Harvest Music Festival returns to Oakencroft

Recently I have been serving barley as an accompaniment to meat or chicken instead of rice, pasta or potatoes. I use the quick cooking variety, which takes only about 10 minutes to cook unless other ingredients have been added as flavor enhancers. Frequently the longer-cooking version of barley is the basis of Beef and Barley Soup, a famous German specialty. 

Be there then for book group’s talk

A soundtrack of classical music played softly as color photographs showing images of demolished homes, upturned cars and macerated landscape appeared and faded on the large Vizio television screen.

Some heroes are defined not by brave deeds in battle, but by their actions in everyday life.

Autumn Hill’s open house has barrel tasting

Have you noticed that many of the peaches this year have rather smooth skins? Have food botanists, through breeding, eliminated that typical fuzz of the peach? 

I llness can devastate a family, emotionally and financially.

Wright nominated for another prize

Kath Weston, who lives in Charlottesville and teaches anthropology at the University of Virginia, decided to write a different kind of road book — one taken by bus. “Traveling Light — On the Road with America’s Poor” is the fruit of her five-year “Buslandia” epic, and it’s an epic in more ways than one might expect. 

The Olympians, some steadying themselves on canes and walkers, marched beneath a large American flag suspended from the dining room ceiling at Our Lady of Peace retirement community in Albemarle County.

When the final grain of sand sifted through Edwin Anderson Alderman’s hourglass of life on April 30, 1931, he was far from home.

Monticello puts focus on wine and grapes

We have seen various images of Beijing while watching the Olympics on television, but we have not discovered much about the food of this capital city of China. Many of us are familiar with some Chinese provincial cooking, primarily Cantonese and maybe Hunan or Sichuan, both of the latter being spicy.

Children’s festival
returns in September

Wrapped in a towel after a bracing swim in a nearby pond, Dave Smith laughed and looked around at members of his surrogate family.

Scottsville may be small but, once upon a time, it was a major port and bustling stop for goods going to Richmond and Tidewater. All because of the James River.

The University of Virginia Cemetery has become a tranquil place of beauty and dignified reflection.

Britton will read from his new Jefferson piece

Martin Clark may not take this as a compliment, but when I’d finished his third novel, “The Legal Limit,” I felt as though I had consumed a thick old-fashioned milkshake. A tall glass — metaphorically speaking — filled to the brim with creamy, substantive, compelling prose.

As their numbers dwindle, World War II Navy fighter pilots like Robert T. MacGill have reached god-like status in the eyes of their younger peers.

Midway through 1828 a deadly typhoid epidemic swept through Charlottesville, mercilessly striking down young and old.

Cardinal Point Winery uncorks the fun and funds

Buy local. Eat local. Film local.

Whenever I think of certain foods or special occasions, recipes and their ingredients come to mind. This is the case with filet of sole. One of my fondest memories of sole was a simple dish, which I thoroughly enjoyed at the Hotel Louvre in Paris. 

School buses don’t usually generate excitement in and of themselves.

It was a ritual of autumn that played out from Maine into the deep South.

Tomato Festival makes its debut in Scottsville

With the price of meat going up by leaps and bounds, I find myself turning to chicken as a main course. I have always had an affinity for chicken, particularly during the summer months.

To market, to market is first for local community