Recipe Exchange: Easy Teriyaki Quinoa Bowls
You’d eat this even if it wasn’t good for you. It’s a trifecta when you combine healthy vegetables, protein-rich quinoa and the king of fruits, the mango.
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.
There are 1348 articles by Jennifer Biggs :
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May 2024
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Recipes
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December 2023
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Food NewsHead baker ‘influenced every member of Team Seessel’
Under John Barnard, Seessel’s won the Tennessee Bakery of the Year every year and once nabbed the National Bakery of the Year. Before Barnard joined Seessel’s, he impressed the Navy’s top brass with pastries and cakes.
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November 2023
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Recipes Recipe Exchange: Sour cream brown sugar ice cream
Sour cream makes this ice cream super rich, the brown sugar sweetens it and adding sweet croutons takes it over the top.
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August 2023
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Make Me a Memphian: Get ready to eat
If you’re interested in Memphis' restaurants and dining scene, The Daily Memphian’s food writers are here to be your guides.
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Sound Bites Grab a cup and tune in: Jennifer, Chris and the Memphis Coffee Shop Guide
Chris Herrington’s three-part Memphis Coffee Shop Guide concluded last week, and he and Jennifer Biggs talk about it on Sound Bites.
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Food A priest, an archangel and 700 king cakes
Father Ben Bradshaw and his team at St. Michael Catholic Church are ready to bake about 700 king cakes. And it may be fitting: It was actually Bradshaw’s previous life as a baker that led him to the priesthood.
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Food News At Dinstuhl’s, they still hand string chocolates the old-fashioned way
Once you know what the squiggles on top of the chocolates mean, you’ll know exactly what’s inside.
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Food Recipe Exchange: Pancho’s Copycat Hot Dip
Sabrosura Foods, which purchased Pancho’s cheese dip last year, is no longer making the hot dip. Here’s a copycat recipe the company gives to people who call to request it.
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Food It’s called BluffCakes, but it’s run by a TuffCookie
Chloe Sexton’s BluffCakes are huge, 7-ounce cookies that sell out in minutes because Sexton took her story to TikTok and when people got to know her, they wanted to take a chance on her cookies, too.
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South Memphis Makeda’s: ‘The story can’t end like this’
Makeda’s began with a love story, a family recipe, nurses at The Med and a sick little girl. But it almost permanently closed after the killing of rapper Young Dolph there.
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Food News Couples who work together – and stay together – in the restaurant business
Memphis has its share of restaurant couples, and a few of them have surprises to share when they talk about how they met and what it’s like to work together.
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June 2023
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Recipes Recipe Exchange: Cochinita Pibil and Brazilian Black Beans
In addition to Alyce Mantia Price’s recipe for roast pork, we’re also giving you a bonus recipe this week for her baked black beans.
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Food NewsBlue Note co-founder turns to tequila — and saving big cats
Tequila is one of fastest-growing spirit sectors in the U.S., and a Memphis entrepreneur has launched a new brand with a cause, not a mascot.
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Sound Bites The joys of summer: The tomatoes are coming
Some foods just say summer. We say bring those on, because we can almost touch them and we’re ready.
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Food A legend takes a curtain call: Melissa Cookston hangs up her barbecue fork
Melissa Cookston says goodbye to competition after this year’s Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest. “I don’t want to be Brett Favre,” she says.
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Carlos Miguel pop-up is deal-icious
A former golf pro turned chef will be serving creative Mexican dishes next Monday at Cooper-Young’s Celtic Crossing.
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May 2023
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Table TalkTable Talk: June festivals, parties and a ‘Fries & Wine’ event
At a new party this June, you can snack on McDonald’s fries while also sipping a glass of wine (or beer).
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Recipes Recipe Exchange: Frozen Mango Daiquiris
If it’s Memorial Day, summer must be here. And if summer is here, mango daiquiris must be in the freezer.
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Real EstateBhan Thai buildings sold
As Molly Smith finalizes the end of Bhan Thai, new owners Thuan Pham and family percolate plans for a cafe.
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Sound Bites From cucumber- to truffle-flavored Lay’s chips: A few ayes, a few hard nays
With 19 bags of assorted Lay’s potato chip flavors, four of us crinkled bags and crunched chips for a home and away Sound Bites and The Sidebar.
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Sound Bites Beyond barbecue: Finding the non-traditional in BBQ shops
Not feeling the ribs or a barbecue sandwich? It’s OK, we got you. Try some of these non-traditional dishes in barbecue restaurants.
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Table TalkTable Talk: Charlie’s is Charlie’s no longer; Blue Note gets double gold
Three generations of Hogans have run Charlie’s Meat Market since it opened on Summer Avenue in 1971, and, if the stars align, they’ll have more than one store someday.
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Food Cedric the Entertainer, Anthony Anderson were surprise guests at Memphis in May
Cedric the Entertainer and Anthony Anderson have teamed up to create a line of barbecue rubs, sauces and grill accessories. Where to taste test it? Memphis in May, of course.
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Recipes Recipe Exchange: Barbecue Spaghetti
It’s not the Bar-B-Q Shop’s barbecue spaghetti, but it’s good and it’s a good place to start if you want to make your own Memphis specialty at home.
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FoodThe best-kept secret of barbecue may be the VIPit Pass
You can do Barbecue, capital B, with the hoi polloi or, for $500, you can get a concierge experience to the festival with the VIPit crew.
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