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In this episode, we are setting the table with Tennessee grass-fed salami from Century Harvest Farm, Greenback, TN, and how this farm is home to a foundation that helps rebuild lives through farming and production of beef charcuterie, vegetables, and other wholesome farm products. The guests are Chris Burger and Brenna Wright. In Fred Sauceman’s Pot-Luck Radio series, he shares the voice of Pal Ba...

In this episode, we are setting the table with a great Barbecue recipe, and a story on running untaxed liquor, and the blow that prohibition took on Tennessee Agriculture. Farmer, Mother, and a great cook, Aliceson Bales of Bales Farm (Mosheim TN) shares the easiest recipe for barbecue pork shoulder just in time for Father's Day. Aliceson's husband is multi-Grammy award-winning Barry Bales, and he...

Today we are setting the table with Lye soap. Hydrangeas, posh squash casserole, and elderberries. Our guests are Rachel Davis of J & R Farms. She makes her own lye soap. We also visit with Josh Lowans and hear about elderlies and the syrup that he is involved in making at Salubrious Farms in Walland and Knoxville, Tennessee. Food writer and food historian Fred Sauceman shares a memory and recipe...

Today we are setting the table with urban community gardening, and broccoli casserole. Our first guest is Chris Battle who created BattleFiled Farms and Gardens in East Knox County his motto is “Fighting food disparity, building community”. We also hear a wonderful short story by Fred Sauceman about the late Glodine Davis of Johnson City known as “The Broccoli Lady” and the recipe and memory of he...

Cornbread, sugar, no sugar, and cornbread salad! We are setting the table today with cornbread I’ve assembled an all star line up of guests today to talk about this soul satisfying staple. Karen Shankles was the grand prize champion of the National Cornbread Festival held annually in April in South Pittsburg, TN - she is going to share her recipe with us for Festive Good Luck Corn Bread Skillet. J...

Nancy Bruns of J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works We visit with our neighbor from West Virginia - Nancy Bruns of J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works. We'll hear about her family's land, history, and how they produce salt from their farm. Nancy and her brother Lewis Payne are partners. They are the 7th generation salt makers since 1832 to produce this agricultural product from her family's land. Nancy spent 25 years...

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 3 families who raise bees in East, Tennessee. D & Jim Brown who own and run Honey Rock Herb Farm, in Louisville, Tennessee and have raised bees for over 40 years. Coley and Judy O’Dell who own and run Smoky Ridge Apiaries in Maryville, TN and ha...

This morning we are setting the table with a Mother’s Day treat…Strawberries.  - I (Amy) share 2 recipes for a scratch made strawberry shortcake, and an easy bisquick shortcake for you Mothers’ Day dessert.
- Fred Sauceman shares a little story about Wayne Scott, one of Tennessee’s most respected strawberry farmers who passed away in 2008 - and news about the 17th annual Wayne Scott strawberry fes...

Today we are setting the table with a good ole fashioned morel mushroom foraging expedition 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 the 2nd week of April for this mushroom that only appears from late March throu...

We are setting the table this day with the preservation of Appalachian food ways. My featured guest is guest is John Tulloch of Knoxville who grew up on a farm and helped his Grandmother in the kitchen in  Greenville, TN. We are going to discuss his latest book entitled: “Appalachian Cooking, New and Traditional Recipes”.  John will also share his way of making Succotash which is in the book.
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Today, we are setting the table with foods that are often shared at the table on Easter Sunday. - Karen Zorio, Former owner of the Bakery Something Savory shares with us the history and recipe of Hot Cross Buns. - Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine shares a recipe for Pimento Cheese from the Tupelo Honey and Blackberry Farm cookbooks. And she also shares a pound cake recipe from the Saltville Centennial c...

Today, we are Welcoming Spring by setting the table 2 seasonal goodies that arrive at the beginning of Spring in the Mountain South, Maple Syrup and Asparagus. We visit with a maker of small batch, Maple Syrup. Clint Smith of the Riverdale Community of East, Tennessee. Clint shares with us how he makes his small batch maple syrup. Clint is also a talented welder and furniture maker, and some of hi...

Today we are setting the table with gardening wisdom. My guest today is Kelly Smith Trimble an editor, writer, and gardener living in Knoxville, TN. Her book Vegetable Gardening Wisdom, a collection of seasonal advice and inspiration for edible gardeners, was released in April 2019 by Storey Publishing. Kelly is currently the senior digital editorial director for HGTV, where she answers vegetable...

In this episode, we are setting the table with a story of how urban gardening joins up with a non profit foundation from a rural setting to help change lives through agriculture. We visit today with Brenna Wright formerly of Abby Field Farm, and currently of Knox City Farm and now she is with Century Harvest Farms Foundation. Brenna is well known in the Knoxville community for her success in urban...

Today we are setting the table with a delivery service for Farmers Markets called “Farm Grub” with our guest and co-founder of Farm Grub, Wade Austin. This is a company that is designed to make our community a better place and to answer the need to deliver farm fresh, regionally sourced groceries right to your door. There are several of these companies that have cropped up in our region, and what...

In this episode, we visit with Allyson and Chris Virden, the couple who created Olde Viden’s Tennessee Pepper Company. The brainchild of Chris Virden. While operating with his wife Allyson the Lodge on top of Mt. LeConte in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the idea came to him. Chris felt there needed to be a better pizza option than the generic red pepper flake found in almost every pizza...

In this episode, we are setting the table with “Kermit’s Striped Stick Bean”. We visit with John and Rachel Davis, owners of J & R Farms in Blount County, Tennessee. John Davis’s Great Grandmother is Lois Shuler Caughron, and her late husband was Kermit Caughron. The Caughron family has raised and saved an heirloom bean for generations that they call the “Striped Stick Bean”. This bean comes from...

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. 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 the diversity of farm products that they produce. They also give some really...

We visit today with Avi Askey, Owner of Overhill Gardens in Madisonville Tennessee. 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. Overhill Gardens does not advertise...

Today we are setting the table in the kitchen with my guest Bailey Foster, she is a Knoxville native and Founder of Real Good Kitchen, a food incubator in Knoxville Tennessee. Their motto is “Make Change Through Food”. In short, this new place provides the space and resources food entrepreneurs need. A kitchen collective where everyone helps the other in creating and maintaining their food busines...

Seed Saving & Stories with our ole seed saving pal John Coykendall of Knoxville, TN. John tells us how he became a seed saver, some of the varieties he has saved, where to find old time heirloom seed like the ones he saves, and shares some cute stories.

In this show we visit with Thomas Williams - a Nashville Native who is heavily involved in the business of helping his community through food. And in these times of trouble that we are all living in right now, I thought it would be good to feature this story and how together we can really help to make our communities better. Fred Sauceman features a couple from Jonesboro TN who make a well travele...

In this episode, Amy is setting the table with “Squirrel”. Rachel and John Davis of Blount County, TN on how to cook Squirrel Dumplings. A story from singer, songwriter Shawn Camp on growing up in Arkansas and his Grandpa, and eating squirrel. Shawn has also given me permission to include the song he co-wrote along with Tim Mensy “The Grandpa That I Know” to include in this episode. Fred Saucemna’...

Today we are setting the table with Candy with several guests. Jessi Baker co-creator and owner of Ole Smoky Moonshine, Yee-Haw Brewing, 6th & Peabody, and cookbook Author shares a short story on how her Grandparents created “The Ole Smoky Candy Kitchen” in 1952 in Gatlinburg TN. Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine presents a short story about Shirley McMurtrie of Union County and Shirley’s way of dry cann...

Today we are setting the table with 2 Christmas recipes and stories about soup beans. The happily retired former food writer for the Knoxville News Sentinel Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine will share a recipe for warm mulled cider. In Fred Sauceman’s Pot luck radio segment, he shares a story about a festive red and green pear salad. Ronni Lundy sheds light on the question “Why do we all eat pinto beans...