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NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Leading Persons In Personal Services, Food & Hospitality Recipient 2018: David R. Blackburn

Southern Rock Restaurants, LLC is located in Franklin, TN just outside Nashville and owns and currently operates 74 McAlister’s Deli Restaurants in six states. The Company has assembled a talented senior management team and advisory Board. More importantly, the SRR management team has a demonstrated, successful track record in the industry, specifically in the operation and growth of multi-unit casual theme restaurants as led by industry veteran David R. Blackburn. Please review the Our Team tab of the SouthernRockRestaurants.com web site for a complete review leadership. Southern Rock Restaurants has partnered since 2011 with Capital Spring as its financial resource for growth and development which has over 4,000 restaurants in its portfolio. David R. Blackburn [...]

By |May 5th, 2018|Biography, Cooking / Food, Nashville Business, Nashville Leading 100, Restaurant|Comments Off on NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Leading Persons In Personal Services, Food & Hospitality Recipient 2018: David R. Blackburn
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My Conversation With Dr. Ian K. .Smith, NY Times Best-Selling Author Of The Clean 20: 20 Foods, 20 Days, Total Transformation

Click Here To Listen Ian Smith-Clean 20 From the New York Times bestselling author of SHRED and Blast the Sugar Out, the ultimate guide to clean eating! What is clean eating? In his newest diet book, Dr. Ian K. Smith teaches readers the benefits of clean eating and how to implement it in their own lives. He tells readers how to easily reduce unhealthy processed foods in their diets, a key to weight loss, disease prevention, and overall health. The Clean 20 focuses on twenty clean foods--from avocado to whole wheat pasta and everything in between--that readers can easily find, prepare, and incorporate into their diets. The Clean 20 includes a complete clean eating program [...]

By |May 3rd, 2018|Cooking / Food, Health, Medical|Comments Off on My Conversation With Dr. Ian K. .Smith, NY Times Best-Selling Author Of The Clean 20: 20 Foods, 20 Days, Total Transformation
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My Conversation With The “Shakespeare Of Barbecue”, Chef Steven Raichlen

Click Here To Listen Steve Raichlen Where there’s Smoke there’s Fire! And where there’s fire, there’s Steven Raichlen. Following the breakout success of Project Smoke, the New York Times bestseller that brought Raichlen’s Barbecue! Bible® series to a new generation, comes Project Fire—a stunning, full-color celebration of the best of contemporary grilling from America’s master of live-fire cooking. No one knows his way around a grill like Steven Raichlen, and no one is better equipped to teach us how to deliver its best performance. Drawing on a combination of classic and boldly contemporary techniques, here are 100 inspired recipes that capture the full range of what grillers want to cook today. Consider your basic steak. [...]

By |May 2nd, 2018|Cooking / Food|Comments Off on My Conversation With The “Shakespeare Of Barbecue”, Chef Steven Raichlen
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Alison Roman, Author Of Dining In: Highly Cookable Recipes Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Alison Roman is known as much for her keeper recipes as her wry Instagram voice and effortless style. Her debut cookbook features 125 recipes for simple, of-the-moment dishes that are full of quickie techniques (think slathering roast chicken in anchovy butter, roasting citrus to bring out new flavors, and keeping boiled potatoes in your fridge for instant crispy smashed potatoes). Roman's recipes set today's trends and will show up as tomorrow’s classics: vegetable-forward with quality ingredients, punctuated by standout flavors like hot honey browned butter, preserved lemon, za'atar, and garlicky walnuts. Her ingenuity will seduce seasoned cooks, while her warm, edgy writing makes these recipes practical enough for the [...]

By |April 30th, 2018|Cooking / Food, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Alison Roman, Author Of Dining In: Highly Cookable Recipes Chats On DrAlvin.Com
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Ellery Adams, Author Of Murder in the Locked Library (A Book Retreat Mystery) Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Ellery Adams Welcome to Storyton Hall, Virginia, where book lovers travel from near and far to enjoy the singular comforts of the Agatha Christie Tea Room, where they can discuss the merits of their favorite authors no matter how deadly the topic . . . With her twins, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, back in school, Jane Steward can finally focus on her work again—managing Storyton Hall, and breaking ground on the resort’s latest attraction: a luxurious, relaxing spa named in honor of Walt Whitman. But when the earth is dug up to start laying the spa’s foundation, something else comes to the surface—a collection of unusual bones and the ragged remnants of [...]

By |April 25th, 2018|Cooking / Food, Fiction, Mystery|Comments Off on Ellery Adams, Author Of Murder in the Locked Library (A Book Retreat Mystery) Chats On DrAlvin.Com
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NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Leading Persons In Personal Services, Food & Hospitality Recipient 2018: Julia Turner-McKinley

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading Persons In Hospitality Julia Turner McKinley My mother started me in the kitchen at age three. I remember it so vividly, standing on the chair at the stove and making lunch for my Dad. The lessons instilled are etched forever in my DNA. Serving others, we eat with our eyes first. “Make it pretty,” and smaller details like always toast the bread when making a sandwich have become the heartbeat of who I strive to be. Fast forward a few years, after much success in the banking industry as well as property management. I still had this burning desire to go back to what I love. My [...]

By |April 19th, 2018|Biography, Cooking / Food, Uncategorized|Comments Off on NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Leading Persons In Personal Services, Food & Hospitality Recipient 2018: Julia Turner-McKinley
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Blue Coast Is The Official “Burrito” Of Leading Persons In Personal Services, Food & Hospitality In Music City 2018

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By |April 13th, 2018|Cooking / Food, Restaurant, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Blue Coast Is The Official “Burrito” Of Leading Persons In Personal Services, Food & Hospitality In Music City 2018
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NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Leading Persons In Personal Services, Food & Hospitality Recipient 2018: Thomas Cook

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading Persons In Hospitality Chef Thomas Cook Thomas Cook is the executive chef of Trattoria Il Mulino at Hilton Nashville Downtown, a position where he helms the culinary direction of the casual chic Italian restaurant as envisioned by the concept’s guiding executive chef, Michele Mazza. As part of the restaurant’s signature Abruzzese-inspired Italian cuisine that pairs traditional flavors with inventive dishes, Chef Cook incorporates flavors of Music City into his seasonal menus. Prior to joining Trattoria Il Mulino, Cook was executive chef since 2005 at the historic Union Station Hotel in Nashville where he established Prime 108 as an award-winning, premier fine dining restaurant with contemporary American cuisine [...]

By |April 13th, 2018|Cooking / Food, Restaurant|Comments Off on NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Leading Persons In Personal Services, Food & Hospitality Recipient 2018: Thomas Cook
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Nathan Turner’s I Love California: Live, Eat, And Entertain The West Coast Way Chats On DrAlvin.com

Click Here To Listen Nathan Turner Designer Nathan Turner’s style is synonymous with the easy glam of California living. His first book introduced readers to his casual American style and chic design sense. Now, he has written a love letter to his home state in I Love California. This book is a journey up and down Highway 1 that takes readers from the redwoods of northern San Francisco, to the mountains of the Sierra Nevada, to the beaches of Southern California. Simple recipes and tips for entertaining are featured alongside never-before-seen interiors. Lavish photographs capture the homes, people, and food of each unique location in glorious, sun-drenched detail. This book even includes Turner’s signature recipes [...]

By |April 13th, 2018|Cooking / Food, Design, Travel|Comments Off on Nathan Turner’s I Love California: Live, Eat, And Entertain The West Coast Way Chats On DrAlvin.com
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NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Leading Persons In Personal Services, Food & Hospitality Recipient 2018: Chef Jessica Collins

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading Persons In Hospitality Chef Jessica Collins Jessica developed her love of cooking at an early age. She enjoyed spending time in the kitchen with her mom and grandmothers watching them and helping them prepare meals. She attended Johnson County Community College’s Culinary Arts program in 2000, and in 2004 she graduated with honors. She received Associate’s degrees in Culinary Arts and Food and Beverage Management. Upon graduation, she decided to move to Nashville TN where she has been ever since. She worked as a Pastry Supervisor at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center for five years until the flood shut the hotel down. Jessica has worked [...]

By |April 11th, 2018|Cooking / Food|Comments Off on NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Leading Persons In Personal Services, Food & Hospitality Recipient 2018: Chef Jessica Collins
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