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Tess Allen

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  • Assistant Editor, Our State
  • None, Charlotte Home + Garden, Charlotte Magazine
Charlotte
As seen in: Our State, The Washington Post, MinnPost, Noozhawk, The Infatuation, Klaviyo Blog, Twin Cities Business, Charlotte Parent Magazine, Brunswickan, The Low Down to Hull & Back
Associate editor of @CharlotteMag. I’m not a regular editor. I’m a cool editor. || Tar Heel, journalist, cat + dog mom || (Views are my own)
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A Sweet Send-Off

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At the far end of a long bar, an espresso machine hisses as it sends up steam. Glass cases line the countertop, holding neat rows of handcrafted chocolates — solid chocolate flowers and sea-salt caramels, toffee squares and pecan bark, and delicately decorated bonbons in more than a dozen flavors. When you step into Venture Chocolate + Wine Co. from West King Street in downtown Boone, you’re greeted by the sights and scents of that familiar, comforting pair: coffee and cacao.
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Still in Stock at P.L. Woodard & Co.

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By Tess Allen Verified
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Samantha “Sam” Batts sits on a stool behind a worn work counter, its seafoam-green paint barely hanging on. She’s rekeying a gold doorknob above a section where the paint has fully given way to the wood underneath. That worn spot is a ledger of hands and years: This isn’t the first knob worked on here, nor are Batts’s young hands the first to move across its surface.
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What Does North Carolina Smell Like?

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By Tess Allen Verified
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Honeysuckle It smells good enough to eat: Pinch a honeysuckle bloom and pull the pistil to find a tiny bead of nectar that tastes lightly of — what else? — honey. Magnolia The Southern magnolia has a scent as heady and lavish as its giant porcelain blooms, hanging heavy in the air like a misty spring day. Barbecue The smoke rolls low and slow, carrying an aroma of pork fat and aged wood, of time and care.
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