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Seed Saving & Stories with our 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 plus some cute stories. John and I (Amy) worked together in the garden at Blackberry Farm together in 2007, where I learned from John the importance of this heirloom seed. 

Today, we are setting the table with a brand new book, The Creative Vegetable Gardener, written by a Tennessee Author, Kelly Smith Trimble. 60 ways to cultivate Joy, Playfulness, and Beaty, along with a bounty of food. Kelly also shares a recipe for carrot top pesto. This book offers a different take on backyard gardening, encouraging us to rethink the rules of vegetable gardening. Breaking out of perfectly straight rows or boxy raised beds, Kelly suggests planting in circles, spirals, or labyrinths and encourages us to grow herbs with our flowers and vegetables - mixing perennials with annuals and creating a meditative sanctuary and pollinator paradise. Kelly Smith Trimble is the author of Vegetable Gardening Wisdom. A lifestyle editor for over 20 years, she has worked with HGTV, Southern Living, Lowe’s, Bonnie Plants, and the National Park Foundation. A Master Gardener with degrees in English and environmental studies, she grows vegetables, herbs, and flowers in her backyard in Knoxville, Tennessee. And a note, Kelly does not advertise on this show. Kelly also has a book launch on February 28th on the release date of this new book at Union Avenue Books in downtown Knoxville at 5:30 P.M. I'll be there interviewing Kelly live about her book that evening. This ticketed event is free with registration from the Union Avenue Bookstore website.⁣ Blue Stem Hollow is now in full swing of their CSA signup for full or 1/2 shares, delivered weekly or bi-weekly. Blue Stem Hollow offers catering, pasture-raised beef, eggs, charcuterie, and sustainably raised fruits and vegetables. These fruits and vegetables are sustainably grown right on the farm. Each week's CSA Box includes an email of what's in the box and a video from Chef Robert Allen (formerly of Citico's) with seasonal cooking tips for what's in the box. They also offer weekly add-ons such as honey, desserts, eggs, charcuterie, and pasture-raised beef. Weekly delivery locations include Greenback, Maryville, and Knoxville.

In this Valentine season, I (Amy Campbell) wanted to share a story of true love. Helen and Ellen founded The Love Kitchen on Valentine’s Day, 1986, feeding 22 people in need. I visited Helen and Ellen in 2015, and you can hear their voices in this podcast. Their truth that you will see posted on the wall of the love kitchen is “Everybody is God’s Somebody.” Three truths their Daddy taught them: 1. There is but one father, that’s the heavenly father 2. There is but 1 race, and that’s the human race. 3. Don’t ever take the last pc of bread from the table cause somebody might come by who’s hungry. The Love Kitchen provides a Wednesday food pantry, serves 500 meals in-house, and delivers over 3,000 meals to the homebound weekly. That’s 155,000 meals a year. So even though Helen and Ellen are no longer with us in body, they are with us in spirit, and The Love Kitchen is still thriving and serving.

Aliceson Bales of Bales Farm, Mosheim, Tennessee, with her cookbook, shares with us the cooking aspects and nutritional properties of lard from pasture-raised animals. Aliceson also shares a recipe for her white cheddar pimento cheese from her cookbook “Bales Farm Cookbook” with the forward written by Dolly Parton. Marshall Bales, currently 15 years old and the 6th generation to farm on Bales Farm, shares how he started his egg program on Bales Farm. Molly Rochelson and Sally Buice from the musical group The Montvales talk about their group. In addition, Sally shares how she makes her biscuits. She at one time was the biscuit queen for Cruze Farm Dairy!⁣

Bill Houston narrates the story of Houston's Mineral Water, New Market, Tennessee - still going strong since 1931 - Bill Houston is the the owner and operator of this Mineral Well that his Grandfather established and this is a treasured watering hole for the community. http://www.houstonsmineralwater.com/ Bill Houston is a very gifted fine artist with focus primarily on Tennessee landscapes. He also taught fine art to students at Carson Newman University for over 40 years. Bill is a 3rd generation, New Market, Tennessee resident.

Today, we visit with Sheila Pennycuff, a Librarian at the Blount County Public Library located in Maryville, TN, and the woman who took an old wooden card catalog and turned it into a seed library. This seed library is located inside the Blount County Public Library. It is an essential service to the community where patrons check out seeds and contribute seeds back to the seed library.⁣ We also hear details of the seed and plant swap on Saturday, January 21, 2013, from 10:00 A.M.-12:00 Noon at the Blount County Public Library.⁣ Deena Trimble speaks on Seed saving, seed sharing, and winter sowing using plastic jugs with lids.

A visit with Kayla Sonneby and Kelley Calloway, Founders of a new small food business, Butter From the Block, Knoxville’s Small Batch compound Butter made in the shared commercial kitchen and food incubator Real Good Kitchen, Knoxville, TN. Amy visits with these two young food entrepreneurs on the development and creation of their new business, the flavors they produce, and where their compound butter can be found. And a note, this business does not advertise on this show.

Moonshiners and Sevierville natives Jessi and Joe Baker (the couple who created Ole Smoky Moonshine) share their stories about the Old Smoky Candy Kitchen, creating Ole smoky Distillery, Yee Haw Brewing, Jessi’s cookbook, her style of cooking, her chicken and dumplings and her tasty moonshine cocktail on Season 10, Episode 1 of The Tennessee Farm Table Podcast & Radio Broadcast.⁣⁣

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 traveled egg nog with a taste of Kentucky in his Pot Luck Radio series.

In this episode my featured guest is Knoxville Native, seed saver, artist and farmer John Coykendall. John will let us know the origins, qualities,, and culinary uses of Cushaw squash. I (Amy Campbell) share a recipe from John's book for baked cushaw, courtesy of Mrs. Cornelia Weldon, mother of Sarah Weldon Hackenburg who took many of the photos for John Coykendall and Christina Melton’s book Preserving Our Roots: My Journey to Save Seed and Stories. Fred Sauceman, Food historian, Writer, and Professor of Appalachian Studies at ETSU shares a segment on the Native American origins of Cushaw squash.

Our featured guest is Buck Dancing, square dance calling, Christmas Tree farming Leo Collins, owner of Blue Bird Christmas Tree Farm in Heiskell, Tennessee, and Fred Sauceman’s Potluck Radio series features Allan Benton and Allan Benton’s Red Eye gravy recipe.

In this episode my featured guest is Knoxville Native, seed saver, artist and farmer John Coykendall. John will let us know the origins, qualities,, and culinary uses of Cushaw squash. I (Amy Campbell) share a recipe from John's book for baked cushaw, courtesy of Mrs. Cornelia Weldon, mother of Sarah Weldon Hackenburg who took many of the photos for John Coykendall and Christina Melton’s book Preserving Our Roots: My Journey to Save Seed and Stories. Fred Sauceman, Food historian, Writer, and Professor of Appalachian Studies at ETSU shares a segment on the Native American origins of Cushaw squash.

Our first guest is Pastor Chris Battle, Founder of Battlefiled Farms and Gardens - and his new church "Knoxville Underground" - 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 cultivate community through community gardening. The Battlefield Farms and Garden's motto is "Fighting Food Disparity, Building Community." We'll also hear about Glodine Davis of Johnson City, TN, and her beloved broccoli casserole by way of Fred Sauceman.

Sorghum with Ronni Lundy, Fred Sauceman, Matt Gallagher & Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine. We are setting the table with Sorghum, an ancient African Grass adopted to the southern table 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 Gallagher: On the topic of biscuits and Sorghum butter.

A visit with Khann Chov, former farm manager of CAC Beardsley Community Farm, located in the inner city of Knoxville, Tennessee. CAC Beardsley Community Farm works towards a healthier community in Knoxville by providing culturally relevant produce, accessible education, and land and resources for gardening.

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 the senior digital editorial director for HGTV. She answers vegetable gardening questions in a social video series called Dig It, with more than a million views collectively. She has also been a writer and editor for Southern Living, the National Park Foundation, and Bonnie Plants. Her vegetable garden was featured in the June 2020 issue of Southern Living magazine. She was born in Knoxville and has spent her life in various parts of southern Appalachia. Today we hear about Kelly’s book, her gardening perspectives, and her thoughts on growing collard greens. In Fred Sauceman’s “Potluck Radio” series, he features “Soutissa sausage” with a recording he made in 2018 with the Waldensian community of Valdese, North Carolina. Dee Dee Constantine shares a recipe for sautéed trout with spinach and roasted red bell peppers from the Tupelo Honey Cookbook.

Pumpkin Pie and news of the Blue ribbon Country Fair, Townsend, TN, is taking place Saturday, September 24th from 10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. at the Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center, Townsend, TN. Our guests are James Gann, a music teacher in Walland, Tennessee. With a specific type of pumpkin he grows and a description of his prize-winning pumpkin pie that won a ribbon at the Blue Ribbon Country Fair in 2019. Haylee Donahue, an East, TN resident. She’ll share her recipe for a gluten-free, dairy-free pumpkin pie and describes how she processes her pie pumpkin (see her recipe below). And In Fred Sauceman’s Pot Luck Radio series New York Times best-selling Novelist Adriana Trigiani shares autumn memories of growing up in Big Stone Gap, VA, and a little story involving the late actress Elizabeth Taylor.

Tyler Rogers from Chattanooga, Tennessee, makes wooden chairs, the old-style way with hand tools. His chairs are as beautiful as they are functional. Tyler also shares his Grandmother Wyline Lewis's squash casserole recipe. Also, Fred Sauceman shares ham smoker Allan Benton's Red Eye Gravy recipe.

Serving up some news about Slow Food TN Valley and their upcoming 13th annual Pesto Festo event on my latest podcast and radio broadcast. Slow Food TN Vally board members and local food advocates Sarah Bush and Tayler Franke are my guests. Sarah is a forager, farmer and initially helped establish the Slow food chapter, Knoxville, in 2008. Tayler is a homesteader, homemaker, Mother, and baker who helps people with meal prep. The other day she and her husband butchered 40 of their meat birds, and she pressure canned 3 gallons of stock. In my mind, she is a doin' woman!⁣

A visit with Frog, Founder of Frog Juice Artisanal Kombucha made in Knoxville, TN. Our guest today is Frog Greishaw, Founder of Frog Juice Kombucha, who goes by Frog. Frog sources her ingredients from local Tennessee growers and has really made a name for herself with her business. You will find Frog Juice Kombucha on tap at the Black Berry Farm Brewery, served at BlackBerry Mountain, and on tap in and around Tennessee and beyond. In addition, Frog has recently opened a bocheree, a non-alcoholic bar with various flavors of Frog Juice Kombucha, a friendly environment, events, and food trucks in Knoxville.⁣

Bales Farm Cookbook, Lard, and Marshall Bales Egg Program Today, we are setting the table with news about an excellent cookbook from Bales Farms written by Aliceson Bales. She has been a visitor several times on this show before. Aliceson, her husband Barry Bales, and their 15-year-old son Marshall own and operate Bales Farms in Mosheim, Tennessee. A 6th generation family farm. And Barry is a multi-grammy award winner, having played with Allison Krauss and Union Station for thirty-plus years. Today Aliceson will share information with us about lard from pasture-raised animals. The differences between lard, how to render lard, some nutritional benefits in lard, and cooking applications. Marshal Bales tells us about his egg program that he runs on the farm and has for several years. Marshall is 15 years old. Dolly Parton wrote the forward for this brand new cookbook that Aliceson wrote, and I want to share that with you. And, Aliceson shares a recipe from her new cookbook with us for white cheddar pimento cheese. She suggests pulling this out to handle the crowd when they first show up at the house.

A visit with homesteader Rachel Abbott Davis. Rachel shares her Great Grandmother's recipe for Corn Relish, and also a Fox Fire recipe for Corn Cob Jelly. Plus a beautiful audio essay on corn from author and gardener Kelly Smith Trimble.

Today we are sitting around the table and visiting with a family and farm and how this family uses their skills to farm, cook, and host elevated meals for private events and, on occasion, community dinners. We visit with Farm to Feast founders Chef Jeff Jorgenson, event planner Jessica Jorgenson, and Jeff’s sister Heather Fulchum, ecology teacher, farmer, and founder of She Diggs Farm, located in the Hardin Valley area of Knoxville, TN. Heather grows the food, Jeff uses it to provide farm-inspired dinners using seasonal ingredients, and Jessica uses her hospitality and event planning background to create elegant feasts on the family farm.

Fried pies! With Dale Mackey of Dale’s Fried Pies, Iva Spoon Wilde of Walland, TN, and fried pies at the annual Lord’s Acre sale in Hilton’s West Virginia by way of Fred Sauceman. ⁣

- Chef David Olson is a nationally-recognized American Culinary Federation Chef, television personality and social network influencer, award-winning recipe developer, live fire grill master, international adventurer, and the creator behind “Live Fire Republic.” Chef Olson lets us know how to cook chicken over live fire that is always juicy, not dry. - Chef Joseph Lenn. Owner of JC Holdway in Knoxville, TN, and winner in the past of Best Chef Southeast by the James Beard Foundation. Joseph loves to fish, especially fly fishing for trout, and he will let us know how he cooks a trout on an open fire in the woods. And about his annual ramp hunt and cook he does annually with Allan and Sharon Benton (of Benton’s Smoky Mountain Country Hams) - And Fred Sauceman’s Pot Luck Radio series features a specialty of the White Trolley Cafe in Corinth, Mississippi. The Slugburger.

S9.E23. 06/25/2022 Podcast script Green Beans and Canning Green Beans with Mary Alice Phillips, Friendsville, TN

We visit with Chef David Rule on his new project Trotter’s Whole Hog Barbecue, Sevierville, TN. You may know Chef Rule from his former work with Dancing Bear, Blackberry Farm, and Walnut Kitchen. His current restaurant is The Appalachian, Sevierville, TN. Back in 20007, David used to help me load the huge compost bin from the main kitchen when I worked in the garden at Blackberry Farm. Unfortunately, it was not so easy to get help with that. Most people didn’t want to deal with it. In addition, Fred Sauceman’s Pot Luck Radio Series features a special appetizer found at Ridgewood BBQ in Bluff City, TN.

Today, we are setting the table with plant-based eating, especially for new Mothers. My first guest is Femeika (Meik) Elliott, founder, and owner of Meik Meals and the Lotus Program. This young, black, Knoxville-based entrepreneurial chef creates foods that give us that comfort of taste while using healthier ingredients. Meik encourages people to make lifestyle choices that nurture the body, mind, and soul. She specifically works with postpartum Mothers to help them feel their best through food, education, and meditation with her Lotus program. Meik also speaks to groups throughout the community about her work. This episode originally aired in February 2022, and since then, Meik Elliott has won the What's The Big Idea? 2022 Pitch Competition, through the Knoxville Entrepreneurial Center, and has presented at Pecha Kucha night, Knoxville. Also, Fred Saucepan’s potluck radio series features Cherokee poet and storyteller Marilou Awiakta.

We are setting the table today with cornbread. I've assembled an all-star lineup of guests today to talk about this soul-satisfying staple. • Karen Shankles has twice won first place at the annual National Cornbread Festival cook-off. Today, she shares her recipe for Festive Good Luck Corn Bread Skillet with us. • James Beard Award-winning food writer Ronni Lundy lets us know how she makes her skillet cornbread that goes with a pot of soup beans. And she also shares with us what she calls her tao of cornbread. • Food preservationist with deep family ties to the East TN mountains and mountain cooking Shannon Walker lets us know how he makes his cornbread and his thoughts on cast iron cookware and old ways. • And “Mountain Man”, Josh Lowans of Salubrious Farms, Walland, Knoxville, describes a Cornbread salad recipe that his better half Meagan makes and is his family's go-to recipe.

Today we are setting the table with pretty flowers. Or, as many of us here in Tennessee pronounce it, purty flares. No, it’s not about the eating. It’s about the joy and beauty flowers add to this life. That little touch of grace to the table, the home, or that person in need or celebrating a special event. Today, my guest is Susie Kawar, owner and operator of Little Mountain Flower Farm, located in Maryville, TN. Susie grows her flowers and puts together farm-fresh floral arrangements by hand in her floral studio right on her family’s farm. She, her husband, and her children grow these flowers with sustainable, regenerative growing practices. In addition, they have a sweet yellow dog named Paris that found them when they lived in Paris, TN. This is an inspirational story of a person who has teamed her creative skills with a firm knowledge base in agriculture and has made a living for herself and her family doing something that she loves to do that brings joy to others. She will also share one of her go-to recipes for a refreshing tabouli salad. Also, in Fred Sauceman’s Pot Luck Radio series, he features one of Tennessee’s oldest restaurants - Nicks - of Kingsport, TN.

Today, we set the table with some good food and memories in honor of Mother’s Day. First, we’ll visit Mary Lynn Snyder, who shares memories of growing up in the R.C. Tway coal mining camp outside Harlan, KY. Then, she’ll share her Mother Ruby’s cooking ways and a recipe for “Mama Ruby’s Creamy Lemon Pie.” Also on the program - Fred’s Sauceman shares a lovely audio essay in memory of his late mother-in-law, Elsie Maddux Derting. And I share a story and recipe about my late mother, Edwena Janie Clayton, Mississippi, and kilt salad for supper.

We set the table with cast iron, cornbread, and some cornbread cousins. Amy’s guests include the winner of the 25th National Cornbread Festival Cook-Off, Veronica Callaghan. CEO Emeritus and Board Member of Lodge Manufacturing, Bob Kellerman, about his art creations he makes out of recycled pans and parts that he calls Pan Heads. Also, one of the founders of the Southern Foodways Alliance and James Beard Award-winning food writer, Ronni Lundy, with cultural perspectives on sugar, or no sugar in cornbread, and her tao of cornbread.

Today, we are setting the table with special growers, an East TN makers market, and a young entrepreneurial fellow who has his own flavored tea and lemonade stand. Today, our guests are Kent Davis, one of the parents who created a non-profit organization called Special Growers in Maryville, TN. Special Growers grow culinary herbs and fresh-cut flowers. In addition, they partner with several regional restaurants and offer meaningful job training and employment to special needs individuals post-high school. We also visit with Debra and Miller Dean. Debra is a baker, a maker, and one of the founders of the ETMM markets held biannually on the campus of Maryville College. I love to feature young entrepreneurial individuals through regional food or agriculture on this show. We also visit with Miller Dean, Debra’s fourteen-year-old son, who has a flavored tea and lemonade booth at these markets.

Look at all these ribbons Marshall Bales won at the fair this past year! This 15-year-old farmer describes his egg business at Bales Farms, Mosheim, TN. Lady Farmer Aliceson Bales shares her Mother's famous deviled egg recipe plus tips on peeling the eggs more easily. And Karen Zorio shares her recipe and story of Hot Cross buns.

We welcome spring in Tennessee with Clint Smith’s Small batch Tennessee maple syrup doings. And Author, Podcaster, gardener, and YouTube channel favorite “Digging It,” Kelly Smith Trimble on the topic of Asparagus.

How does a struggling self-described hillbilly ham smoker turn into THE man on hams and bacon? Dearly loved by locals, chefs, and customers across our nation, here is his story of taking a wise chance with his business and how that has paid off.

Today we are setting the table with a good ole fashioned morel mushroom foraging 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 for this mushroom that only appears from late March through the first few weeks of April annually in Tennessee. We also will be joined in the kitchen at Century Harvest Farms Foundation by Chef Robert Allen. He will share how he cooks morel mushrooms and what he pairs them with.

Our guests are Alyson and Chris Virden of Olde Virden’s Tennessee Pepper Company and their new Artisanal Food Market located in Knoxville, plus Aliceson Bales, of Bales Farm with a refreshing springtime recipe for chilled Strawberry Soup. The Virden’s hosts a spring pop-up market with 10 participants offering artisanal foodstuff and products.

Our guest is Stephanie Carlson of SoKnoSourDough - a sourdough bakery in South Knoxville, TN. Stephanie had no plans of ever becoming a baker. Today, we will hear how she got into this line of work, where her starter came from, some of her products, and how she equips the community to bake sourdough for themselves. Also on today’s program in Fred Sauceman’s Potluck Radio series he features novelist Adriana Trigiani on culinary cultures

Amy Dawson and Mike Costello are farmers, chefs, owners of Lost Creek Farm, a historic family farmstead located in Harrison County, West Virginia. They describe their cuisine as Story-Rich, Heritage-inspired - Mountain Cuisine. They have been nominated for a 2022 James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef, Southeast!. We recorded together in 2016, and I am so happy that they have turned their vision for revitalizing this family farm into a reality. Also, Fred Sauceman with a story and recipe from the late Raymond Bautista, Elizabethton, TN.

Tyler Rogers from Chattanooga, Tennessee, makes wooden chairs, the old-style way with hand tools. His chairs are as beautiful as they are functional. Tyler also shares his Grandmother Wyline Lewis's squash casserole recipe. Also, Fred Sauceman shares ham smoker Allan Benton's Red Eye Gravy recipe.

Today, we are setting the table with Asian baked goods and Tennessee Wagyu beef. My first guest is Jessica Carr, a young entrepreneurial woman who created Girls Gotta Eat Good, Asian Bakery. Knoxville’s first Asian bakery. Jessica turned her love of baking, many of her mother’s recipes, and a daring leap of faith after prayer into an innovative business, and she is seeing good results. An inspirational story. In Fred Sauceman’s pot luck radio series, he visits with Ron Hawkins of Hawk Nest Farms, a wagyu beef farmer located in the Greene-Washington County area of Tennessee.

Today, we are setting the table with Mead. My guest is Jay Martin, Co-Owner of Flora De Mel, a Meadery and full-service restaurant located in Rossville, GA, just over the state line of TN from downtown Chattanooga. Jay is a proponent of urban beekeeping. This business sprang out of he and his business partner and wife Stephanie’s beekeeping. And in this show, Jay will answer the question of …What is a demijohn. In Fred Sauceman’s Potluck Radio Series, he features the last surviving Blue Circle restaurant in Bristol, Tennessee.

Today, we are setting the table with pant-based eating and how this helps new moms. Today, my first guest is Meik Elliott, creator, and owner of Meik Meals. This young, black, Knoxville-based entrepreneurial chef creates foods that give us that comfort of taste while using healthier ingredients. Meik encourages people to make lifestyle choices that nurture the body, mind, and soul. She specifically works with postpartum Mothers to help them feel their best through food, education, and meditation with her Lotus program. Meik also speaks to groups throughout the community about her work. Fred Saucepan’s potluck radio segment features Cherokee poet and storyteller Marilou Awiakta.

In honor of the upcoming National Seed Swap Day, we are setting the table with swapping seeds. It is that time of the year when we plan our gardens, order our seeds, and, if we are lucky, attend a local seed swap to swap seeds and stories with our neighbors. Today, we visit with Sheila Pennycuff, a Librarian at the Blount County Public Library located in Maryville, TN, and the woman who took an old wooden card catalog and turned it into a seed library. This seed library is located inside the Blount County Public Library. It is an excellent service to the community where patrons check out seed and contribute seed back to the seed library. I also let you know about a seed swap that will take place at the Library on January 29th, which is National Seed Swap Day. In addition to the seed swap, Deena Trimble will also talk about winter sowing and seed starting. Today we will also hear from Deena about her seed saving, swapping, and growing.

Bill Houston narrates the story of Houston's Mineral Water, New Market, Tennessee - still going strong since 1931 - Bill Houston is the the owner and operator of this Mineral Well that his Grandfather established and this is a treasured watering hole for the community. http://www.houstonsmineralwater.com/ Bill Houston is a very gifted fine artist with focus primarily on Tennessee landscapes. He also taught fine art to students at Carson Newman University for over 40 years. Bill is a 3rd generation, New Market, Tennessee resident. More information: https://www.facebook.com/houstonsmineralwater/ Fred Sauceman’s Potluck Radio series features an obscure sausage called soutissa, made by Waldensians in Valdese, North Carolina with the voice of Louis Bounous who Fred interviewed in 2008. Louis died 2 years later at the age of 91.

In this episode, we are setting the table with a brand new artisanal food market in Knoxville, TN. This market is named Olde Virden's Tennessee Pepper Company Artisanal Market, and husband and wife Allyson and Chris Virden are behind this. This market showcases a variety of regionally made food products that are not necessarily found on shelves of larger stores. A marketplace to help growing food companies specializing in regionally-produced products to help grow their business.⁣⁣ In Fred Sauceman's Pot Luck Radio Series, he shares a mid-century food memory of Maude Shipley's Red and Green pair salad by way of her daughter Margaret Carr from the Central Community of Carter County, TN. And a note, none of the businesses at this market advertise with The Tennessee Farm Table.⁣⁣

Today we are setting the table with tamales and a Knoxville Tamale Tale with Historian Jack Neely, Executive Director of the Knoxville History Project. Jack lets us know the rich history of the tamale in Knoxville. It is not all ham, soup beans and sorghum in the culinary history of East Tennessee. Jack shares Knoxville tamale history dating back to as early as 1890. Fred Sauceman shares a Pot Luck Radio series on Clara Davidson who made hot tamales for decades after taking over Mary’s Hot Tamales on Magnolia Ave a business named for her late sister. And I share news of a book fair hosted by the the Knoxville History Project Tuesday, December 14 at 6:00 p.m. at Maple Hall, 414 S. Gay Street, Knoxville TN. All proceeds go to the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Knoxville History Project.

We are setting the table with Sorghum, an ancient African Grass adopted to the southern table 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 Gallagher: On the topic of biscuits and Sorghum butter.