Food & Flavors

CURRENT Food & Flavors

Cottage Cheese Ice Cream has a cheesecake-like flavor.

Crooked Road Cuisine: Cottage Cheese Ice Cream

What better way to showcase regional culture than through its food?
My ulitmate comfort food. Photo by iStock/jana rodic

Cheesy Comfort: Macaroni and Cheese

The perfect mac & cheese recipe!
At Gray, Tennessee’s Chocolate Elegance, Jan Scibor’s 25-year hobby has grown into a business shipping sweets to as far away as Iraq.

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.
The fluffy biscuits of today are fairly modern creations, but in Winchester, Ky. one couple continues to pound them out the old-fashioned way.

Beaten Biscuits

The adjectives most commonly applied to biscuits today are “fluffy” and “light.” But “filling” and “long-lasting” were once the criteria for a good biscuit.
Southern Foodways Cookbook

Tasty Southern Treasures

In tribute to the great American spiral-bound tradition comes "The Southern Foodways Alliance Community Cookbook," published by the University of Georgia Press in partnership with the SFA, headquartered on the campus of the University of Mississippi.

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At Coopers Rock State Forest, new Stargazer cabins invite guests to look up through skylights and telescopes.
Country Roads

Even Closer to Almost Heaven

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

©Duncan Seaman
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.

Synchronous Fireflies
Creature Feature

The Light Fantastic

Fireflies are struggling with the effects of artificial light.

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