The Our Carolina Foothills campaign will host the inaugural Taste of Our Carolina Foothills wine and food festival on Sunday, Sept. 28, at Overmountain Vineyards in Tryon. The event is a fundraiser for the Our Carolina Foothills public relations campaign to create awareness about and promote tourism in Landrum, Tryon, Saluda and Columbus. Visitors will […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM MOTHER EARTH PRODUCE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (September 25, 2014) – It’s no surprise that a couple of educators are behind a local company’s quest to help Upstate and Western North Carolina residents learn about the bounty of our local fields and farms. Graham and Andrea Duvall, the owners of Asheville, NC-based […]
“I was born to bake,” says Hollie West, owner of Sweet Monkey Bakery & Café, a restaurant that opened this summer in downtown Marshall. As a kid growing up in Maui, Hawaii, West begged her mom to buy her an Easy-Bake Oven. “But mom said, ‘No, you have a real one to play with,’” she recalls, […]
Back in July, West End Bakery & Café embraced the summer season by adding a covered outdoor seating area to its landmark West Asheville property. Around the same time, the bakery’s dessert chef, Meg Schearer, introduced dessert flights to the menu — a sampling of sweet items in tiny portions on one plate — and […]
Just over a year ago, Cúrate co-owner Liz Button introduced an initiative to bring a fine-dining experience to the city’s homeless and food insecure. Once each month since last June, Button has brought some of Asheville’s most prominent chefs into the basement kitchen of the Haywood Street Congregation’s Welcome Table program to share their cuisine with the homeless ministry’s guests. Click through for a story and slide show from August’s Welcome Table meal with The Junction and King James Public House.
PRESS RELEASE from Ruka’s Table Highlands, N.C. (September 9, 2014) Executive Chef Justin Burdett of Ruka’s Table in Highlands, N.C., is now serving a full lunch menu available daily from 12 p.m. through 3 p.m. Additionally, chef Burdett also offers to cook “off-menu” for patrons, allowing them to enjoy his culinary creativity, in lieu […]
PRESS RELEASE What: Organicfest 2014 ~ celebrating everything organic (and green!) When: Sunday, September 7 Time: 10:00 am–6:00 pm Where: Pack Square Park, downtown Asheville, NC Why: Celebrate and promote the goodness of organics! Website: www.organicfest.org 13th Annual Organicfest Celebrates National Organic Month ASHEVILLE, NC—On Sunday, September 7, Asheville’s 13th annual Organicfest will bring thousands to Pack Square Park and […]
PRESS RELEASE 13th Annual Organicfest Celebrates National Organic Month ASHEVILLE, NC—On Sunday, September 7, Asheville’s 13th annual Organicfest will bring thousands to Pack Square Park and the Roger McGuire Green to celebrate everything that is organic, green, and healthy. Free and open to the public, the family friendly day will commemorate National Organic Month […]
PRESS RELEASE from The Junction Belles of Burgundy Wine Dinner Asheville, NC, August 26, 2014 — The Junction Restaurant and Bar in Asheville’s River Arts District presents an exquisite wine dinner with French wine importer, Steve Pignatiello of P.Comm’s wines on Wednesday, October 1st at 7 p.m. Featuring small batch, small production wines […]
A bigger and better CiderFest; expanded hours at Dough; A-B Tech’s Harvest Moon fundraiser and the date for Taste of Asheville 2014.
Local musicians are coming together in Haw Creek to stage a fundraising event in support of a 12-year-old Asheville boy recovering from a debilitating brain tumor. Oso Rey, Akira Satake, David Earl Tomlinson, Pierce Edens, Aaron Woody Wood, David Cohen and many others will perform 3-7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24, at Creekside Taphouse to raise money to […]
(Photos by Cindy Kunst) Whole Foods Market will open its second Asheville location — a gleaming 35,000-square-foot facility — at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, in the Asheville Market shopping center at 4 S. Tunnel Road. The store will hold a grand opening celebration for the community on Tuesday starting with a bread-breaking ceremony with […]
About 30 area bakers, chocolatiers, pâtissiers, vintners, brewers and distillers lined the corridors of the Grove Arcade the evening of Friday, Aug. 22, for Sweet, an event of the 2014 Asheville Wine & Food Festival. (photos by Hayley Benton)
PRESS RELEASE NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Joel Hartzler of Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge, winner of the WNC Battle of the Burger in Asheville, N.C., has secured a rare and desirable “Golden Ticket” to compete amongst the best cooks and chefs in the world at the third annual World Food Championships. The World Food Championships, boasting hundreds of […]
Mojo Kitchen hosts a new dinner-and-music series, Universal Joint raises money for the Hominy Creek Greenway, the Asheville Food Swap gets ready to trade and Food Truck Fridays continues in North Asheville.
PRESS RELEASE from Mountain Brook Vineyards Mountain Brook Takes Top Awards for Wines Tryon, North Carolina, Aug. 18, 2014 — Mountain Brook Vineyards, among Polk County’s newest wineries, earned two medals for its wines at the San Francisco International Wine Competition held June 20-22 in downtown San Francisco. This event, now in its 34th year, is […]
Carol Peppe Hewitt is a matchmaker of sorts. As cofounder of the North Carolina chapter of the international nonprofit organization Slow Money and author of Financing Our Foodshed: Growing Local Food With Slow Money, Hewitt’s goal is to help sustainability-minded food entrepreneurs and community members interested in supporting their work meet and — quite possibly — fall in love.
August is a good month for Asheville’s ice cream lovers. Each year, The Hop owners Greg and Ashley Garrison celebrate the historic store’s August anniversary by offering free kiddie scoops of their handmade ice cream for one day. This year, The Hop turns 36 and the Garrisons are celebrating their sixth year as owners of the business on Thursday, […]
A new culinary event kicks off later this month that will highlight the farms and eateries of Haywood County. Sponsored by the Buy Haywood Market Development Project, the inaugural Uniquely Local Food Crawl is scheduled for the weekends of Aug. 21-24 and Aug. 28-31. The self-guided tour will include dozens of Haywood County businesses featuring […]
Whole Foods Market announced yesterday it will open its second Asheville location on Tuesday, Aug. 26. The store, at 4 S. Tunnel Road in the new Asheville Market shopping center, encompasses 35,000 square feet of space including an upper-level beer garden with 12 taps of local beer and kombucha, according to a press release from […]
Burgers are serious business in WNC — for both chefs and diners — and this weekend’s inaugural Battle of the Burger promises some stiff competition for the title of Best Burger in WNC. Among a diverse field of challengers ranging from the Farm to Fender food truck to downtown cocktail lounge The Vault, a little East Asheville bar and grill, The Social, is planning to bring their A-game to the event on Sunday, Aug. 10.
