Montana is a popular vacation destination for many Chattanoogans, who visit Big Sky Country to hunt wild game, snow-ski or sight-see at Glacier and Yellowstone national parks. If you're planning a trip, the state has introduced a 600-mile Burger Trail through southeastern Montana, with 27 stops promising mouthwatering burgers.

Briana Ramirez, 14, has watched as her parents, Viviana and Carlos Ramirez, have revitalized the block of East Morris Street between Green Street and Glenwood Avenue in Dalton, what they call Block 79, by opening several new businesses over the years.

The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department inspects restaurants twice a year and grades the businesses on a 100-point scale.

Watermelon has never been at the top of my list of favorite fruits. For starters, dealing with the seeds is a miserable job — though, as a child, I enjoyed spitting them at my sister.

Good morning, August companions. In the summer-preserving tomato jam Linda Johnson sent from her Dunlap, Tennessee, home, a single piece of advice was printed at the end, "Preserve recipes."

Hybrid dishes run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous. For every Cronut and brookie bringing delight, there's a ramen burger or pizza taco just waiting to make you shake your head.

Packing a cooler for a relaxing, sun-filled day at the beach is like playing Tetris.

It was such an ordinary phrase, and tossed off so casually, that I almost did not notice it. And even then, it took a second to register.

In Greek mythology, Calliope is the "Chief of all Muses" who presides over eloquence and epic poetry. To Chef Khaled Albanna, who was born in Egypt and raised in Jordan, Calliope means beautiful voice, and when he wanted to open his own restaurant, Calliope was the name chosen.

Some of Chattanooga's biggest fortunes were made from the Coca-Cola soft drink originally developed as a fountain drink in Atlanta and first bottled and canned in Chattanooga in 1899.

The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department inspects restaurants twice a year and grades the businesses on a 100-point scale.

Young chefs always seem to find a playful side to food, willing to show a lively, experimental side to chefdom.

I still remember the first time I tried shrimp and grits: It was at a little neighborhood bistro in Richmond, Virginia, perhaps 30 years ago.

We're rounding out July with spicy recipes preceded by eager questions. Shall we begin?

Is there any vegetable that screams summertime more than corn? Sure, there's zucchini as big as a watermelon and plump yellow squash on the vines, red ripe tomatoes, too. But whenever I think of summer, I think of eating corn on the cob with butter dripping down my chin, and everyone else at the table chomping down on a cob like a beaver to wood.

The Big River Grille & Brewing Works at Hamilton Place has closed, according to Josh Kern, president of SPB Hospitality, which owns the franchise.

Lil Mama's Chicago Style Hoagy founder Tiffany Pauldon-Banks was looking to sell the restaurant she had created in order to spend her time mentoring prospective female entrepreneurs.

Champy's owner Seth Champion opened the original store on M.L. King Boulevard during a recession in 2009, so expanding his operation in 2022 after two years of a pandemic and with rising costs is nothing new for him.

Phyllis Cabe Blevins, a.k.a. The Biscuit Lady, grew up just across the street from where she now commands the kitchen at The Big Biscuit Barn in Rossville.

The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department inspects restaurants twice a year and grades the businesses on a 100-point scale.

The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department inspects restaurants twice a year and grades the businesses on a 100-point scale.

I've had grits cakes in New York City, pimiento cheese in Minneapolis and even Southern pecan pie at a hoity-toity bakery in Marin County, California.

I've made so many tomato pies through the years it's hard to keep count, and each one has been different in some way.