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Or, how one empty-nester is eating her feelings in her son’s new college town
Photography by Stacey Greenberg
My younger son, Jiro, started as a freshman at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, last fall. Rather than looking at it as losing my baby, I saw it as gaining a new city to explore. And of course, my explorations always include the local dining scene...

Two Black-owned businesses make health the priority
Photography by Jonathan Amado
There’s this misconception in the South that Black people don’t like to eat healthy. Some may say that we prefer our food deep fried, extra sweet, or covered in salt and butter. But that’s not true. People in Black communities are very healthy consumers...

Instead of deprivation, let’s focus on abundance
Photography by Andrea Morales, Food & Drink by Farm & Fig
For some, the Western New Year is traditionally marked by staying out all night the night before, partying hard in your tightest, shortest LBD (little black dress, y’all), and drinking all the fermented grains, exquisite vintages, and all the adult libations...

Through the arts and food, one Memphis couple is working for holistic healing
Photography by Lucy Garrett
Talibah Safiya Williams has a hunch. She thinks that, if given the chance, her grandmother, Alcine Arnett, would have been “besties” with Bertha Wilbert, great-grandmother of her husband, Bertram Williams Jr....