Favorite quotes from Small Bites and Food features Mark Rosenstein on molecular Gastronomy (March 31): "If I were 10 years younger," he says, "perhaps I would be devoting all of my energy into understanding that science. But I'm an emotional cook, not a scientist. There's an emotional side to alchemy, and I think some of … Read more
Xpress has plenty of online content that doesn’t show in the printed paper. One example of that is a video that we’ll call “Battle Bacon.” It marks one of the first multimedia collaborations between staff reporter Jake Frankel and me. What better forum in which to start than summer’s WNC Magazine Chefs Challenge competitions? Those … Read more
When I came on board full-time at Xpress, I hoped my new position would enable me to shed a new and different light on Asheville's amazing food scene, something that's near and dear to my heart (obviously). With this article about street food and one local woman's efforts to follow through on a simple dream … Read more
The Inside/Out article, “Growing Holiday Cheer,” is my favorite of 2010 because it is typical of life; we take so much for granted. Case in point; buying a poinsettia for our holiday tables. We rush into the grocery store for some random item and discover poinsettias have arrived, colorful and wrapped in cellophane It's an … Read more
Of the many adventures I’ve had in life, the balloon ride described in my July 7 article, “The View from Above,” definitely ranked among the most memorable. The serenity and peace I felt as I rode the wind at 6,000 feet have been matched, in my experience, only by the serenity and peace triggered by … Read more
My favorite stories are the ones that involve some adventure and a sense of discovery. My first staff assignment for Xpress promised to deliver on both counts. When the National Security Agency abandoned its top-secret spy station deep within the Pisgah National Forest in the mid-1990s, neighbors southwest of Brevard believed hush-hush government activity was … Read more
As 2010 draws to a close, rather than adding one more strident voice to the general holiday hubbub, we thought it might be fun to look back over 12 months of rants, postulations and pleas by assorted members of this astonishingly diverse, emphatically opinionated and sometimes tragically divided community and try to identify some high … Read more
Every week, the Mountain Xpress receives a steady bundle (or packet, in Internet terms) of letters, mostly through e-mail, from readers in our community. Whether the subject refers to a specific Xpress article, an experience in Asheville or a reader’s opinion on politics, the economy or any other topical matter, we always welcome contributions. Below … Read more
If your Dec. 21 article [“Bottled in Bond,” Xpress] about our company were accurate, we’d be hating on us too. However, the basic premise of the article is false. Because Xpress didn’t get our side of the story, fundamental information is incorrect. In addition, the language used to portray us is misleading and offensive. Buchi … Read more
