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Muscadine merriment + a perky salad for your Thanksgiving table

November 14, 2013 by Barbara

I know it might be too late now for Muscadines since it was a whopping 19 degrees outside our Asheville door this morning. But this celebrated southern native grape keeps well when refrigerated, and

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Ready, Set, Go!!! It’s Hart Square Cabin Village Time.

September 12, 2013 by Barbara

Grab your bonnet and pony up, it’s almost Hart Square time. If you enjoy visiting historic villages, you will not want to miss a visit to this one on October

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Southern cowpea, butterbean & legume greed

August 14, 2013 by Barbara

Here’s why you should slow down and take the back roads. You might run into a Georgia roadside stand with zipper peas, crowder peas, lady peas, and pink-eyed peas. Honey

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Pie Lady Class at the John C Campbell Folk School

February 20, 2013 by Barbara

Sometimes the stars all line up and the electromagnetic vortex of life just falls into place … for example, last week at the JC Campbell Folk school where I had the great

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A cooking class from the magic storybook-land of Aosta

January 10, 2013 by Barbara

There’s a fairy tale behind the Rustic Italian Alpine cooking class I’m teaching next week…. Once upon a time (in 2007), our eldest, Annie decided to walk the 900 km Camino de

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A visit to Hart Square 1840 pioneer village

November 1, 2012 by Barbara

It was 47 degrees in our bedroom this morning. And not much less than that outside. Our bedroom is in the uninsulated 1880 part of our house which we don’t even