Maybe this winter of our discontent gets the credit for reintroducing me to carrots. For it was mere weeks before the area’s frosty tundra/snow globe imitation that my daughter plunked …
John Coykendall, Knoxville’s Seed Savior to the World
Even his dog. John Coykendall seeks heirloom seeds to preserve from many different sources: childhood friends and seed-saving pen pals, visitors to the Walland, Tenn. Blackberry Farm luxury hotel and …
Cooking Corn on a Hoe
A connoisseur of corn, that’s John Coykendall—and he’s a corn historian and cook, as well. Though his employer, Blackberry Farm inn and resort in Walland, Tenn., doesn’t grow sweet corn …
The Most Important Meal of the Day Gets Its Due at OliBea
Whether or not breakfast is the most important meal of your day, 2014 was a big year for the growth of restaurants specializing in the morning meal. Knoxville, too, saw …
Notable Knoxville Breakfast Noshes
Cosmo’s Caffe 5107 Kingston Pike, 865-584-8739 shopgourmetsmarket.com This longtime Bearden favorite (located in Gourmet’s Market) is one of the only places in town where you can order Toad in the …