How To

Master new skills with tips and techniques from local experts.

Finding Our Food

This season of “stay at home” living might be the perfect opportunity to explore new approaches to food: new recipes and new cooking techniques, along with new places to buy local and seasonal ingredients.

Archive, Features, Homepage, How To, Winter 2020

THE FLAVORS OF 50 MILES

Living in Asheville, you can find ways around many of the challenges of eating strictly local, solely thanks to the enthusiastic and innovative people working with our region’s food systems.

Archive, Features, Homepage, How To, Summer 2019

CHARCUTERIE IN THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS

We can see how charcuterie is a fantastically varied craft. It refers to the preservation of meat by diverse and intuitive means, and the combination of processes to produce a desired or safe result.

Archive, Features, Homepage, How To, Recipes, Winter 2018

The Farmer’s Hands

Chef Sebastiaan Zijp of The Farmer's Hands makes magic, transforming flour, eggs, and salt into silky sheets of pasta.

Archive, Fall 2017, Features, Homepage, How To

Chickens In The City

City chicken keepers face challenges that those in the country do not, and it takes some effort to create a barnyard-quality life in an urban setting.