If you want to watch a bunch of food geeks bicker about something of no consequence, do some quick research on fried green tomatoes. Apparently some, like food writer and historian Robert Moss, believe the dish originated in the North and only exploded in the South after the movie of the same name was produced […]
If you want to watch a bunch of food geeks bicker about something of no consequence, do some quick research on fried green tomatoes. Apparently some, like food writer and historian Robert Moss, believe the dish originated in the North and only exploded in the South after the movie of the same name was produced […]
Preamble When I got the assignment a couple of months ago to write about Jefferson and his protégé William Short and their dialogue about race and slavery, the nine murdered worshipers at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston were still alive. We’ve lost far too many people to race-inflected violence and outrage in recent years, but […]
Belmont blowup Southern Crescent, a restaurant Lucinda Ewell and her husband Ian Day first envisioned opening out of their home in 2009, will never open on Hinton Avenue in Belmont. But that’s because the couple will be changing the name by the time it starts welcoming diners by early September. The as-yet-to -be-named new restaurant […]
There are few concepts more quintessentially American than gathering friends and family for a gluttonous grill-out followed by a gratuitously deafening show of explosions in the sky. While a simulated artillery strike makes for a perfectly sensible human celebration, our pets understandably tend to interpret the ruckus as the end of the world. Indeed, veterinarians […]
Viognier and the Virginia wine scene have one thing in common: They both sprung from meager beginnings over the last few decades. In the late 1960s, only about 35 acres of viognier existed in the world, and most of it grew in France’s Rhône Valley. Around the same time, there wasn’t much of a Virginia […]
Chilly reception “Coming Soon” reads a sign that takes up an entire storefront window in the vacant spot next to Splendora’s. It’s a sign for Kilwins—a national ice cream, chocolate and fudge chain—that will be arriving this fall on the Downtown Mall. Kilwins is a “three-legged stool of confections, chocolate and ice cream,” says Steve […]
Lunch may not mean all that much to you and me. The meal’s far less “important” than breakfast, so they say, and at best it’s kind of like dinner’s kid brother. The kid brother who makes you eat salad. But if you’re a restaurant proprietor on C’ville’s Downtown Mall, you probably do a pretty good […]
So long, farewell Fellini’s #9 will soon change hands, but current and new owners agree that, in this case, it’s definitely out with the old and in with the old. “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it,” says the new face of Fellini’s, Justin Butler. He is the director of operations for MJR Enterprises—an independently […]
Shelly Stern has always had a knack for finding and telling stories, and what goes better with storytelling than food? If you hang out in the Belmont area long enough, you might find Stern at community events, pedaling around on a three-wheeled bicycle, handing out her homemade soft pretzels and asking for neighborhood tales in […]
Brazos bravo How much do Charlottesvillians love Austin-style tacos? A whole lot, apparently, as Peter Griesar learned last fall when he opened Brazos pop-up taco shop for 60 days and had a line snaking out the door every day. Griesar’s initial plan was to test the concept here in Charlottesville before taking it on the […]