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Choking Your Biscuit Out Just Right
Dwight Yoakam’s grandmother kept her bacon grease in a small brown ceramic pitcher. She kept her flour, already sifted, in a big green porcelain pan that, when she wasn’t using it, sat in the bottom of an old, wooden Hoosier cabinet in her kitchen. Read more
Choking Your Biscuit Out Just Right
Dwight Yoakam’s grandmother kept her bacon grease in a small brown ceramic pitcher. She kept her flour, already sifted, in a big green porcelain pan that, when she wasn’t using it, sat in the bottom of an old, wooden Hoosier cabinet in her kitchen. Read more
Oct 1, 2019
Good Food Equals Love and Strength
Food has a way of taking the sting out of tragic events and helping the community bond in love and strength. That’s what happened after deadly fires spread through Gatlinburg in November, 2016. Read more
Oct 1, 2019
Summer’s End Means Sorghum
As cool air slowly creeps in and the leaves begin to change, it can only mean one thing—it’s sorghum making time in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Read more
Oct 1, 2019
Jill Sauceman photo
Stack ‘Em Up and Eat ‘Em
Stack cake is the ultimate mountaineers’ dessert—a not too sweet, but satisfying and completely flavored dessert made of 4-6 thin layers of molasses-tinged, biscuit-like cake covered with a dark, rich dried apple puree. Read more
Aug 1, 2019
SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION & TOURISM
Traditions of the South: Peach Cobbler
In South Carolina, peach cobbler truly is a Southern specialty. From the locally sourced peaches to the homemade batter, it will have your mouth watering. Read more
Jun 5, 2019
Dick Kennedy photo
Meat Loaf So Good It Makes You Cry
The meat loaf Polly Judd Rideout makes is so good that when her daughter, singer Naomi Judd, was growing up, she and her siblings could take Polly’s meat loaf sandwiches to school and trade for anything that the other kids had in their lunch sacks. Read more
Jun 1, 2019
Susanna Shetley photo
Palate, Nose and Soul
For eons, spices and teas have offered flavor and solace to the human experience. Whether for medicinal, celebratory or culinary reasons, these simple yet complex pleasures connect people with nature and to one another. Read more
Jun 1, 2019
