Christi Ferretti doesn’t need to hang a rainbow flag outside the café she runs with her wife in Wilmington, N.C. Her identity is present in every made-from-scratch Southern biscuit sandwich she sells. “Unpretentious-Americana” is how owner and South Beach Wine and Food Festival chef-participant Christi Ferretti describes Pine Valley Market.
Ferretti and wife Kathy Webb-Ferretti are not just business partners, having married and adopted a son. But when they opened shop in 2002, the community