February 17, 2022

Girls Gotta Eat Good Asian Bakery and Tennessee Wagyu Beef.

S9:E6. 02/19/2022

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.

Links: Girls Gotta Eat Good facebook: https://www.facebook.com/girlsgottaeatgood/

Girls Gotta Eat Good Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/girlsgottaeatgood/?hl=en

Fred Sauceman: https://www.facebook.com/fred.sauceman

Ron Hawkins, Hawknest Farms Tennessee Wagyu Beef: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Grocery-Store/Hawk-Nest-Farm-435117246687134/

Emi Sunshine (sings our theme song): https://theemisunshine.com/

Jessica Carr, Girls Gotta Eat Good Asian Bakery holding her Ube crinkle cookie. Photo: Amy Campbell.

Jessica Carr, Girls Gotta Eat Good Asian Bakery holding her Kalamay. Photo: Amy Campbell.

Ron Hawkins’s Wagyu beef heard from Hawk Nest Farm. Photo: Fred Sauceman.

February 10, 2022

Flora De Mel, Meadery, Rossville, Georgia

by Amy Campbell

S9:E5. 02/12/2022

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.

Links:

Flora De Mel, Meadery https://www.florademel.com/

Fred Sauceman https://www.facebook.com/fred.sauceman

Emi sunshine (sings our theme song) https://theemisunshine.com/

Jay Martin, co-owner of Flora De Mel poses with demijohns at Flora De Mel, Rossville, Georgia. Photographed by Amy Campbell, October, 2021.

Flora De Mel, Rossville, Georgia. Photographed by Amy Campbell, October, 2021.

Bar stools in Flora De Mel made by chair maker Tyler Rogers, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

December 17, 2021

Olde Virden's Tennessee Pepper Company Artisanal Market

by Amy Campbell

\*\*Season 8, Episode 44.\*\* December 18, 2021. 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 Potluck Radio Series, he shares a mid-century food memory of Maude Shipley's Red and Green pear 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.⁣⁣ Links: Olde Virden’s Tennessee Pepper Company: https://oldevirdens.com/ Fred Sauceman: https://www.facebook.com/fred.sauceman Lauren Claiborne: https://www.lcchalkworks.com/ Emi Sunshine (sings our theme song): https://theemisunshine.com/

July 9, 2021

Special Growers, Maryville, Tennessee

by Amy Campbell

Season 8, Episode 26. 07/10/2021

Today, we are setting the table with herbs and cut flowers grown by Special Growers. Special Growers is a non-profit organization located in Blount County, TN. This organization offers workforce development training and employment for people with disabilities who are aging out of high school special education classes. At Special Growers, they grow culinary herbs and cut flowers and are supported by area restaurants, corporate donors, and community members. Kent Davis is our guest, a founding member of Special Growers, and is also a parent of a child that benefitted from Special Growers. In Fred Sauceman’s Pot-Luck Radio Series, he features the Moonpie, which has been made for over 100 years by the Chattanooga Bakery in Chattanooga, TN.

Links:

Special Growers: https://www.specialgrowers.com/

Link to Special Growers Summer Dinner Series: https://www.specialgrowers.com/event-details/summer-garden-dinner-series-with-matt-gallaher-emilia-italian

Fred Sauceman: https://www.facebook.com/fred.sauceman

Chattanooga Bakery, makers of the Moon Pie for over 100 years: https://moonpie.com/about

Emi Sunshine (sings our theme song): https://theemisunshine.com/

Pictured Left to Right are Harrison Inman, employee and artist at Special Growers and Director of Operations, Maria Laughlin.

Pictured left to right are Elise McDaniel, Maggie Gallaher, John Dudok, and Emily Knapp employees and volunteer at Special Growers, Maryville, Tennessee.

Pictured left to right me (Amy Campbell) with Kent Davis. Kent is one of the founders of Special Growers and a parent of a child who benefitting from this organization.

June 11, 2021

Lye soap, Hydrangeas, Posh Squash Casserole, and Elderberries

by Amy Campbell

Season 8, Episode 22. 06/12/2021

Lye soap, Hydrangeas, Posh Squash Casserole, and Elderberries

Today we are setting the table with Lye soap. Hydrangeas, posh squash casserole, and elderberries. Our guests are Rachel Davis of J & R Farms. She makes her own lye soap. We also visit with Josh Lowans and hear about elderlies and the syrup that he is involved in making at Salubrious Farms in Walland and Knoxville, Tennessee. Food writer and food historian Fred Sauceman shares a memory and recipe for Posh Squash casserole. I (Amy) have many growing and care tips for growing and caring for blue and pink hydrangea

Links:

J & R Farms where you can find Rachel Davis’s step by step directions for making cold process lye soap: https://www.jandrfarmstn.com/?p=2748

Salubrious Farms (Where Josh Lowans works and makes Elderberry syrup): https://salubriousfarms.com/our-story/

Fred Sauceman: https://www.facebook.com/fred.sauceman

Emi Sunshine (Sings our theme song): https://theemisunshine.com/

Rachel Davis’s Lye Soap. Follow this link to J & R Farms where you can find Rachel Davis’s step by step directions for making cold process lye soap: https://www.jandrfarmstn.com/?p=2748

January 28, 2021

Zavels Family Farms, Corryton, Tennessee

by Amy Campbell in Food

Season 8, Episode 5. 01/30/2021

Zavels Family Farms, Corryton, Tennessee

Today, we are setting the table with Family Farming. In this episode we visit with Mike and Tammy Zavels of Zavels Family Farms located in Corryton TN. This farming family is a very successful family farm in the eastern region of Tennessee. They will let us know how they got into farming and how the family has grown and the diversity of farm products that they produce. They also give some really good advice to those contemplating a life of farming for a living.

In Fred Sauceman’s Pot Luck Radio Series, he features one of Tennessee’s oldest restaurants in continuous operation “Sarzour’s” of Chattanooga.

Links:

Zavels Family Farm - http://www.zavelsfamilyfarms.com/

Fred Sauceman - https://www.facebook.com/fred.sauceman

Nourish Market - https://www.nourishknoxville.org/

Grow Oak Ridge Winter Market - https://www.growoakridge.org/

Pictured are Tammy and Mike Zavels at home at the family table built by their son Zack. Every week on Friday night the family gathers around this table and shares a family meal. Photo from Amy Campbell, 2021.

The late Shirley Fuller of “Zarsour’s”, Chattanooga. “Zarzour’s” is one of Tennessee’s oldest restaurants in continuous operation. Photograph provided by Fred Sauceman.