Flight Savor Fare

January, February and March are sleepy months. It’s a good thing, we all need some rest after the holidays. Do you notice how close Christmas follows Thanksgiving and then New Year’s Eve pops up and bumps you right over the edge if you aren’t careful. Didn’t Pope Gregory think this through while working on that [...]

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Renee and her mother, Vernice Bailey. Also, Marilyn Bailey’s mom, the famous local jeweler here in Hendersonville. Click here to see her jewels. The fam had come from the Southern Highlands Craft Guild where Marilyn’s jewelry was the best the show had to offer. But where’s the Dad? There’s the Dad! That’s Bob Bailey. The [...]

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When we, Nan and Don Jennings and Sam and Nancy Neill, went to Argentina, one of the wineries we visited in Mendoza, the Napa Valley of Argentina, was Mendel. It was beautiful in an old Italian kind of way. The tasting room was an old carriage house furnished simply with an antique pine table for [...]

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…The olive oil was yummy, too.

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Now you all know all of our customers are treated as if they were celebrities and mostly our celebrities are treated like our customers, if you get what I mean. But we have had some very interesting folk to dine with us. When Mary Easley, the Gov’s wife, came to dinner, she apologized for bringing [...]

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The Kopfs’ dahlias were famous. You would be dining at Cyprus Cellar and later, Flight and see these outrageous flowers, some the size of dinner plates, in the most extravagant range of colors. I once heard a gardener on NPR call them the “sluts of the garden” because they are so showy. Well, the Kopfs [...]

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When asked where he would like to celebrate his first day of kindergarten, Riley Yelverton was unequivocal: Flight Wood Grill. He would have “the squiggily things,” better known to adults as calamari, and creme brulee.

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www.flickr.com This is a Flickr badge showing photos in a set called Flight Wood Grill hosts Lake Summit Residents. Make your own badge here. Click here to see more photos from the gathering! Residents of Lake Summit celebrated the beginning of summer 2007 at Flight Wood Grill on Memorial Day weekend.

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