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Great Dining Rooms, Great Recipes

These signature mountain restaurants earned that status the only way you can – with signature mountain dishes. here’s how to enjoy them and how to make them.

The Buffet Classic: Peaks of Otter

A blue ridge parkway signature tradition was interrupted for a time but the Sunday and Friday night buffets are back.

Chefs of the Mountains: Course 2

Katie Button found full flower in her love affair with food while living in Paris. These days, in Asheville, her background in France and the U.S. has found delightful manifestation at Curate.

Sunburst Celebrates Caviar

The Jennings-Eason family of Canton, N.C., originally began farming trout to feed mink. Nowadays they feed us.

Chefs of the Mountains: Course 3

Nicole Palazzo and Peter Fassbender: Course 3 Excerpted from the book "Chefs of the Mountains," by John E. Batchelor.

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The origins of Early Girl’s sweet potato scramble: leftovers that had gotten a little too “mushy,” and bacon and sausage that happened to be around that day.

Great Dining Rooms, Great Recipes

These signature mountain restaurants earned that status the only way you can – with signature mountain dishes. here’s how to enjoy them and how to make them.
The build-your-own brunch buffet offers up a range of choices.

The Buffet Classic: Peaks of Otter

A blue ridge parkway signature tradition was interrupted for a time but the Sunday and Friday night buffets are back.
The Roux version of mushroom bisque is garnished with grilled baguettes and splashes of sherry.

Chefs of the Mountains: Course 2

Katie Button found full flower in her love affair with food while living in Paris. These days, in Asheville, her background in France and the U.S. has found delightful manifestation at Curate.
Sunburst Trout Caviar

Sunburst Celebrates Caviar

The Jennings-Eason family of Canton, N.C., originally began farming trout to feed mink. Nowadays they feed us.
The farm-raised Sunburst Trout is served at Season's with grits cakes and tasso ham gravy.

Chefs of the Mountains: Course 3

Nicole Palazzo and Peter Fassbender: Course 3 Excerpted from the book "Chefs of the Mountains," by John E. Batchelor.
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At Coopers Rock State Forest, new Stargazer cabins invite guests to look up through skylights and telescopes.
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Even Closer to Almost Heaven

New Stargazer cabins at Coopers Rock State Forest offer a skyward escape in the mountains of West Virginia.

June 29, 2026
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Country Roads

A Mountain Tradition Turns 90 

Visitors flock to Galax, Virginia, each summer for the Old Fiddlers’ Convention, a days-long celebration of Appalachian music.

June 29, 2026
Synchronous Fireflies
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The Light Fantastic

Fireflies are struggling with the effects of artificial light.

June 29, 2026

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