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Melanie McGee Bianchi

“All Maia’s Training Gets Put to the Test”
PeopleJuly 2, 2020

“All Maia’s Training Gets Put to the Test”

By Melanie McGee Bianchi

Maia is certified through the national organization “American Mantrailing, Police, & Working Dog Association (AMPWDA)” as both a live-find trailing dog and a Human…

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Food ReviewsJuly 2, 2020

The Lost Art of Lingering

By Melanie McGee Bianchi

The idea of a secret restaurant is storybook charming. Not that Newman’s Restaurant at The Orchard Inn & Spa in Saluda, set inside a rambling vintage resort, is some kind of speakeasy or private club. Quite the opposite.

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Food News, Food Reviews, Food+DrinkApril 30, 2019

Taking Wing

By Melanie McGee Bianchi

Raynard Walker is running a cottage industry in wings at DreadLife Kitchen in Edneyville. The Hendersonville native started with a home-based catering company and…

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Swimming Through the Trends
Food Reviews, Food+DrinkSeptember 28, 2018

Swimming Through the Trends

By Melanie McGee Bianchi

Industrial pendant lamps have become trendy in vacation homes and rustic-décor gastropubs — thick-rimmed, steel, hanging low over kitchen islands and bars like pocket…

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Apples for Days (Even Years)
Food News, Food+Drink, OutdoorsJuly 30, 2018

Apples for Days (Even Years)

By Melanie McGee Bianchi

  The record spring rain that prompted mudslides and evacuations in Henderson County apparently didn’t hurt the all-important apple crop at Sky Top Orchard,…

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Floating  Past the  Pain
OutdoorsJuly 30, 2018

Floating Past the Pain

By Melanie McGee Bianchi

  As though hosting one of the country’s most scenic triathlons weren’t enough — all the top-ten lists include it — the Lake Lure…

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Surviving With Flavor
Food News, Food Reviews, Food+DrinkJuly 30, 2018

Surviving With Flavor

By Melanie McGee Bianchi

  “Hard as a hickory nut” is an old-timey saying, and presumably Hickory Nut Gorge holds a fair amount of this namesake specimen. But…

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HistoryMarch 12, 2018

Rare Oconee Bells are the true harbingers of mountain spring

By Melanie McGee Bianchi

Americana bigwigs Gillian Welch and David Rawlings wrote “Acony Bell,” one of their earliest songs, and titled their recording company — Acony Records —…

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Food ReviewsJanuary 28, 2018

Brooks Tavern: rich pub food and original ambience

By Melanie McGee Bianchi

  It feels like an old-style bar car on an Amtrak train, minus the cigarette smoke — one long, narrow room chugging forward with…

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Stitch in Time (and Space)
ArtJuly 31, 2017

Stitch in Time (and Space)

By Melanie McGee Bianchi

Stitchery never stops. A national touring exhibit, Through the Needle’s Eye, launches this month in Brevard, pauses in town till September, then will go…

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