Perfect Provisions for a Romantic Mountain Getaway
This week we are in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Our family owns 4 cabins on the top of a ridge near the peak of Cove Mountain. We rent them out year round, to families who are visiting the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Now, it is our turn to do some maintenance on the cabins and enjoy them for a few days, ourselves.
Our flight touched down in Knoxville, TN and we got our rental car and headed straight for a natural market we heard about from our brother and sister-in-law. Anxious to provision our mountain cabin with healthy food, we were excited to shop at this new store.
We couldn’t believe our eyes, a sign in the window said “pasture-raised meats.”
Maryville Market --Wonderful Healthy Food
On previous trips, we would always lament the unavailability of healthy food. We did find bison and raw cheese in a gourmet supermarket, once, but that was about it.
Lunchtime at The Market
The Market in Maryville consists of 5 unique businesses under one roof. Ciao, is a deli counter, that sells sandwiches, snacks and grass-fed hot dogs with sauerkraut and coleslaw, which we couldn’t resist trying. We took our dogs in a bowl, forgoing the bun since we are low carb eaters. Out of this world, good, too!
Manager Mike Adams Speaks to Customer
Then there is the Blue Moon Fish Company with a wonderful array of seafood, including crawdads and local mountain trout.
Laurel Creek Farm has bison, grass fed meats, bacon in their meat counter. Since we have a camp grill at the cabin, we couldn’t resist buying one of each type of steak, filet mignon, ny strip, bison rib eye! We also bought bison ground beef to make cheeseburgers.
Shopper at the Laurel Creek Meat Counter
This morning, we are in the cabin, cooking Laurel Farms lamb sausage and pasture-raised eggs we bought in the Oak Park Grocery section of The Market.
On the third Thursday of every month at 7pm, The Market does a tasting event, The Taste of The Market. Might be worth planning your trip to the Smokies and your flight landing time in Knoxville to coincide with the event!
The Knoxville airport is just minutes away from the market. Our cabins are 45 minutes from the Knoxville airport.
The Market staff was very helpful and we bought all the groceries we needed for our entire trip!
The other items we purchased:
Temple Oranges (if you haven’t tried these they are very flavorful), apples, garlic, onion, coarse black pepper, Cruze Farm non-homogenized, grass fed milk (pasteurized by the farm), amish butter, asparagus, organic spinach, brussels sprouts, applewood smoked bacon, country bacon, summer sausage, ground lamb to make sausage, smoked cheese, Sweetwater Valley Farm raw cheese.
Call the Market at Washington and High Streets, Maryville, TN for information about store hours, tastings, classes and events 865-980-7711.
Visit our website, awesomemountainvacations.com to learn more about taking a family trip to the Smokies.
Oak Park Dry Goods at The Market
Smoky Mountain Cookbook
Love your blog, by the way. What a great, centralized resource for all real food and local farm info.
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My wife and I own Oak Park Grocery & Dry Goods at The Market. I wanted to thank you for your great posting and we are glad you enjoyed your trip to The Market. We are always open to suggestions and criticism, so if you have either please let us know, we continue to strive to supply products that our customers are looking for. We are in the process of adding a few staples such as flour, sugar, vegetable oil, etc. that might be useful for travelers as well as our local customers who don’t want to make a second stop. We hope you can make it to one of our Taste of The Market on another trip, they are a lot of fun. Thanks again for stopping and for your posting.
Kim, Thankyou so much for writing such a great piece about us on your blog. I am glad that you enjoyed your visit to the Market and hope to see you again in the future. Let me know if there is anything we can do to help you and your blog. Enjoy the spring and we will see you soon.
Thanks, guys for writing! We will definitely be back!
Kimberly
Maryville is a pretty cool little town. Next time you have the chance check out the Franklin, TN area. Very old and picturesque with lots of great walking in the historic downtown.
.-= Cool Springs Area´s last blog ..Franklin Bicycle Store Opens =-.
Kim, it has been a while. I would like to invite you back to our store. We have made some great changes and I think you will like what we have done. If you are back our way, swing by and see us! Thanks again.-Mike Adams, General Manager
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