Winter 2017

The Winter Table: Growing and cooking the greens of winter.
Plus, stretching culinary muscles at Kim’s Oriental; poets and goats at Connemara.

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Clementine Cointreau Curd

Try this curd atop currant scones, tucked into pastry shells, or sandwiched between layers of poppy-seed cake.

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A World Away

In the world of artisan beer, professionals and hobbyists exist in symbiosis.

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Collard Greens in Coconut Milk

This recipe has a rich, slow-cooked flavor, but it takes just 45 minutes from start to finish.

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Prizewinners

Take a trip to Connemara, where the poet Carl Sandburg sometimes played second fiddle to his wife's dairy goats.

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Celebrities In The Henhouse

Ashley English explains why her chickens need greater care in winter.

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Cut and Come Again

“A forkful of collards contains more Southern history than any other bite,” Edward Davis and John T. Morgan write in their recent book Collards: A Southern Tradition from Seed to Table.

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Quick Cassoulet of Sausage, Beans, and Kale

This recipe has a rich, slow-cooked flavor, but it takes just 45 minutes from start to finish.

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Keeping the Faith

As more Asheville restaurants source their ingredients locally, how do they keep food on the table during a time of year when there’s less of it on the farm?

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Movie Night Recipes

Stars of the local stage offer recipe suggestions for a winter-weather movie night.

Hydroponic lettuce at Shelton Family Farm

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The chilly winter nights in Western North Carolina fundamentally change the flavor and texture of greens, making the spinach significantly sweeter. “When you buy spinach in a clamshell in the grocery store from California,” farmer Anna Littman says, “you don’t get those subtle differences.”