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Leafy Love Letter
Collards, I’m talking about you. You’re like a mild winter, but you’re not necessarily subtropical. On that note, you’re not African, but Eurasian. Read more
Apr 1, 2023
Our Daily Bread
My Grandpa Joe was a top-of-the-totem-pole trencherman. While there were many foodstuffs he considered special, possibly nothing quite matched his love for Grandma Minnie’s cathead biscuits. Read more
Apr 1, 2023
Defining East Tennessee BBQ in Historic Downtown Sevierville
Located in Sevierville in what was formally an old Ford dealership sits a new BBQ joint using techniques rooted deep in the area’s past. Read more
Mar 1, 2023
Soup As A Main Meal
Growing up in the Smokies, soup was a major factor in my family’s diet from the first killing frost right through the various cold snaps of early spring such as Blackberry Winter. Read more
Feb 1, 2023
Vidalia Onion Casserole
While you can substitute other sweet onions in this recipe, none quite match the rightly heralded Vidalia strain. Read more
Feb 1, 2023
In Praise of the Humble Onion
Onions make regular appearances in a wide variety of dishes such as soups, stews, and casseroles. Yet I would argue that this humble though popular vegetable deserves wider recognition as a mainstay of high country food. Read more
Dec 1, 2022
Versatile and delicious pumpkins
Pumpkins were spreading their far-reaching vines, broad leaves, and curly little pigtail tendrils across the high-country landscape long before the first European settler girdled trees or grubbed roots to clear a patch to plant. Read more
Oct 1, 2022