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Flight is Closing for Annual Winter Refreshment

foodie2 — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:10:36 +0000

Everyone here at Flight would like to thank our wonderful friends and customers for making this New Year’s Eve the largest ever!

We enjoy serving you and appreciate your business.

See you soon!

NPR talks trash about WNC cuisine, con’t.

foodie2 — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:48:42 +0000

And THEN, to find out what WNC cuisine entails, they ask a restaurant in Chapel Hill!!

Crook’s Corner is legendary and the late Bill Neal was known as a Southern cuisine historian. His focus, in his cookbooks and in his restaurant, seemed to be on a low-country or variation thereof, cuisine. Here in the mountains, until recent times, there was not a focus on shrimp and grits or any seafood found in the ocean. We had mountain trout.

I’m not certain about this, but in addition to availability I think our ancestry skews more Scotch-Irish, German than English. I’ll have to study on that. Or, if you all know, comment here on the blog.

NPR talks trash about WNC cuisine

foodie2 — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:12:37 +0000

A listener asks NPR, How do you know we eat huckleberry pie in North Carolina? http://bit.ly/u5QnFR

NPR’s Karen Grigsby Bates did a piece on a boarding school in Brevard for overweight children called “Wellspring” and commented on the fact that its located “in a part of the country known for its caloric cuisine” such as huckleberry pie. A listener in Durham writes, “I don’t even know what a huckleberry looks like. While this may seem like a quibble, the mention of huckleberry pie perpetuates regional stereotypes, reinforcing images of quaint bumpkins living in Mayberry. We don’t eat huckleberry pie – really.”

Well, really? What’s wrong with eating something local? Why does that make you a quaint bumpkin? It could be the use of the word “huckleberry” which really is a wild blueberry, more or less. According to wikipedia, “I’m your huckleberry” in the 19th century was a way of saying that one is just the right person for a given job. Could be because the rest of the country switched to calling them berries “blueberries” while Appalachia didn’t. And we all know the rep them Appalachians have.

The huckleberry is the state fruit of Idaho. Hmmmmmm…..

I didn’t have an issue with huckleberries, but I did with the rest of the “caloric” cuisine Bates referred to such as “home-churned ice cream” “buttered cornbread.” Flight serves homemade ice cream, but I don’t think that’s on the monthly recipe list for most Southern home cooks.

I think the issue here is that any cuisine can be caloric, but nowadays most Southern cooks have taken those beloved heavy-on-the-cream-and- butter recipes and have made them healthier. Or, we don’t eat them except on special occasions like Christmas.

This is a test

foodie2 — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:39:49 +0000

where has my theme gone??

Flight Implements Winter Hours

foodie2 — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:09:24 +0000

Flight will close Sundays and Mondays through the winter.
Tuesdays are going to rock though! Did you know Tuesdays are half off/bottle of wine night? Worth coming out in the dark and cold night!

Rob’s Homemade Ice Cream

foodie2 — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:53:23 +0000

Sometimes its cherry and sometimes its chocolate. Always amazing.

You’re invited to A Reception for the Artists

foodie2 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:39:51 +0000

on July 28, Tuesday from 5 pm to 7 pm. Meet Bob Davis, the artist of the new art hanging on Flight’s walls and Marilyn Bailey, a national award winning jewelry designer. (All is for sale.) Flight is offering wine and tapas gratis. Please come!

New Art in Flight!

foodie2 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:39:45 +0000

Little is known about Bob Davis, other than he is teaching art for the summer at the Green River Preserve, the camp for smarties here in Henderson County. Also known: He spends the winters in Grenada with his wife who is going to vet school there and his six year old daughter. You will be hearing and seeing more of Bob as the summer progresses.

$2 High Gravity Beer and $2 Bar Tapas

foodie2 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:06:39 +0000

Grilled (gruyere) cheese sandwich, mussels in wine sauce, the bar tapas change frequently, but one thing that won’t be changing anymore is the price: $2 all the time. Same for the high gravity beer – $2 all the time. So come on in out of the heat, enjoy the food and the company.

Hendersonville Garden Club Luncheon

foodie2 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:22:16 +0000

Rob’s photo of the Garden Club luncheon.