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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.

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...