Boiled crawfish. Gumbo. Cold beer. Live music. Good times. That’s all that you have to do to help Porter-Leath help kids. Porter-Leath helps over 10,000 disadvantaged kids in the Memphis area every year, and they have been doing it since 1850. Over 150 years of working to ensure that our most vulnerable, and most valuable, [...]

As a native Memphian, one of my most shameful confessions has been that I have never eaten at Chez Philippe at The Peabody. It took an email from Lori Greene of Downing Hollow Farm to change that. Lori forwarded this email to us: Hi Lori. I was wondering if you knew of anyone that may [...]

Today is the most specialest, wonderfulest, happiest day in the whole wide world. You see, this day is the anniversary of that fabulous day just a very few short years ago that the world was blessed with the gift of Papa Squirrel!!!! Come out and join us tonight at 6:30 to celebrate Papa Squirrel’s birthday [...]

Last night Papa Squirrel and I enjoyed a screening of the movie Tableland at the Brooks. For those of you not familiar with this film, it won first place this year at the New York City Food Film Festival. It’s a great look at how small-scale sustainable agriculture works in the northwestern US and British [...]

Executive Chef Jackson Kramer of Interim Restaurant will be teaching a class at the Viking Cooking School on Monday, September 15, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The cost of the class is $79. This class promises to be an excellent one. The class will be an opportunity to try “mystery box” cooking. When students [...]