Subverting with Verdi

The Nazis at the Terezin concentration camp took a cruel sort of pleasure in hearing the motley chorus of Jews sing a dramatic piece of music about death. The Jewish […]

It's what's for dinner

Meat makeover The all-American hamburger is a) named after a German city and b) contains no ham. If thoughts like these keep you awake at night, it may be time […]

Pick your peppers

If you feel that signing up for one of the six local CSAs is a bit like playing a game of musical chairs, one Albemarle farm is doing its part […]

Street, meet gallery

Reko Rennie’s (pictured) graffiti installation opens at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection this week. Rennie and Native American Artist Frank Buffalo Hyde will also collaborate on a mural, which will […]

The bitter end

The mere mention of an after-dinner drink to an American seems to elicit queasy memories of a night ending with a White Russian or shot of Goldschläger and the harrowing hangover that followed; however, unlike these sweet and viscous drinks that add to your level of intoxication, taking you from comfortably content to grotesquely gorged, Europe’s bitter digestives actually subtract from your feeling of fullness.

Any way you slice it

  From top: Olive Thyme, Pain de Mie and Yeasted Cornbread. Bread matters If clothes make the man, then bread makes the sandwich. Too flimsy and your fillings fold under […]

Bon Apéritif

In Europe, where eating is the evening’s main event, a drink served before dinner is de rigueur and the perfect way to prime your palate (and bloodstream) to the gustatory pleasures that lie ahead.