Please Tell Us

Golfers: What are your favorite holes in the area? See if our Timesland Dream 18 is up to par and nominate your favorite.

 

Blue Ridge Parkway Foodie Tour

Miles of beautiful sights and tasty eats on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Roanoke Times l File photo.

Blue Ridge Country Magazine is in the middle of publishing a four-part series about good eats along the Blue Ridge Parkway called the Blue Ridge Parkway Foodie Tour. Part I, which ran in the March/April issue, covered parkway milepost 0-105 and featured the counties of Nelson, Augusta, Rockbridge, Amherst, Bedford and Botetourt in Virginia.

The current issue of the magazine covers miles 106-219, which includes the Virginia counties of Roanoke, Franklin,Floyd, Patrick, Carroll and Grayson. Some of the best food finds featured in this most recent edition are the peanut soup and cornbread at Hotel Roanoke, pies at The Hub in Rocky Mount, the breakfast burrito at Tuggles Gap Restaurant in Floyd, and the Ju-Ju Burger at Dry Pond Cafe in Patrick County.

Click here to see all of the restaurants and dishes featured in the current edition. Do you agree with these selections? What destinations and/or dishes would you have included?

For each of the four issues that are part of the series, readers have an opportunity to vote on the best food county. At the end of the series, there will be a “Final Four” voting, and the winning county will be featured in the January/February 2013 issue of the magazine. Rockbridge County was the “winning culinary county” for the first part.

A $250 gift card will be awarded to one lucky voter at the end of the series. Ballots are open for the second part, so if you’d like to vote, click here. And if you care to say, for which county did you vote and why?

This is the schedule for the rest of the series, from the Blue Ridge Country Magazine website:

July/August: MP 220-355. North Carolina counties of Surry, Alleghany,Wilkes, Ashe, Watauga, Caldwell, Avery, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell,Yancey.

Sept/Oct: MP 356-469. North Carolina counties of Buncombe,Henderson, Transylvania, Haywood, Jackson, Swain.

 

Join the conversation [ADD A COMMENT]

6 COMMENTS

  1. Debbie | April 17, 2012 at 12:21 pm

    Makes you want to take a road trip!

  2. Lindsey Nair | April 17, 2012 at 12:59 pm

    Indeed. But really, it’s hard to pick one county along the parkway in Virginia that would be the best culinary county. I can’t come to a decision myself. If forced, I might say Floyd because of all the great locally produced food there.

  3. Debbie | April 18, 2012 at 5:12 pm

    Right,I agree.

  4. Diane Flynt | April 19, 2012 at 9:26 am

    Lindsey, thanks for spreading the word about the Parkway food tour. I am partial to the Chick Pea Fries at Natasha’s Market Cafe in Floyd, and have downed two orders on occasion. Hey, chick peas are healthy, right?

  5. Kristen | April 19, 2012 at 10:34 am

    Diane!! I just bought 2 tickets to Farm Days next fall!
    We met at Tinnells when you were last there….just wanted you to know how much I’ve enjoyed your wonderful stuff since then. :)

  6. Lindsey Nair | April 19, 2012 at 10:43 am

    @Diane: Yes, so what if they’re fried? Haha. Thanks for stopping by the blog! You have many fans here.

Error submitting comment

Name is required

A valid email is required (test@test.com)

Comment is required

Add a comment

Your email address will not be published.
All fields are required to comment.

processing

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Weather Journal

Storms mark shift to calmer days

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:10:42 +0000

About this blog

On the Fridge Magnet blog, food writer Lindsey Nair writes about home cooking, local restaurants, entertaining and more. Here, you will also find links to restaurant reviews and our weekly food column, Front Burner. Please also check out our database of Southwest Virginia restaurants resturant user reviews and our recipe database.

RSS feedRSS feed





Recent Comments

  • Debbie: I use the clay disc too, Lindsey. A slice of fresh bread, or a cut apple in a bag of brown sugar will soften...
  • crooked road: If you read ‘Sugar Busters’ diet book, you will find it illuminating and foundation for the...
  • SandyH: You have a personal experience with this Lindsey, so thank you for writing about it. Within the last six...
  • Donna Watters: While at the doctors office this morning, 6-19-13, I was reading the Roanoke Times and saw a recipe...
  • Lindsey Nair: Kay, I’ve called all of the contact numbers I could find for TLC Blueberry Orchard and they are...
Follow Me on Pinterest



Categories

Archives