JFG Coffee, Knoxville's Own "Best Part of the Meal"
Knoxville Tennessee takes pride in this beautiful sign for JFG Coffee.
I think this vintage picture came to me by way of Bradley Reeves and his company Appalachian Media Archives https://www.facebook.com/AMArchive/
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JFG Coffee, Knoxville's Own "Best Part of the Meal"
Season 7, Episode 25, August 15th. 2020
JFG Coffee, The Best Part of the Meal", a Knoxville, Tennessee staple is the focus of my latest podcast and radio broadcast. I’ve got a "mess of guests and here’s the line up::⠀
•Bill Houston (Owner of Houston’s Mineral Well and fine artist extraordinaire tells us all a story about a former New Market TN neighbor who came up with the tag line “The Best Part of the Meal”. ⠀
•Tinah Utsman shares memories of her father “Coffee Jack” who was President of JFG Coffee during the 1982 Knoxville World’s Fair. ⠀
•Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine has a recipe for coffee and brown sugar steak rub.⠀⠀
Hope you can join us on us by radio, or by podcast (link to podcast is in the bio up there) Thank you for listening to these stories and recollections of foods and agriculture from Tennessee. ⠀
The Radio broadcast runs every Saturday morning at 9:00 at 89.9 WDVX on your fm dial out of Knoxville, and streamed online at WDVX.com.
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About Bill Houston: Bill Houston is from New Market TN. Many of you may know Bill because he taught art at Carson Newman College for 40 years. He is also an incredibly talented landscape painter, artist, sculptor, and woodworker. And one of the most generous and kind people on the earth. Find information about his art here: http://www.wchouston.com/
Bill is the owner, operator of Houston’s Mineral Well, in New Market, TN. http://www.houstonsmineralwater.com/ Bill’s Grand Father dug this well in 1931 after an epiphany dream and was miraculously healed from a severe kidney ailment by the water from this well which he established and opened to the public. It is still open and run today (and on the honor system) by Bull Houston.
About Tinah Utsman: Tinah is a talented photographer in Knoxville, and Her Farther “Coffee Jack” was at one time President of JFG Coffee during the 1982 Knoxville World’s Fair. Tinah runs a non profit where she teaches kids how to take photographs of animals that need to be adopted. https://www.facebook.com/TRU-Dog-Network-195219860507511/
About Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine (Retired Food Editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel) https://www.facebook.com/deedee.constantine.3