Conaway: The Tasteful List 2021
Rida AbuZaineh (right) tends to a customer in the peanut shop that is 8 feet wide on Main Street in Downtown Memphis. (Tom Bailey/Daily Memphian file)
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
Memphis is blessed by its food, the abundance of creativity, diversity and tradition mixed in the same bowls, seasoned with love, soul, and imagination – and still made and served by amazing people with a smile in these, their most trying of times.
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