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Today, we are setting the table with Mead. My guest is Jay Martin, Co-Owner of Flora De Mel, a Meadery and full-service restaurant located in Rossville, GA, just over the state line of TN from downtown Chattanooga. Jay is a proponent of urban beekeeping. This business sprang out of he and his business partner and wife Stephanie’s beekeeping. And in this show, Jay will answer the question of …What...

Today, we are setting the table with pant-based eating and how this helps new moms. Today, my first guest is Meik Elliott, creator, and owner of Meik Meals. 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, and soul. She specificall...

In honor of the upcoming National Seed Swap Day, we are setting the table with swapping seeds. It is that time of the year when we plan our gardens, order our seeds, and, if we are lucky, attend a local seed swap to swap seeds and stories with our neighbors. Today, we visit with Sheila Pennycuff, a Librarian at the Blount County Public Library located in Maryville, TN, and the woman who took an ol...

Bill Houston narrates the story of Houston's Mineral Water, New Market, Tennessee - still going strong since 1931 - Bill Houston is the the owner and operator of this Mineral Well that his Grandfather established and this is a treasured watering hole for the community.
http://www.houstonsmineralwater.com/ Bill Houston is a very gifted fine artist with focus primarily on Tennessee landscapes. He al...

In this episode, we are setting the table with a brand new artisanal food market in Knoxville, TN. This market is named Olde Virden's Tennessee Pepper Company Artisanal Market, and husband and wife Allyson and Chris Virden are behind this. This market showcases a variety of regionally made food products that are not necessarily found on shelves of larger stores. A marketplace to help growing food...

Today we are setting the table with tamales and a Knoxville Tamale Tale with Historian Jack Neely, Executive Director of the Knoxville History Project. Jack lets us know the rich history of the tamale in Knoxville. It is not all ham, soup beans and sorghum in the culinary history of East Tennessee. Jack shares Knoxville tamale history dating back to as early as 1890. Fred Sauceman shares a Pot Luc...

We are setting the table with Sorghum, an ancient African Grass adopted to the southern table with a cast of characters including: -Fred Sauceman shares a segment with Dr Mike Fleenor, Sorghum Maker. -Ronni Lundy, 2 x James Beard award winning food writer on differences between sorghum and molasses. -Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine shares a recipe for Butternut Squash and Apple Bake using a recipe from...

In this episode, we are setting the table with several favorite food memories involving dressing and black walnuts for Thanksgiving weekend. - “Dee Dee” Mary Constantine (Retired food writer for the Knoxville News Sentinel, ) shares a memory and recipe for her Daddy’s cornbread dressing. Dee Dee also shares her audio remembrance of her interview with Shirley McMurtrie of Union County TN and Shirle...

Today, we are setting the table with news about a brand new 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 14 year old son Marshall own and operate Bales Farms in Mosheim, Tennessee. A 6th generation family farm. Today Aliceson is going to share information with us about lard from pasture...

Today, we are setting the table with an organization called the Farmer Veteran Coalition. This is a National Organization with a TN chapter and the work of this organization is pretty straight forward. They help veterans become farmers with support, education, networking, and resources. We visit with Jim Artman, who is a Veteran having served 8 years in the Army, a former sniper, and founder of Ap...

Our guests are Rick Riddle of the Winery at Seven Springs Farm, and JD Dalton, Vineyard Manager of Tsali Notch Vineyard, in Monroe County, TN. They will let us know of the history, taste, and the nutritional properties of this ingegenous grape to the SouthEast and both Rick Riddle and JD Dalton will both speak on the topic of Muscadine wine.

In this episode, we are setting the table with Cast Iron, and Cornbread, two staples of the Appalachian table. My guest is Dr. Katie Hoffman who describes how she and her husband Brett Tiller created a business called Vintage Kitchen, Cast Iron and Collectibles, and how they rescue and rehab cast iron and resell their finds at their cast iron pop up clinics that they conduct from time to time in T...

n this episode my featured guest is Knoxville Native, seed saver, artist and farmer John Coykendall. John will let us know the origins, qualities,, and culinary uses of Cushaw squash. I (Amy Campbell) share a recipe for baked cushaw, courtesy of Mrs. Cornelia Weldon, mother of Sarah Weldon Hackenburg who took many of the photos for John Coykendall and Christina Melton’s book Preserving Our Roots:...

We set the table in this episode with Paw Paw Fruit and Sentimentality. Sometimes called the Mountain Banana with a taste that is a cross between a mango and a banana. Paw Paw is an indigenous fruit to North America and is a real treat if you can find it. Amy's guest, Charlie Kwit, Professor of Biology from the University of Tennessee offers a scientific perspective on the Paw Paw. Allan Benton, O...

Would you all like to meet Jim Artman? After eight years in the Army and having battled a healthy cast of PTSD, Jim has a real story to tell. Jim healed his mind and body with nutritious food, exercise, and gratitude. And his life mission is to help other people gain access to healthy fruits and vegetables through his yard-to-table business Appalachian Grit in Knoxville—especially people who have...

Today, we are setting the table with a traditional food of Appalachia “Apple Butter”. Each year in the fall time of the Mountain South, you can find pockets of people who get together, and cook down bushels of apples, sugar and sometimes cinnamon into this biscuit slathering favorite. It is one of those old fashioned foods that is still a favorite on dinner tables near and far, and makes a favorit...

Today, we are setting the table with Family Farming. In this episode we visit with Mike and Tammy Zavels of Zavels Family Farms located in Corryton TN. Mike and Tammy have been making a living from their farming for over 30 years. This farming family is a very successful family farm in the eastern region of Tennessee. They will let us know how they got into farming and how the family has grown and...

Setting the table with old-time, heirloom seed , and seed saving stories with seed saver John Coykendall. Memories of Cades Cove from Lois Shular Caughron and her daughter Ruth Caughron Davis. Lois and Ruth share memories of Kermit Caughron who was known as the bee man and was always giving people his “bean seed”. His home and garden sat near the Cades Cove loop until 1999. Visitors to the Great S...

Today, we are setting the table with fried pies. We have 3 guests today: Dale Mackey - creator of Dales Fried Pies and Co-Owner of the Central Collective, Knoxville. Dale shares how she started her small fried pie business and also shares one of her favorite go-to recipes that she and her husband Shawn Poynter enjoy. Shawn is an extremely talented editorial and portrait photographer. Iva Spoon Wil...

In this episode, we are setting the table with pickles. I (Amy Campbell) share Minnie Pearl’s recipes for Curry Pickles and Mustard Pickles from her cookbook Minnie Pearl Cooks. Fred Sauceman shares a pickle recipe from Distiller Jack Daniel’s great, great, gran niece, Lynne Tolley. Who was John Egerton? Elizabeth Simms lets us know who this man was & Robert Gipe tells a humorous story of his days...

Allan Benton’s Tennessee Prosciutto, made in Madisonville, Tennessee. On the show today, we are setting the table with Tennessee-made Country Ham or Tennessee prosciutto. Our featured guest on the show today is Allan Benton of Madisonville, TN. Allan shares his story on how he learned what the word prosciutto meant and how he positioned his product to the world of fine dining. Allan's prosciutto g...

Farmer Aliceson Bales of Bales Farm, Mosheim TN, shares her recipe for buttermilk chicken, how to get the most of an entire chicken, and how to make chicken broth. Aliceson and her family, Barry, and Marshall operate their family farm, which has been in continuous operation since 1882. Marshall is the 6th generation farmer of this land and is an impressive young farmer. They produce premium pastur...

Amy sets the table with berries of the season, locations of regional pick-your-own farms, recipes for fruit desserts, blackberry jam, and a Blackberry slump grunt from Dee Dee Constantine. Amy’s guests are Farmers Susan and John Keller of Blount County, TN, Dee Dee Constantine, Ruth Davis, and Lois Shuler Caughron (known as the last woman out of the Cove)⁣ ⁣ Lois and Ruth share memories of Kermit...

Today, we are setting the table with herbs and cut flowers grown by Special Growers. Special Growers is a non-profit organization located in Blount County, TN. This organization offers workforce development training and employment for people with disabilities who are aging out of high school special education classes. At Special Growers, they grow culinary herbs and cut flowers and are supported b...

We are setting the table with 4th of July foods. Food that is easy to take to a covered dish or picnic with that Southern Flair. Pickles, hotdogs, moonshine cocktails, watermelon salad and mint lemonade with no sugar.