Mark Blankenship
Freelance Writer, Editor and Critic at Freelance
Reviews Editor at Primetimer
Co-Host at Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs
Founder of The Lost Songs Project (https://t.co/q2Kc30H5WD). Nashville Bureau Chief at https://t.co/SyDAhBXYCm
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1 week ago |
thefoodsection.com | Mark Blankenship
There are secrets in the fruit tea at Gallatin High. About 10 years ago, a parent passed the recipe to Kay Page, an assistant to the school’s band program who also runs the concession stand during football games. The drink quickly became a sensation. Assistant Principal Johnnie Anderson told me the school sells between 20 and 25 gallons at every game. “If there’s a night they run out before I get my cup, it’s very disappointing,” he said.
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3 weeks ago |
thefoodsection.com | Mark Blankenship
One of Nashville’s best meat-and-threes is only open 90 minutes a day, four days a week. It doesn’t take reservations. It doesn’t have a sign out front. In fact, it’s not even really a restaurant. It’s Community Lunch, a program hosted by The Scarritt Bennett Center since 2018. A nonprofit conference, event, and community space, Scarritt Bennett sits on an 11-acre campus in Music Row.
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1 month ago |
lostsongs.substack.com | Mark Blankenship
Peak: #9 on the country chart (#87 on the Hot 100? Streams: 2.1 millionDid you know Michelle Branch was briefly a smash at country radio? In 2006, after several years of pop stardom, she joined singer-songwriter Jessica Harp in a duo called The Wreckers. They were instantly popular. Their first single, “Leave the Pieces,” hit #1 on the country chart, and their album Stand Still, Look Pretty sold over 800,000 copies. “Leave the Pieces” pretty much sounds like a Michelle Branch song.
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2 months ago |
realityblurred.com | Mark Blankenship
It would be a relief if Stacy Horn’s latest book were a horror novel. If The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhoodwere fiction, then it would be easier to shake the scenes she describes in the titular Brooklyn community. But Horn’s a reporter, not a fabulist. She’s chronicling the decades of crime that turned a once-prosperous neighborhood into a hellhole.
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2 months ago |
thefoodsection.com | Mark Blankenship
Almost everything we eat has a migration story, but some foods have more than one. Sometimes those disparate narratives make sense together, like when chefs from immigrant families create dishes to fuse the cultures that made them. But sometimes the stories are at odds. They shouldn’t be connected at all, yet there they are, stubbornly co-existing in the food.
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I'm writing about Michelle Branch's brief (yet remarkably successful) run in country music. https://t.co/U6O05A2Rvv https://t.co/9QPnvlCNoX
There's a restaurant in Dayton, TN that contains practically the entire religious history of the town. I wrote about it for Edible Nashville. https://t.co/ITFZI0J6n4 https://t.co/wPotnt7IqN
Friends, let's explore the kolache conundrum. It's a food with competing definitions and multiple migrant stories, but no matter what, it's delicious. Over at The Food Section, I'm investigating how the kolache conundrum plays out in Nashville. https://t.co/FqBHqNd7kw
