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Our Jackson Table: Winter 2016-2017 Recap
Our Jackson Table: Winter 2016-2017 Recap

We really did it! We ate at fifty local restaurants in a year! And guess what? We're doing it again! Yep, we're challenging you to join us in hitting 100 local meals by spring of 2018. Where have we been so far, you ask? Winter has brought so many opportunities to cozy up for some of Jackson's best comfort food. Check out Katie Howerton's play-by-play below.

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Too Much Jerk Chicken, Too Little Time (A Good Problem to Have)
Too Much Jerk Chicken, Too Little Time (A Good Problem to Have)

There’s a lot of jerk chicken in Joseph Kabre’s future. It’s the most popular dish at Jamaican and African Cuisine, the restaurant he manages. On a typical day, he has enough ready to serve a couple dozen people. But Saturday, March 4, he’s hoping for potentially four times that many customers to show up hungry for the spicy dish. It will take him two days to prepare enough. The chicken has to be smoked, seasoned correctly, and then finished out in the oven.

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StoriesEmily LittletonJackson TN, Tennessee, Emily Littleton, Kevin Adelsberger, Cash Mob, jerk chicken, local, local business, local restaurant, local food, Joseph Kabre, Jamaican African Cuisine, Jamaica, Africa, food, community
Our Jackson Table: Fall 2016 Recap
Our Jackson Table: Fall 2016 Recap

This fall's #OurJacksonTable tour has taken us from warm lunches parked outside food trucks to cozy meals in the warmth of some of Jackson's favorite spots. Check out Katie Howerton's play-by-play to add to your local dining bucket list to try for business lunches, weekend dates, and quick pick-up meals.

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On: Jackson's Best-Kept Secret
On: Jackson's Best-Kept Secret

Eggs. Flour. Milk. Sugar. Your basic ingredients for a cupcake. But so much more than that goes into the cupcakes at HaliHannigan’s Café & Cakery. Five years ago a cozy little space in the Columns bedecked in pink and black opened its doors—and its heart—to the Jackson community. Neill and Christi Bartlett, the husband and wife team that co-own HaliHannigan’s (whose name is derived from various parts of the names of their three daughters), were ready for a change.

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An Unlikely Green Trailer
An Unlikely Green Trailer

“Your destination is on your right,” said my iPhone, notifying me that I had reached 1683 South Highland Avenue. I turned my head and saw nothing. Where was the food truck? I pulled into Popeye’s, put the car in “Park,” and stepped outside into the slightly muggy end-of-September-in-West-Tennessee weather. Scanning the landscape, my eyes fell onto a neon green trailer in the middle of a parking lot. I began my approach and saw “KC Finn’s” printed on its exterior, accented by several four leaf clovers.

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StoriesClark HubbardJackson TN, Tennessee, Clark Hubbard, KC Finn's, local, local business, local restaurant, local food, food truck, food, South Highland Avenue, family, family business, breakfast, lunch, burger, Southern, Charlie Finn, Kathy Finn, West Tennessee Farmers' Market, plumbing, Caitlyn Finn, Justin Finn, meat, Dalton Meat Company, George Smith, #OurJacksonTable