Tennessee Flavors is an annual tasting event that brings together Nashville’s top restaurants and food and beverage artisans for a delicious evening in support of the Nashville State Community College Foundation. Our focus is on Tennessee-sourced products and the culinary talents and local flavors that help make our growing community so special. Each year, Nashville…
New to Tennessee Flavors this year is the addition of a Flavors Knife Fight presented by Springer Mountain Farms to showcase the talents of NSCC Culinary Arts students with mentorship from Nashville chefs. The “Fight” will pair students from NSCC’s Randy Rayburn School of Culinary Arts with area chefs as part of Springer’s Celebrate the…
Culinary travel has become a really popular reason to hit the highway, whether it’s just to another neighborhood in your own town or to another city to experience their unique cuisine. Food and wine festivals are a great way to (literally) get a taste of something new while discovering your next favorite dining destination. The…
Local and regional restaurants, wineries, and distilleries are gathering once again on March 8th to benefit the students of Nashville State Community College. The event raises funds for scholarships and gifts to the culinary arts program to meet critical needs. The 5th Annual Tennessee Flavors food and beverage tasting event will be held at Nashville State Community College’s…
A restaurant is only as good as the team in the kitchen. It doesn’t matter how talented the chef is, how steeped in hospitality the waitstaff is or how beautiful the decor. It starts and ends on the cooking line. That’s why I’m jazzed about an event coming up Tuesday, and why every chef and diner…
March 8 is the date for this year’s Tennessee Flavors event at the main campus of Nashville State Community College at 120 White Bridge Road. The tasting event will feature more than 75 local restaurants and food and beverage artisans as part of a fundraiser for the Nashville State Community College Foundation. According to the foundation’s website, it “works…
If there’s a negative coming out of Nashville’s recent restaurant boom, it’s the difficulty that restaurateurs are having finding and keeping good talent in the kitchen. Along with the hospitality industry snatching up so many entry-level cooking professionals for hotel and banquet kitchens, there is a shortage of talent entering the workplace compared with the…