An updated green bean casserole for your Thanksgiving table
Growing up, I always had the green bean casserole straight from the back of the cream of mushroom soup can.
Stories by Anne Braly
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Chef Antonio Lugo takes over the kitchen at Hello Monty on Chattanooga’s Southside
Antonio Lugo was working a second job as a prep cook at Hello Monty when he took a bold step toward a better future.
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Chattanooga Choo Choo’s old maintenance shed now houses Hotel Chalet’s new restaurant, Elsie’s Daughter
Repurposing is a big thing in architecture today, and that's what Chloe Wright and Ryan Smith have done with the opening of their second restaurant, Elsie's Da…
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Side Orders: Cook a Thanksgiving dinner for 2-4 on a single sheet pan
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, you may be somewhat stressed, particularly if you're planning on a small gathering of two or three.
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Macaroon pie serves up nostalgia; Chattanooga pop-up bars herald holidays
What is it about vintage recipes, those from our grandmothers or old church cookbooks, that make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
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Get a Thanksgiving meal in minutes from these Chattanooga-area restaurants
For many families, the Thanksgiving meal is the highlight of the year.
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Several Chattanooga-area chefs dish about their favorite Thanksgiving meal and memory
'Tis the season for Thanksgiving, and with this most treasured time of year come minds filled with memories of Thanksgivings past.
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Learn more about these new Chattanooga restaurants, recently opened or opening fall 2023
There was a time when restaurants in Chattanooga were few and far between — several downtown, a couple on Brainerd Road, one or two in East Ridge. Choices were…
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More Chattanooga restaurants turning their attention to brunch
Fluffy ricotta short stacks, chicken and waffles, egg sandwiches and spicy Bloody Marys: There's no better meal than brunch for the perpetually late, the alway…
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A grilled cheese sandwich for adults; grocery roundup for hunger; a Bojangles fan favorite
Get out the confetti and noisemakers! Friday is National Sandwich Day, the food named in honor of the Earl of Sandwich, a culinary innovator and expert multita…
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Butternut squash dish is like creamy enchiladas
I started a compost pile in my yard last year.
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Visit to Chattanooga’s Hennen’s restaurant a reminder to order steak at a steakhouse
Hennen's Steakhouse has been a fixture on Chestnut Street since opening in 2005 and has earned a reputation for serving some of the best steaks in the city.
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Side Orders: Thai salad is colorful, healthful, adaptable
I once worked full-time in the newsroom at the Chattanooga Times Free Press — I now write from home — and bringing lunch to work was a regular occurrence, but …
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A Southern flight of fancy for White Lily flour, Duke’s mayonnaise
It's really interesting how the tables have turned. Back in the day, and I'm talking the 1970s, whenever someone was heading to Colorado and other points west …
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More than just apples, Cleveland’s Apple Valley Orchards also offers home-baked pies, fritters and donuts
The day starts early for Chuck McSpadden as the sun rises over the rolling hills at Apple Valley Orchards in Cleveland, Tennessee.
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Recipe for white bean soup is simplicity at its finest
It never pays to get carried away and overthink things in the kitchen. Take, for instance, bean soup.
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Former ‘Top Chef’ contestant Wesley True goes all in on Italian food at Inman Social in Cleveland, Tennessee
With the opening of Inman Social this month, Wesley True, 46, brings a new taste of Italy to Cleveland.
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Savory baked dip contains three kinds of cheese
One of the biggest challenges of writing my regular newspaper column is party food. That's mainly, I confess, because I'm a bit of a broken record when it come…
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Make potato skins at home; check out these game-day specials
Potato skins — or, as we often call them, tater skins — are a favorite football food often seen on menus in sports bars around town. But have you tried making …
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Review: Downtown Chattanooga’s Bitter Alibi a fun and energetic place for brunch
A weekend brunch is a meal that is meant to be enjoyed and celebrated. At The Bitter Alibi, brunch is more than just a meal; it's an event that is meant to be …
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News on fried chicken, menu updates, free coffee, helping the food bank
Whenever I think of my grandmother, known to the family as Mommy Pat, I inevitably start to crave her fried chicken.
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Check out these Chattanooga area food festivals for fall 2023
Local foodie Beth Ann Wolcott remembers a time when food festivals in Chattanooga meant nothing more than funnel cakes, cotton candy and corn dogs. But all tha…
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Try this marinade for your Labor Day steaks
The upcoming Labor Day weekend is a time for family and friends to gather and give the last hurrah to summer before autumn blesses us with its crisp embrace.
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For chef at Chattanooga’s Bluegrass Grill, restaurant work is a call of service
In the 37 years they've been married, Joan Marie Worsham and her clergyman husband, Jonas Worsham, have sought ways to help the homeless and less fortunate by …
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Pickled okra among the joys of summer
Cleaning out the refrigerator is a messy task. If yours is anything like mine, there are leftovers that have seen better days and half-empty jars of condiments…
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Side Orders: How to make a tomato sandwich
Before summer is in our rear-view mirrors, but while tomatoes are still plump, juicy and ready to be plucked from the vine, it's time to indulge in one of the …
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Review: Lillie Mae’s Place in Red Bank serves up comfort food with a big side of Southern hospitality
Since it opened 19 years ago, Lillie Mae's Place has become a Red Bank institution.
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Use summer corn to make chowder
I always think of fresh, sweet corn as the well-deserved compensation for the heat and humidity that settle over the Chattanooga area each summer like a hot, w…
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What to know about cherry grilled cheese sandwiches, Chattanooga restaurant deals and mustard-flavored Skittles
I spent a week in Michigan earlier this summer and after more than five years was able to return to one of my favorite places in the world: Cherry Republic.
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Meet the chef: Owner of The Absolute Best Eatery credits Southern grandparents, U.S. Navy for her culinary career
The Absolute Best Eatery makes a bold claim, but the name of the food truck and catering company Tabitha Holifield opened in 2021 could just as well describe h…
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A homemade blackberry cobbler; a Dunkin’ doughnut to help pediatric cancer patients
Some of my loveliest midsummer memories are of foraging for wild blackberries in North Carolina — in its pastures, woodland thickets and along paths through th…
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Put your slow cooker to work in summer; free tea at McAlister’s; Goo Goo and Puckett’s collaborate
That workhouse of the kitchen — your crock pot — is typically tucked away in the closet during the summer.
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A Chattanooga restaurant is redefining Southerners’ favorite food genre
Southerners are known for their love of fried chicken, catfish, green tomatoes fried in lard and grits dripping with butter and gravy. But earlier this year, B…
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Chattanooga Bread Puddings adds a sweet flavor to airport concessions
Food service at Chattanooga Airport is flying high with the opening of a couple of new restaurants, both post-security and pre-security once the new airport wi…
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Pets put on pounds during winter months, too. Here are homemade treat recipes to keep Fido healthy this season.
Every dog or cat owner knows that the road to your pet's happiness is paved with daily treats. It goes without saying that many animal lovers tend to pamper th…
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Get your Thanksgiving pumpkin fix with a no-bake pie
Even if pumpkin pie isn't your favorite sweet on the Thanksgiving dessert bar, it seems almost a travesty if it didn't make some kind of appearance on the Than…
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Meet the chef: Neenah Miller fulfills lifelong dream with Groovy Gourmet in Chickamauga, Georgia
Like many people embarking on their life journey, Neenah Miller, 52, worked in restaurants in her teens and 20s before she followed a different career path in …
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Dahlonega, Georgia, site of America’s first gold rush, still has treasures to be found
One cannot visit Dahlonega without being overwhelmed by its gold history.
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Chicken and Vegetable Stew cooks in the slow cooker
Oh boy! We're getting to the time of year when, at long last, the days are bathed in crisp autumnal sunlight and brisk, seasonal temperatures.
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Chattanooga chef Ross Feinman shares the joys of collards, grits, cathead biscuits at Tupelo Honey
With no formal training at a culinary school, Ross Feinman, 27, has learned his trade by climbing the culinary ladder of success.
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Not too sweet and not too tart, 'Goldilocks' pickles are just right
One of the most heartwarming memories of my childhood is the picture in my mind of my grandmother sitting on a stool at our kitchen counter, her 70-something-y…
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New York Pizza Department, a fixture in Hixson, expands its footprint, menu in Lakesite
New York Pizza Department hit the Hixson market more than a decade ago, bringing a new dimension of pizza pies to the area - pizza that New Yorkers know well.
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Cheap wine is fine for peachy spritzer
There are some things that are routine in our house. I can guarantee you that I'm at the track in the early morning and again in the evening after the sun goes…
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A visit to Southeast Montana features dinosaur bones, fishing and river cruises
Jurassic Park has nothing on what lies beneath the earth in Montana's Badlands.
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Which Chattanooga-area restaurants serve the best hamburgers?
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…
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Pair watermelon with goat cheese, mint
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 spi…
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Meet Chattanooga Community Kitchen's sous chef, formerly homeless and hungry
There was a time when Prince Appleberry didn't know from where his next meal would come.
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Turn Mexican street corn into a scrumptious salad
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 tom…
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This Hollandaise sauce for eggs Benedict has a bit of heat
If you've done any traveling lately and eaten out for breakfast, you may have noticed how popular eggs Benedict has become across the globe.
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Review: Dunlap Restaurant is the quintessential small-town draw
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.
