Welcome to Food as a Verb

It is a connective tissue between us. – Brian McDonald, owner of Mac's Kitchen and Bar, Rossville, Georgia

Look around.

The landscape of Chattanooga food is arguably the best it's ever been.

We have multiple James Beard-nominated chefs, a dynamic and beautifully diverse restaurant scene, and, out in the open air, fields and valleys, a legacy of visionary, hard-working farmers, some of whom are working the same land as their great-grandfathers and mothers.  

This community is Chattanooga: young, old, Black, white, Pakistani, Greek, Guatemalan, Indian, Jordanian, Queer, straight, conservative and liberal, moderate and radical. Their work feeds us. Without them, there is no us.

Food as a Verb is our tribute to them.

Look around again. In a time of chaotic media and divisive culture, we are fraying at the seams. As an alternative, Food as a Verb is shifting attention towards one delicious thing that connects us.

Food.

Food as comfort, refuge, transcendence, pleasure, meaning and memory.

Food as love and sustenance.

Food as action.

Food as a Verb is Chattanooga’s only media devoted to telling the stories — agrarian, delightful, spiritual, gutsy stories – of local food in all its forms.

Who’s spotlighting, dignifying and documenting Chattanooga food?

We are.

Each week, we'll send you photo-documented stories, profiles, podcasts, essays, interviews and columns unlike any being published in Chattanooga.

We aren't reviewing restaurants; we're reviewing society, illuminating all the ways that food integrates and intersects with culture, race, religion, poverty, politics, sports, family, sexuality.

Food as a Verb is a community of people who care about food, farming, restaurants, food culture and health.

Come join us.

Fall in love (again) with local food.

On behalf of the Food as a Verb team,

David Cook