We’ve had several people lately ask about cooking classes around Memphis. So, we’ve done some looking around and found quite a few options. Viking Cooking School offers a great range of cooking classes for trainee chefs of all ages. Squirrelly, Jr., spent a really good week in one of their children’s programs a few years [...]
Recently, Candice Ludlow of WKNO FM interviewed us for a piece about eating locally. The piece aired last week and can now be heard on their website. Mama Squirrel was charming and funny while she talked about the chickens. I was, well, I was on the radio, when I talked about our friends. And many [...]
The Forresters of Whitton Flower & Produce have a wise saying on their website and on the back of their van, “if you know your farmer, you know your food.” We are proud to know our farmers. We know and trust the food they grow for us. Well, except for kohlrabi. What the heck is [...]
The June dinner celebrating and supporting the Memphis Farmers Market will be on Sunday, June 22, at Circa by John Bragg. The five course dinner is $65 plus tax and gratuity. The menu looks fantastic, plus 30% of the proceeds go to the Memphis Farmers Market. Market-Fresh Field Greens and Herb Saladwith Curry-Fried OysterKuentz-Bas, Gewürztraminer [...]
Lori Greene and her family at Downing Hollow Farm will have a CSA in Memphis and Savannah, Tennessee this summer. The CSA will offer four-week subscriptions for each of three months, June, July, and August. Each week, subscribers will receive a half bushel of fresh picked produce. Pickup in Savannah is $90. Pickup in Memphis [...]
Andrew Adams, the excellent young chef of Brushmark at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art will be preparing a dinner using ingredients from the Memphis Farmers Market. Dinner will be $50 plus tax and tip. Chef Adams is one of a number of local chefs who source at least some of their ingredients from the [...]
(If you are reading this on an RSS feed, click through to see the slideshow.)We started our Memorial Day weekend with an early trip to the farmers market. While we were there, we snagged some of the rare fava beans and heirloom lettuces from the nice lady at Downing Hollow Farm. We also bought up [...]
The answer is: yes. I spoke to Michael, the owner of Neola Farms, to get the straight story. Until his cattle are weaned, they grow up on grass and mother’s milk. The mothers eat grass eleven months a year, switching to hay only in the dead of winter. Growing up on grass and milk sets [...]
Beginning Saturday, May 12, the second day of the Memphis Farmers Market, Bun in the Oven will present a new, expanded menu. In addition to the fantastic baked goods that were so popular at the market last summer and at Memphis Heritage‘s tea room last Christmas, Laura and John will have take-home soups, salads, and [...]
Neola Farms, our source for locally-grown Angus beef, is expanding their market. Michael will return to the Memphis Farmers Market downtown when it reopens next Saturday, May 5. The market will be open from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday through October 27. In addition, Michael’s brother, David, will be at the Agricenter Farmers [...]
