Rose Kennedy covers the Knoxville foodie scene with small discoveries, new openings, rumors, and tastings.
Tomato Head Bread Co. Selling at Three Rivers Market!
| Posted May 23, 2012You might know this already, but Three Rivers Market really says (and photographs) it best:EXTRA! EXTRA! Hot of the press- Flour Head Bakery baked goods. You know their delicious offerings from years of eating at The Tomato Head but now you can pick up... Read more...
Preservation Pub Annex to Open Soon
| Posted May 16, 2012Yep. They've built up, now they're spreading out, as intrepid reporter Mike Gibson tells us here:Prez Pub Annex Set to Open Soon... Read more...
UT Farmer's Market Starts Today, May 16!
| Posted May 16, 2012Farmers Market in the UT gardens starts today! The UT Farmers Market will be held Wednesdays from 4-7 p.m. at the UT Gardens on Neyland Drive from May 16, 2012 to October 24, 2012.Fresh produce, local food (including UT Culinary Institute... Read more...
Local Jeremy Crow Wins $1,000 With Appetizer Recipe
| Posted May 9, 2012His idea: Bacon Blue Cheese Dip with Bourbon Soaked Figs. The result? Jeremy Crow of Knoxville is one of six winners of the "Got An App For That? Pretzel Crisps Appetizer Contest. He gets a year's supply of Pretzel Crisps,... Read more...
Harry's Deli Closing, Bummer
| Posted May 7, 2012Come Friday, the 100 Block of Gay Street will be without a Jewish deli once more, according to Carly Harrington's News Sentinel blog:Harry's Deli To Close... Read more...
Bogartz Best Chef, RouXbarb at Farmer's Market
| Posted May 7, 2012Knoxville's own Bruce Bogartz has copped Metro Pulse Best of Knoxville Best Chef honors a record five years in a row! Actually, the three and four years in a row were records, too! Here's a nice interview with him, if... Read more...
Lawn Forage Lemonade Recipe
| Posted April 30, 2012Don't think of it as your ragged, overgrown lawn taunting you--it's not even April!--consider it material for your newest refreshing drink possibility: Dandelion-Violet Lemonade. This link comes via our friend and fellow optimist Jackie Kittrell, who saw it on a... Read more...
Biscuit Poetry Contest, Deadline May 11
| Posted April 26, 2012Union Ave. Books is hosting a Biscuit Poetry contest, how cool is that? Here's the deal, straight from the press release:UAB Announces a Biscuit Poetry ContestBooks and biscuits, reasons enough to elicitfrom any poets brave enough to risk itan... Read more...
Beekeeper Classes, Coming Right Up!
| Posted April 26, 2012Madeline Rogero and The Black Lilies' Trisha Gene Brady are just a couple of the locals who keep bees. Want to join the crowd? UT's Institute of Agriculture will start offering a series of classes May 1 suitable for hobbyists.... Read more...
11 Cafe Has New "Beer Flight",
| Posted April 25, 2012Sometimes it takes a good deal to catch my attention... I had visited 11 Cafe a few First Fridays back. It's a nice little store on Gay Street downtown, unprepossessing, with a mod couch and good art, a few taps... Read more...
