Asheville: Few clouds, 84.2 °F
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Spice for Life Suzy Phillips minces handfuls of flat-leaf parsley at the tiled counter in the kitchen of her 1930s cottage. |
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True Blue A bottle of the restaurant’s namesake sweetener graces each table at Tupelo Honey Café, one of Asheville’s mainstays. |
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Grace Land It’s here at Three Graces Dairy that Sacha and Steve Alford, and Sacha’s mother, Roberta Ferguson, create a litany of cheeses to be sold at local groceries and used in dishes served at restaurants |
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The Sweet Life Wielding machetes, a dozen people wearing jeans and T-shirts hack at rows of sorghum grass in front of the Duckett House Inn & Farm in Hot Springs. |
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Down By the Riverside An incredible view of the Tuckaseegee River rushing through his front yard wasn’t quite spectacular enough for Barry Kennon. |
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Caribbean Queen Clad in a flowing silk batik dress, artist Rita Genet swings open the front door of Rose Hall, her palatial Neo-Georgian manor on Town Mountain in Asheville, to welcome a smiling face. |
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Culinary Arts Artist Karen Weihs is a study in serenity. Dressed in a cozy cashmere sweater and jeans with her platinum hair pulled back into a low ponytail, she pads around her spacious French country-style kitchen pouring strong coffee and doling out bowls of granola and fresh blueberries to art students. |
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From Romania with Love Nothing quells homesickness like the familiar flavors and aromas of a meal rooted in family traditions. |
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Tailgate Party At any given time, the harvests of a dozen local farms are at Laurey Masterton’s fingertips. |
