apple.

All these items are available by special order. Follow the link below to print an order form for your pies, turkey and sides. Please return your forms to the Bakery Counter at either of our stores.

Holiday Beet
Time to order your Turkey
We have fresh, local, all-natural turkeys in three option: Cook it yourself, Ready-to-cook, or Oven Roasted.

Place your turkey order by Monday, November 19!

The Weaver Street Market kitchen is ready to make your Thanksgiving memorable and easy with Roasted or Ready-to-Roast Whole Turkey or Turkey Breast. Roasted Turkey is seasoned with Herbes de Provence and a hint of garlic. Gently basted in creamery butter and extra virgin olive oil, turned and roasted to golden and juicy perfection and comes with heating directions. Ready-to-Roast comes wrapped in cheesecloth saturated with basting mixture in roasting pan and includes cooking instructions.

Side Dishes:
We are offering a full complement of side dishes to round out your Thanksgiving Feast. Each full size pan measures 9"x 12"x 1.5" and will generously serve 6-8 people. Small pans measure 9"x 7"x 1.5" and will serve 3 - 4 people. Freezer or oven-ready, each dish comes complete with heating instructions. Choose from: Pioneer Stuffing, Crunchy Sweet Potato Bake, Squash & Corn Casserole, Swiss Green Bean Casserole, Homemade Turkey Gravy, Yukon Gold Mashed Potatoes, or Fresh Cranberry Relish.
SV Tree Lighting Event
Saturday, December 1
3 pm - Culbreth Choir and Carrboro High Contemporary Acapella groups will perform holiday music.
Santa will be on hand to hear Christmas wishes!
4:30 tree lighting

Hot chocolate by La Vita Dolce
Hot cider by Weaver Street
Popcorn by Lumina
* watch for more details to come!
SV Holiday 5K
Sunday, December 9
Growing in scope and with more prizes, activities and refreshments than ever, this year's Holiday 5K has been organized with the assistance of the Chapel Hill Service League. This volunteer organization has been a part of the Chapel Hill community since 1939. Proceeds from the 2007 race will be donated to the Service League's many community projects.

There are so many ways to be a part of the fun. The USATF-certified course presents a challenge to the serious runner while the Fun Run and other activities are sure to please the not-so-serious-runner. Sign up with neighbors or friends to run as a team. Children will have their own course to run. Businesses are encouraged to create running teams or donate items for prizes. To find out how to register, make donations or learn about sponsorship opportunities, check out the official Southern Village Holiday 5K and Family Fun Run website below. This event promises to be a great activity for the whole family and a chance to feel good while doing good this holiday season.
Holiday Hours
For Weaver Street Market in Carrboro and Southern Village

Thanksgiving Hours:

Wednesday, November 21, Regular Hours
Thursday, November 22, CLOSED
Friday, November 23, Regular Hours

Christmas Hours:
Monday, December 24 EARLY CLOSE at 6 pm
Tuesday, December 25, CLOSED
Wednesday, December 26, Regular Hours

New Year's Hours:
Monday, December 31, Regular Hours
Tuesday, January 1, LATE OPEN, EARLY CLOSE, 10 am - 8 pm.

REGULAR HOURS:
Southern Village
7:30 am - 9 pm, open 7 days

Carrboro
8 am - 9 pm, open 7 days

Community Roots
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RSVVP Day
Today, November 13
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner


Triangle Restaurants will donate 10% of their proceeds
that day to help fight hunger in our community.
Weaver Street Market has been a participant in RSVVP since its inception eighteen years ago when restaurants, newspapers, TV, and radio came together to help the emergency food providers of North Carolina. RSVVP is a play on the acronym RSVP, where the VV stands for 10 (V is 5 in the Roman numeral system). Restaurants donate 10% of their gross proceeds and the media donate advertising time to get the word out. As Weaver Street Market has expanded over the years, so has our commitment to RSVVP. Weaver Street Market in Southern Village and Panzanella are also contributors to RSVVP.
Our contribution goes directly to the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service. The Inter-Faith Council for Social Service is an amazing organization that started way back in the sixties before there were many government organizations helping people who needed food, shelter, and social services. Their list of services includes the Community Kitchen that serves around 80,000 meals a year, the Community House and HomeStart that provide beds and social service counseling for the homeless, Health Clinics, Hispanic Outreach, and more. Please join Weaver Street Market and Panzanella in supporting such a great local organization by eating out on today, November 13!
Farmers' Market Hours
The Carrboro Farmers' Market
Saturdays, Nov. 3 - Dec. 22, 8 - noon
Special Farmers' Market, Tuesday, November 20, 3:30-6:30 pm

The Hillsborough Farmers' Market
1st & 3rd Saturday December thru March 10 to Noon

The Durham Farmers' Market
Every Saturday, rain or shine, from 8 am to 12 noon through November 17th (the Saturday before Thanksgiving). The market will continue to be open through the winter on a modified schedule beginning on Saturday December 1st.

The Saxapahaw Farmers' Market
Saturdays, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Christmas Parade
Saturday, December 8
10 am, Morehead Planitarium

The annual Chapel Hill Carrboro Christmas Parade will begin in front of the Planetarium on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill and parade to Town Hall in Carrboro.
Carrboro Film Festival
Carrboro Film Festival
Sunday, November 18
2:00 - 7:00 pm
Carrboro Century Center

Coming up! This year's festival features approximately 20 films, each one running 20 minutes or less. Some are narratives, some documentaries, music videos and a few that defy categorizing! Last year the Carrboro Film Festival drew over 350 film lovers to the Carrboro Century Center and honored 22 filmmakers from the region.
Stillhouse Bottom Nature Preserve Benefit
November 17, from 6-9 p.m
North Carolina Botanical Garden

Help benefit the Stillhouse Bottom Nature Preserve while enjoying a live performance by the Stillhouse Bottom Band. Both Weaver Street Market and the Carolina Brewery are contributing sponsors, which should add to the flavor of the evening! A $20 minimum donation is requested, which will go toward purchasing additional lands for one of Chapel Hill's most significant natural areas. Attendees will have the opportunity to sign up for tours of Stillhouse Bottom Nature Preserve. Call the Garden at 962-0522 in order to RSVP by November 13.

Stillhouse Bottom Conservation Goals
The Botanical Garden Foundation seeks to add all available undeveloped properties to the Stillhouse Bottom Nature Preserve through land donation and purchase, and through conservation easements. The undeveloped lots and the existing Stillhouse Bottom Nature Preserve, including potential conservation easements, could ultimately total over 60 acres and represent how a group of dedicated individuals can conserve, in perpetuity, a relatively large area of biodiversity significance in a rapidly developing area.

The Stillhouse Bottom Natural Area
The Stillhouse Bottom natural area is the only undisturbed, steep, north-facing ravine left in Orange County according to the Inventory of Natural Areas and Wildlife Habitats for Orange County, NC (2004). Preservation of this site is a conservation priority for the state of North Carolina, Orange County, and the North Carolina Botanical Garden (Garden). Over 100 plant species have been identified, and the high quality of the site is demonstrated by the presence of red-tailed and red-shouldered hawks, yellow-billed cuckoo, white-breasted nuthatch, ovenbird, and scarlet tanager. Stream quality is likewise demonstrated by the healthy amphibian community, made up of dusky salamanders, two-lined salamanders, and green frogs. On a larger landscape scale, Stillhouse Bottom is part of the 187-acre Morgan Creek Bluffs Natural Area and comprises the upper portion of the Jordan Lake Macrosite—a NC Natural Heritage Program designation for a large area of biodiversity significance. Stillhouse Bottom is also classified by the Orange County Lands Legacy Program and the NC Natural Heritage Program as a natural area of state significance.

The Stillhouse Bottom natural area is comprised of the 17-acre Stillhouse Bottom Nature Preserve and approximately 35 acres of undeveloped private properties. Stillhouse Bottom Nature Preserve is owned by the Botanical Garden Foundation, Inc., the non-profit membership support organization of the Garden, and is a dedicated and permanently protected North Carolina Nature Preserve. The Foundation also holds conservation easements on 12 acres of contiguous private land to the south and west of the Stillhouse Bottom Nature Preserve.
Cedar Grove Community Crossroads Project
Benefit Chili Cookoff

The Cedar Grove Community Crossroads Project seeks to restore an 1840s country store in Cedar Grove as a community grocery co-op, deli, and arts education center. They are having a benefit Chili Cookoff on Saturday, November 24th, in the barn at Infinity Biodynamic Farm in Cedar Grove.

Contestants can read the rules and download an entry form from the farm's website. Chili cooking will occur at the farm, beginning at 9AM. Main ingredients must be local or organic/grass-fed. Judging will begin at 11:30AM.

The event is open to the public from 11AM until 4PM. Public sampling of chilies will begin at noon, with voting for the People's Choice Award until 2 PM. There will be salad, drinks, bread, and dessert for sale, music, and an exhibition and sale by local artists and craftsmen.

For directions and contact information, visit the farm's website's events page or call the farm at 919 732 1840.

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December Wine Dinner

Sparkling Wines!
Monday, December 10
7 - 9:30 pm
Join us Monday December 10, and explore the amazing world of sparkling wines. What is sparkling wine? Well according to the Oxford companion to wine, it is "a wine which bubbles when poured into a glass." To so many people it seems like so much more than just that simple explanation. Sparkling wine, and more specifically, Champagne, has always been associated with a certain class or elegance and almost always associated with the occasion of celebration. The mystery of sparkling wine carries on with the amazing amount of different styles it can come in. Just the tiniest hint of effervescence can change a simple white wine into something fun and exciting to drink. Sparkling wine can vary as much as still wine; it can be white, pink and even red. It can be made in a sweet style like Italy's Moscato d'Asti, or bone dry like most French Champagnes. Other aspects of sparkling wines can vary immensely, like the alcoholic levels and the character and strength of the bubbles themselves. Join us for this exciting dinner: enjoy a vast array of sparkling wines and see just how well these wines match with elegant, delicious dishes prepared by Panzanella Chef, Chris Capron.

The cost of this event is $45 per person; space is limited, so reserve early. Please pay in advance and pick up a ticket for this tasting at either Panzanella or the customer service desk at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro.

RSVVP Today!

RSVVP at Panzanella
Today, November 13
Lunch & Dinner


Both Weaver Street Market locations as well as
Panzanella are participating, by donating 10% of sales
to help fight hunger in our community.
Come dine out, and at the same time help make a difference!

Holiday Hours

For Panzanella:

Thanksgiving Hours:

Wednesday, November 21, Lunch, 11:30 - 2:00 pm, Dinner 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Thursday, November 22, CLOSED
Friday, November 23, Lunch, 11:30 - 2:00 pm, Dinner 5:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Christmas Hours:
Monday, December 24, CLOSED
Tuesday, December 25, CLOSED
Wednesday, December 26, CLOSED FOR LUNCH, OPEN for Dinner 5:30 - 9:00 pm