Most parents agree that cooking's a necessary life skill for kids old enough to be left alone in a kitchen. Sybil Fix takes that idea one step further. As the founder and director of Terra Summer camp, she believes learning about food and...
Next weekend's Super Bowl may mark the end of the NFL season, but it's also the start of the year's richest spectating period. February, usually a dud month for sports fans, is enlivened this time...
Hendersonville residents rejoice: Appalachian Craft Brewery will move their production facility from Fletcher to Hendersonville and expand their operation to include a tasting room and music venue. The exact...
Tres Hundertmark insists there's nothing inherently difficult about prying oysters from their shells.
"It's really just a matter of pushing the point of the knife as far as you can,"...
As its name suggests, Sazerac owes a heavy debt to New Orleans. But unlike so many north-of-NOLA restaurants that try to convey a Cajun-Creole vibe, the eatery isn't festooned in purple and gold, and there...
Good, affordable organic food can be hard to find in Asheville. A case in point: Roots Café, the extension of a highly successful sauce and dressing wholesaler, is tucked into a back corner of the River...
Xpress Staff | 1 month ago
One of the most-anticipated new venues in downtown Asheville is on the cusp of opening. At press time, the Lexington Avenue Brewery, complete with a brewing operation, a full-fledged pub and restaurant and a...
For restaurant owners, 2009 was a challenging year. So perhaps it's too soon to offer up a platitude that's actually true: It was supposed to be worse.
Cash-strapped restaurateurs are unlikely to take...
Bread pudding — that simple mixture of leftover bread or cake, eggs, milk and spices — may be one of the oldest desserts around, say food historians.
In medieval times, and possibly even earlier,...
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Editor's note: This is the second part of Raskin's two-part story on her first turkey hunt. See last week's Xpress for part one.
Dowler warned me there was a good chance I wouldn't get a...
I'm sitting in the West Virginia woods, crouched against a tree, my fingers balled up in the palms of my camouflage gloves and my eyes trained on a point about 30 yards away. Through my itchy woolen...
One of the best things I've seen for sale recently is a novelty toddler T-shirt printed with the phrase: "I make dining out miserable." Unfortunately, the shirt only went up through size 2 —...
