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If you havent guessed already, I love to eat. Our staff photographer Imani Khayyam likes to make fun of me because when we get cookies on press day, Im always the first to get up for my usual two chocolate-chip cookies. When we get Alad-din Mediterranean Grill for catering, Im one of the first to get up and grab falafels. But its not that I just love eating or food. I love the camaraderie that sur-rounds it. I love baking cup-cakes and bringing them to work the next day, watching as the staff members, one by one, come and grab one. Sometimes they compli-ment me; sometimes they dont say a word and just eat their cupcake. I love how we gather around the table for staff members birthdays, excitedly talking about the cake flavor or how were going to split whatever treats we get. Its a nice respite from crazy days at the office. I adore Christmas and Thanksgiving, mainly because my entire family spends a day together, just eating and talking. Im a firm believer that food creates a sense of community. Our staff creates one every time we crowd around our snack table every Tuesday, ready to eat lunch in the middle of a busy press day for the Jackson Free Press, our weekly newspaper. We even create a sense of community purely by the fact that much of the food we eat is local. We order in Basils every Tuesday, and usually Broad Street Baking Company, Steves Deli (which is downstairs!), Aladdin, Jaco Tacos or La Finestra for our editorial and staff meetings. We frequent Hal & Mals for Tuesday Pub Quiz, and I enjoy many pi-miento cheese balls there. We often go to Sal & Mookies New York Pizza & Ice Cream Joint together after a crazy night hosting our table at Fondrens First Thursday. Most of us like to eat at local restaurants to both keep our money in the city and because it tends to taste better than a lot of food from major chains. We shop local; we dine local; we drink local. And personally, Im a big believer in the idea of food trucks (see pages 42-44) and

mobile dining options. Theyre easy and fun, and they make me think Jacksons food scene can play in the big leagues with places like New Orleans or Austin. It seems like every time I turn around,

theres a new food trend. This summer, Pop Culture Ice Pops set up their stand, and Deep South Pops opened in August. Around press time, I finally got to try Pop Culture (their watermelon ice pop is awesome), though I havent been to Deep South, yet. The city council recently passed a new or-dinance saying that food trucks can now pretty much roam free without paying a fee for every spot, though they still have to stay 300 feet away from brick-and-mortar establishments, so now all of

them can go almost anywhere. Soul City Hospitality also is beginning the ground work on its Up in Farms Food Hub (see pages 45-46), which will help salvage some of Mississippis unused farm land. This issue marks BOOMs first food-focused issue, and though much of my inspira-tion for story ideas and layouts came from Bon Apptit, it ended up being something uniquely Jackson. In it, we cover restaurant happenings and news, some of the local players on the food and drink scene, basically anything we thought Jacksonians should know about. As we do in every issue of BOOM, we also have a menu guide with ads from many local restaurants (see pages 29-41). I see this as a guide to Jacksons food scene, but also an example of how food can bring us all together. Flip through the pages. Learn some stuff. Look at amazing photos from Imani and maybe a little more than usual from me. Maybe youll laugh. Maybe youll cry. But what I hope is that you too will see this as your guide to local food. I look forward to doing more of these issues in the future, and hope you enjoy it.

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Arielle Dreher Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies. Maybe she should try spelunking. She wrote about Soul City Hospitality for this issue.

Nia WilsonEditorial Intern Nia Wilson is a Jackson native who enjoys laughing at her own jokes and using her awkward charm to manage lifes many hurdles. If her nose isnt in a book, shes off Netflixing. She wrote a biz story. Brian GordonFreelance writer Brian Gordon was raised in upstate New York and moved to the South to carpetbag but forgot the bag. He teaches social studies in Jackson Public Schools. He wrote a biz story.

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John Tierre is no stranger to being the new kid. He moved from his hometown of Omaha, Neb., to Houston in 1989, and then moved to Jackson to study business administration at Jackson State University in 1995. Despite not being from Jackson originally, though, Tierre says he always felt accepted here. Pastor Hickman Johnson of Farish Street Baptist Church, the Farish Street Association, Geno Lee with Big Apple (Inn)everybody embraced me, he says. Soon after earning his bachelors degree from JSU in 2000, he started a stream of new businesses on Ellis Avenue, including Stax Hip Hop and Urban Fashion, Red Room Hair Studio and a restaurant called Norma Ruths.

Then, on July 24, Tierre, 38, created buzz in the historic Farish Street district with his latest venture, Johnny Ts Bistro & Blues. The businessman worked hard to create an atmosphere that differs from other Jackson venues and restaurant offerings, starting with putting a gourmet twist on traditional bar foods and shareables with Chef Brian Myrick. Tierre says guests at Johnny Ts can expect a different experience from Norma Ruths, due in part to the restaurants more mature setting. (Customers) are going to spend some time with you, so you have to set ambiance, he says. This is 25 and up, no white T-shirts, no athletic apparel. Its for mature adults. The ambiance extends to the bistros wall

murals depicting Farish Street in its heyday, along with legendary Mississippi blues musi-cians who played in the Crystal Palace build-ing which now houses Johnny Ts. While the restaurant has a patio space and an upstairs music venue called 540, down-stairs in the bar and restaurant area will be a major draw for Jacksons music lovers. Well play live music at least four times a week, from blues to jazz to R&B and spoken word, Tierre says. Johnny Ts Bistro & Blues (538 N. Farish St., 601.954.1323) opens Monday through Sat-urday at 4 p.m. and Sunday at 6 p.m. Closing times vary. For more information, find Johnny Ts on Facebook and Instagram.

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JXN-Tastic// by Amber Helsel

If youve lived here for a while, you may think youve seen everything. But here are a few little-known things in Jackson for you to discover.


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Frank Lloyd Wright believed that buildings and structures should be designed in harmony with its environ-ment and human habitation, a concept he called or-ganic architecture. The architect, who, in 1991, the American Institute of Architecture r e c o g n i z e d as the great-est American one of all time, designed more than 1,000 buildings, 532 of which were completed. One of those is right here in Jackson: Fountainhead, also

called the J. Willis Hughes House. Located at 306 Glen Way, it is Usonian, which gen-erally refers to about 60 middle-class houses Wright designed

to go on unusual and in-expensive sites. The

houses had no ga-rage and were often L-shaped to fit around a garden terrace and were con-

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to the area, with flat roofs and large

overhangs for solar panels. In 1980, Fountainhead became part of the National Register of Historic Places.

Cute JXN: Tom Ramseys Goats Tom Ramsey is known for a lot of things: He owns a

popular restaurant in Jackson, La Finestra

(120 N. Congress St., 601.345.8735, eatlafin-

estra); hes been on TV mul-tiple times, such as on Food Net-

works Guys Grocery Games; and hes done things like host a James Beard House dinner. But lately, his followers on Facebook may be enjoying something else more. Be-sides his Jade Helm 15 videos (which were hilarious, by the way), hes also been posting videos of his goats. In late 2014, Ramsey and his wife, Kitty Cook Ramsey, added two new members to their family: goats Bucky and Buttercup. In May of this year, Buttercup had a baby, which Ramsey and Kitty named Blossom; however, they later discovered that Blossom is actually a boy, so they renamed him Pat. Pat is now a few months old and spends his time bouncing around, playing, eating Ramseys grass and in general, being a cute Belhaven creature.

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A few months ago on Next-door Fondren, an area resident asked the forum members if they knew where the robin egg-colored glass in Robin Drives asphalt came from. A mere coincidence? It sounded like a mystery worth solv-ing. We set out to find exactly what the per-son meant when he said robin egg- colored glass. I imagined the shards would be larger, but they were so small that you had to look really close to see them. When I finally started to see the glass, it was just hints of blue in the black-ness of the asphalt. If I werent look-ing hard enough, I wouldnt have ever noticed them. As I drove a little further on Robin Drive, the glass disappeared.

After returning to the office, I set out to find exactly where the blue glass came from. I called Shelia Hardwell Byrd, the director of com-munications for Mayor Tony Yar-bers office. Understandably, she had no idea what I was talking about. She

tried to ask someone in pub-lic works, but her contact

there also had no idea what I was talking about, either. So, for now, the mystery re-mains. Robin Drive

has little shards of glass embedded in

the road, and no one knows (or admits to know-

ing) where it came from. Was it a local artist who took a creative liberty? Did someone break a dozen blue bottles while walking home one night? Was it aliens? Or was it just the asphalt mixers happy accident? Who knows? Do you?

Culture JXN: USA IBC While Jackson will probably never host the Olympics, the city does play host to a similar event: the USA Inter-national Ballet Competition, and Jack-son is the only one in the U.S. that can host it. It takes place every four years, the most recent of which was in 2014. The competition brings dancers and audi-ence members from all over the world right here into our humble city. The Jackson Free Press and BOOM Jackson cover the event, and it is an incredible sight to behold. The competitors could do things that some people may only dream of doing, and acts such as Complexions, who used Queen as the soundtrack to one of their sets, were amazing. It was incredible to see so many people from all over the world in Thalia Mara Hall across Pearl Street from the BOOM offices.

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When the Civil War ended in 1865, politics were remarkably similar to the current election cycle in Mis-sissippi but with a twist: Democrats and Republicans were at odds over race issues. The Republican Party of the timeformerly the Free Soil Partyhad ended slavery and was fight-ing southern (white) Democrats to expand vot-ing and other rights for black people. Today, in 2015, a black Democrat is chal-lenging a white Republican for governor. Since the Souths secession in 1861 and un-til his assassination, President Abraham Lincoln attempted to reunite the country. Once Andrew Johnson, who found black suffrage a distraction, became president, he wanted to reconstruct the union. On June 13, 1865, Johnson appointed Wil-liam Sharkey, an anti-secession unionist, as provi-sional governor. During a state election, however, Mississippians elected Benjamin G. Humphreys, a general in the Confederate Army, as governor. Not yet pardoned for his treasonous actions, Humphreys didnt have presidential approval for the position. Regardless, on Oct. 16, 1865, Hum-phreys had himself inaugurated and sworn in as the 26th governor of Mississippi. Ten days later, Johnson pardoned Humphreys, and his guber-

natorial position was secure until federal troops removed him in 1868 due to failure to follow the federal Reconstruction plan. Humphreys, a white supremacist, believed, The Negro is free, whether we like it or not. To be free, however, does not make him a citizen or entitle him to po-litical or social equality with the white race. The Legislature had quickly passed An

Act to Confer Civil Rights on Freedmen and for Other Purposes in 1865, making Mississippi the first state to pass a Black Code. It made in-terracial marriages punishable by life in prison, forced African Americans to rent within cities and required them to have proof of employment at all times. Rejected by northerners, the Code didnt immediately take effect. But it was enough to compel Congress to delay Mississippis entry to the Union until Feb. 23, 1870. Thus began a short era of black political equality in Mississippi. Black people, some for-

mer slaves, were elected to political office. They included U.S. Sens. Hiram Rhodes Revels, who served from 1870 to 1871, and Blanche K. Bruce, from 1875 to 1881. Mississippi Secretary of State James D. Lynch served 1869 to 1872. John R. Lynch, was elected first to the statehouse from 1872 to 1882, and then to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving 1869 to 1872 (now you know who Lynch Street is named after). The unreconstructed white population opposed this Republican regime. Groups like the Ku Klux Klan formed to terrorize black citi-zens, mostly Republican then, who attempted to exercise their rights. And the halcyon Repub-lican days would soon end with the stalemated election of 1876. Dixiecrats agreed to give up the White House to Rutherford B. Hayes if federal troops left the South and allowed anti-black laws to take hold. The Great Compromise of 1877 meant that Mississippis Black Code was finally enacted, putting Jim Crow laws into place to keep blacks from voting and other legal equality. Jim Crow laws ruled Mississippi until the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading Republicans to start courting miffed white southerners for decades now. Oh, and no African American has been elected statewide since Reconstruction.

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Even as a child, Jennifer Bingo Holman Gunt-er knew she wanted to be an activist. Seeing friends of mine be-ing treated differently from my-self because of the color of their skin, I could never really keep quiet about it, she says now. In her early 20s, Gunter worked in a bingo hall. After that, she began working at Hal & Mals, where Malcolm White would call her Bingo when she walked by. The name stuck. Gunt-er is a native of Jackson, and grad-uated from Pearl High School in 1989. She obtained a bachelors degree in 2006 and a masters degree in 2009, both in south-ern studies from the University of Mississippi. Gunter now lives in Colum-bia, S.C., where she is a PhD candidate in American history at the University of South Caro-lina. For her dissertation, she is researching sexual politics in South Carolina, specifically the work of feminists on issues such as race, abortion and domestic violence. Gunter is a womans rights activist with a focus spe-cifically on reproductive rights and the safety of women. She also advocates against racism and domestic violence, and for sex education and racial reconciliation issues. Her activism mainly in-volves educating the public on the various problems women and people of color face. She hosts rallies as well as creates and distrib-utes petitions. I always say as long as I am working for everyone to have a place at the table, no one can say anything bad about that, Gunter says. In Columbia, she works with groups such as Civil Justice, Black Lives Matter and South Carolina Courage, an organization that hosts discussions

concerning race issues. After the Charleston mas-sacre of nine people, a serious national debate started about the remaining states, including South Carolina and Mississippi, that still officially honor symbols of the Confederacy, which was formed to fight to maintain and expand slavery. Gunter decided to start a pe-tition to change the Mississippi state flag, removing the Confed-erate emblem from it. It made me think that maybe this was a time Missis-sippi could change, too, with a national conversation about race and history happening, Gunter says. She also attended rallies in Columbia at the state capitol to protest the Confederate flag there, and she was there when it was re-moved from the South Carolina Capitol. She says that it is time to move forward and begin work for change. I have never been the look at me type of person, Gunter says. I really want to emphasize paying attention to the issues, and I want to get everyone to come together and make a posi-tive change. Gunter does not plan to come back to Jackson after fin-ishing her PhD in 2016. She says that she will be going wherever a job is; however, she has fam-ily across the state, as well as friends that she will always visit.

Her mother, Janice Jordan, still lives in Jackson; her father, Bill Holman, lives in Pearl; and her grandmother, Yvonne Holman, lives in Bolton. She will also travel back to the state capital for the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, slated to open in 2017 in downtown Jackson. Gunter married Brad Gunter in 2002 and has been married for 14 years. She was also the Jackson Free Press first assistant editor.

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As if city-center development isnt tricky enough, going through four different mayors, several officials on the redevelopment authority assist-ing with financing, and fending off a lawsuit doesnt exactly help expedite things. In the case of the downtown Jackson Westin hotel, announced in December 2011, it seemed like every six months rumors of a groundbreaking on the luxury hotel project circulated before dissipating into the heavy Mississippi air. Its no wonder then that on Aug. 4, the smile on the face of 39-year-old developer Joseph Simpson was so wide the corners of his mouth nearly touched the Pearl River. Simpson, the front man for Jackson-based Capital Hotel Associates LLC, said his company believes in the power of the creative economy and wanted to bring some-thing different to Jack-son, where he has lived since 2000. Downtown is like the heart, and if its not beating, it will hurt Madi-son and Rankin (coun-ties), Simpson said, speaking under a tent on the day of the Mississippi primary elections. The groundbreaking brought together a rare gathering of Republican state and Demo-cratic local officials and business leaders. The 205-room hotel is a $60-million project that drew public money from the Jackson Redevel-opment Authority, Hinds County and the Mis-sissippi Legislature. Westin is a high-end brand of hotels from Stamford, Conn.-based Starwood Hotels, and the Jackson one will be the first in Mississippi. Birmingham-based Brasfield & Gorrie is the construction company. Minnesota-based Wis-chermann Partners will operate the hotel, which will also feature 12,000 square feet of meeting space and a destination restaurant that founder Paul Wischermann said would be approachable, not stuffy. State Sen. John Horhn, who also chairs

the Senate Economic Development Commit-tee, said cities need such high-profile projects to showcase the whole city. Jackson is on its way back, he said.

Fondren Power For a long time, the idea of Jackson as a travel destination seemed foreign even to capital-city denizens. Postcards featuring Jackson landmarks can be hard to find; until the King Edward reopened in 2009, the same could be said for lodging in the middle of the city. Three miles from the future site of the Westin, another hotel project is getting up-and-going in Fondren. In July, Jackson-based Eldon Develop-ment unveiled plans for a $20-million hotel project that developers hope will infuse cash into the citys coffers. Roy Decker, whose ar-

chitecture firm shares a headquarters with El-don on State Street, cited an economic-impact study for the project, stating the 100-room hotel near State Street and Mitchell Avenue will create $227 million in spin-off economic activity and $17 million in local tax revenues in a decade. Decker said the additional ad valorem rev-enue would benefit Jacksons oft-beleaguered infrastructure and support local schools; the quality of each has long been an obstacle to Jacksons ability to curb population loss and at-tract new residents. If were not investing in Jackson and proj-ects that have a positive impact, then were not going to contribute to the process of healing and making a vibrant inner city, Decker told an audience at Koinonia Coffee House in July. With Fondrens addition to the National

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worker positions, city officials said in an an-nouncement. The modules it builds are used in residential rooftop solar installations. Ac-cording to the companys website, Seraphim expects the plant to be operational in August 2015, while the citys release says by the end of 2015. Phase II will commence in 2016.

High-tech Retro Soon, the former McRaes department store in north Jackson will look just as it did in 1963at least from the outside. The in-side is being converted into a data center for Baton Rogue-based technology company Ve-nyu Solutions LLC. University of Mississippi Medical Center has a lease agreement with Venyu, which in February broke ground on a 16,000-square-foot facility for UMMCs Center for Telehealth. The $35 million renovation, helped along with historic tax credits and an ordinance the city of Jackson passed in 2015 to create enter-prise zones, will create 400 jobs and involve restoring the buildings original canopy. The city sited another enterprise zone in west Jackson around the Metrocenter mall. Ward 4 Councilman DeKeither Stamps said creating the zone helped the building, which was bank-owned until Jackson Commons LLC bought the building in November 2014.

Blizzards for West Jackson South Jacksons loss of its Dairy Queen restaurant on Raymond Road last year will be west Jacksons gain when a new one opens this fall. The restaurant, located on Ellis Avenue between Highway 80 and Jackson State Uni-versity, will be the 31st Dairy Queen in Missis-sippi for Meridian-based Johnson Foods, said

the companys vice president of operations Charles Mosley. The Raymond Road store stood for 50 years before the owners decided they wanted a fresh look and new scenery. Rather than close the business, we looked at other locations, Mosley told BOOM. Being in that area is where we wanted to be. The traffic along Highway 80, combined with the proximity to JSU, made west Jack-son appealing. Mosley said the restaurant will serve breakfast and stay open late for students looking for a late snack. The company also hopes to open two or three more stores in the coming years, Mosley said. Owned by Omaha-based Berkshire Hath-away, Dairy Queens brand is deeply rooted in family, a popular spot to stop for an after-church treat, Mosley said. Its nostalgic to go to your neighborhood Dairy Queen, he said.

Chane Creates Wonder In the fall of this year, artists will have a new space to call home. Ron Chane, the mas-termind behind Studio Chane, moved his screen-printing business to the old location of Mulberry Dreams in Fondren (3026 N. State St.) and put The Wonder Lab in his basement space at Fondren Corner (2906 N. State St.). Upon its completion, artists and creatives will be able to rent a collaborative art space for anywhere from $425 to $475. The lab will have a gallery that will be open during each Fon-drens First Thursday, and renters will receive business consultation and legal assistance. At the Oct. 1 Fondren First Thursday, Chane will host a grand opening gallery, though the open house is at the Sept. 3 event.


Van Killen shoos away two brown stink-bugs as he goes through dense rows of tomatoes, the tall vines stretch-ing into a canopy above. Single lines of bright sunfl owers interrupt the rows of squash, tomatoes and cantaloupe. These trap crops attract the meddlesome stinkbugs away from the more valuable produce that he handpicks during his 12-hour shifts. His work boots often caked in mud, Van Killen farms alongside full-time employee Cole Simpson, who passes hours amid the soil listening to history podcasts. Lorenzo Bautista and Jamie Hernandez work part-time as well. Van and his wife, Dorothy Killen, are particular about how Two Dog Farms culti-vates the top produce-buying experience for their customers. Two years ago, they leased an eight-acre plot in Flora, just down the road from a Monsanto facility. We try to do the exact opposite of those guys, Dorothy says. Van and Dorothy denounce the use of chemicals on their produce, opting instead for a smaller, more environmentally sustain-

able operation. I cant even walk through a grocery store anymore, knowing how many hands have touched everything, he says. The distance each produce item travels to get to supermarkets bothers Van as well. Why get something from thousands of miles away when it can be gotten right up the street? he asks. Raised on a Delta rice and soybean farm, he ditched his carpeted cubicle job at an environmental consulting fi rm in 2013 to get Two Dog off the ground. I wanted to get people to know what theyre putting in their bodies, Van says. The farm practices community-support-ed agriculture, a system where an upfront pay-ment reaps weekly benefi ts for consumers, such as giant heirloom tomatoes, bell peppers half one color, half another, and eggplants so vibrantly purple and some so white they look painted. For $32 a week during spring and summer, members get a mutable combination of 10 seasonal items packed into a cardboard crate. The crates can be retrieved on Satur-days from the Mississippi Farmers Market (929 High St., 601.354.6573), Tuesdays from the Madison the City Farmers Market on

Main Street in Madison or Thursdays from Two Dog Farms itself. The farm also distrib-utes to local restaurants such as The Man-ship Wood Fired Kitchen (1200 N. State St., 601.398.4562), La Finestra (120 N. Congress St., 601.345.8735) and The Gathering at Liv-ingston Mercantile (Livingston Church Road, Flora, 601.667.4282) Consumer pick-ups, though often brief, allow members to meet the man and woman who grew their produce and ask about their lives. We want the connection between the producer and consumer, Van says. More connections are being made now than ever. Two Dog Farms has grown from 20 members a year ago to 75 members today. The Killens newborn, Hazel, is Doro-thys chief concern these days. The fi rst-time parents plan to raise her in a house on the farm one day. Like her husband, Dorothy grew up farming. Her grandfather owned a cotton farm in Flora for 40 years. Its in my blood more than anything, she says.

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Jim Burwell says his profession often makes him feel like a drug dealer. He meets his customers at random loca-tions, collects their packages and takes them back to his Fondren home. Burwell, who owns Burwell Blades and now cooks at Whole Foods in Jackson, lays the knives out on his kitchen coun-ter and decides between his electric belt grinders or his grinding stones to sharpen them. He says he can perfect 10 knives per hour. He has a drop-off service at Everyday Gour-met (1270 E. County Line Road, 601.977.9258). The long-time cooks interest in knives blos-somed from his 40 years in the food industry. One day in 2010, after Bur-wells restaurant, the now-closed MiMis Family and Friends, finished for the day, he went home and turned on the TV. A show about making Samurai swords happened to be on, and Burwell was in-stantly drawn to the pro-cess. Shortly afterward, he called a friend, Jim Pig-ott, who was a blacksmith in Gluckstadt, and asked him for help to combine his restaurant experi-ence with his newfound passion for blades. Pigott then introduced him to four other industry masters who acted as men-tors to him. For a while, Burwell thought about mak-ing knives his side business, creating kitchen versions for locals. Then, he met American Blacksmith Society member Terry Vandeven-ter. After seeing his work, Burwell realized that he could never make knives to the same qual-

ity as Vandeventer. He decided to settle for the next best thing: sharpening them. In March 2013, Burwell had just quit a job working at a local restaurant, so he decided this was the perfect time to return to his knife-sharpening endeavors.

Most people dont quit one job until they have another job lined up. I spent that weekend thinking what the heck did I just do? he says. Then that Monday morning I thought, Why dont you just sharpen knives? He quit his restaurant job on a Friday, built his Burwell Blades Facebook page on a Mon-day and was back in business on that following

Friday. By then, his page had 166 likes, and he had 50 knives to sharpen, each netting $5 to $7, depending on the length. Now, Burwell caters to both home and pro-fessional chefs and restaurants in the Jackson area. On Saturdays, he sets up at Whole Foods

Market (4500 Interstate 55 N., 601.608.0405) to sharper peoples knives. When these people give me their knives, I can get them sharper than when they first bought them, he says. I know these chefs de-velop relationships with their knives, and they put a lot of trust in me to do my job right. Find Burwell Blades on Facebook.

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The Fondren Hops and Habanas wooden door with crystal panes opens to aisles and aisles of bottled beer sitting on shelves. The store has many selections, from commer-cial to craft. A wall of freezers spans from the fi rst aisle to a bar area. The fi rst one has about six different beer brands in it with fi ve fl avors each, and the Fondren store also has 21 beer taps, which can differ from Biloxi Beach Blonde to Lucky Town Ballistic, though Pabst Blue Ribbon is a constant. One of the owners, Trayce Miles, an Iowa native, met her husband, Rick, a Michigan na-tive, while he was attending medical school through the U.S. Army in Des Moines, Iowa. The two married in 1992. Rick is an emergency-room doctor at Central Mississippi Medical Center, and Trayce handles 75 percent of the operations of Hops and Habanas. The couple opened its fi rst location

in 2004 in Madison, and the Fondren store opened in December 2014. The Madison location was the fi rst site in this area to sell growlers, which are 32 or 64-ounce to-go jugs of craft beers fi lled from taps. The store also has a new back patio area with two TVs, a bar area and a stage for guest musicians. Hops and Habanas sells kegs through two distribution companies. The establishment does not allow pur-chased bottled beers to be consumed on the premise, though patrons can drink pints in the cabana. It also allows smoking in the cabana. For more information on Hops and Habanas (123 Grandview Blvd., Madison, 601.853.7449; 2771 Old Canton Road, 769.572.4631), visit hopsandhabanas.com.

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