Food & Flavors

CURRENT Food & Flavors

Bits and pieces of mockernut hickory nuts litter the ground in this region’s fall forests.

October’s Wild Edible: Mockernut Hickory Nuts

This nut adds both flavor, vitamins, minerals and Omega 3 and 6-fatty acids to bread, muffin or cookie recipes.
Clay Morris gathering blooms from an elderberry tree.

September’s Wild Edible: Elderberries

The berries feature a bittersweet flavor when eaten right off the vine.
A beefsteak polypore growing on a hardwood.

August’s Wild Edible: Beefsteak Polypore

Red and fan-shaped, Fistulina hepatica can grow up to 10 inches wide, although most specimens are about half that size.
The Pink Cadillac Diner, near Natural Bridge, Virginia, offers all-day breakfast items plus ice cream and pervasively pink decor.

10 Diners Worth the Drive

Across the mountain region, there are hundreds. Here are a few our readers say are sure to please.
Local tomatoes, peaches, fresh mozzarella, prosciutto and basil make up a summertime salad at 1010 Bridge.

Fine Dining, West Virginia Style: A Little Loud is Cool

Charleston natives bring this three-year-old West Virginia restaurant from the stresses of COVID to the acclaim of the James Beard Awards.

Departments

Much of the Oklawaha Greenway is lined with trees.
The Good Walk

Walking Oklawaha Greenway

Located just minutes from downtown Hendersonville, North Carolina, this 3.25-mile scenic pathway winds through forests and wetlands.

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