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Conde Nast and U.S. News & World Report. It's a spa
and a golf club and hosts weddings, reunions and business retreats. It is home to eight restaurants serving
around 1,000 guests every day, but it still gets its ingredients from the garden - five acres of it, tended by
farmer Sid Blalock.
Chef Johannes Klapdohr comes from a family of
innkeepers and chefs (his great-great-grandfather
bought and ran a hotel back in 1906,), so perhaps it
was fate that brought him from Germany to Atlanta,
then to Highlands (after a stint in Ohio).
"It's in my blood," he says. "It's in my family for
four generations."
He learned first in his father's kitchen, in a town
that, like Highlands, was a spa town in the late 1800s
and early 19th centuries. As a child, he spent hours at
his father's restaurant - "I'd see everything that happened before the guests got there." They served wild
game - "sometimes there would be 60 hares and 100
pheasants... out of the deer became a dish."
It was a place and a time where regulations weren't
tight, so he could work and learn despite his young age
(his younger sister chose to work at the front of the
house, though their older brother ended up becoming
an accountant). "Grandmother was there," he says,
laughing, "and she would make sure we didn't drink
the beer ourselves - [she] was much stricter than regulations now!"
The mountains of western North Carolina aren't
so different from back home. And some of the similarities have a direct bearing on how Klapdohr creates
menus at the inn.
"We have the seasons here," he says. "It's just more
exciting to have seasons as a chef - the air feels different, and you can feel the spring coming," or the fall,
or the winter. "In Germany, you would look at the
Facing page: West
Virginia's Greenbrier
Resort includes six yearround restaurants and
three seasonal ones.
Above, clockwise from
top left: Chef Tucker
Yoder brings a fresh
touch to the Clifton Inn;
bread pudding is one of
the Greenbrier's beloved
dishes; the Greenbrier's
history stretches back
more than two centuries;
Madison's is the finedining space at Old
Edwards Inn.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014
Digital Help Guide
From the Farm
From the Editor
The Hike
Festivals & Events
Mountain Report
Creature Feature
The Smokies for All Seasons
Late-Fall Glories: The Photo Essay
Fine Dining in the Mountains
Winter Getaways for Snow Lovers and for Snow Not-Lovers
Vote for the Best of the Mountains: Scenic Drives!
Cabin in the Woods: The Red Horse Inn
Mountain Garden
Guest Column: Beth Macy & Tom Landon
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - Intro
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - Cover1
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - Cover2
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 3
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 4
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 5
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - Digital Help Guide
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 7
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - From the Farm
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 9
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - From the Editor
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 11
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - The Hike
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 13
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - Festivals & Events
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 15
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 16
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 17
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - Mountain Report
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - Creature Feature
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - The Smokies for All Seasons
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 21
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 22
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 23
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 24
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 25
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - Late-Fall Glories: The Photo Essay
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 27
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 28
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 29
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - Fine Dining in the Mountains
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 31
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 32
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 33
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - Winter Getaways for Snow Lovers and for Snow Not-Lovers
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 35
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 36
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 37
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 38
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 39
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 40
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - Vote for the Best of the Mountains: Scenic Drives!
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 42
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - Cabin in the Woods: The Red Horse Inn
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 44
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 45
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 46
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 47
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - Mountain Garden
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - 49
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - Guest Column: Beth Macy & Tom Landon
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - Cover3
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2014 - Cover4
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