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DKos Asheville Open Thread: Food, Fair, Fun and Hawks [1]

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Date: 2023-09-02

Broad Wing Hawk migration coming soon. Please see story below.

Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville Open Thread for Saturday, September 2nd, 2023

This space appears each weekend to give readers a variety of links to local and regional news of interest, and opens the floor for comment and discussion. Wishing all a good day from beautiful Western North Carolina.

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Please jump the fold to see what’s up in Western North Carolina.

WLOS, Gracee Mattiace, 9/1/2023

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The NC Apple Festival starts Friday, Sept. 1, and hundreds of thousands of people will travel to Hendersonville to get their fall fruit fix. The NC Apple Festival is famous for hot apple pies, cider, cobblers and fritters.

Apple orchard tents will be set up on each block of Main Street downtown.

The festival’s website has read-ups on the 14 orchards participating. You can read more about that HERE.

Twisted Apple and Owenby Apple House are new orchards participating this year.

In the article: Where to find the Food Court And Other food-related events supporting charity.

MountainX, Andy Hall, 8/29/2023

Chai Pani Restaurant Group’s newest eatery celebrated its long-awaited grand opening Monday in West Asheville.

Botiwalla, the Indian street food concept from executive chef, founder and “Chief Chaiwalla” Meherwan Irani, brings the feeling and food of a traditional Indian Irani café to the main drag of Haywood Road.

When Irani wanted to create a “more casual, faster version” of downtown’s Chai Pani, which received the James Beard Foundation’s award for Best Restaurant in 2022, he looked to his heritage for inspiration. He explains that Iranians opened cafés like Botiwalla, which translates to “the meat guy,” when they settled in British-occupied India during the late 19th century. His great-grandfather owned one of these cafés in his hometown of Ahmednagar, India. After the British left, Irani cafés survived, adapting their menus to Indian tastes. They became gathering places for Persians from all walks of life to talk, eat and feel at home.

“The Iranis became well known for opening little bakeries and cafés, kind of like how Jewish delis in New York are an iconic landmark,” he says. “Many of these cafés over the centuries have now become landmarks and are associated with a very particular and unique style of food.”

Irani sees the restaurant as “an Indian concept that’s really unique and yet really, really approachable to everybody. Somewhere you don’t have to stand in line for 45 minutes to get in.”

WLOS, Kelly Doty, 9/1/2023

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Food, farm animals, and family fun! The 2023 North Carolina Mountain State Fair is set to kick off on Friday, Sept. 8. Here's a breakdown of what you need to know before you go.

Prices

Gate admission tickets can be bought online or at the fair. Adult admission is $9 in advance and $12 at the gates. Seniors (ages 65+) are $5 in advance and $5 at the gates. Children (ages 6-12) are $5 in advance and $7 at the gates. Young children (ages 5 and under) get in free.

All fairground parking is free and can be found at Gate 7 on Highway 280.

Each day, gates open at the same time listed for buildings. Gates close every night at 9:45 p.m. (except Sunday, Sept. 17) with no re-admittance.

Citizen-Times, Frances Figart, 9/2/2023

As we prepare for the arrival of fall, we can also be on the lookout for a breathtaking wildlife spectacle that is a part of life here in the Southern Appalachian Mountains: the migration of the broad-winged hawk.

Small forest-dwelling birds of prey, broad-winged hawks migrate annually to South and Central America from their breeding grounds in North America’s temperate forests. Residents of Western North Carolina and East Tennessee have the opportunity to see hundreds of birds at a time moving south along the Blue Ridge Mountains.

“This migration occurs throughout September and early October with peak numbers usually occurring between Sept. 19 and 26,” says Jeffrey Hunter, Southern Appalachian director with National Parks Conservation Association. “Last year I saw over 3,000 birds in two hours at the Mount Pisgah Hawk Watch at Mills River Overlook, mile marker 404.5 along the Blue Ridge Parkway.”

WNC Parent-Chris Worthy-9/1/2023

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