Summer 2022

In this Good Food issue of Our Tennessee, we celebrate food and drink for the times when strangers gather around tables to break bread and drink wine, then leave as friends, with memories made.

Through the ages, there always have been a breed of humans cultivating the soil, bending over hearths and ovens, crushing grapes and distilling corn and rye. The University of Tennessee System and our alumni play many different roles in this food and beverage chain. This issue provides only the smallest sampling of those who work the fields, smoke the ham and flip the hamburgers.

Power T branded burgers

A Full Plate

UTIA works to nourish the nation through its involvement with farmers and businesses all while completing research in animal, plant…

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Microbes illustrated by Annie Bakst.

Safety Check

One UTC professor is working to speed up the time it takes to test food products and save people from…

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Allen Benton

The King of Country Ham

By following a gut feeling and fueling it with hard work and passion, one UT Knoxville alumnus has successfully been…

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A mountain view of Sweetens Cove golfcourse

Born of a Ritual

Tennessee and Kentucky may not always go hand in hand, but for a glass of bourbon that tastes like sweet…

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Faculty, staff and students await lunches prepared by students in the culinary institute.

Full Circle at the Food Truck

UT Knoxville undergrads participate in the real-world experience provided by the Culinary Institute of Knoxville.

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A student takes inventory of the incoming goods while setting up the Big Orange Pantry in 2020.

Philanthropy in the Pantry

What if the stereotype “broke college student” described your life? This is the case far too often for many struggling…

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Members of the Tombras family alongside Chancellor Donde Plowman, Dean Joseph Mazer and Director Beth Avery Foster

Gifts

The UT Knoxville Haslam College of Business received a $3 million gift from the Boyd Foundation to create professorships and…

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