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Happy New Year
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Featured Artist David King
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To Our Customers
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Cynthia Markert – Featured Artist
Cynthia Markert’s work may be among the most currently recognizable art created in Knoxville. Her most identifiable paintings feature variations of women, all flapper-esque with distinctive page-boy coifs. It’s a theme she pursues religiously and has for many years. And although she was raised in Oak Ridge and traveled and lived elsewhere, notably in DC,…
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Centro Hispano de East Tennessee – Student Art
For the second time this year, the walls of Tomato Head are covered with the art work of the young. It’s easy to consign children’s art only to that frequent gallery called the fridge, where bright splashes of color and abstract figures are hung with magnets and soon overlooked in the daily quest for snacks.…
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Sweet Pie Pastry
Recipe 10 TBL Butter, room temperature ½ cup Granulated Sugar ¼ tsp Salt 1 Large Egg 2 cups All Purpose Flour Makes 2- 9 -inch crusts Place the butter in the bowl of a stand mixer and beat until smooth with the paddle attachment. While mixer is running on low, gradually add the sugar…
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Flour Head Bakery Strawberry Dumplings
My relationship to dumplings is complicated. And it has been since I was forced to smile through some underdone, chicken flavored flour blob forced upon my plate at a church potluck. I don’t know if you know the rules about these events, but you can rest assured that every potluck contributor is judging your plate…
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Jessica Payne – featured artist
Once again Tomato Head walls shimmer with 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 excites the eyes and provokes conversation. One of her favorite memories is when, “I was eating at the downtown Tomato Head during one…
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Tomato Head’s Warm Kale and Root Vegetable Salad
Whenever I talk about kale, my vocabulary becomes very healthy as I launch into a diatribe about this nearly ever-green superfood. But even as I do, I can see a weariness creep across the faces of the people I’m talking to; sometimes, that look is accompanied by a slight rolling of the eyes, or a…
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Good People Brewing Company
I can’t pinpoint when I first heard the phrase, “the good life” bandied around in marketing efforts. I certainly and vividly recall the first time I heard Martha Stewart say, “It’s a good thing,” and I’m still uncertain about how I feel about that. I remember the first time I was aware that the “good…