Flavors

Ramps and mushrooms, cornbread and apple stack cake... the Appalachian mountains are known for delicious, down-home cuisine. In our Mountain Flavors blog, we explore restaurants and recipes, family traditions and new twists on old dishes - reviews of cookbooks, stories on regional eateries and more food news from the Blue Ridge. Do you have a recipe you'd like to share? Contact Editor Cara Modisett and tell us the story behind it - we'll post it here.

Winning Dishes

Thursday, May 7, 2009 Carrie Fowler
Winning Dishes

Readers sent us their favorite restaurants for best Southern cooking and fine dining, favorite diners and favorite desserts. On the following pages are your votes, plus a selection of recipes – enjoy!

Grove Park Inn
Fine Dining (platinum)

Almost 100 years old, the Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa sits on the side of Sunset Mountain in Asheville, N.C. The original portion of the inn was modeled after the grand old railway hotels out west, and constructed from granite boulders hewn from Sunset. Since then, the inn has expanded and continues to expand both in size and services, now offering a spa and sports complex.

 

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A Blue Ridge Country Holiday

Thursday, November 1, 2007 Cara Ellen Modisett
A Blue Ridge Country Holiday

When a magazine covers as much ground as Blue Ridge Country does, writers, photographers and editors don't connect very often. Seeing as the holidays are a time for friends and family to gather, we gathered some of our Blue Ridge Country family together for a winter meal.

Publisher Richard Wells and his wife Alison not only opened their Roanoke, Va., home to the crowd for an evening, but cooked the turkey (the recipe came from Norma Lugar, editor of our sister magazine, Mountain Homes Southern Style), gravy and stuffing.

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