Eating and driving on the Blue Ridge Parkway

If you're Blue Ridge Parkway-bound this summer, you need to see this piece by Matt and Ted Lee in Travel + Leisure. Cruising from Asheville up into Virginia, they find seriously good stops for eating and food-shopping, like Hickory Nut Gap Meats, the Knife and Fork in Spruce Pine, and the Admiral in Asheville.

They also brought the sad news that the Bluffs Coffee Shop at Doughton Park is closed. I'm crushed -- I've had its fried chicken on my food wish list for years. Drat.

http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/the-food-lovers-drive-along-the-blue-ridge-parkway