For about 14 years, Sara Kruger has come to the beloved Yorgo’s bagel shop on Norfolk’s Colonial Avenue to make the traditional Jewish pastry rugelach, which fittingly means something like “little twist” in Yiddish.
Chef Sydney Meers takes a vacation
The show-stopping chef has closed his popular Portsmouth restaurant and retired – for now.
A Virginia Beach baker makes her kitchen an art studio
Mimi Ospina’s cakes are a feast for the mouth and the eyes. The self-taught cake artist runs Whipped Up by Mimi from home in Virginia Beach, where she has made hundreds of elegant, funky cakes from scratch for weddings and birthdays and just about any other event you can think of.
Get started on Turkey Day early.
The Thanksgiving table can be a panoply of local flavors – if you plan far enough ahead (read: now). Heritage and heirloom varieties of meat and produce bring flavors and textures no longer available in most grocery stores.
H.E. Williams Candy keeps to its old-school ways as it looks to the future.
The kids are about to watch the Williams family make commercial quantities of hard candy by hand using equipment, recipes and methods dating to the 1900s.
A Gilded Age scandal led, eventually, to one of the finest collections of platters, here in Tidewater.
Today, vintage oyster platters sell for thousands of dollars, and one of the nation’s largest collections is on view – and for sale – in the Northern Neck town of Kilmarnock.
