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Appalachian Trail: Winding Stair Gap and Siler Bald

It may not seem that impressive from a photograph taken inside a moving vehicle, with a snapshot camera. However, the dense layers of fog rolling through the blue ridge mountains is certainly not something I see every morning as I drive to work!   This...

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Tupelo Honey Cafe and Working Out Wednesday

Work travel resumed this week and this should be the last of the year. Though each trip I say that then another comes up! I had the chance to dine at Tupelo Honey Café for dinner this week and it lives up to the reviews...

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A new perspective

The latest visual aid from the USDA to coincide with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines has been revealed! It is the “MyPlate”… It is far more simple to understand the plate than the pyramid. I think a generalization can be said for R.D’s and Nutritionists: nutrition...

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My Favorite Quinoa

This weekend I made one of my favorite dishes, Quinoa, since I was actually home for all of 48 hours! Quinoa is actually not a grain but tastes like one. My Principals of Food course taught me that it is actually a “pseudocereal”, which means...

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Work Travels: Clay County and Cherokee

I am traveling all week for work. The last time I posted about my travels, I was in the Outer Banks of NC. It was tough when I realized I would be heading through the Blue Ridge Mountains and into the Great Smokey Mountains for...