Sound Bites

Chris Herrington and Jennifer Biggs talk about where they're eating and what they're cooking for the (small) holiday at home.

Normally the busiest time of the year, restaurants are instead open for sparsely populated dining rooms. PPP money would help, two local restaurateurs say. And sharing holiday recipes is good for all of us.

Tawanda Pirtle tells us about the steak sandwich at Jack Pirtle’s Chicken, which Jennifer Biggs ate this week for the first time.

Ed Crenshaw didn’t mean to be a baker, but an accident here and an accident there can turn into a career if you’re not careful.

Come Friday, Alex Grisanti is back in the brick and mortar restaurant business. He talks to Jennifer Biggs about what Elfo Grisanti Northern Italian Cuisine will be like on this week’s edition of Sound Bites.

You expect certain things of Memphians. We eat at the Rendezvous. We love Jack Pirtle’s chicken. We crave Gibson’s doughnuts and we love our Jerry’s Sno Cones and Coletta’s barbecue pizza.

The Daily Memphian president and WYXR host of Sidebar Eric Barnes and Jennifer Biggs are guests on each other’s shows.

Jennifer Biggs talks with Karen Carrier about how she’s gotten through COVID, her winter plans, and how she ended up in the restaurant business.

Jennifer Biggs and Chris Herrington talk about what they’ve been cooking, how recipes are little more than suggestions, and as it happens, about tacos and Asian food.

Nick Scott talks with Jennifer Biggs on our new Sound Bites podcast/radio show about what it was like to have Alchemy closed for 11 weeks and about his plans for Salt | Soy, opening soon on Broad.