Category: Loving Spoonful
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Adama Foundation and the Lighthouse Peace Initiative
Below is a note from Mahasti’s friend and fellow baker, Jeffrey Hamelman, about his experience working with the Adama Foundation in Uganda. It is a beautiful and powerful telling of his experience teaching Ugandans to bake bread. Dear Friends, I recently returned from Uganda, where I spent two weeks with another American baker, Sara Molinaro,…
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Tomato Head’s 25th Birthday
Sometimes, things just fall together. While the pizzas and burritos you get today from the Tomato Head come from well-crafted ideas and careful calculations, it all started with an engineer who decided to do something bold. 25 years ago in August, Mahasti Vafaie left her career as an engineer, thinking of attending medical school. Instead,…
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Big Ears Festival: A macrocosm of Knoxville’s artistic community.
Big Ears Festival is more than music. This is a festival that is as much about expanding communities as it is a lineup. The city of Knoxville is opening its arms again this weekend to welcome back Big Ears and the vast, internationally renowned community of artists of many mediums. For the second year in…
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The New Festival Beer You Haven’t Tried
Nothing shines better in the sunshine than the colors of a well brewed beer. That’s certainly what Saw Works Brewing Company is hoping for this spring with the cloudy gold shine of their new Sonic Wit. Created for the Big Ears Festival, the Sonic Wit was meant to be stimulating on a hot day of…
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Big Ears Festival & The Tomato Head fund raise for Joy of Music School and The Community School of the Arts
Howdy beer drinkers and live music lovers! Our first Loving Spoonful fundraiser of 2015 starts today and we think you’re gonna love it. We’re teaming up with the folks at the Big Ears Festival’s Little Ears program, an educational component of the annual contemporary music festival. Through the program, local students from The Joy of Music…
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December Loving Spoonful Fundraisers for the Love Kitchen
Final month of Loving Spoonful fundraisers benefit the Love Kitchen. “Never take the last piece of bread. Someone may come by in need of it” is one of the three principles guiding the Love Kitchen for more than 27 years. And in that spirit, we ask Knoxvillians to break bread with the Love Kitchen as…
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October Loving Spoonful Fundraisers for Childhelp Tennessee
Loving Spoonful fundraisers raise awareness of child abuse in East Tennessee Join us each Tuesday in October as we host fundraisers to support victims of child abuse. A portion of the proceeds from all food and drink sales generated during lunch and dinner at both Tomato Head locations goes directly to Childhelp Tennessee. “Childhelp is…
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September Loving Spoonful Fundraisers for Friends of Literacy
Join us each Tuesday in September as we host fundraisers to support adult education. A portion of the proceeds from all food and drink sales generated during lunch and dinner at both Tomato Head locations goes directly to Friends of Literacy. Every $100 provides one month of instruction for one student. “Friends of Literacy is…
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August Loving Spoonful Fundraisers for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
Each Tuesday in August, a portion of the proceeds from all food and drink sales generated during lunch and dinner at both Tomato Head locations goes directly to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Knox County. All donations to Imagination Library are matched 100% by the Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation. “Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Knox…