Features

Know your food…and the people who bring it to you. Stay up to date on seasonal dining trends and keep tabs on award-winning restaurants and beer makers.

Archive, Features, Homepage, How To, Summer 2021

LET US ENTERTAIN YOU

Local chefs ride a wave of interest in home cooking and healthy eating to launch online cooking courses that aim to boost the immune system.

Archive, Features, Homepage, Spring 2021

COOPERATING FOR THE FUTURE

Neighbors and community members are pooling resources, knowledge, and physical labor to help each other create stability in their lives—as opposed to creating a mechanism for profit.

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Well Seasoned Table has quickly become the go-to source for local herbs and spices, winning a fan base among chefs, home-cooking enthusiasts, and professional food producers in Western North Carolina and beyond. Presented in partnership with Well Seasoned Table.

Archive, Features, Homepage, Spring 2021

KITCHEN CRASH COURSE

Local chefs ride a wave of interest in home cooking and healthy eating to launch online cooking courses that aim to boost the immune system.

Archive, Features, Homepage, Spring 2021

The Home Gardener: A Healthy Relationship With Gardening

There is a common saying that asserts that gardening is cheaper than therapy, AND you get tomatoes. While depression is no laughing matter, gardening for mental wellbeing is well supported by science.

Archive, Features, Homepage, Spring 2021

FOODWAYS TO HEALING

Wellness expert Dr. Amy Lanou explains the many ways that food - its nutrients, cultivation and ability to create bonds with other people - leads to health.

Archive, Features, Homepage, Spring 2021

THE YUM FACTOR

Healthy fats do their culinary duties of fleshing out flavor and determining texture, but they don't exist just to make us swoon: they are one of the three macronutrients our bodies need to thrive.

Archive, Features, Homepage, Spring 2021

Baskets of Bounty

Presented by Mother Earth Food. A Q&A with Co-Founder Andrea Duvall and CEO Janelle Tatum reveals of the bounty of WNC meats, cheeses and produce.

Features, Homepage, Spring 2021

A Dedication to Flavors

Presented by A-B Tech Community College. After attending A-B Tech's culinary school, Kether Smith went on to work in a series of prestigious kitchens and launch a successful wine business, Botanist & Barrel.