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 [...]

The packing and washing house at Five Penny Farm in Floyd this week became the scene of the annual local foods “Meet-and-Eat,” a networking day for local growers, grocers and chefs.
As a farmers market groupie and known food lover, I was lucky enough to be invited for the second time. Sponsored by the Blue Ridge [...]

“Bread … has been, since the beginning of history, the best ally for most civilizations to overcome famine. Lack of bread has caused revolutions, and its abundance was so important for politicians that it led Roman Emperors to say that they only needed ‘panem et circensis’ (bread and circus) to keep peace,” according to the [...]