Mary Constantine

A five-course South African wine dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. July 20, at Cru Bistro and Wine Bar, 11383 Parkside Drive.

Registration is now being accepted for July cooking classes at Glass Bazaar.

Every Sunday evening, Brian and Judy Phillips gather at the home of Steve and Jennifer Dedman. It's there that they enjoy the bloodthirsty antics of "True Blood" vampire Bill Compton and his on-again-off-again telepathic waitress of a girlfriend, Sookie Stackhouse.

Limited space is still available for the French wine dinner to be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 19, at Bistro by the Tracks, 215 Brookview Centre Drive.

Chef Karen Crumley will present the following sushi-making classes at Avanti Savoia, 7610 Maynardville Highway.

The Market Square Farmers’ Market will features its Market Mixer Cocktail Contest from noon-9 p.m. Saturday, July 17.

A two-part hands-on class on how to pressure can and make jams and jellies will be held from 1-3 p.m. July 20 and July 22 at the food laboratory in Blye-Poteat Hall on the campus of Carson-Newman College.

In celebration of it’s 10th anniversary, Moe’s Southwest Grill will be giving away free six-ounce cups of queso on Wednesday, July 21.

Laetitia wines will be featured at the July 18 wine dinner to be held at 6:30 p.m., July 18, at Season’s Cafe, 12740 Kingston Pike.

Baker Peters Jazz Club, 9000 Kingston Pike, will host a wine dinner at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 15.

Four styles of mead and culinary pairings to include cheeses and jelly, chocolate truffles and seasonal fruit, will be held at 7:30 p.m. , July 24, at Shady Grove Meadery, Lake City.

Free technique classes and demonstrations will be presented at Williams-Sonoma, 7600 Kingston Pike.

Learn to read labels and make better choices in the grocery store by attending one of three grocery store tours to be led by registered dietitians from the University of Tennessee Medical Center’s Heart Lung Vascular Institute.

The wine education seminar Second Saturdays for Second Harvest will be held 4-6 p.m. Saturday, July 10, at Granite and Marble Works Showroom, 707 N. Campbell Station Road.

Gnarley Head Wines will be featured at the weekly wine-tasting event to be held 5-7 p.m. Thursday, July 8, at 242 Morell Road.

Three free programs, music, refreshments and door prizes will be featured at Garlic Fest 2010 to be held 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, July 17, at Erin’s Meadow Herb Farm, 132 England Lane, Clinton.

A wine dinner to be held 6:30 p.m. July 15, at Sunspot, 1909 Cumberland Ave., will feature wines from the Grateful Palate Imports.

July cooking demonstrations at the Fresh Market will feature firecracker raspberry chipotle glazed shrimp with summer pasta and vegetable salad with roasted garlic dressing.

From 3-6 p.m. Thursday, July 24, New Harvest Park Farmers’ Market, 4775 New Harvest Lane, will celebrate its grand opening with cooking demonstrations by Farmers’ Market vendors David Guinn of V.G.”s Bakery and Jessica Hammonds of Organicism Farms.

“Southwestern Chic” (7 p.m., July 6) and “Pacific Northwest Spectacular” (7 p.m., July 20) are topics of July’s culinary classes to be offered by Avanti Savoia, 7610 Maynardville Pike.

Complimentary gluten-free appetizers will be served at the Northshore Brasserie as they host their first Gluten-free happy hour from 5-6:30 p.m. Friday, July 9 at the restaurant, 9430 Northshore Drive

Cork Savvy! is a fundraising event sponsored by the Knoxville Area Urban League’s Young Professionals organization.

The Market Square Farmers Market organization is compiling its first community cookbook and needs your recipes.

A California-inspired wine dinner will be held 6:30 p.m. June 22, at Oodles Uncorked, 18 Market Square.

Wine from St. Supery Vineyards will be held 6:30 p.m. June 22, at Bistro by the Tracks, 215 Brookview Centreway, Suite 109.

Congratulations to Linda Bridges who won “The Diabetic Pastry Chef” cookbook by Stacey Harris.

“Think Inside the Box” is a wine tasting event featuring over 40 boxed wines to be held 6:30 p.m. June 24 at Fox Den Country Club, 12284 North Fox Den Drive.

From 5-7 p.m. each Thursday, guests at Puleo Grill, 242 Morrell Road, can enjoy a happy hour buffet and sampling of four wines for $10.

The 12th annual Lavender Festival herb luncheon will be held at noon Friday, June 18, at Historic Jackson Square in Oak Ridge, featuring guest speaker Jeff Ross, garden manager for Blackberry Farm, Walland.

Friends of James Beard Benefit, to be held 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 29, at Blackberry Farm, 1471 West Millers Cove Road, Townsend, will feature cuisine of 2010 James Beard Foundation award-winning chef Sean Brock of McCrady’s and chef Adam Cooke ...

“Journey through the Mediterranean Diet” will be presented at noon Wednesday, June 30, in conjunction with the University of Tennessee Medical Center’s Heart Lung Vascular Institute’s Healthy Living Cooking Class.

Cooking demonstrations by “Joy of Cooking” author Ethan Becker will be presented at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 12, at Today’s Woman Expo at Anderson County High School.

East Tennessee Children’s Hospital’s Camp Cure is the beneficiary of this year’s Cityview Magazine Top Chefs of Knoxville event to be held 6-11 p.m. Saturday, June 19, at Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.

The Knox County Health Department will present “Change your Diet, Change Your Life,” from noon-1 p.m. Friday, June 11, in the auditorium.

“Think Inside the Box” is a wine tasting event to be presented at 6:30 p.m. June 24, at Fox Den Country Club, 12284 North Fox Den Drive.

Mondavi Family of Wines will be featured at the Second Saturdays for Second Harvest wine-tasting and education seminar to be held 4-6 p.m. June 12, at Granite and Marble Works Showroom, 707 N. Campbell Station Road.

Four culinary classes will be held in June at Glass Bazaar.

Free-hour-long technique classes will be held each Sunday in June at noon at Williams-Sonoma, 7600 Kingston Pike.

Chris Ford opened Sweet P’s Barbeque & Soul House at Willow Point Marina, 3725 Maryville Pike, in May of 2009. Before that, Sweet P’s was a catering business operated out of Ford’s home. It was during that time that Ford’s ...

RouXbarbeque opened April 21. It is owned by Chef Bruce Bogartz and Kerry Mitchell. The menu features barbecue, Cajun and creole dishes.

Dixson Bar-B-Q is a family business that has been in operation since 1989. It’s owned by father and son team Bill and Toby Dixson, respectively. Cousins Wayne McCallie and Marvin Dixson help with the business. Toby answers the following questions.

From 5-7 p.m. Thursday, May 20, guests can enjoy a wine tasting event featuring Concho y Toro and Carmanet wines at Puleos Grille, 242 Morrell Road.

For every purchase of Moe's Homewrecker meal purchased between now and May 23, Moe's Southwest Grill will donate $1 to the Tennessee flood victims and Hands On Nashville.

A four-course wine dinner featuring Australian wines will be served at 6:30 p.m. May 24, at Oodles Uncorked, 18 Market Square.

Chris Lilly, owner of Big Bob Gibson Restaurants in Decatur, Ala., and 10 time world barbecue champion will present a backyard barbecue cooking class 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 22, at Dead End BBQ, 3621 Sutherland Ave.

Nama Restaurant, 5130 Kingston Pike, will present a sake tasting event at 6 p.m. May 25.

Thomas Keller, restauranteur and cookbook author, has a reputation for turning ideas into gold.

When Charles and Gwen Chandler decided to turn a former Taco Bell building into a drive-through delicatessen, their plan took a left turn, and so did their lives.

The Dandridge Farmers’ Market is accepting vendor applications.

A new Tuscan farmhouse designed Olive Garden Restaurant will open at 4 p.m. Monday, May 17 at 244 Hamilton Crossing Drive in Alcoa.