WORDS | Lisa Archer PHOTOS | Leigh McDonald The apple is yellow-green —underripe— and freckled with tiny scabs. I can see where a yellow jacket has bitten a chunk out...
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WORDS & PHOTOS | JESSE FELDBERG Nestled into an industrial neighborhood-turned-brewery district just west of downtown Roanoke, Blindhouse Beer Company brings to the table a style all their own —...
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WORDS & PHOTOS | JESSE FELDBERG We sat down over the phone with Erik Jones and Jenny Davies, co-owners of Lexington’s Heliotrope Brewery, to talk about beer, pizza, wild yeast...
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For this fall’s iteration of Liquid Assets, we sat down with Dan and Terri Tatarka, owners of WildManDan Brewery and Beer Centric B&B. After four years of the couple operating...
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WORDS & PHOTOS | JESSE FELDBERG As we start the long-awaited transition into warmer months, the pace of life will inevitably pick up. Perhaps you’re not quite ready to get...
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Strolling down Crystal Spring Avenue during the lunch hour, linden trees line the sidewalk, the smart facades of businesses beckon, and people bustle into specialty food stores to pick up...
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Building a cheese board brings out the creative side in us, but as we concentrate our energies on pies, roasts and holiday shopping, the stress of entertaining can be overwhelming....
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SOUTHERN ARTISAN CHEESE IS ON FIRE right now – the new hot thing. Smack in the middle of the inferno is a whole lot of delicious, grassy creaminess being handcrafted...
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IT’S A ROUTINE FRIDAY MORNING, AND Ben Thompson has already been up to his elbows in pork for three hours. Thompson, the chef-butcher-owner of the Rock Barn, Nelson County’s renowned...
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AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE AGE my brothers and I were inducted into the Clean Plate Club. My compassionate mother would admonish us to remember the starving children in Biafra. My...
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