Big Ed’s Pizza: an Oak Ridge icon

I hadn’t set foot in Big Ed’s Pizza in at least five years, and I hadn’t planned to fix that on this particular Saturday either. I was driving back from a showing in Oak Ridge when I passed the place, neon OPEN sign in the window, that hand-painted cartoon of Big Ed picking his teethContinue reading “Big Ed’s Pizza: an Oak Ridge icon”

Epiphany at the Knoxville Cracker Barrel

Anyone who reads this blog probably knows that I love Knoxville. I don’t really talk about it, but I also love sweets. Not many sweets, my extra pounds don’t really come from that as much as from love of all those manly foods that are offered at “all you can eat” buffets – meat (anyContinue reading “Epiphany at the Knoxville Cracker Barrel”