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Mackensy Lunsford

Asheville

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⭕️

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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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Mackensy Lunsford
Mackensy Lunsford @mackensy
4 Jun 25

RT @marcuskdowling: Checked out @KidRock's @cowboy546 with my @Tennessean colleagues business reporter @HadleyHitson and dining reporter an…

Mackensy Lunsford
Mackensy Lunsford @mackensy
20 May 25

Get inside, Williamson County, my goodness.

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NWS thinks the hail could be about the size of baseballs as the cell moves into Williamson Co, it should set off your phones because the hail is so big (WEA Alert) / / 412 PM

Mackensy Lunsford
Mackensy Lunsford @mackensy
23 Apr 25

I can't wait for the Italian hot! Renowned Florentine sandwich shop All’Antico Vinaio announces Nashville opening dates: https://t.co/lRBkPUtLqV