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Serving up some news about Slow Food TN Valley and their upcoming 13th annual Pesto Festo event on my latest podcast and radio broadcast. Slow Food TN Vally board members and local food advocates Sarah Bush and Tayler Franke are my guests. Sarah is a forager, farmer and initially helped establish the Slow food chapter, Knoxville, in 2008. Tayler is a homesteader, homemaker, Mother, and baker who h...

A visit with Frog, Founder of Frog Juice Artisanal Kombucha made in Knoxville, TN. Our guest today is Frog Greishaw, Founder of Frog Juice Kombucha, who goes by Frog. Frog sources her ingredients from local Tennessee growers and has really made a name for herself with her business. You will find Frog Juice Kombucha on tap at the Black Berry Farm Brewery, served at BlackBerry Mountain, and on tap i...

Bales Farm Cookbook, Lard, and Marshall Bales Egg Program Today, we are setting the table with news about an excellent cookbook from Bales Farms written by Aliceson Bales. She has been a visitor several times on this show before. Aliceson, her husband Barry Bales, and their 15-year-old son Marshall own and operate Bales Farms in Mosheim, Tennessee. A 6th generation family farm. And Barry is a mult...

A visit with homesteader Rachel Abbott Davis. Rachel shares her Great Grandmother's recipe for Corn Relish, and also a Fox Fire recipe for Corn Cob Jelly. Plus a beautiful audio essay on corn from author and gardener Kelly Smith Trimble.

Today we are sitting around the table and visiting with a family and farm and how this family uses their skills to farm, cook, and host elevated meals for private events and, on occasion, community dinners. We visit with Farm to Feast founders Chef Jeff Jorgenson, event planner Jessica Jorgenson, and Jeff’s sister Heather Fulchum, ecology teacher, farmer, and founder of She Diggs Farm, located in...

Fried pies! With Dale Mackey of Dale’s Fried Pies, Iva Spoon Wilde of Walland, TN, and fried pies at the annual Lord’s Acre sale in Hilton’s West Virginia by way of Fred Sauceman. ⁣

- Chef David Olson is a nationally-recognized American Culinary Federation Chef, television personality and social network influencer, award-winning recipe developer, live fire grill master, international adventurer, and the creator behind “Live Fire Republic.” Chef Olson lets us know how to cook chicken over live fire that is always juicy, not dry. - Chef Joseph Lenn. Owner of JC Holdway in Knoxv...

S9.E23. 06/25/2022 Podcast script Green Beans and Canning Green Beans with Mary Alice Phillips, Friendsville, TN

We visit with Chef David Rule on his new project Trotter’s Whole Hog Barbecue, Sevierville, TN. You may know Chef Rule from his former work with Dancing Bear, Blackberry Farm, and Walnut Kitchen. His current restaurant is The Appalachian, Sevierville, TN. Back in 20007, David used to help me load the huge compost bin from the main kitchen when I worked in the garden at Blackberry Farm. Unfortunate...

Today, we are setting the table with plant-based eating, especially for new Mothers. My first guest is Femeika (Meik) Elliott, founder, and owner of Meik Meals and the Lotus Program. This young, black, Knoxville-based entrepreneurial chef creates foods that give us that comfort of taste while using healthier ingredients. Meik encourages people to make lifestyle choices that nurture the body, mind,...

We are setting the table today with cornbread. I've assembled an all-star lineup of guests today to talk about this soul-satisfying staple. • Karen Shankles has twice won first place at the annual National Cornbread Festival cook-off. Today, she shares her recipe for Festive Good Luck Corn Bread Skillet with us. • James Beard Award-winning food writer Ronni Lundy lets us know how she makes her ski...

Today we are setting the table with pretty flowers. Or, as many of us here in Tennessee pronounce it, purty flares. No, it’s not about the eating. It’s about the joy and beauty flowers add to this life. That little touch of grace to the table, the home, or that person in need or celebrating a special event.  Today, my guest is Susie Kawar, owner and operator of Little Mountain Flower Farm, located...

Today, we set the table with some good food and memories in honor of Mother’s Day. First, we’ll visit Mary Lynn Snyder, who shares memories of growing up in the R.C. Tway coal mining camp outside Harlan, KY. Then, she’ll share her Mother Ruby’s cooking ways and a recipe for “Mama Ruby’s Creamy Lemon Pie.” Also on the program - Fred’s Sauceman shares a lovely audio essay in memory of his late mothe...

We set the table with cast iron, cornbread, and some cornbread cousins. Amy’s guests include the winner of the 25th National Cornbread Festival Cook-Off, Veronica Callaghan. CEO Emeritus and Board Member of Lodge Manufacturing, Bob Kellerman, about his art creations he makes out of recycled pans and parts that he calls Pan Heads. Also, one of the founders of the Southern Foodways Alliance and Jame...

Today, we are setting the table with special growers, an East TN makers market, and a young entrepreneurial fellow who has his own flavored tea and lemonade stand. Today, our guests are Kent Davis, one of the parents who created a non-profit organization called Special Growers in Maryville, TN. Special Growers grow culinary herbs and fresh-cut flowers. In addition, they partner with several region...

Look at all these ribbons Marshall Bales won at the fair this past year! This 15-year-old farmer describes his egg business at Bales Farms, Mosheim, TN. Lady Farmer Aliceson Bales shares her Mother's famous deviled egg recipe plus tips on peeling the eggs more easily. And Karen Zorio shares her recipe and story of Hot Cross buns.

We welcome spring in Tennessee with Clint Smith’s Small batch Tennessee maple syrup doings. And Author, Podcaster, gardener, and YouTube channel favorite “Digging It,” Kelly Smith Trimble on the topic of Asparagus.

How does a struggling self-described hillbilly ham smoker turn into THE man on hams and bacon? Dearly loved by locals, chefs, and customers across our nation, here is his story of taking a wise chance with his business and how that has paid off.

Today we are setting the table with a good ole fashioned morel mushroom foraging in search of a wild food that delivers the umami taste. My guests are Chris Burger Farmer, Creative Director and Co-Founder of Century Harvest Farms Foundation in Greenback, TN. Chris was kind enough to invite me on a morel hunt for this mushroom that only appears from late March through the first few weeks of April a...

Our guests are Alyson and Chris Virden of Olde Virden’s Tennessee Pepper Company and their new Artisanal Food Market located in Knoxville, plus Aliceson Bales, of Bales Farm with a refreshing springtime recipe for chilled Strawberry Soup. The Virden’s hosts a spring pop-up market with 10 participants offering artisanal foodstuff and products.

Our guest is Stephanie Carlson of SoKnoSourDough - a sourdough bakery in South Knoxville, TN. Stephanie had no plans of ever becoming a baker. Today, we will hear how she got into this line of work, where her starter came from, some of her products, and how she equips the community to bake sourdough for themselves. Also on today’s program in Fred Sauceman’s Potluck Radio series he features novelis...

Amy Dawson and Mike Costello are farmers, chefs, owners of Lost Creek Farm, a historic family farmstead located in Harrison County, West Virginia. They describe their cuisine as Story-Rich, Heritage-inspired - Mountain Cuisine. They have been nominated for a 2022 James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef, Southeast!. We recorded together in 2016, and I am so happy that they have turned their visi...

Tyler Rogers from Chattanooga, Tennessee, makes wooden chairs, the old-style way with hand tools. His chairs are as beautiful as they are functional. Tyler also shares his Grandmother Wyline Lewis's squash casserole recipe. Also, Fred Sauceman shares ham smoker Allan Benton's Red Eye Gravy recipe.

Today, we are setting the table with Asian baked goods and Tennessee Wagyu beef. My first guest is Jessica Carr, a young entrepreneurial woman who created Girls Gotta Eat Good, Asian Bakery. Knoxville’s first Asian bakery. Jessica turned her love of baking, many of her mother’s recipes, and a daring leap of faith after prayer into an innovative business, and she is seeing good results. An inspirat...