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Kristen Wile, senior editor of Charlotte magazine and editor of Charlotte Home + Garden, moved to Charlotte in 2012 from Washington, D.C., where she worked for The Washington Post. Her first job at the paper was sorting mail, before she joined the Weekend section and Going Out Gu... Read More →

Boyd is a Charlotte native who’s been working in the restaurant industry for more than 20 years, with a specialty in desserts. Boyd splits her time between 300 East and Heritage Food & Drink, where she’s been working alongside Chef Paul Verica for a little over a year now. Boyd’s background in fine arts is apparent to diners when they view her beautiful desserts... Read More →

Verica was one of 20 chefs recently nominated for the Best Chef in the Southeast award by the prestigious James Beard Foundation. Heritage, which was ranked as the top restaurant in Charlotte last year, is nestled in a small town just outside the city limits, which Verica describes as “a classic, old-school Americana town with train tracks running through it.” It’s not uncommon to find Verica sketching his next dish on a notepad. As Verica will tell you, he needs to visualize the dish and its components before he picks up his knife and goes to work back in the kitchen... Read More →