Blue Ridge Country

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.

Sweet Escapes

Wednesday, December 29, 2010 Cara Ellen Modisett
Sweet Escapes

And not the backroads kind, as we visit four chocolate makers in three states, for tastes of things like truffles, barks, bars and chocolate-covered Granny Smith apple.

 

Tasty Southern Treasures

Saturday, December 18, 2010 Fred Sauceman
Tasty Southern Treasures

Shortly after the Civil War, community cookbooks began to flourish in America, originally as a means to raise money for veterans and their families. In the decades following, civic clubs, churches, junior leagues and schools found collecting and publ...

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 yea...

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 ...

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