Recipe Exchange: Lentil Soup
A lentil soup is the perfect versatile weeknight winter meal, taking on a different character with a range of slight spice adjustments.
Jennifer Biggs
Food and Dining Editor
Jennifer Biggs is a native Memphian and veteran food writer and journalist who covers all things food, dining and spirits related for The Daily Memphian.
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Table TalkTable Talk: Soup instead of sun and sand will warm these winter days
Sure, it would be nice to be on a beach and enjoying the surf and the sand, but if COVID is keeping you from escaping the cold weather, there’s always soup. Soup will never let you down.
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Food News Liars’ Lunch group finally finds chicken tenders that stand up to Houston’s
The club members, upset after chicken tenders were removed from Houston’s menu in July 2020, have found a new home for their favorite lunch.
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Food News New Eats: Gus’s in Germantown is everything fried chicken should be
Gus’s in Germantown is open at Poplar and Forest Hill Irene and delivers the same fine chicken that it does all over.
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Sound Bites Jennifer and Chris discuss the ideal Southern meal
Fried chicken or barbecue? Mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes? And why didn’t we even mention squash or coleslaw? Chris and Jennifer talk Southern food on Sound Bites.
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Food News Popular restaurant takes over Blue Plate space
An established group of restaurateurs will take over the recently vacated Blue Plate Café location in East Memphis.
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Table TalkTable Talk: Southern food talk brings back sweet memories
Southern food talk brings back memories, the Liars’ Lunch group finds its chicken tenders, Sunrise is coming to East Memphis, Gus’s is in Germantown and Whataburger is nixed for Collierville.
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Food News New Eats: The Farmer serves up cozy, comfortable food
With a menu exactly the same as it was when it closed in 2017, eating at The Farmer is a reunion with old favorites.
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Food Figuring out ‘What the Food’ at Andrew Michael makes for fun
WTF – What The Food – is a no-menu dinner held the last Wednesday of every month at Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen that asks the question: If you didn’t know what you were eating, would you know what you’re eating?
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Food Fire closes Corky’s Poplar Avenue location
Office equipment set off the early-morning fire at the restaurant in East Memphis.
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Recipes Recipe Exchange: Johnny Marzetti
Johnny Marzetti is a Midwestern casserole perfect for cold weather. Use this recipe to start then make it your own.
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Sound Bites Listen to Chris and Jennifer talk recent meals, answer your questions
This week Chris and Jennifer talk a little about recent meals then open for the mail bag. Iris is coming soon, Joes’ is not a lost cause by any stretch, and the P.O. Press carrots─mmm.
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Table TalkTable Talk: Feast & Graze opens Downtown
Cristina McCarter has opened Feast & Graze on S. Main, and The Daily Memphian is giving away one of her charcuterie boxes for Valentine’s Day.
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Food Most restaurants open today, power outage means others remain closed
Calls to local restaurateurs show that most plan to be open regular hours on Friday.
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Food News Pancakes and pinot? Nah, but they’re serving wine at Cracker Barrel on Shelby Oaks
Cracker Barrel’s new wine and beer offerings are already being served at one location in the Memphis market; contain your enthusiasm.
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Sound Bites Listen to Chris and Jennifer talk about their five favorite pizzas in town
This week, Chris Herrington and Jennifer Biggs discuss the best pizzas in Memphis, and while their lists match up a little, they also differ.
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Food NewsGus’s no overnight success, but owner Wendy McCrory’s a bit of a sensation
Wendy McCrory was 25 years old when she bought her Gus’s franchise; 22 years later, she has 34 across the country and she’s not slowing down.
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Food News Collards and cornbread, covered in chocolate: Phillip Ashley’s Soul Food box
“I started thinking about a whole soul food menu and realized it would be cool for Black History Month, and that it would also be far different from what anyone else is doing,” the Memphis chocolatier said.
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Recipes Recipe Exchange: Sweet Grass Corn Dogs
The corn dogs at Sweet Grass, now available at the restaurant on Wednesday nights, can be cooked at home if you’re game to try.
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Table TalkTable Talk: Wednesday is corn dog day at Sweet Grass
Sweet Grass makes Wednesdays fun with corn dogs and half-price bottles of wine, Beale Street Brewing’s new beer and catching up with Gus’s Wendy McCrory.
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Food Russell Casey will run the new Restaurant Iris at Laurelwood
When Restaurant Iris reopens in East Memphis, expect a big, rollicking New Orleans-style place very different from the small Iris that started in Midtown.
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Sound Bites Listen to Chris and Jennifer talk about fried chicken
Whether it’s a sit-down meal or a bucket to-go, there’s something about fried chicken that satisfies the Southern in all of us.
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Food News New Eats: Bartlett’s Side Porch serves up warm story with a sizzling steak
Bartlett’s Side Porch Steakhouse is back, saved by a group of regulars who’ve made this neighborhood hangout even more of the neighborhood.
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FoodHigh takeout costs push some restaurants to add fee
The cost of takeout packaging, whether plastic, paper or Styrofoam, has increased so much that some restaurateurs are adding service fees to cover the expense.
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Food New Eats: El Palacio serves Mexican food morning to night in former CK’s
The former CK’s on Park has new life as a Mexican restaurant serving three meals daily. It’s his first restaurant, but owner Joel Leos has been cooking more than 25 years.
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