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Benton’s Old Style Country Hams and Bacon

I’ve been hearing about Benton’s country hams and bacon for years now and have promised myself that whenever I make it to the area I’ll stop in and try some. Now I find out you can order it online and have it shipped to your home. I’m debating on it… With shipping it looks like 4 lbs of bacon will work out to $10 per lb or close enough for government work…A bit pricey for a daily bacon fix but twice as much as the supermarket bacon I’ve been using for years.

Benton Family Cure from Jennifer Davick on Vimeo.

CURED from UM Media Documentary Projects on Vimeo.

Tiny Tenn. smokehouse earns big rep with ‘time and patience’ By MERIDITH FORD

Allan Benton drives a 1994 Ford truck with a covered bed, and when he places the key in the ignition and fires it up, the air conditioner blows out air steeped in smoke — the kind of smoke laced with hickory from a smokehouse.

Benton is considered perhaps the greatest ham and bacon smoker in the United States — at least that’s what nationally acclaimed chefs such as John Fleer, the former executive chef of Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tenn., will tell you.

“I can talk to you about Allan,” Fleer says, “but understand that the conversation will border on hero worship.”

via Lifestyle | ajc.com.

Thanks to Jason Kottke for the links

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March 28th, 2012 | Leave a comment

Timber Rattlesnake – Cumberland Gap Trail

Just another thing to watch out for as you hike around the Appalachians…

A large Timber Rattlesnake calmly slithers across the Cumberland Gap Trail – accessible form the Elkmont Campground area within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The timber rattler is a notoriously thick rattlesnake and is well camouflaged in the dense understory of the Elkmont area of the Smokies. This rattler is one of two venomous snakes in the Smokies – the other being the copperhead. Encounters are few and far between.

February 18th, 2012 | One comment

Cherokee Trail » Knoxville News Sentinel

DEL RIO, Tenn. — Anyone who has driven U.S. Highway 25-70 from Knoxville to Hot Springs, N.C., is familiar with the striking beauty of the French Broad River valley.

One of the best ways to explore this territory is to hike the Paint Mountain-Chimney Rocks trails in the Cherokee National Forest between Del Rio and Hot Springs. This six-mile loop is located in the national forest’s Nolichucky Ranger District, which covers 80,000 acres in the mountains of Cocke and Greene counties. Both trails were damaged by tornadoes in April 2011, but they’re now in excellent shape thanks to a rehabilitation project the U.S. Forest Service completed in early December.

via Changing views of French Broad valley highlight of Cherokee trail » Knoxville News Sentinel.

February 8th, 2012 | Leave a comment
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