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August 17, 2025

What's Monospace? Fill Up the Eyes, Ears, Belly and Heart

"It's breathing. It's alive."

What happens when an event combines food from South Africa + music from ATL?
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August 10, 2025

The Water Before Us: Everything Affects Everything

A beautiful postcard sent from rural Tennessee to the world: here's what possible when we work together.

"What the Laurel Dace is going through is exactly what we're going through."
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August 8, 2025

A Tiny Fish, a Big Story: a Preview for Sunday

We've got a big story coming.

Here are a few things to know.
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Bakery
Bread
Chattanooga
August 3, 2025

Les Mis, Niedlov's and the Better Leaven

The Broadway musical happens every day on Main Street.

"That's what they do. They teach us ... to see things in people."
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Chef
July 27, 2025

Asado as a Verb: a Tense in Time, a Way of Life

"It was like Anthony Bourdain was going to pop out."

An Argentine restaurant comes to your backyard.
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July 20, 2025

Cow-to-Cone? Meet the Clumpies You Never Knew

Poor plain vanilla.

We left stunned, mouths open, our ice-cream mustaches frozen in awe.
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Chattanooga
July 13, 2025

Not For Me, But For Them: a Story of Freedom

Aasean Whitener, raised-bed gardens and running.

"There was always something in me that said: let's do something better."
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June 29, 2025

Ignore the Megaphone: How Quiet Lives Save the World

"No one will remember you," they mocked.

Things aren't falling apart as much as we think.
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June 22, 2025

"It Takes a Village to Feed a Village" - the Urban Farm in Alton Park is Changing Lives

Reporting from West 38th Street: the second in a two-part series

4,000 pounds of food. One-third of an acre. Heroic young farmers. And tons of kids.
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June 18, 2025

Plan Hamilton and the Unsettling of Hamilton County

When does the land win?

"Our bodies live by farming."
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Chattanooga
Coffee
June 15, 2025

Cast Your Buckets: the Rise of Cocoa Cafe and the True Heart of Alton Park

"That is how we build communities."

Reporting from West 38th Street: the first in a two-part series.
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Monteagle
Sewanee
Restaurant
June 8, 2025

"The Light is Really Special" at this 20-Farm Restaurant in Sewanee

Come join us for a most special dinner.

"It's a masterpiece," one guest said.
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June 1, 2025

Why Did the Mayor Cut All Funding for the Food Bank?

Some $150,000 in direct aid was eliminated.

In a $1 billon budget, how much goes to fight hunger?
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May 25, 2025

Grass-to-Milk-to-Cheese with the Young Farmer with the Dragon Tattoo

It felt like a nursery rhyme.

"Have you ever milked anything before?"
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May 18, 2025

She's My Partner: a different Food as a Verb story

Save Lilly, the Marine whispered to the vet.

She's my world.
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May 11, 2025

But the Fire Burns Hot: Easy Bistro Turns 20

Twenty years ago, a pair of 20-somethings took the biggest risk of their lives.

Happy 20th, Easy.
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Chattanooga
May 4, 2025

Welcome to The Table: a new form of community

More events, more content, more community.

You asked. We listened. Join us at The Table.
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Chattanooga
April 27, 2025

A Guy Walks Into a Bar ... and Changes Our City's Beer Scene Forever

Like a pitcher who throws a perfect game. An outlier among outliers.

He's created more than 200 beers, ya'll.
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April 20, 2025

Sharing and Wine: the French Travel to Chattanooga

From Meigs County to Burgundy, it's the same story.

A little French, a little Easter, a little wine.
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art
Chef
Chattanooga
April 13, 2025

Create and Disappear: Welcome to Our First Annual Art Show

Why aren't chefs considered artists, too?

"I Don't Care About Your Micro-greens."
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Chattanooga
April 6, 2025

"This is Catastrophic" - Federal Cuts and the Chattanooga Area Food Bank

Some 20% of funding's been lost.

It could get even worse.
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farming
March 30, 2025

Farmers Speak: Tariffs, Bird Flu, Funding Cuts and What We Can Do

Meet your farmer. Look them in the eye.

They will care for you and your family.
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Restaurant
Chattanooga
March 23, 2025

Everything Affects Everything: a Day in the Life of a Brisket and Spare Ribs

The story begins with a single log.

"Texas barbecue is about this relentless pursuit of perfection."
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Chattanooga
March 16, 2025

Raising Chickens in the Best Outdoor City

Why are backyard chickens illegal?

Here's how to raise your own.
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Chattanooga
March 9, 2025

"It's Hardest to Get Food" - The Hope of Chattanooga's Food Co-op

One million members, 38 states. Why not a food co-op here?

Welcome to the Chattanooga Community Cooperative.
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Bread
Bakery
March 2, 2025

Oxford's Local Loaf: an old story told new

The story of Rouge, retold.

Food as a Verb, meet Oxford American.
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Chattanooga
February 24, 2025

Sixty Years Ago: "Man Shot Dead at Restaurant"

The year was 1964.

An untold story from a long-ago Chattanooga restaurant.
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farming
education
February 16, 2025

Calling for Help: How Do You Farm Without Land?

It’s as close to a real-life miracle.

A farmer, his herd and the heartache of liminal space.
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farming
thank you
February 9, 2025

We're All Writing Love Letters Together

It all rolls back to love.

This is our Valentine's to you.
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farming
Chattanooga
February 2, 2025

Where is the Plan for our Regional Food Plan?

We can create a regional food plan.

Heavens-to-Betsy. Am I the only one confused here?
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Chef
Restaurant
January 26, 2025

The Look-Good, Taste-Good Style of Antonio Tate, the Sneakerhead Chef

"I'm a creative, so I'm big on style."

Meet Chattanooga's Sneakerhead Chef
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January 19, 2025

All the Light Possible: Dani García's Tres Leches Cake

One cake contains struggle, dreams and sweetness.

The story of four generations of women and one Tres Leches cake.
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Restaurant
Chattanooga
January 12, 2025

Freedom Is: the Bohemian Village story

Step inside east Chattanooga's most authentic, loving juice bar.

Silas Luster, representation and the meaning of freedom.
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thank you
Chattanooga
January 5, 2025

Peach or Barf? We Need a Small Favor, Please

(We'd love to be your Third Best Media Friend.)

Isn’t it funny what life - and 2025 - will bring?
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Spirits
Chattanooga
December 29, 2024

Romance, story and stars: a New Year's Eve invitation

Let the bottle find you.

Wine tells a story. Can we listen?
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Chattanooga
December 22, 2024

Something Bigger: a Welcome Home Christmas Story

Where do you go when you're homeless and dying?

"You know the story about the Grinch whose heart shrinks three sizes too small? I feel like mine has grown three sizes so large."
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Restaurant
farming
Chattanooga
December 15, 2024

Grace and Letting Go: My First Burger Since 2002

After 20 years of one thing, there was grace to find another.

What did it taste like? My first burger since W. was president?
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education
Chattanooga
farming
December 8, 2024

Farm to Table is not the Full Story

We need a circle, not a straight line.

Farm-to-table. It's our beloved phrase. But it doesn't tell the whole story.
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Chattanooga
December 1, 2024

The Most Beautiful Meal of the Year

Welcome to the 2024 Gratefull Lunch

All the great parts of life were there, all compressed in a few hours' of warm food, generosity and community.
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LFPA
November 24, 2024

The ship has sailed: the inside story of TDA and LFPA Plus.

An exclusive Food as a Verb report

In February 2024, the CEO of a Tennessee food bank emailed a high-ranking Tennessee Department of Agriculture (TDA) employee from her iPhone. The subject line? LFPA Plus.
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Spirits
November 17, 2024

Meet Bill the Wine Guy and the Willamette Valley

There's nobody like him - or his 60-foot aisle of Pruett's Market wine - in Chattanooga.

Bill Hull is the in-house wine expert - "the wine guy" - at Pruett's Market, the Signal Mountain grocery store.
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Bread
November 10, 2024

How to Bake a Post-Election Loaf

A poem for uncertain times.

When your heart breaks its leash, Let it go. Let it run.
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farming
Chattanooga
November 3, 2024

Without them, we don't eat: a few thoughts on labor.

These are loud days. Two farmers offer perspective.

Roy and his daughter Rebecca run their 1100-acre Jones Farm in north Alabama. Their main crop? Fruit, with some vegetables, grown on 15 acres. During prime season, they need a dozen workers, sometimes more.
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farming
Restaurant
Chattanooga
October 27, 2024

Know Your Burger: a true farm-to-table story

Meet your local butcher, farmer, processor and cow in this special Food as a Verb presentation.

Our story spotlights a wholesome, intentional relationship between farmers, processors, butchers, animals and restaurant owners. In life and death, these relationships are built on respect. They benefit all involved.
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gut health
Chattanooga
Restaurant
October 20, 2024

Help Heal the System: the Southern Squeeze story

They lined up outside her college apartment. Now, it's Riverview. Kelsey Vasileff's life - and recipes - make others healthy.

Standing tall in a family of meat-eaters, Kelsey Vasileff was 10 when she made her announcement: I'm going vegetarian.
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farming
Chattanooga
October 13, 2024

"Ain't No Power in Paint"

Memories and wisdom from a long-ago wheat threshing.

Today's feature is written by Dr. Robin Fazio, long-time farmer, educator and founder of Baylor School's gardening program and Mechanics' Club.This is a story of authenticity and confidence, not shiny bluster.
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October 6, 2024

The Ground Beneath Us: Boyd Buchanan Teaches Agriculture for the 21st century

"It's my favorite part of school."

It is a mid-morning Monday on the 65-acre Boyd Buchanan campus and a dozen students in Melissa Owens's Agriscience class are planting yellow onion sets, moving zinnia transplants to the greenhouse, checking on - really, cuddling - the lop-eared bunny, tilling new beds, making plans for a fall flower sale.
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farming
Chattanooga
September 29, 2024

Hamilton County's agrarian crisis: only 1,274 acres of cropland remain.

Hamilton County's lost 5,000 acres of farmland since 2001. And you can't farm without land and money. Where are our county leaders?

What do you need to know in order to farm?That's the question being asked by Southeast Tennessee Young Farmers and Crabtree Farms, who are planning to offer free, farmer-led workshops on sustainable-ag topics next year.
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