Career Turned on High
Growing up in Spartanburg, SC, Aaron Edwards got his first restaurant job at the original Fatz Café. Though he started as a dishwasher, 18-year-old…
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Life in the Favilla Lane
With an accent thicker than melted mozzarella, Andy Favilla fusses about the travails of professional pizza life, a physical and metaphorical place he’s inhabited…
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Serving Snow All Summer Long
The Osteen family visited 15 different Pelican’s SnoBalls before deciding they wanted to open up a franchise back home in Hendersonville. “We knew about…
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Staying Fresh One Brew At A Time
Jeff Golliher discovered his love for brewing after studying chemical engineering in school, working for a company that sourced chemicals to the food and…
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Main Street Mélange
Newest iteration of French-in-the-mountains opens in Saluda That old Low Country/High Country connection is warming up the ridgeline again, as chefs escape the subtropical…
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Hendersonville’s Hardest-to-Find Espresso Bar
Zach and Candice Pritz, husband-and-wife owners of ShareWell Coffee Co. & Roastery, recently moved their business from Main Street in Hendersonville into the downstairs…
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Bridging the Farmer-Consumer Gap
Polk and Rutherford counties have joined forces for the NC Foothills Farm Tour, which highlights 18 farms. Foothills growers, upholding the region’s agricultural roots,…
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Sipping On a Whole New Concept
After retiring as an attorney in New York City and New Jersey for many years, Gail Slaughter discovered an opening for new ownership at…
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Feeling the Buzz
In connection with Pollinator Month, Wine Sage & Gourmet is hosting “Bee-licious Tastings.” At the epicurean event, guests can try mead, drips of honey,…
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Taking Wing
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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