Food & Flavors

After trying this Farmer’s Market Skillet recipe, I realized it’s actually OK to skip the meat every now and then.

In Rockbridge County, Va. residents are abuzz with the news of Gertie’s Country Store’s win in our Foodie Tour of the Blue Ridge Parkway contest.

An old mountain libation – with its roots in the days before grapes were widely grown in the Southern Appalachians – is making a comeback at several spots in the Blue Ridge region.

As a 10-year-old girl, Barbara Swell already had a sense for the meaning of family recipes and the meals they make. A lifetime of collecting and cooking has rendered her a sort of one-woman preservation society for old-fashioned cooking.

It’s a Christmas tradition born from the simplest of ingredients.