Asheville Wine and Food Festival Archives

Grand Tasting Final Chapter in the Wine & Food Fest Book This Weekend

August 20, 2015 Comments Off on Grand Tasting Final Chapter in the Wine & Food Fest Book This Weekend

The Asheville Wine & Food Festival's final phase of their culinary and mixology competitions, The Grand Tasting, will take place this Saturday night at the Civic Center. You may remember my coverage of earlier phases of the competition, AMUSE and ESSENCE, during which one chef and one mixologist were selected by attendees to move on to the next phase. In the Grand Tasting, the final winners will be selected.

Table Etiquette: What’s Old, What’s New… What’s Fun!

June 11, 2015 Comments Off on Table Etiquette: What’s Old, What’s New… What’s Fun!

Etiquette is the guidebook by which we all get along with one another in the smoothest ways possible. But, like changing and merging cultures, we have to change our minds about some of the old fashioned rules of manners over time. Some of these old fashioned rules can now be updated, but technology has also given us cause to add new ones.

Soul Food, An Edible Identity

May 21, 2015 Comments Off on Soul Food, An Edible Identity

Bring Joy to Your Day with Mindful Eating

May 16, 2015 Comments Off on Bring Joy to Your Day with Mindful Eating

One of the most fundamental reasons I write about food is joy.

Asheville Wine & Food Festival’s “Amuse” Does Not Disappoint

May 9, 2015 Comments Off on Asheville Wine & Food Festival’s “Amuse” Does Not Disappoint

Asheville's seventh annual Wine and Food Festival had its first phases of its culinary competition on Friday, May 1st, with "Amuse." At this pre-festival event, five chefs and six mixologists were to take an ingredient or two from an amusement park or circus and use it as inspiration to produce bite-sized original dishes. The winners of this competition will go on to compete at the Grand Tasting and Elixir later this summer.

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