Tennessee Tamale Guy

06/11/2026

Okay guys looks like this upcoming Monday I will have an opportunity to cook some tamales. Let me know what you might be interested in purchasing. Thanks

06/01/2026

I posted on my regular page that I am wanting to make tamales to help make enough money to buy some needed items to help some immigrants in Sevierville. I need to find a location to hold an event to raise money. If you think your place could help me for this event please reach out to me so we can work out details. Thanks in advance

06/01/2026

Okay guys the contest is open. Please vote for me and then share it. Thanks in advance

The wait is over… VOTING IS NOW OPEN for Favorite Chef! 🔥

One incredible chef will take home $25,000, be featured in Taste of Home Magazine, and step into the kitchen with Carla Hall on Chewed Up!

Beyond the kitchen, there’s a bigger mission. This competition proudly benefits , supporting the James Beard Foundation’s work toward a more sustainable and equitable culinary future. 🍽️

Thank you , and for sponsoring this year’s Favorite Chef competition!

Who will take the title? You decide! 🗳️

P.S. Registration is still open! Head to the link in bio to join!

05/28/2026

Still undecided on what I should teach. I'm really getting excited about possibly doing Texas chili. Thoughts?

05/28/2026

Just a heads up. Due to a previous engagement that I have scheduled for my campaign I will not be able to do the June 16 Tamale event at Johnson City Brewing Boone Creek location. I am trying to get it rescheduled. But it is critically important that I stay true to my prior commitment. I hope you all will understand

05/26/2026

Okay guys I am entered in this Favorite Chef competition for Food Network. Voting will start soon. It would be a blast to win this competition

05/25/2026

Well there you go

Imagine Italy without tomatoes. Ireland without potatoes. India without chili peppers. Thailand without chilies. West Africa without corn stews.

This is what the world looked like before 1521.

🌿 TOMATOES
Every tomato-based dish on Earth — Italian pasta, Indian curry, Greek salad, African stews — didn't exist before the Aztecs shared theirs with the world. The Aztecs called it Xitomatl and cultivated dozens of varieties while Europe was still eating bland grain porridge. Today, the tomato is the most consumed vegetable on the planet.

🍫 CHOCOLATE
Mexicans invented it over 3,000 years ago. The Olmecs, Maya, and Aztecs consumed cacao as a sacred drink for warriors and royalty — spiced with chili peppers, nothing like the sweet bar in your pocket today. Cacao beans were so valuable, the Aztecs used them as currency. Europeans added sugar in the 1500s and the rest is history.

🌽 CORN (MAIZE)
Ancient Mexicans took a wild grass called teosinte and — over 9,000 years of brilliant selective breeding — transformed it into modern corn. Scientists still cannot fully explain how they did it. Today corn is in everything: chicken nuggets, cereal, soda, biofuel, medicine.

🥑 THE LIST GOES ON
Avocados. Vanilla. Squash. Chia seeds. Jalapeños. Cacao. Black beans. Papaya.

About 15% of all food crops eaten by humans today originated in Mesoamerica — one of history's most underappreciated agricultural revolutions.

Entire national cuisines were permanently changed by what indigenous Mexican farmers spent thousands of years perfecting.

Your favorite food exists because of them.🇲🇽