Shop Like A Chef
It’s no secret that restaurant chefs are notorious for getting up extra early to be the first shoppers at the farmers market, nabbing…
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Cook How They Cook
Blue Ridge Bakery in Brevard is known for artsy, made-to-order cakes and robust Mediterranean lunches. And it’s a generous place, too, refusing to…
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Set to Pour
One day, Brenda Coates hopes to distill her own liquor, but in the meantime, she’s serving up dozens of types of brandy from…
Read More“A Beautiful and Orchestrated Life”
To better understand all the buzz about local honey, Killer Bees Honey in Lake Toxaway offers tours in Pisgah National Forest on Thursday…
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Brevard’s Oldest Brewery Gets Canned
Since 2012, fans of Brevard Brewing Company — the oldest brewery in Transylvania County — could only find its five signature ales on…
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Surviving With Flavor
“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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Rocks and Water
In Western NC’s skittish entrepreneurial scene, where bistros and breweries pop up like privet bloom but often don’t last the season, the independent coffee…
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Say Cheeze
The happy success of vegan Sanctuary Brewing Company in Hendersonville proves that the meat- and dairy-free lifestyle, along with its goals of animal advocacy,…
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Hopping in a New Direction
The boxy neoclassical hotel holding down the corner of Third Avenue and Church Street has a chin-out look, like it’s never going to budge….
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PBS Celebrity Chef Debuts Vegan Restaurant in Hendersonville
Laura Theodore, better known as PBS’s “Jazzy Vegetarian,” is bringing her first restaurant to downtown Hendersonville. The Jazzy Vegetarian Vegan Café, located inside Sanctuary…
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