Santa Barbara butterflies and the dirty South bring to a close our three-part series, The Last Supper, in which area chefs illustrate their ideal final feasts, course by course: Who will be there? Will there be music playing? Will it be solemn or celebratory (or both)? Table’s Jacob Sessoms and William Dissen of The Market […]
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The last supper
Last rites seem to obsess us. It's evident in many of the disaster-scenario mind games we play with ourselves. To wit: If your house was burning and you could only grab one item, what would it be? Or, à la Rolling Stone, if you were stranded on a desert island with 10 albums to listen […]
Food fight at Pisgah
Engines revving, Asheville food trucks are idling at pole position. Fighting an eventually successful campaign to vend downtown may not have been enough to satisfy the food-truck owners’ taste for racing, it seems. Not content to quietly feed tacos, barbecue sandwiches and falafel to the masses, they’ve turned on each other. In a test of […]
Drink this!
Spring in the mountains is a fickle thing, so we’re not sure whether it will be a tad chilly or hot as blazes by the time you read this. Whatever the weather, one thing’s for sure: sizzling temperatures are in our future. And, while iced coffee has its place when you need a cool-down, sometimes […]
Hidden eateries of Asheville
Asheville's eateries are making big news these days. You know the usual suspects — Tupelo Honey often garners nods from big-name media including Southern Living and the Chicago Tribune. Well-known writer John T. Edge (a contributing editor for Garden & Gun Magazine, among other things) was recently found eating at both The Admiral and White […]
The race is on…
Six candidates. Three open Asheville City Council seats. Almost 65,000 registered voters in the city. Who’ll come out on top when the Buncombe County Board of Elections tallies the votes Nov. 8? To help guide voters’ choices, here’s some basic information about each candidate, culled from previous interviews and their responses to our questionnaire. To […]