Recipe Exchange: Fig Bread
Fig bread is an easy and delicious way to use every single fruit that comes your way during the short fig season.
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 907 articles by Jennifer Biggs :
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August 2021
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News and Features New Eats: Visit Flame Ramen, but go knowing you might need to add salt
Jennifer Biggs says that Flame Ramen is crowded, convenient at a well-traveled corner in Midtown and the food is fresh and MSG-free, but that comes at a cost.
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Sound Bites Rising COVID numbers frightening for restaurateur and doctor
Dr. Jeff Warren believes it’s time for mandatory masking; Deni Reilly worries restaurants are going to bear the brunt of high COVID numbers once again.
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Food Memphis Dining Week is coming; Erling’s is back to 7 days
Memphis Dining Week is in two weeks; have a look at menus online now and make your pick and reservations from the 13 participating restaurants.
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July 2021
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Food Cheers for Beers: Ghost River brings the brew to Beale with new taproom
Ghost River Beale Street opened earlier this month on the east end of the street, bringing food, live music, its local beers, a nano brewery and a full bar to the new taproom.
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Food Table Talk: Here’s a tip for apple cake and we talk chicken and beer
Jennifer Biggs: A follow-up tip for last week’s apple cake; a visit to an Uptown brewery; My Favorite Things comes back this week after a visit to Dory and Slim Chickens hired errybody.
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Sound Bites Southern vegetables are in peak season, we like beer and real men do eat quiche
Jennifer Biggs: “It’s the best time of the year to eat local, we talk about tomato pies, quiche, beer — and this: Do grownups eat cereal?”
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Food Recipe Exchange: Elwood’s Shells Shrimp & Grits
Elwood’s Shells might be closed, but now you can make the same shrimp and grits at home whenever you want.
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Food My Favorite Things: Dory’s Brandade soothes the soul
A zero-waste goal and humble leftovers come together to make a stellar dish for the bar menu at Dory.
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News and Features New Eats: The pickins’ are good at new Slim Chickens
The third area Slim Chickens opens at Wolfchase, with big shoes to fill if it plans to keep up with the other two in international sales standings.
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Food Bain BBQ starts fundraising dinners; Peggy’s has moved
Bryant Bain starts a dinner series to raise money for a bigger smoker, and Peggy’s Healthy Home Cooking has moved about a mile west, from Cleveland to Crump.
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Food Kelly English announces new plans for Iris space
Chef and restaurateur Kelly English’s former Restaurant Iris, near Overton Square, will be reborn as Pantà.
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Food National Hot Dog Day demands it: Relish the moment
Today is the third Wednesday in July, also known as National Hot Dog Day; Jennifer and Chris tried a few to come up with some recommendations for you.
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Food Recipe Exchange: Fresh Apple Cake
Fresh Apple Cake is simple enough for anyone to make and it’s delicious, like pineapple upside down cake without the pineapple.
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News and Features Cheers for Beers: Grind City Brewing is a brew with a view
Grind City Brewing Co. sits on a hill in Uptown that provides a spectacular view of Downtown Memphis and the bridge, and the artisan taproom has about a dozen beers on tap.
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Food Table Talk: A beer series launches, plus an apple cake recipe and new Midtown restaurants
An unsolicited recipe that you’ll appreciate is in this week’s Recipe Exchange; two new Midtown restaurants are on the way; food truck news for you too.
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Sound Bites New Spanish restaurants will soon be in our midst, as well as ice cream
The Daily Memphian is in its new office and we’re back in the studio to record podcasts for the first time since March 2020, which means we had a lot to say this week.
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Food Biggs: New restaurant, book signing ease week’s sad goodbye
Kelly English has joined the Memphis Food and Wine Festival lineup for October; James Beard-winning cookbook author Martha Foose will sign books at the Beauty Shop July 31.
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News and Features Cheers for Beers: Crosstown Brewing brings the clean & easy
Crosstown Brewing Company sits at the far west end of Crosstown Concourse and turns out a variety of local beer, from year-round to seasonal to show-off brews.
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Metro Memphis Food and Wine Festival makes full return this fall
Memphis Food and Wine Festival, derailed by COVID in 2020, returns to Memphis Botanic Garden on Oct. 16; tickets on sale July 15.
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Food Table Talk: Staffing woes and rising numbers, but we have bakeries!
Recipe Exchange is back with a good one from Amerigo; Erling’s is temporarily cutting service by two days due to staffing; and a Downtown bakery is returning.
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Sound Bites Larger Restaurant Iris expected to open by end of year
Chef Kelly English has some good news, bad news, and just plain old news for local diners.
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Food Recipe Exchange: Bean and Corn Salad from Amerigo
Amerigo’s bean and corn salsa gets a new name; we call it a salad because it’s a great side dish and perfect for summer gatherings.
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Food Erling Jensen closing two days a week amid staffing crunch
The lack of line cooks is forcing Erling Jensen to close, he hopes temporarily, on Monday and Tuesday. The restaurant has always been open seven days a week.
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Food Catching up: Some bakeries reopen, some restaurants on vacation
Two Girls and a Whip will soon reopen Downtown, La Baguette has reopened, Crumbl Cookies is open and almost every place you thought was closed is just shut for vacation.
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