Nov 27, 2020
It’s almost impossible to talk about any food scene in the Boone and Banner Elk, NC area without including Tina Houston. Once you meet her, you know in five minutes she is a force, and she’s been at the forefront of seasonal, local cooking in that pocket of the Appalachian High Country since she began Reid’s...
Nov 20, 2020
The work of Jacques Pépin transcends a single title. He is at once chef, teacher, author, and television personality, but with 31 books and more than 70 years in the kitchen, his unique combination of warm personality and professional skills has impacted the world of food like few others. He’s still working and...
Nov 13, 2020
It’s been a challenging, often heartbreaking year. And just like a hard rain can first make you try to run then slow down and plod through when you’re soaked, that’s life too, so sometimes it can be hard to look for promise, see light, hear encouragement. And then someone tells me about a chicken sandwich I have...
Nov 6, 2020
Travis Milton is a familiar figure in Southern food, having been featured in press from Tasting Table to Atlas Obsura, talking up the goodness of heirloom vegetables, whiskey, and the power of a piece of streaky pig meat in a pot of beans. But he’s more than a stereotype of the Appalachian region that raised him. This...