Flight Savor Fare

With thanks to Imbibe magazine
Silent Night
1 oz Tequila
1 oz Blue Curacao
1 oz Triple Sec
Pineapple Juice
Squirt of Lime
Sleigh Crash Martini
1 oz Gin
1 oz Raspberry sour puss Liqueur
Cranberry Juice
Wet rim of glass and dip in white sugar.
Add 3 cranberries in the bottom of martini glass.
Serve Immediately.
Snowshoe
1 ½ oz bourbon 100 proof Wild Turkey
1 ½ oz peppermint schnapps
cracked [...]

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If you, like me, can never finish your dinner and taking it home is well, tiresome, you’ll be pleased to hear that Chef Rob is doing smaller portion options for some of your favorite entrees.
And the Chicken Pot Pie was a total hit. It’s now a regular entree item, priced at $19.
Best [...]

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They’re making more of it, it’s more affordable, but what about quality?
Thanks to the Wall St. Journal and their wine column by Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher for the following Oregon pinot noir index — (All were rated Very Good)
Domaine Serene “Evenstad Reserve” 2005 (Willamette Valley). $52.99
Foris Vineyards Winery 2006 (Rogue Valley). $18.99
Yamhill [...]

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Domino magazine falls under the grouping best known in media as “women’s shelter.” I guess men don’t need shelter, just a roof over their heads. At any rate, Domino published an article in September about how to become a wine expert, quick and easy. I was all set to disparage said article, [...]

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Flight has joined forces with the Appalachian Sustainability Agriculture Project (ASAP) whose mission is to “collaboratively create and expand regional community based and integrated food systems that are locally owned and controlled, environmentally sound, economically viable, and health-promoting.”
Put simply, the idea is to make more local food products available to local restaurants and [...]

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I’m looking for new art for Flight. In a perfect world, the theme would be people having a merry time drinking, eating, playing music so that the happiness and community displayed would delicately infuse each table. It would also be wonderful if said artist were from Western North Carolina or perhaps, upstate South Carolina. [...]

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