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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!

A Blue Ridge Country Holiday

Banana Croquettes in the Bluegrass State

Whether you roll it in peanuts or corn flakes, serve it atop a bed of lettuce or upright with a cherry on top,“banana salad” is one tasty treat.

Blue Ridge Parkway Foodie Tour, Part 4

We kick off this last installment of our four-part Blue Ridge Parkway-counties Foodie Tour with a visit to the popular Tupelo Honey Cafe in Asheville, N.C. The offerings as we head south from Buncombe County are equally as enticing, tasty, unique...

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The staff at Asheville, N.C.’s Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa create such regionally inspired dishes as shrimp and grits with ham gravy.

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!
The dinner table, set.

A Blue Ridge Country Holiday

Banana croquettes. Photo by David Hungate.

Banana Croquettes in the Bluegrass State

Whether you roll it in peanuts or corn flakes, serve it atop a bed of lettuce or upright with a cherry on top,“banana salad” is one tasty treat.
Tupelo Honey’s Southern twists on classic dishes such as Saltimbocca make for dining excellence.

Blue Ridge Parkway Foodie Tour, Part 4

We kick off this last installment of our four-part Blue Ridge Parkway-counties Foodie Tour with a visit to the popular Tupelo Honey Cafe in Asheville, N.C. The offerings as we head south from Buncombe County are equally as enticing, tasty, unique...
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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.

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A Mountain Tradition Turns 90 

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The Light Fantastic

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