Food, Fun, Blues, Soul and Fellowship at the Mason Jubilee Fall Festival
Mason, Tennessee is a unique town in the middle of Tennessee’s most Delta-like region, close to the junction of Fayette, Tipton and Haywood Counties. Its …
Desserts
In Mason, A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down.
Little signs along Highway 59 alerted me to something that sadly is fairly unusual these days, a new business opening in the small Tipton County, …
Barefruit Introduces Arlington to Croughnuts
Everybody knows doughnuts, but what exactly is a croughnut? A new Arlington, Tennessee cafe called Barefruit Cafe can show you better than they can tell …
Memphis’ South Main District on a Friday Afternoon
On what was really the first warm Friday afternoon of the year in Memphis, I headed downtown to the South Main Arts District. Memphis gets …
Devour Sweets and Satisfy Your Cravings at Memphis’s Dvour Desserts
Just up from the Central Station Hotel in the South Main Arts District is Dvour Desserts, an arty stark modern space with coffee, cookies and …
The Train Has Arrived At the Station for Great Gelato in Memphis
On the Thursday of Fall Break week, I decided to venture into downtown Memphis as if I was on vacation. I didn’t have the funds …
Life Just Got A Little Sweeter in East Memphis
Until the last few years, Memphis has been fairly limited in bakery options, particularly ones that offer desserts and sweets, but more recently there has …
Seven Hours in Jackson, Mississippi
On a recent August Saturday, I had occasion to drive to Jackson, Mississippi’s capital city, and it gave me an opportunity to spend an afternoon …
Both kinds of brew at Memphis’s Cooper House Project
Somehow I had never heard of the Cooper House Project. Perhaps part of the reason was that it is being designated a “brewery,” and I …
If you just love coffee, you’ll love Just Love Coffee Cafe
Over the last several years, Memphis has gone from having a handful of coffee options to a bewildering array of coffee choices all over the …