Allyson and Chris Virden with "Olde Virden's Tennessee Pepper Company".

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 restaurant in America. I hope you enjoy this story of a quality, Tennessee Value-Added product and a story of a really interesting couple with a good idea, regionally sourced peppers, and hard work. Our friend Mary Constantine (the happily retired former food writer for the Knoxville News Sentinel) shares a recipe for spicy, honey almond butter. In Fred Sauceman’s “Pot Luck Radio Series,” he shares a story about a man who produces Waygu beef in Limestone, Tennessee. *Olde Virden’s Tennessee Pepper Company does not advertise on this show.