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Bring Joy to Your Day with Mindful Eating
One of the most fundamental reasons I write about food is joy.
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Hunting for Good Food? Try the Red Stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian
I was invited last Thursday to a media dinner at The Red Stag Grill, located inside the Grand Bohemian Hotel near Biltmore Village and the Biltmore Estate in Asheville. The dinner was to showcase some new menu offerings from their new chef, Scott Ostrander. Read More »
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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Burial is Appropriate Action for “Cajun-inspired” Food
On Sundays, in an odd tradition for a beer purveyor, Asheville's Burial Brewery hosts brunches. I sampled their 'Cajun-inspired' offerings recently.
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Lex 18 Brings Touch of Downton Abbey to Asheville
At Downton Abbey, every night is a dinner party. Fine china, black ties, the finest linens and silvers attended to by butlers and servants. Tinkling crystal and the most elegantly prepared meals, each need and desire anticipated and met before a word can be uttered. It is an experience that has no equal in our modern, rushed society.
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The Poor Dears
My, my, Asheville. A fortnight ago, you might recall I published
two reviews on gourmet boutique doughnut shops. As I’d mentioned
in the posts, these aren’t the sort of establishments that I
usually f
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Lex 18’s New Chef Edwin Bloodworth Reimagines Appalachian Cuisine
You may have noticed that Lex 18, a fairly new restaurant in downtown Asheville, shuttered its doors briefly. Today, they reopen their doors with a new chef, a rising star in the culinary industry, Edwin Bloodworth.
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10 Ways to Stop Sabotaging Yourself in the Kitchen
Many of today's adults, myself included, have missed out on a basic experience with food. We represent the first few generations who are so removed from food that most of us could not find familiar vegetables if they grew wild in our local parks. We have been raised on convenience foods, sold to our parents and grandparents as "time savers" that would allow them to spend more time with us. Over the years, this industrialized food system created a massive disconnect between our modern kitchens and what is good for our bodies, and we didn't even know it was happening.
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Quick and Healthy Homemade Mayonnaise
For weeks i have been searching and trying out homemade mayo recipes. Trying to replace the over-processed, GMO-laden goop in the stores in a healthy way that tastes great took a bit of doing, but I finally found the perfect proportions and oil to use, and all you need is a blender or food processor and about five minutes.
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