Medical center bans drug-rep favors
The UVA Health System has announced a change in vendor policy that effectively bans all gifts, meals and promotional items that are given to UVA employees by those companies that […]
What's in your backpack?
Haley Ferrell Age: 20 Hometown: Richlands, Virginia Year: Junior Majors: Sports medicine, kinesiology Haley Ferrell What’s in your backpack? Umbrella, travel coffee mug, swimsuit, shorts, t-shirt, flip-flops, 19-month day […]
What's cookin'?
As everyone in our area who’s grown excited about the idea of self-sustainability knows, the time is ripe for an Eat & Drink Annual issue that focuses not only on […]
Recipes from three local chefs
Rice Hall Blue Moon Diner Spaghetti Squash and Leek Pancakes 1 spaghetti squash, roasted 2 leeks, washed, julienned and lightly fried 4 eggs 1 cup cream 1 1/2 cups all […]
Raw possibilities
We know many of you want to eat as local and seasonal as possible. Like us, however, you may open your weekly CSA box with a bit of dread, thinking […]
Better by the bottle
Many of us pick up boxes of vegetables from our CSA shares every week, but how many pick up bottles of milk? If CSAs are all the rage, then herd […]
But what about the…?
We might be swimming in tomatoes, but Virginia-grown rice is consigned to the realm of the imagination. Kathryn Faulkner explains why certain foods just don’t come from here. Dairy. As […]
Farm econ 101
They look so cute, right? Those local farmers at the market with their little trucks and fresh tomatoes and healthy, sun-kissed complexions. Makes you want quit your desk job, right? […]
Virginia's so-called Champagne
Americans just don’t understand sparkling wine. First there’s the annoying habit of always calling it “Champagne,” and second the unforgivable sin of only drinking it on special occasions. Sparkling wine […]
Loving cup
Considering how much coffee they were ingesting that noon, the five panelists were surprisingly sedate. Indeed, watching them smell each of 10 cups, swirl, sip and then press their pencils […]