If you haven’t yet been to Blackberry Farm in Tennessee, you must find a reason to go soon.  And here’s that reason.  Run, don’t walk.

A Taste of the South

Mark your calendar to join us for our 10th annual Taste of the South event on January 9-12, 2014, benefiting the Fellowship of Southern Farmers, Artisans and Chefs and the Southern Foodways Alliance!

Get ready to make your reservation for Taste of the South on September 17, as we open up the phone lines for the first time for this exclusive, sellout event! 

Don’t miss this weekend as we celebrate the Southern table with dinners, cooking demonstrations, tastings and teachings from the likes of Chefs Michelle Bernstein, Rodney Scott, Rob Newtown and featuring Vintner Andy Peay, mixologist Alba Huerta and special guest speaker Francis Lam!

Reservations open on September 17th at 9am.  Call 800-557-8864 to book your stay before the event sells out!

OMG…completely hysterical.  What in the world is going on with chefs with their hands/arms in fish?!?!?!?

Are Chefs With Dead Fish the New Chefs With Dead Pigs?

On the cover of this month’s issue of UK-based Observer Food Monthly, Brazilian chef Alex Atala (of D.O.M. in Sao Paulo, ranked #6 in the world) can be seen with his hands inside a fish. In the cover story, writer Allan Jenkins spends six days with Atala on the Amazon river, where they eat indigenous foods and discuss the state of Brazilian cuisine. The story also includes a photo of Atala with a dead fish draped over his shoulders. It seems like Atala and Observer Food Monthly aren’t the only ones who think chefs with dead fish make for strong cover art.

The cover of NYC chef Paul Liebrandt’s upcoming book To the Bone shows the chef with an arm inside a fish. Clarkson Potter editor-at-large Francis Lam notes over Twitter that arms in fish is “the look of the season.” In the grand history of chefs posing with food, this new fish pose — Eater is calling this the “Fish Glove“ — seems inspired by previous trends of chefs wearing food. Past iterations include the “I’m Wearing Food” pose and the “Hold-A-Pig” pose. Which chefs will be photographed with their hands inside fishes next? Only time will tell whether the Fish Glove is the new Hold-A-Pig.