Our guests are Rick Riddle of the Winery at Seven Springs Farm and JD Dalton, Vineyard Manager of Tsali Notch Vineyard in Monroe County, TN. They will share with us the history, taste, and nutritional properties of this indigenous grape to the Southeast, and both Rick Riddle and JD Dalton will speak on the topic of Muscadine wine.
Make change through food. That is the tagline of Real Good Kitchen and Real Good Kitchen Foundation, founded by Knoxville native Bailey Foster. Real Good Kitchen is a shared commercial kitchen and foundation offering a food biz incubator and business education program for underserved and marginalized entrepreneurs. Real Good Kitchen Foundation is hosting a fundraising dinner, “Real Good Gathering,” at the Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum, October 23, 2025. Keynote speaker will be Katie Button, a 4-time James Beard-nominated Cookbook Author, media personality, chef, and founder of Asheville-based restaurants, Curate and La Bodega. Katie will share her thoughts about food, community, and recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. I (Amy Campbell) sat down with Bailey Foster to find out details about the dinner, Real Good Kitchen, and the work of Real Good Foundation.
I (Amy Campbell) share Minnie Pearl’s recipes for Curry Pickles and Mustard Pickles from her cookbook Minnie Pearl Cooks.
A visit with Dustin and Stacy Busby and children of DSB Provisions who farm and make home-made pasta and sauces. News of two upcoming events that celebrate and support local food and farmers of East Tennessee. Maryville Farms Market 20th Anniversary Celebration Dinner. Real Good Gathering 2025.
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.
Recipes for Cobblers, Jam, and Pie from Fruits of the Season
How to cook juicy chicken and trout over live fire with Chef David Olsen of Live Fire Republic and Chef Joseph Lenn, owner of J.C. Holdway, Knoxville, TN. Live Fire Republic: https://livefirerepublic.com/ JC Holdway: https://www.jcholdway.com/ Emi Sunshine (sang our theme song when she was 9 years old!): https://theemisunshine.com/
How to get the most out of chicken to save money and eat well, and share some stories along the way. Guests are: Lois Shuler Caughron and Ruth Davis Caughron – memories of Cades Cove and they share a family recipe for chicken and crackers Aliceson Bales of Bales Farm in Mosheim TN shres her recipe for buttermilk chicken and how to make chicken broth. Ronni Lundy (James Beard Award-winning Food Writer) reads from her book “Shuck Beans, Stack Cake and Honest Fried Chicken”, The Heart and Soul of Southern Country Kitchens, 1990.” Ronni reads her chapter on honest fried chicken prepared in cast iron.
Today we are setting the table with Livermush and news about the Annual Livermush Festival that takes place June 7 in Marion, NC. Our guests today are Natalie Bell and Alena Carson. Natalie Bell is the Events and Outreach Coordinator for the Marion Business Association, and Alena Carson or (Lena) is co-owner of “Mama T’s Rolling Snack Shack” Lena has won the Trophy for “Crowd’s Favorite” for she and her team’s Livermush dishes in 2022, 23, 24 and she aims to win it again this year.
Today we honor Memorial Day. We are so very appreciative of the service members who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country. If you are fortunate enough to be able to go to a backyard cookout, I have some recipes for foods that go along with cookouts.
The mission of the Farmer Veteran Coalition of Tennessee (FVC-TN) is to mobilize Tennessee veterans to feed America. We assist veterans by finding resources that will help them in starting their agricultural dream. The Farmer Veteran Coalition is a national organization with state chapters. Membership is available to both veterans and non-veterans. If you wish to join, please click here to join, then email us at membership@fvctn.org.
Prohibition and how it affected TN Agriculture – the hard numbers of how Tennessee Vineyards are an important part of our state’s economy, and how vineyards preserve the family farm. Our guest is Rick Riddle – Co-Owner of The Winery at Seven Springs in Maynardville, TN, in Union County. TN Whiskey Experience. As part of the Southern Skies Musical Festival, Saturday, May 10th, from 2 – 5 p.m., The TN Whiskey Experience, a new collaboration with the TN Distillers Guild bringing the top distilleries from across the state to Knoxville during the Southern Skies Music Festival. The distillers will be there if you would like to learn more about the art of distilling, barrel aging, and the history and growth of each distillery. This takes place at a private tasting tent on the North end of the Festival Lawn with comfortable seating, shade, and a bar. Each participating distillery will do its own tastings and bottle sales for you to take home after the music show. This is a ticketed experience with tickets purchased in addition to the Southern Skies Music Festival tickets
Today, we are setting the table with Bluegrass music and food associated with Easter. We visit with three guests: - Evie Andrus, Founder of the East TN Bluegrass Association. She will let us know about this association, and also the 3rd annual College Bluegrass Band Showcase at the Pellissippi State Community College - Strawberry Plains Campus - Saturday, April 26th, beginning at 11 am. A Free Event with college bluegrass ensembles from Pellissippi State Community College and the University of Tennessee. Admission is free and they will have food trucks and activities for children. Bring a folding chair. In the event inclement weather the performances will move indoors. - We also hear from Karen Zorio on the topic of hot cross buns and she will share her recipe. - And Aliceson Bales of Bales Farm on Greeneville Tennessee shares some history on the deviled egg and her Mother’s deviled egg recipe.
Our first guest is Beth Nelson. She and her husband David own and operate Hoof and Harness (located in Jefferson County) a nonprofit organization that provides therapeutic equine experiences for special needs individuals. Hoof and Harness are hosting a “Cowboy Carnival” April 12, 11- 3 p.m. Our second guest is Vicki Baumgartner, Trails and Gardens Program Manager for Dogwood Arts. Vicki shares the 70 year history of the Dogwood Trails in Knoxville and Dogwood Arts Bazillion Blooms campaign that keeps the Dogwoods blooming.
John Coykendall on Starting a Spring Garden and Planning for Tomato Sandwiches Today, we are setting the table with the spring garden and planning for tomato sandwiches. My guest is Master Gardener, seed, and story saver John Coykendall. We discuss when to put our plants out, a word about the last frost in East TN, ways of planting, and the best seeds to select for our future Tomato sandwiches. In the second half of the show, John discusses rotating crops and adding nutrition to our garden soil – practicing good stewardship. He also discusses how to grow our crops to avoid cross-pollination and what happens when the varieties cross. I also ask him about how to save tomato and cucumber seeds when the season is over. John is also an artist and has a pile of journals in which he has written stories in the dialect of people he writes about, along with pencil drawings on the pages of those journals that reflect the stories he writes. There may be a drawing of a method of root vegetable storage under a pile of straw and dirt to stay fresh through the winter from back in the early part of the 20th C. He might have a drawing of a structure that used to stand on his farm in Bybee, TN. Landscapes of places he has visited, drawings of root vegetables and seeds…all sorts of interesting drawings and recordings of people’s lives, wisdom, and dialect. I have added some pictures of John and his drawings from his journals seen in this post.
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 favorite gift for the holidays. Almost as important as the final product is the sense of community and preservation of culinary traditions that these “Apple Butter makings” preserve. Our featured guest is Derek Blankenship, an Orthopaedic Therapist at an East Tennessee long-term health and health care facility. Derrick and his family keep a family tradition of making apple butter each year at this time of year in Fall Branch, TN. The recipe that they use dates back to 1905. Fred Sauceman - Professor of Appalachian Studies, ETSU, Johnson City, Tennessee with a And also Amy shares a recipe for “Apple Butter Pork Roast” by way of “All Recipes”. And I (Amy Campbell) also share a recipe for “Apple Butter Pork Roast”, and Fred Sauceman shares a segment of Apple Butter making in the Mountain South, and a recipe for sausage balls with apple butter.
Today we are setting the table with the pig. We visit with Dr. Tom Gallaher of Knoxville. He and his wife Caryn are well-known doctors in Knoxville - and he is also a farmer - and he and his family are hosting the Third Annual Hog Creek Cotillion in Waynesboro TN Saturday, November 9th with an all-day whole hog roast, BBQ, and all the fixings, and live music which benefits two non-profit organizations: Southern Foodways Alliance and the Tunnels to Towers Foundation. And back by popular demand - we also hear from Barry and Aliceson Bales of Bales Farm in Mosheim TN and how Barry smokes his pork shoulder and makes his BBQ Sauce.
Our guests are Rick Riddle of the Winery at Seven Springs Farm, and JD Dalton, Vineyard Manager of Tsali Notch Vineyard, in Monroe County, TN. They will let us know of the history, taste, and the nutritional properties of this ingegenous grape to the South East and both Rick Riddle and JD Dalton will both speak on the topic of Muscadine wine.
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 working in a pickle factory. Amy recorded Elizabeth & Robert at the Appalachian Food Summit in September of 2016.