“Fighting Food Disparity, Building Community”

JFG Coffee, The Best Part of the Meal", a Knoxville, Tennessee staple is the focus of my latest podcast and radio broadcast. I’ve got a "mess of guests and here’s the line up::⠀
•Bill Houston (Owner of Houston’s Mineral Well and fine artist extraordinaire

Overnight refrigerator pickles: Food Historian Fred Sauceman shares a recipe for overnight pickles that he received from Lynn Tolley, the great grand nice of Jack Daniels.  This pickle is served at Miss Mary Bobo’s Boarding House, in Lynchburg, Tennessee.

“A Knoxville Tamale Tale” with Jack Neely. Jack lets us know the rich history of the tamale in Knoxville. It's not all ham, soup beans and sorghum in the culinary history of East Tennessee. Jack tells us about the rich tamale history dating back to as ear

Native Plants

Today, we are setting the table with our little friends, pollinators and the honey bee and ways that we can help to protect them. We will visit today with 2 families who raise bees in East, TN. D & Jim Brown who own and run Honey Rock Herb Farm, in Louisv

Today, we are setting the table with 2 farmers’ markets in East, TN. We first visit with Chris Battle, one of the people who helped to create the Eastside Sunday Farmers’ Market located right on the edge of downtown Knoxville in East, Knoxville. This is a

And how to cook a trout over an open fire with Chef Joseph Lenn, Owner of JC Holdway, Knoxville

A visit with John and Rachel Davis, owners of J & R Farms in Blount County, Tennessee. And John’s family has saved and raised an heirloom bean for generations that they call the “Striped Stick Bean” - a bean that comes from the last residents of Cades Co

Genera, a Biomass solutions company in Vonore, Tennessee. 
Today, we are setting the table with a really good story in East, Tennessee Agriculture. We visit with Genera, in Vonore, Tennessee - this is a company that manufactures compostable food service t