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.
Blanc Creatives
Some of the finest skillets in the South are made by hand in the shell of a two-bay auto shop tucked into Charlottesville’s trendy, industrial Belmont neighborhood.
