Liquid nitrogen vapor billowing around her, Katie Button looks every bit the sorcerer. Button, one of the owners and the executive chef of Cúrate, whisks the liquified gas into what will become a frozen gazpacho, ripe with summer. With a somewhat impish smile, Button splashes a little on the table in front of her, sending […]
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Eat up!
Cúrate is just one stitch in the fabric of our local food scene. WNC is a rich tapestry of farms, specialty and open-air markets, talented chefs and other food service professionals, restaurants — and even gourmet food trucks. Every year, Xpress pays homage to our food community with our Asheville-area Eats and Drinks guide, a […]
Artful eats
Heading to the River Arts District Studio Stroll this weekend? (More about that in this week’s A&E section or at riverartsdistrict.com.) The event covers a lot of ground — 19 buildings filled with demonstrations, hands-on activities and art, art, art. It also covers some prime eating hours (10 a.m. until 6 p.m., both days). Fortunately, […]
Supper at the market, under the full moon
Incredible food on an inhospitable night. There's something inherently comforting, warm and joyful about passing platters of food around tables set up in the middle of a farmers market. It certainly doesn’t hurt matters when said food is cooked by The Admiral's Drew Maykuth, just over yonder working elbow-to-elbow with Suzy Phillips in Spartacus, Phillips’ souped-up food truck and home of GCQ Lebanese Street Food.
Meatless burgers revisited
Another e-mail from Stewart David, one of Asheville’s most vocal vegetarians, popped up in my inbox last week. What, I wondered, had I done to disturb the meat-eschewing contingent of Asheville diners this time? Was it my description of eating beef heart? Perhaps the video where I slurped marrow out of a bone? Maybe it […]
On the Horizon
The Grove Park Inn did not always seem inaccessible to locals — and the staff is working hard to prove that it still isn’t. But back when my friends and I were in our early 20s (about a decade ago) and not yet struggling with property taxes and child-care expenses, we would regularly hit the […]
It’s not all manure and cowhorns
To many in the Asheville area, Kathy Taylor and Les Doss are more than former bartenders — they're hospitality specialists. They're experts in the field of drink. In 2004, Taylor and Doss opened the Usual Suspects, the Merrimon Avenue bar and restaurant that quickly became a standard meeting place for many. Taylor and Doss passed […]
Another chocolate shop comes to town, Jack’s Nut Butters and spices to get you cookin’
More chocolate! Can you ever have enough chocolate? We may be about to find out. Chocolate Gems, a chocolatier in Black Mountain, is moving to downtown Asheville this summer, joining the French Broad Chocolate Lounge, Kilwins and the Chocolate fetish as the fourth such shop in town. Chocolate Gems offers a number of desserts made […]
Going wild
Alan Muskat is wearing pink Crocs. He’s standing in front of a group of people gathered in dappled sunlight on the lawn of the Laughing Frog Estate, a lush 200-plus-acre plot in between Hot Springs, Marshall and nowhere. "I'm very honored and appreciative to have you all here," he says to the group, most of […]
The Artery, the Junction and the juice
The River Arts District and its residents exude a crackling yet subdued sort of excitement. The up-and-coming neighborhood hums with the energy particular to that relatively narrow margin of time between abandoned and overbuilt. Artists and young entrepreneurs — the type that invest more sweat than capital — buzz around, fixing things. But not too […]
Mud fish and menudo
At Smiley's Flea Market in Fletcher, a young girl with black hair, a rose-patterned dress and silver cowboy boots kicks up dust as she runs between stalls piled with fruit, a plastic bag of sugar-dusted churros in her hand. A truck squeezes through one of the narrow roads that divide the market, filling the air […]
Growing food, growing minds
Extreme couponing?
Finger lickin’
Basic roasted chicken recipe.
Hunger in foodtopia?
Everything’s better with butter — even termite larvae
It takes guts
The offal truth
Dawg Gone
“It’s botany, it’s art, it’s alchemy, it’s everything”
Barbecue blunders
