Dark green, with large and bumpy spikes, four watermelon-sized durian fruits sit in a cardboard box near the store’s entrance. Even in the city of banking, NASCAR, and Southern charm, there are stores that carry a fruit whose smell is so obnoxious it’s forbidden in hotels and on public transportation...

Leave it to the ancient Greeks to have predicted what’s necessary to create the perfect burger experience in 21st century North Carolina. To be fair, when the toga-types twigged to the four basic elements—earth, wind, water and fire—they weren’t considering that their philosophical musings...