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Bon Appetit!

Ashley and Joel Selby are the creative minds (and hands) behind Rational Jar of Honey, the culinary side of their studio, This Paper Ship. They live in a historic apartment in downtown Greensboro and consider themselves graphic designer-farmers, combining technology and nature in their every day lives.

What they lack in culinary education, they make up for by love of food, creativity, design skills, and (not to mention) hundreds of hours spent watching Food Network and poring over their cookbook library. They are inspired by the recent explosion of awesome food blogs and want to bring their own style and tastes to the mix.

Here's to good eating!

Category Archives: Guilty Pleasures

Imaginary shops of love

We’ve been talking about owning a physical store front for years now (especially since we first started This Paper Ship) and watching our favorite movies/shows just fuels the fire all over again, especially when it involves an adorable, whimsical, imaginary bakery or cafe we dream of stepping into. If we ever opened a physical store...

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Cake + wine

Last night we spontaneously craved cake so we paused Netflix (we were watching Pushing Daisies… our favorite show EVER), threw on our shoes, jumped on our bikes, and dashed to The Iron Hen a few blocks away just as they were closing up for the night. We would have taken the car but it was...

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The perfect afternoon cuppa

A cuppa is comfort in a cup, a little wonder we picked up from all of our many trips to Scotland (mostly because of Ashley’s Scottish brother-in-law and ties to family/friends there). A perfect cuppa depends on three main factors: 1. Steeping, 2. The amount/type of sugar, and 3. The ratio of milk to tea....

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Artificially Delicious

As anyone who has been reading Rational Jar of Honey for some time would know, we at This Paper Ship are passionate about good, fresh food and supporting local food economies. However, lest anyone should have the grounds for calling us elitists, we decided to start highlighting our “guilty pleasures”: food that you know probably...

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