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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After months of researching home sausage grinders and good sausage recipes — not to mention watching the “To Stuff a Sausage” episode of Julia Child’s The French Chef — I had the luck to be invited to a home sausage making party hosted by Brett and Johanna Nichols of Five Penny Farm, an organic vegetable [...]

ELLISTON — Dave Long can remember when Montgomery County had more than a dozen dairy farms and supported four family-owned feed and flour mills.
Today he can count the number of local dairies on one white powdered hand, and Big Spring Mill, owned and operated by his family since 1935, is the only mill left standing.
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