
Mackensy Lunsford
Senior Dining Reporter at The Tennessean
Food and culture storyteller, USA Today Network South/senior dining reporter @tennessean/editor, Southern Kitchen. Will travel for 🦪food+music⭕️
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
southernkitchen.com | Mackensy Lunsford
Groark's 'Meat Teacher Cookbook' is packed with recipes that are quick, easy and very approachable for your backyard barbecueMatt Groark, a former physical education teacher, gained fame on TikTok for his BBQ skills, leading to a book deal and his own brand. Groark's journey began with fundraising BBQ events for his students and escalated to appearances on cooking shows and festivals.
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1 month ago |
tennessean.com | Mackensy Lunsford
This year's crop of new restaurants helps cement the fact that Southern food is not a monolith. It's making room on the table for fish noodle soup, furikake and flan. Southern Living highlights the increasing diversity of Southern cuisine, featuring restaurants with Indo-Jamaican, Mediterranean, and Myanmar influences. Nashville's Fancypants, a restaurant in a former Piggly Wiggly, blends Southern and Asian flavors.
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1 month ago |
dnj.com | Mackensy Lunsford
This year's crop of new restaurants helps cement the fact that Southern food is not a monolith. It's making room on the table for fish noodle soup, furikake and flan. Southern food is having a moment. Not necessarily the fried chicken and cornbread type (though sometimes that too), but the kind that showcases the region's diversity. "Cobia Schnitzel. Tonka Bean Flan. Olive Oil Pancakes with Labneh. Catfish Frites," the editors of Southern Living's 20 best new restaurants in the South wrote.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Mackensy Lunsford
Southern food is having a moment. Not necessarily the fried chicken and cornbread type (though sometimes that too), but the kind that showcases the region's diversity. "Cobia Schnitzel. Tonka Bean Flan. Olive Oil Pancakes with Labneh. Catfish Frites," the editors of Southern Living's 20 best new restaurants in the South wrote.
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1 month ago |
tennessean.com | Mackensy Lunsford
World-renowned Italian sandwich shop All’Antico Vinaio has opened two Nashville locations. The new locations offer a Nashville-exclusive hot chicken inspired sandwich called the Italian Hot. The menu also features classic All’Antico Vinaio sandwiches like The Odd Couple and La Paradiso. Vegetarian options and Italian beverages are also available. All’Antico Vinaio, the world-famous Florentine sandwich shop, has officially opened two new locations in Nashville.
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I can't wait for the Italian hot! Renowned Florentine sandwich shop All’Antico Vinaio announces Nashville opening dates: https://t.co/lRBkPUtLqV