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Buttermilk Sky Pie Shop: New sweet spot in Bearden!

Change is afoot in the Bearden area of Knoxville! And if you’ve wondered what’s up with that little white building next door to Anthropologie on Kingston Pike, wonder no more! It’s Buttermilk Sky Pie Shop — and oh, how sweet it is! We first took note of Buttermilk Sky this past week. Their newly launched Facebook page […]

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Hashtag the #hashbrowns at Frank’s Diner, Spokane.

Just about any good diner serves a bountiful breakfast, but mostly the tried-and-true menu items look and taste the same wherever you go: scrambled eggs are scrambled, pancakes are light and fluffy, and toast comes with butter and jam. So when we try a new place, we hunt for unique breakfast stand-outs as we scan […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Good Morning

Last week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge focused on a familiar phrase: Good Morning! So, I said to myself, why don’t you spend Saturday of your weekend in Idaho at the Farmers Market? So here I am at 10th & Grove saying, Good morning, Boise! My favorite breakfast item came from two hard-working guys from The […]

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Saturdays are special at Red Stick Farmers Market!

It’s no secret that farmers markets are booming in urban and suburban locations all over the country. The farm-to-table concept is alive and well everywhere especially during the bountiful summer months. And so it was that while visiting my mom in Baton Rouge, I found myself downtown at the corner of 5th and Main between […]

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Family recipes and food that’s fun: Fat Mama’s Tamales — Natchez MS

Pass through Natchez. Check. Snap pics of historical homes. Check. Park your car and gaze at the mighty Mississip. Check. And then head to Fat Mama’s Tamales for a Knock-You-Naked Margarita. Check. And double check. We’d been to Fat Mama’s years ago. We’d heard about the tamales served out of a log house on Canal […]

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Father’s Day treats at Rue Beignet, Baton Rouge

If you live in Tennessee, your trips to a beignet shop are few and far between. We just don’t have those flash-fried little doughnut pillows sprinkled with confectioner’s sugar nearby — or even within a day’s drive, if you live in Knoxville! But since we were visiting relatives in Baton Rouge on Father’s Day weekend, […]

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Cruise into Big D’s Downtown Dive if you’re hungry in Roswell!

Not only were we looking for aliens in all the right places, we were searching for food, too — in downtown Roswell, New Mexico. (Click here for our blog on UFO Museum.) TripAdvisor ranked Big D’s Downtown Dive #1, so Big D’s it was. The sidewalk chalkboard offered clue number one: this just might be a funky, […]

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Culture’s country at Nashville’s BNA — and we lak it lak that!

Since we live in Knoxville but sometimes want to fly Southwest, we head to Nashville International Airport (BNA) and board a plane to wherever that economy airline will take us. And if you’ve visited the Southwest terminal lately, you may have noticed a little bit of country right there in the airport! It was this […]

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Celebration time: 1st Anniversary for Oh, the Places We See!

It’s hard to believe, but one year ago we launched Oh, the Places We See! We had just rented an apartment downtown in our own city of Knoxville, Tennessee, and pretended to be tourists for a couple of weeks — even though we lived nearby in the suburbs. The experience was rich: We joined the […]

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Eat local, meet local at Boise’s Capital City Public Market

Traveling to see famous sites is one thing. But if you don’t stop for local finds, you’ll just be missing out, I say. Like Boise’s Capital City Public Market where foraging for food and meeting farmers and other famous folk is just plain fun! Take this guy for instance . . . just packing and […]