Category: Knoxville
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Our love for National Peanut Butter Month
At last, the chill of autumn seems to have arrived, and with it comes a heightened sense of holidays. There are an incredible number of things to celebrate, including a fete for which we are truly grateful: National Peanut Butter Month. Actually, there are a whole bunch of food products that claim November as their…
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November’s Featured Brewery: Highland Brewing Company
There are many things to love about Asheville; it’s not only a pretty cool city to have close enough to us to call a neighbor, but it’s also the home of great beer. For the month of November, we’re particularly thankful that the Highland Brewing Company lives just over the mountains. Highland, Asheville’s first legal…
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Our Featured Artist: Barbara Johnson
When you visit Tomato Head this month, you’ll be amidst a series of paintings that are full of images that are industrial and/or mechanical. But, if you’ll take a moment to consider each one and let them sink in while you sit and eat, you may find yourself asking what it is you really saw.…
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Celebrate National Pizza Month with us!
If you read our last post, then you know that we’re in the midst of National Dessert Month. And yet, that’s only one part of the story of October. One of the most important holidays of the year is already upon us, but it’s one that we never stop celebrating. Unlike Christmas and Thanksgiving, which…
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Why October makes perfect sense as National Dessert Month
The scent of autumn takes on many nuances as it wafts through October. There are smoky gusts of bonfires in the air, a musty, earthy smell swirls from the trees alongside multi-colored leaves, and beneath all of that the air itself has a new and brisk scent that’s as crisp as it feels. Inside, the…
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October’s Featured Brewery: Yee-Haw Brewing Company
There’s something special brewing at Tomato Head in October – well, it’s not actually brewing here, but it is flowing happily from our taps. What makes our taps so special this month is that what’s coming out of them epitomizes everything we love in beer: the beer tastes good; the brewery offers a nice variety…
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Our Featured Artist: Jessica Payne Art
From now until October 5, Tomato Head features the many-hued and luminous paintings of Jessica Payne. One of our favorite local artists, Jessica’s work fills the space with vivid color and imagery that never fails to excite conversation. One of her favorite memories is when, “I was eating at the downtown Tomato Head during one…
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The Best Biscuit Recipe for National Biscuit Month
As difficult as it may be for Knoxvillians to believe it, May, the month of the International Biscuit Festival, isn’t National Biscuit Month. That honor belongs to September. Of course, real biscuit lovers celebrate on a daily basis, and I’m not sure that the official observance attracts much attention – it doesn’t seem to come…
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Tomato Head Open Call for Artists
The Tomato Head is accepting submissions for its 2016 art exhibition schedule. Artists may submit a CD or email of 5-10 images of wall-mountable work to: Tomato Head Exhibits Committee (for CDs) c/o Bethann DeGrow Smtih 1710 Jefferson Avenue Knoxville, TN 37917 or bethann@degrow.com Labeled CDs are requested by October 26th, 2015. Please include a…
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Flour Head Bakery’s Chocolate Zucchini Pan Cake
If you polled farmers about garden humor, I suspect that you’d find out that the poor, prolific zucchini is a popular subject for jokes. That’s because, like rabbits, this summer squash greets life with a singular drive to be fruitful and multiply. I have one gardener friend who tells tales about drive-by squashings; these midnight…