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Inside the Ten Top
By Skye Zentz
Skye Zentz sits down with Ten Top owner Don Lester over a recent Sunday brunch to chat about the food, the fun and the frantic side of running a restaurant in Norfolk.
AltDaily TV: Cooking with Stove’s Sydney Meers
By Editors | Publishers
Mangia at Portsmouth Restaurant Week, which started yesterday and goes through Saturday.
A Squirrel, Some Cookies, and a Dream
By Jesse Scaccia
Squirrels Bakery in Virginia Beach is everything that is good about local businesses. (And yummmmy)
PHILLIP CRAIG THOMASON | A Chef’s Tour
By Allison Hurwitz
I went on a trip to Colorado—I thought I’d spend two weeks; it turned into two years. I ended up under a great chef who had come from the Bel Air in Beverly Hills—an incredible person to work under—then decided to go back to Paris to study cooking.

ALVIN WILLIAMS | It was a fried egg
By Marisa A. Marsey
Do you remember the first thing you ever cooked? I do. It was a fried egg. I was hungry and there were eggs in the fridge and I had seen people do them. This is when I lived in England, I was just five or six. I burned it.

The New Originals
By Hannah Serrano
Describe the transition from Relative Theory to The Boot. We were trying to have a better environment for live music. And also we wanted to expand our associations with local vendors, which had started with the little cafe we had at the record store.
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