This past weekend, Roanoke, Virginia celebrated its diversity of food and culture at the annual Local Colors festival. It was my first time at the party, but I tasted some incredible dishes and met some wonderful cooks.

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This just in from the The (Va.) Daily Press in Tidewater:
In the beginning, there was ham.
The very first English settlers in Virginia — the original Jamestown colonists — brought pigs with them when they crossed the Atlantic. The first wave in 1607 brought three, historians tell us.
In short order, that trio of oinkers increased to [...]

Noted Civil War historian James Robertson will discuss the ramifications of military rations and their affects on the soldiers, for whom diarrhea was the most prevalent disease, according to a news release. There will also be a demonstration of a pork-based dish commonly eaten by troops in that war.
Friday, March 28, 2008 at noon at [...]

Call me a prude. A luddite. A curmudgeon. But what is up with geneticists who think they should change everything about food that could be construed as inconvenient?
Today while driving back from working on an upcoming Roanoke Times story and video on Big Spring Mill in Elliston, Virginia, I heard on NPR that an Australian [...]

I’m a little sheepish about tooting my own horn here, but I’m so excited I can’t keep it in.
Noted California food and wine writer Antonia Allegra informed me by e-mail last week that my Wilt sallet: rediscovering a once proud mountain tradition column won an honorable mention in the Edible Communities writing and scholarship contest [...]