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Today, we are setting the table with Sorghum 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 Ronni Lundy’s book “Sorghum Savor”. Chef Matt Galla...

The best type of pumpkin to use for pumpkin pie. A recipe for gluten free, dairy free pumpkin pie. And memories of And In Fred Sauceman’s Pot Luck Radio series New York Times Novelist Adriana Trigiani shares autumn memories of growing in up in Big Stone Gap, and a little story involving the late actress Elizabeth Taylor.

Today, we are setting the table with Cushaw squash. It is a squash found at roadside stands, and farmers’ markets in the South East, Western states and in Native American communities. My guests today regale the Cushaw for it’s variety of culinary uses with cooking directions and recipes. This squash is identifiable by it’s large size, and green stripes on a cream colored background. Fred and Jill...

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...

On the show today, we are setting the table with Country Ham, and how through the dry aged process, and sliced paper thin, is then called “Prosciutto.  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 so...

Chocolate Gravy and Sausage Gravy. That is my featured subject of this episode of The Tennessee Farm Table Podcast & Broadcast. In this episode, 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...

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Amy visits with the good people of The Nashville Food Project and the important work of this organization. Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine, the retired food editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel retails the collard green and shares a 20 minute recipe for noodles and greens using collard greens.

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BattleField Farms and Gardens, East Knoxville, TennesseeToday, we are setting the table with “Community Gardening” and Broccoli Casserole. Our first guest is Pastor Chris Battle of BattleFiled Farms and Gardens - and of the Underground Collective - This man’s goal is to teach people how to grow their own food, how to cook farm fresh foods for better health and wellness, and how to grow community t...

JFG Coffee, The Best Part of the Meal", a Knoxville, Tennessee staple is the focus of my latest podcast and radio broadcast. I’ve got a "mess of guests and here’s the line up::⠀
•Bill Houston (Owner of Houston’s Mineral Well and fine artist extraordinaire tells us all a story about a former New Market TN neighbor who came up with the tag line “The Best Part of the Meal”. ⠀
•Tinah Utsman shares mem...

Overnight refrigerator pickles: Food Historian Fred Sauceman shares a recipe for overnight pickles that he received from Lynn Tolley, the great grand nice of Jack Daniels.  This pickle is served at Miss Mary Bobo’s Boarding House, in Lynchburg, Tennessee. 295 Main St. Lynchburg, TN. Phone: (931) 759-7394. (Recipe below) Also, Fred Sauceman shares a Pot Luck Radio segment with a very talented young...

“A Knoxville Tamale Tale” with Jack Neely. Jack lets us know the rich history of the tamale in Knoxville. It's not all ham, soup beans and sorghum in the culinary history of East Tennessee. Jack tells us about the rich tamale history dating back to as early as 1890. Jack is the Executive Director of the Knoxville History Project.

Overhill Gardens, Monroe County, Tennessee with owner Avi Askey. 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.  Also Fred Sauceman shares a segment with the recording...

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

Today, we are setting the table with 2 farmers’ markets in East, TN. We first visit with Chris Battle, one of the people who helped to create the Eastside Sunday Farmers’ Market located right on the edge of downtown Knoxville in East, Knoxville. This is an urban area in need of sources of fresh, nutritious produce. Chris Battle is in a mission to help bring a solution to the problem of limited acc...

Today, we are setting the table with fly fishing and how to cook trout over an open fire. Our guests are fly fishing guides Charity and Ian Rudder of R&R Fly Fishing from Townsend, TN. Charity is also leading a "River Discovery" event to benefit Freshwatersillustrated.org June 18, in Townsend, TN. Also James Beard Award winning Chef Joseph Lenn, Owner of JC Holdway restaurant located in downtown K...

A visit with John and Rachel Davis, owners of J & R Farms in Blount County, Tennessee. And John’s family has saved and raised an heirloom bean for generations that they call the “Striped Stick Bean” - a bean that comes from the last residents of Cades Cove Kermit and Lois Caughron and John’s ancestors. For his “Potluck Radio” series, Fred Sauceman recalls a Tennessee memories of the Franklin Club...

Genera, a Biomass solutions company in Vonore, Tennessee. 
Today, we are setting the table with a really good story in East, Tennessee Agriculture. We visit with Genera, in Vonore, Tennessee - this is a company that manufactures compostable food service table ware, take out containers and such from domestically sourced, sustainably raised switchgrass and biomass sorghum. Genera is actively recruit...

Today, we are setting the table with Mother’s Day Strawberries. 
I’ve got a recipe 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. Mary Dee Dee Constantine, retired food editor from the Knoxville News Sentinel has...

And today, we are setting the table with the importance of 4-H and how this organization is so vital to our community through youth development and adult volunteering. Our guests include Dr. Joe Johnson, President Emeritus of the University of Tennessee, retired food editor from the Knoxville News Sentinel - Mary Dee Dee Constantine and her childhood 4-H story, Tony Lawson, co-founder of WDVX Radi...

We visit with a Chef and a small, food business owner in our community, Jenna Baker. She owns and operates “Eat to Be Well” located in downtown Knoxville. We hear how she came to run this sort of business, what drives her, her focus on plant based foods for better health, and her “Be Well Box” business model that she transitioned into at the start of this year. On Fred Sauceman’s “Pot Luck Radio”...

Our guest is Amelia Geis-Scott, Chef and Coordinator of “The Welcome Table” a ministry offered by 2 churches in Blount County, TN offering a hot meal to anyone, 2 week night evenings per week.  Fred Sauceman shares a recipe for slow cooker pork roast, and Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine shares an economical recipe for African Peanut Butter Soup. Plus Amy starts the show off with information on food acc...

Young Farmer, and Holistic Health Coach Rachel McCroskey, Co-Owner of Four Daughters Farm lets us know about her family’s farm located in Walland, Tennessee. Rachel also describes a sculpture that her late GrandMother Joyce McCroskey “Jo Jo” created to honor the memory Polly Toole, an important African American woman who lived in Blount County during the time of the Civil War, who was also an eman...

This episode of The Tennessee Farm table is first information for “Food Triage” in this age of Corona Virus - how to support local, East Tennessee restaurants by utilizing the call ahead, curb side pick up features that many of our smaller restaurants are offering. How to buy directly from farmers in our area who have inventory. How to find food if you do not have a pay check, school closings, or...