John Batchelor Dining and Travel

Chefs of the Mountains: Restaurants and Recipes from Western North Carolina (Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, Publisher, 2012) is a collect...

I recently attended a lunch at Alamance Community College as a guest of Ed Williams, who also writes the wine column for the Greensboro News...

I have heard rumors that certain people engage in unspeakable acts with little white balls out in the open, where anyone can see! One ...

This article about a trip to Sicily was published in Relish, the magazine of the Winston-Salem Journal.  Here is the link: http://www2.reli...

Photos of my favorite vendors in the market in Marsala

These windmills pump seawater into evaporation ponds, to make salt.

Interior of Chiesa Madre and a view of one of the castles in Erice.

This is one of the best preserved Greek temples in the world. From the theater, patrons could view across the valley all the way to the co...

My wife and I were fortunate to meet famed Sicilian singer Laura Mollica when we were all touring Ceuso winery (and these wines are highly r...