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Gina Smith is an award-winning journalist based in Asheville, North Carolina. A professional writer for nearly 20 years, Gina started her career reporting community and school news for the Charlotte Observer. Since 2013, she has covered Asheville's innovative, eclectic and widely celebrated food, beverage and agriculture scenes as a staff and contributing editor and reporter for publications including Eater Carolinas, Mountain Xpress, and Edible Asheville. She also contributes regularly to Farm Bureau and state Department of Agriculture publications across the U.S.
A guide to Indiana's farms, food and commerce, Growing Indiana is published in partnership with the Indiana State Department of Agriculture and features stories about the state's top crops, livestock, agribusiness, tourism, food safety and local products.
Flip through the pages of the spring 2022 edition of My Indiana Home. In this issue, you'll read about an aftercare adoption program for retired racehorses, the budding hemp industry, the eruption of flavors at Kazan Japanese Steakhouse, nine ways to clown around in Peru, easy recipes starring spring produce and more!
Easily overlooked in its unassuming strip mall space on Patton Avenue, Taqueria Muñoz has become an obsessed-over local culinary treasure for its lush and flavorful sopes, tortas, tacos, burritos, tamales, and quesadillas as well as specialties like birria, pupusas, pollo con mole, and caldo de res.
It was sometime during that slow, gray period right before Valentine's Day 2020 - back when we all still imagined the coming year might be something less awful than the devastating global dumpster fire it soon proved to be - that I first read about Knoxville, Tenn.'s steamed hoagies.
From her upbringing in a traditional Cantonese-speaking Chinese family in Toronto to a soccer scholarship at a Southern Baptist college in Mississippi where she first came out as queer, then swapping careers in her 30s from banking to cooking, J Chong's life has been full of change and adaptation.
One of the key components of Asheville's distinctive charm is its antique architectural gems. From towering downtown structures to single-story storefronts throughout the city, buildings designed in the Gothic, Art Deco, Neoclassical, and Romanesque Revival styles are a hallmark of the city's beauty.
Research from China, Italy and the United States indicates that anywhere from 50% to 80% of those who contract COVID-19 still experience symptoms of what's come to be called "long COVID" many months after the initial infection with the virus. Xpress talks to patients and health care providers to understand how the phenomenon is affecting lives in Western North Carolina.
Mountain vistas, quirky culture, and remarkable restaurant and arts communities-there's definitely something special about Asheville, N.C., that draws people in. Rooted in a resilient Appalachian heritage but absorbing influences from around the globe, this small city (population hovers around 90,000) nurtures an exceptional spirit of creativity and collaboration.
Where to Scoop Up Locally Made Ice Cream in Western North Carolina Whether or not we're not literally screaming for it, as the old song goes, ice cream undoubtedly holds sweet sway over summer. Even in less sun-kissed seasons, just the thought of a cone topped with a cool scoop (or three?)
People tend to divide into two distinct camps over the subject of okra: the starry-eyed lovers and the avowed haters. So widespread is okra's notoriety for, well, let's just say abundant viscosity, that some haters set their minds without even giving the vegetable a taste.