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Where to Get Your Edible Cookie Dough Fix in Virginia

Anyone who says they’ve never sneaked a taste of cookie dough before popping it in the oven is either lying or has superior self-restraint. Sometimes, the best part of baking is that secret sample. Now, you can do it with pride—and safely! Edible cookie dough has increasingly popped up on Virginia menus. Build Your Own […]

by Gabriela de Camargo Gonçalves

Young Mother RVA

For one Richmond chef, the hassle of brunch pays off. Jeremy Kohm On the question of brunch, the late, great chef Anthony Bourdain once noted, “the ‘B’ word is dreaded by all dedicated cooks.” As creator of The Big Brunch, an eight-episode cooking competition on HBOMax, Dan Levy begs to differ. […]

by Staff

Nightingale Ice Cream

Your favorite ice cream sandwiches, available at 30,000 feet. Next time you hop a JetBlue flight across the pond, look for this Richmond-made dessert on the menu. 2017 Made in Virginia winner Nightingale Ice Cream created CHOMP—or what director of marketing Erica Jacobs describes as “the same great Nightingale sammies you know […]

by Staff

Taste the Wild

Fresh mountain trout from Smoke in Chimneys has chefs and fine purveyors hooked. (Photo by Fred + Elliott) In the hills and hollers of the Alleghenies, water flows underground as it has for centuries. Within millions of miles of limestone, the water courses, finding an outlet through the cold-water springs that dot […]

by Stephanie Ganz

Linda Skeens Recipes

The queen of county fair baking’s debut cookbook is a chef’s delight. When Linda Skeens, Virginia’s own county fair queen, set the Internet ablaze last year, Virginia Living helped fan the flame (“Where In the World Is Linda Skeens?” Oct. ’22). And adoring fans began clamoring for the humble home cook’s secret recipes. Skeens […]

by Vayda Parrish

Trendy Superfoods

And their health benefits equal the hype. The superheroes of the nutrition world, superfoods, punch above their weight, delivering more fiber, antioxidants, protein, vitamins, and minerals than other healthy foods. While the seven here have ancient origins, they’ve gone trendy lately, as a new generation embraces them. Bone Broth […]

by Constance Costas

Sake Surprise

North American Sake Brewery brings the taste of Japan to Charlottesville. A decade ago, while in Tokyo on business, Andrew Centofante’s life changed. “I tried all these different sakes, and it kind of blew my mind,” he recalls. “I love craft beer, craft cider, and spirits. And it was one of those […]

by Staff

Food From the Heart

Chef Travis Milton’s Appalachian love song. A standard-bearer of Appalachian cuisine, Travis Milton has finally come home to roost. At his new restaurant Hickory, at Nicewonder Farm & Vineyards in Bristol, he takes a reverent, sophisticated, often playful approach to the Appalachian food of his childhood. “We are committed to the […]

by John Haddad

Eat More Hole Foods

This White Stone doughnut shop keeps customers coming back for more. Meet Gabe del Rio and Jeff Ewing, founders of Chesapeake Doughnut Company. In March 2020, the duo was a month away from opening the doors to their new White Stone doughnut shop when the pandemic hit. With storefronts closing and social […]

by Staff

The Black Sheep

In Manassas, it’s the jewel in Farm Brew LIVE’s crown. Set in a spectacularly converted 1920s dairy barn, The Black Sheep: Whiskey+Wine+Noshery is the pièce de résistance of Farm Brew LIVE, the wildly popular 12-acre destination brewery campus at Innovation Park. Here, in Manassas, you’ll find locally sourced fusion cuisine—along with food […]

by Dawn Klavon

Edna Lewis Food Trail

Edna Lewis was a master cook. Find some of her recipes here. “Edna Lewis makes me want to go right into the kitchen and start cooking,” Beard himself once said. And in 2014, the U.S. Postal Service noted her culinary contributions with an Edna Lewis stamp. In an era when few […]

by Kinsey Gidick

Smoke in Chimneys’ Trout

From a trout hatchery in New Castle, Virginia comes a fresh trout recipe. Trout-á-touille An over-the-top preparation and presentation coined by sous chef at Grisette, Hans Doxzen. His “Summer Sauce,” as it’s called, “is so versatile, you’ll want to make it all the time,” says Chef Donnie Glass. For the […]

by Staff

Junior League Cookbooks

From casseroles to chowchow, they capture local flavors. Long before the Food Network brought us celebrity chefs, we turned to Junior League cookbooks for inspiration. There, we discovered the stroganoffs, aspics, and seven-layer dips that our friends and neighbors swore by. Tried and true, the recipes were triple-tested by committees of women […]

by Staff

Mission: Food

With an eye on the locally sourced, Keswick Hall and Marigold push what farm-to-table can be. (Photo by Sera Petras) With a plethora of wineries, Charlottesville and Keswick are quickly becoming the foodie place to be. The addition of Marigold by Jean-George at the historic Keswick Hall a few years back is nothing […]

by Staff

A Bedford Treasure

Beale’s Beer crafts beer and barbecue. ODD + EVEN Legend has it, a buried treasure lies hidden in the Blue Ridge near Bedford. The loot was mined by Thomas J. Beale who struck gold in Colorado in the early 1800s. After hiding his treasure, Beale vanished without leaving a map. Rumored to […]

by Madeline Mayhood

La Piazza in Williamsburg

After a 40-year run, The Trellis inspires La Piazza. Williamsburg welcomes 1.5 million tourists each year, but it’s also home to a world-class culinary scene. And for more than three decades, David Everett has been at its forefront, building the area’s reputation as a serious food destination. Everett is the chef-entrepreneur […]

by Frank Morgan

Easter Eating

Four Virginia food bloggers share their holiday recipes just in time for Easter celebrations. If you’re in need of some festive food inspiration, look no further. Britney Brown-Chamberlain of Britney Breaks Bread, Cheryl Norris of Bakes by Brown Sugar, Shani Whisonant of Begin with Butter, and Anina Belle Giannini of Le Chef’s Wife have […]

by Staff

Love at First Slurp

Our obsession with oysters began with the Lynnhaven. Five days before Christmas 1606, Capt. Christopher Newport stood on the cold, windy docks in Blackwall, East London. With him, 144 men and boys boarded the Godspeed, Susan Constant, and Discovery and set sail toward the English Channel, then into open sea. […]

by Staff

Brewing the Landscape

Four Virginia Beers honor the Nature Conservancy. Known as “America’s Founding Forest,” longleaf pines covered more than a million acres in 1607, when the English settlers landed here. Their wood built the boats and houses that launched our nation. Today, with 200 pines remaining at The Nature Conservancy’s Piney Grove Preserve in […]

by Konstantin Rega

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A New Experience at the Virginia Scenic Railway

Virginia Scenic Railway Adds Dome Car for Spectacular Valley Views The popular Virginia Scenic Railway just upped its game with a vintage dome car offering breathtaking 360° views of the Shenandoah Valley. The “Shenandoah”—built in 1948 as the “Silver Palace” for the California Zephyr—now gives passengers an unmatched vantage point on three-hour excursions from Staunton. […]

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Mom Hiked the Appalachian Trail with 13 Kids in Tow

Nikki Bettis stood on the jagged summit outcrop of Shenandoah National Park’s 4,011-foot Stony Man, awed by westward panoramic views. Her heart swelled with emotion as she turned to watch her 13 kids shoulder their loaded backpacks and fall into a clamorous single-file line heading back to the Appalachian Trail (AT). “We were in an […]

by Eric J. Wallace

World’s First Grid-scale Nuclear Fusion Plant in Chesterfield

Chesterfield is making history as the future site of the world’s first grid-scale commercial nuclear fusion* power plant, with a goal of delivering power in the early 2030s. Commonwealth Fusion System (CFS), a spin-off of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will independently finance, build, own, and operate the facility at the James River Industrial Park. […]

by Gabriela de Camargo Gonçalves

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