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Dennis Perkins, Author at The Knoxville Mercury
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Craft doughnuts shoot-out: Maker’s vs. Duck vs. Honey Bee vs. Status Dough

In Home Palate by Dennis PerkinsJuly 19, 2017leave a COMMENT

In writing about food, it teeters on cliché to reference the Proustian moment—that flash when, at the beginning of A Remembrance of Things Past, a mouthful of tea and madeleine …

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The Drawing Room’s Costa Rican chef has a way with pâté

In Home Palate by Dennis PerkinsJune 8, 2017leave a COMMENT

I have an intimate relationship with a treadmill at the Downtown Y, which means that I’ve spent a fair amount of time watching the transformation of what was once on unattractive …

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Merchants of Beer promises to push the local bar-food envelope—with spice and crickets

In Home Palate by Dennis PerkinsMay 24, 2017leave a COMMENT

If you’ve passed by the corner of Central and Summit Hill in the last several months, you will have noticed that there are changes in the making at the shiny …

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SoKno Taco Cantina Emerges Triumphant From the Urban Wilderness

In Home Palate by Dennis PerkinsApril 26, 2017leave a COMMENT

If you ask Google to direct you to the SoKno Taco Cantina, it will almost inevitably take you there via James White Parkway and Moody Avenue, which is an efficient …

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Pizzeria Nora Fills a Void on the Downtown North Frontier

In Home Palate by Dennis PerkinsMarch 29, 2017leave a COMMENT

The opening of Pizzeria Nora was bittersweet for some folks who were regular visitors to the flat stretch of North Central Street that’s just down the slope from the north …

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