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Fall 2025
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Sugar & Spice
Appalachia Cookie Co. bakes up everything nice for the season
Food Crusader
Documentary filmmaker Jeremy Seifert hungers for challenging stories about our daily diets
Mother of Invention
A lunchtime accident launches a line of linens
Food Fight
One of WNC’s own heads to the World Burger Championship
What’s Cookin’
Three local authors pass the taste test with new titles
Bearwallow Valley & Falls
Difficulty: Easy Length: 1.3 miles round-trip
The Banjo Connection
After languishing in the Library of Congress, a set of historic Haywood County recordings is unveiled
Next Age Adornments
Boone artist Arthur Hash rethinks the way we see and wear jewelry
'Cued Up
Contain Yourself
An up-and-coming Asheville restaurant will showcase innovative and sustainable design
Raise a Toast
Cherokee and Clay counties stand to attract wine lovers with a newly designated grape-growing region
Brew-haha
A new enterprise lets homebrewers in on the action too
Do the Hops
A crucial ingredient takes root in WNC
The Beer Boom
With 50 breweries counting, Western North Carolina's reputation as a craft beer mecca continues to grow, but for how long? Experts and brewers...
September/ October 2014
New and Notable
The scoop on WNC’s latest dining destinations
A Viticultural Revival
Toast North Carolina’s winemaking roots with regional selection
Muscadine Mania
Available just two months a year, these grapes make a distinctive pie
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Roasted Sunchokes with Dried Beef & Fish Sauce Aioli
Blueberry Lemon Trifle
Pepitos
Wild Blackberry Cobbler
Spinach-walnut Spread
The Hemingway
Sunchoke Salad with Apples & Peanuts
Goat Cheese & Grape Pistachio Balls
Pickled Lobster Mushrooms
Sarsaparilla, Black Cherry & Black Birch Digestif
Hot Pepper Lemongrass Custard Pie
MAYFELADE
Rutabaga Hash
Bay & Black Pepper Poached Pear with Ginger-Molasses Cake
Smoked Rainbow Trout with Roasted Yellow Beets, Shaved Radish, Preserved Lemon, Smoked Pecans, Endive and Green Goddess Dressing
Crispy Roasted Okra with Smoked rémoulade
