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A visit with Bianca Morton, Chef Director, and Jennifer Justice, Marketing and Events Manager at the Nashville Food Project. This organization is helping with emergency food response after the devastating tornadoes that hit Nashville and Middle Tennessee the first week of March, 2020. Fred Sauceman shares news of a Turkish restaurant in Johnson City that is quickly becoming on oof the area’s favor...

Crooked Road Farm, South Knoxville, TN & Pal’s Sudden Service This episode includes a visit with Farmer Jonny Buchanan who owns Crooked Road Farm in South Knox County, in Eastern Tennessee. He raises pasture raised eggs, and pork (pork is not certified organic), and he raises certified organic produce. His products can be purchased at Three Rivers Market in Knoxville and he also hosts a CSA. Below...

Helen and Ellen started The Love Kitchen in 1986 feeding 22 people in need. The Love Kitchen now provides a Wednesday food pantry, and serves 500 meals in house and delivers over 3,000 meals to the homebound per week. That’s 155,000 meals a year. Amy visited Helen and Ellen in 2015 and in this recording, you can hear their own voices. Their truth that you will see posted on the wall of the love ki...

My guest today is Chef Christian Moorish. Christian’s job title is Director of Culinary Operations and Foundation Chef at Century Harvest Farms Foundation in Greenback, TN. He is leading a 1/2 day workshop February 15th, at the Appalachian Meat Collective in New Market, TN. This will be a workshop on dry aging and how to prepare a pork loin into “Lonzeno” - a Spanish Style Ham made from pork loin....

Iva Spoon Wilde with Cast Iron Cornbread, make your own butter, fried peach pies. Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine with a recipe for Vietnamese Beef Stew. Fred Sauceman’s “Pot Luck Radio” segment with Pal Kenneth Barger, the man who created an upper East Tennessee favorite eating establishment “Pal’s Sudden Service”.Plus public service announcements about:Citizens Against Pellissippi Parkway Extension “...

News of an “Iron Skillet Lunch” and memories of days gone by - I’ve got news about today’s Winter Heritage Festival taking place in Townsend, TN, January 25th from 10:00 - 2:30 P.M. - A visit with Rachel Davis of J & R Farms who along with her husband John will be cooking the “Iron Skillet Lunch” in cast iron at the Winter Heritage Festival - a visit with the “last woman out of Cades Cove” Lois Sh...

The Community Watering Hole since 1931. The story of an East, Tennessee community treasure  with Bill Houston, 3rd generation owner, & operator of Houston’s Mineral Well, New Market, Tennessee. Bill Houston is a very gifted fine artist with focus primarily on Tennessee landscapes.  He also taught fine art to students at Carson Newman University for over 40 years.  Bill is a 3rd generation, New Mar...

Let’s dream about that spring garden - we visit today with 2 farmers and seed savers from East, Tennessee who help to preserve and share heirloom seed of our region, Michael Washburn, and John Coykendall. These 2 will be presenting a program January 7th at the BCPL in Maryville, TN - and that is the feature of this episode of the Tennessee Farm Table Podcast & Broadcast. John Coykendall has a bran...

“Traditional New Years Day Good Luck Foods” from 3 different cultures on the latest episode of The Tennessee Farm Table - Appalachian Black eyed peas, collard greens and cornbread in the form of “Hoppin’ John” with Martha Boggs (Owner of the Bistro at the Bijou, Knoxville) - Asian noodles and greens and Lisa Smith’s Hoppin’ John Recipe with Mary Constantine (Food writer for the Knoxville News Sent...

Why do we all eat Pinto Beans in Appalachia, an Appalachian Culinary discussion with Ronni Lundy. It has to do the mining camps, labor wars, the company store, & food insecurity as told by James Beard Award winning Food Writer Ronni Lundy.
Fred Sauceman shares 2 of his pot luck radio segments. A short food story  about a Festive Christmas green and red Pear Salad by way of Margaret Carr. And the 2...

A visit wirh Bailey Foster, Founder of a new business “Real Good Kitchen”, a food incubator launching in 2020, located on Magnolia Avenue, in Knoxville, TN with the goal of Improving our community through food. Fred Sauceman from Johnson City, TN shares a Pot Luck Radio segment from Putnam County, TN where he visits Mark & Sheri Gunther - owners of Muddy Pond Sorghum Mill, and producers of Muddy P...

Today, I am setting the table with a new cookbook. In this episode of The Tennessee Farm Table Podcast & Broadcast, we visit with Jessi and Joe Baker, owners and creators of Ole Smoky Moonshine, in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Yee Haw Brewery, Johnson City, Tennessee, and 6th and Peabody, in Nashville. Today I am featuring Jessi’s new cookbook “Shining: Ole Smoky Family Cookbook”. Fred Sauceman devotes...

Genera, in Vonore, Tennessee - this is a company that manufactures compostable table ware, take out containers and such from domestically sourced, sustainably raised switchgrass and biomass sorghum. Genera is actively recruiting local farmers and land owners to grow these sustainable crops, and today we will visit with Kelley Tiller who is CEO of Genera, Sam Jackson, VP of business development, An...

 Food Historian Fred Sauceman (from Johnson City, TN) shares the Native American history of the Cushaw Squash and a Cushaw pudding recipe. Jill Sauceman shares cooking tips of how she cooks her Cushaw, and handy tips on peeling, and preserving the Cushaw. Amy Campbell share a delicious “Cushaw Pie” recipe

The Appalachian Persimmon, A biological perspective on the native Appalachian Persimmon tree and fruit with Charlie Kwit, Professor of Biology from University of Tennessee.
- Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine with a recipe for Persimmon Bread by way of Morgan Simmons..
- Fred Sauceman with a “Pot Luck Radio” segment on Kentucky’s “Ale-1 8” soda pop.


Chocolate Gravy and Sausage Gravy. That is my featured subject of today’s show. - Today we will be joined by singer songwriter Verlon Thompson, his food memory of chocolate gravy, and what it meant to him as a kid growing up in Oklahoma. In addition, we will also hear Verlin Thompson’s song “DinnerBell”. - I’ll share with you the recipe I use to make chocolate gravy - and you might be suprised, it...

Hearth Side Cooking of Appalachian Foods, part of the annual Blue Ribbon Country that will take place Saturday, September 28th at the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center Fair in Townsend, Tennessee. I visit with Iva Spoon Wilde of Walland, Tennessee who cooks traditional Appalachian foods over the open hearth in one of the log cabins at the Heritage Center along with her right hand Connie Keeble...

A visit to Tsali Notch Muscadine Vineyard and conversation with J.D. Dalton about the muscadine grape of the Appalachians, and the annual National Muscadine Festival which will take pace this year at Tsali Notch Orchard September 27th (VIP Night) and 28th (General Admission). Also news of events at the Annual TVA& I Fair, Knoxville and the Blue Ribbon Country Fair (September 28th) in Townsend, Ten...

“Squirrel” - A staple of the Appalachian Table Squirrel Dumplings - Rachel Davis of J & R Farms (Maryville, Tennessee) shares with us how she makes squirrel dumplings. Please visit Rachel’s blog for weekly stories from their farm https://www.jandrfarmstn.com/blog *Photo of squirrel dumplings from Rachel Davis

Singer, Songwriter Shawn Camp shares a food memory involving squirrel and his Grandpa wh...

Overhill Gardens is a Native plant nursery, and Eco-Friendly Landscapes, Hardscape, and design business. Amy interviews owner Avi Askey about his work for over 20 years now to improve region’s ecology through his work of saving native plants, and endangered native plant species. 


Our guests on the show today is Allan Benton, of Madisonville, TN - he shares his story on how he learned what the word Prosciutto meant, and how he positioned his product to the world of fine dining - and now, his prosciutto goes to to tow with some of the most expensive, and well known high dollar prosciuttos from all over the world. And Allan Benton’s dry aged, country hams are produced right d...

A visit with Sheila Pennycuff, the woman behind the Blount County Public Library “Seed Library”. Sheila shares how she started this Library, the importance of saving heirloom seed, her influences, her willingness to help other people start their own seed library in their county and news of upcoming events at the Blount County Public Library regarding Seed Saving. Mission Statement of the seed libr...

A visit with Executive Chef Trevor Stockton on the upcoming epicurean weekend “The Gathering”at RT Lodge, August 2-4, Maryville, Tennessee with Executive Chef Trevor Stockton & Crew. With guests Allan Benton, Colleen Cruze, Shannon Walker, renown chefs Trevor Stockton, Andy Little, Richard Neal, Rice Mace, and Emily Blount, & McQueen Pottery. And, sadly this past week, our community lost a fellow...