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JFG Coffee, The Best Part of the Meal", a Knoxville, Tennessee staple is the focus of my latest podcast and radio broadcast. I’ve got a "mess of guests and here’s the line up::⠀
•Bill Houston (Owner of Houston’s Mineral Well and fine artist extraordinaire tells us all a story about a former New Market TN neighbor who came up with the tag line “The Best Part of the Meal”. ⠀
•Tinah Utsman shares memories of her father “Coffee Jack” who was President of JFG Coffee during the 1982  Knoxville World’s Fair. ⠀
•Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine has a recipe for coffee and brown sugar steak rub.

Overnight refrigerator pickles: Food Historian Fred Sauceman shares a recipe for overnight pickles that he received from Lynn Tolley, the great grand nice of Jack Daniels.  This pickle is served at Miss Mary Bobo’s Boarding House, in Lynchburg, Tennessee. 295 Main St. Lynchburg, TN. Phone: (931) 759-7394. (Recipe below)

Also, Fred Sauceman shares a Pot Luck Radio segment with a very talented young Bluegrass musician, contributor to the magazine Bluegrass Today - and a graduate of the ETSU Appalachian Studies department Mr John Curtis Goad. John will share his family’s tradition of Christmas pickles, or party pickles by way of his late grandmother “ Vena Goad” from Blair’s Gap, of Hawkins Co, TN.

Bread & Butter Squash Pickles, made from yellow summer squash, this is an old Alabama recipe by way of: Linda Rogers Weiss. Her blog is called Southern Cooking at Home and it is full of classic, southern recipes. (Recipe is Below, or on the link provided.)

Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine - Retired Food editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel shares great canning tips. @SkilletSister

And Amy shares her Great Grand Mother’s recipe for Pickled Water Melon Rind. This comes by way of Ollie McElroy from Mississippi.

“A Knoxville Tamale Tale” with Jack Neely. Jack lets us know the rich history of the tamale in Knoxville. It's not all ham, soup beans and sorghum in the culinary history of East Tennessee. Jack tells us about the rich tamale history dating back to as early as 1890. Jack is the Executive Director of the Knoxville History Project.

Overhill Gardens, Monroe County, Tennessee with owner Avi Askey. Overhill Gardens is a Native plant nursery, and Eco-Friendly Landscapes, Hardscape, and design business. Amy interviews owner Avi Askey about his work for over 20 years now to improve region’s ecology through his work of saving native plants, and endangered native plant species. 

Also Fred Sauceman shares a segment with the recording of the voice of Janette Carter as she shares her recipe for Chow Chow.

Plus news of the Blount County Beekeepers Association upcoming meeting July 13, 2020 and news of an upcoming virtual benefit music concert August 1, 2020 to benefit Seed Savers Exchange.

Today, we are setting the table with our little friends, pollinators and the honey bee and ways that we can help to protect them. We will visit today with 2 families who raise bees in East, TN. D & Jim Brown who own and run Honey Rock Herb Farm, in Louisville, TN and have raised bees for over 40 years. Coley and Judy O’Dell who own and run Smoky Ridge Apiaries in Maryville, TN and have taught countless individuals how to raise bees, care for hives and the bees, and we will also hear about their self serve honey stand which sits in their front yard.

Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine the happily retired food editor for the Knoxville News Sentinel will share a recipe with us today for Chipotle, Almond butter with honey

We also get to hear from our friend Fred Sauceman from Johnson City with his “Pot Luck Radio Series”, on this series today, we hear about “Hot Slaw” from Polk County.

Today, we are setting the table with 2 farmers’ markets in East, TN. We first visit with Chris Battle, one of the people who helped to create the Eastside Sunday Farmers’ Market located right on the edge of downtown Knoxville in East, Knoxville. This is an urban area in need of sources of fresh, nutritious produce. Chris Battle is in a mission to help bring a solution to the problem of limited access of affordable, and accessible fresh, farm grown produce for his community. We will also visit with farmer, Vernon Wilson and beekeeper, Larry Skidmore from the Greenback Farmer’s Market which takes place on Tuesdays at the old train depot in Greenback, TN.

Today, we are setting the table with fly fishing and how to cook trout over an open fire. Our guests are fly fishing guides Charity and Ian Rudder of R&R Fly Fishing from Townsend, TN. Charity is also leading a "River Discovery" event to benefit Freshwatersillustrated.org June 18, in Townsend, TN. Also James Beard Award winning Chef Joseph Lenn, Owner of JC Holdway restaurant located in downtown Knoxville, TN tells us how to cook a trout over an open fire.

A visit with John and Rachel Davis, owners of J & R Farms in Blount County, Tennessee. And John’s family has saved and raised an heirloom bean for generations that they call the “Striped Stick Bean” - a bean that comes from the last residents of Cades Cove Kermit and Lois Caughron and John’s ancestors.

For his “Potluck Radio” series, Fred Sauceman recalls a Tennessee memories of the Franklin Club and of Raymond Bautista owner of the former restaurant “Raymond’s Fine Foods” along with Raymond’s recipe for Cole Slaw. Raymond’s Fine foods was inducted into the Tennessee Restaurant Hall of Fame.

Genera, a Biomass solutions company in Vonore, Tennessee. 
Today, we are setting the table with a really good story in East, Tennessee Agriculture. We visit with Genera, in Vonore, Tennessee - this is a company that manufactures compostable food service table ware, take out containers and such from domestically sourced, sustainably raised switchgrass and biomass sorghum. Genera is actively recruiting local farmers and land owners to grow these sustainable crops, and today we will visit with Kelley Tiller who is CEO of Genera, Sam Jackson, VP of business development, And Brad Valentine, feedstock manager. The product line brand name for the molded products made from the switchgrass and bio mass sorghum is “Earthables” and it is available through distributors.

Our friend Fred Sauceman of Johnson City shares a Potluck radio segment on Wild Mountain Leeks - known in Appalachia as Ramps - with the late JoAnne Kalonaheskie - who was a member of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation.

Today, we are setting the table with Mother’s Day Strawberries. 
I’ve got a recipe for a scratch made strawberry shortcake, and an easy bisquick shortcake for you Mothers’ Day dessert. Fred Sauceman shares a little story about Wayne Scott, one of Tennessee’s most respected strawberry farmers who passed away in 2008. Mary Dee Dee Constantine, retired food editor from the Knoxville News Sentinel has a recipe for easy strawberry jam. And James Beard Award winning Food Writer Ronni Lundy recites her story “Drive In Strawberry Pie”.