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Winning Dishes

Winning Dishes

Readers sent us their favorite restaurants for best Southern cooking and fine dining, favorite diners and favorite desserts. On the following pages are your votes, plus a selection of recipes – enjoy!

Grove Park Inn
Fine Dining (platinum)

Almost 100 years old, the Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa sits on the side of Sunset Mountain in Asheville, N.C. The original portion of the inn was modeled after the grand old railway hotels out west, and constructed from granite boulders hewn from Sunset. Since then, the inn has expanded and continues to expand both in size and services, now offering a spa and sports complex.

 

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Mountain Garden: Site, Sun and Soil

Mountain Garden: Site, Sun and Soil

Site, Sun and Soil

Gardens are a growing idea in these economic times. Thinking of growing vegetables?
Start with the basics.

A few years ago, a student at the local community college – a young mother juggling a job, school and caring for two small chil...

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Mountain Garden: Upward Mobility

Mountain Garden: Upward Mobility

Tomatoes in a tight space? Cucumbers on a budget? Create or reappropriate – structures on a shoestring.

If your garden space is limited, don’t despair. Take advantage of veggies’ upward mobility. Not everything can be trained up a string or a pole, bu...

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September's Salad Days

September's Salad DaysOff season? Nope - autumn gardens can be rewarding, too.
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Coming Home

Coming Home

People of all ages are deciding to settle in the Blue Ridge. Here are three couples’ stories, and our annual selection of mountain communities...

Rediscovering a family getaway. Opening a bed and breakfast. Finding a niche for a family business. Three ...

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Retiring in the Mountains

Retiring in the Mountains

If you're looking for white picket fences and close-knit neighborhoods, we've collected eight small towns, though eight more southern cities retain that small-town flavor and warmth, while offering the benefits of urban living. Wanting to spend hours...

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House in the Hills

House in the Hills

A farmer’s daughter makes a home in horse country.


“Someone may see beauty in a rock,” says Tom Massie, “but to me it’s something I have to farm around.”

His daughter, Aney Melissa Hoehn, sees beauty in rock. The slope behind the home she lives in with...

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A Fairy Tale Castle

A Fairy Tale Castle

Living in a historic home exacts a price beyond the cost of the structure. There is all that history – and the ghosts of owners past – demanding to be heard, respected and occasionally lived with. Fortunately for Berkeley Castle, its newest owner mea...

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A Blue Ridge Country Holiday

A Blue Ridge Country Holiday

When a magazine covers as much ground as Blue Ridge Country does, writers, photographers and editors don't connect very often. Seeing as the holidays are a time for friends and family to gather, we gathered some of our Blue Ridge Country family together ...

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