How Chef and Farmer Partnerships Set the Trends
If you shop at your local farmer’s market, you already know there is a wide range of small producers providing local vegetables, cheeses,...

A Winemaker's Dream Realized: The Making of Reflective
If you flip Williamsburg over to the southern side of the equator, you get pretty close to Mendoza, the wine capital of Argentina. Just a...

Love, Memory, and the Inspiration Behind Great Cooking
Images by Phaedra Hise We all have our own “Madeleine moment.” That feeling that Proust captured so well, with the single bite of tea...

Wine & Brine Lounge 4/29: Meet Shooting Point Oyster Company
This weekend at the Wine & Brine Lounge, April 29 and 30, oyster and wine enthusiasts can continue to explore local terroir and merroir...

Two-Wheeled Shepherd Tends a Cycling Flock
Food people tend to live large, especially if they’re in the industry. “Excess” starts to look normal when eating and imbibing are your...

Wine & Brine Lounge 4/15: Meet Big Island Aquaculture
The Wine & Brine Lounge at the Gabriel Archer Tavern officially opened Labor Day weekend last year to showcase the diversity of local...

Wine & Brine Lounge 4/8: Meet Ward Oyster Company
Renowned American food writer M.F.K. Fisher wrote in her 1941 culinary classic, Consider the Oyster, “American oysters differ as much as...

Wine & Brine Lounge 4/1: Meet Captain Danny Crabbe – Fat ‘n Happy Oyster Company
With 40 million oysters sold last year, Virginia is the largest producer of farm-raised and wild oysters in the U.S. The diversity of...

A Visit to the Mushroom Farm
The word “farm” conjures up images of sunny rolling hills, green with rows of fresh vegetables. But visiting a mushroom farm is more like...

Wine & Brine Lounge 3/25: Meet Tommy Legget – Chessie Shellfish and Aquafarms
As much as any food, oysters taste like where they are from. This expression of place - called merroir - includes the unique flavor...
