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by Melissa Corbin I’m forever in search of cultural roots and the people that make their culture so unique. As a Southerner, I can vouch we have our fair share of roots. When Adventure Girl, Stef Michaels, asked me to head up her culinary column by starting with a celebration...

by Melissa Corbin    Pie. Pie. Me, oh my…It’s National Pie Day, Y’all! When I competed in Tennessee’s regional dessert division for the 2014 World Food Championships (WFC), it was my intent to represent my home state to the best of my ability with “Hunka Hunka Goo Goo Love.” My use of...

by Melissa Corbin    Malcolm Gladwell refers to folks who know a lot of other folks as “connectors” in his 2000 best-seller, Tipping Point. If asked who do Hugo Boss, Martha Stewart and Neil Patrick Harris have in common, you’d be hard pressed to come up with a better connector...