![]() If your cockles need warming up read this tale of a 94 year old tamale vendor who has recently been the recipient of his community’s largesse moreĭown in the wilds of old Mexico in the state of Michoacán, a Mexican granny named Doña Angela has set Youtube on fire with her explicit ‘how to’ videos on the making of authentic foods native to her region. Expect lots of chiles costenos in the dishes as that is the pepper indigenous to the region whose food she is celebrating. Chef Maria Elena Lorenzo is running the show, and her opening salvo of multiple posoles and tamales shows a sound approach. I’m down with that as New Orleans has yet to open an Afro-Mexican eatery. They have an interesting gimmick in that they’re exploring Afro-Mexicano cuisine through the lens of the Mexican state of Guerrero. Tamales Elena y Antojitos opened two days ago in LA. ![]() I’ve sampled all the New Orleans-area tamale makers goods, and they’re fine but I need big, fat Tex-Mex tamales smothered in chile fresca to get me through the torpor of a New Orleans summer. We rarely used our car while we were there, which we loved! We stayed at the Hilton Downtown, which was just a stone’s throw away from the picturesque Market Square, where there were plenty of restaurants, bars, and shops to explore.Santa Fe, New Mexico Tamale MakersI’ve been completely out of tamales for two months now and it’s creating a sort of low-level anxiety in that I know if I open my freezer there is an empty corner that normally has a gallon ziploc stuffed with tamales. Prefer walking on solid ground over balancing on ropes? You’re in luck too! Knoxville’s downtown is incredibly walkable. Adventure seekers, this is reason enough to put Knoxville on your radar! Thanks to the folks at Navitat Canopy Adventures, we were able to see Knoxville in a whole new way… from the trees! We spent an afternoon conquering their tree-based zipline and aerial course, and it was quite the thrill! USA Today has called their zipline course “One of the best in the nation”, and it definitely lives up to the hype. SWUNG, ZIPPED, & WALKED OUR WAY THROUGH KNOXVILLE Some of our favorites are Honeybee Coffee, Remedy Coffee, Wild Love Bakehouse, and Awaken Coffee (and there were more that we wanted to visit - next time!). Of course there are amazing coffee shops in Knoxville. The next time we’re back in Knoxville, you better believe we’ll be doing another Knox Brew Tour.Īnd while beer was definitely a highlight, we would be remiss to leave out our daily fuel - coffee. (No joke - we all went out to dinner together after!) We can’t say enough about how fun the tour is, and how great the people are that run them. How do we know so much about these breweries, you ask? We took the famous Knox Brew Tour - and we highly recommend it! This 3-hour tour took us through four craft breweries, where we not only learned more about the beer-making process, but we enjoyed twelve tastings, and made some new friends along the way. ![]() Schulz Brau Brewing Company serves German style beers in a castle, Pretentious Beer Co serves their ales in hand-blown glasses that are made on site, and Last Days of Autumn has the best taco tuesday in town! (Paired with a habanero IPA, of course!) There are 15 local craft breweries in town, and every brewery has a story and a theme. If you love beer, you will have a serious love affair with Knoxville.
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