The Arkansas Life magazine staff shares their favorite eats around Arkansas in a recent blog, "Every Wonder Where We Eat? We're About to Tell You," and it's no surprise that many of our Arkansas Food Hall of Fame favorites made their list! Check out the article and learn more about our winner... Read More
Read the OnlyInArk.com blog sharing some of the special aspects of Hot Springs favorite, McClard's Bar-B-Q, including its inclusion in the 2018 Arkansas Food Hall of Fame. Check out the entire article titled, "McClard's Bar-B-Q: It's All about the Sauce. Read full story here. Read More
"We work together as a team it's like a family here," said Paige Turner with Franke's Cafeteria. "It's a family owned restaurant we make all of our stuff from scratch. We don't make instant potatoes or instant anything. Everything is made from scratch.” Check out this beautiful tribute to F... Read More
The Only in Arkansas blog featured Hope, Arkansas, in its recent blog titled, "Exploring a Place Called Hope." You can't talk about Hope without talking about the Hope Watermelon Festival, which was a 2018 Arkansas Food Hall of Fame Food-Themed Event Finalist! Read about the festival and the ... Read More
The following excerpt was featured on the Southern Foodways Alliance website in an article titled, "Pie in Arkansas." Follow this link to read the entire article. In trailers, small shops, and restaurants across Arkansas, women make pies with recipes passed down from their grandmothers, gift... Read More
Best Reason for a Foodie Field Trip | Arkansas Food Hall of Fame’s new app It feels good to know where you are. At the moment, per the restaurants listed on the front page of the “Near Me” section of Arkansas Food Hall of Fame’s new app, our office is 1.4 miles from Lassis Inn and 46.2... Read More
"For the past two years, I've been on the selection committee for the Arkansas Food Hall of Fame. One of the categories is Proprietor of the Year. Reading the nominations has given me a sense of how deep the talent pool has become in a state that ignored its food heritage for too long." ... Read More
People in Arkansas like to talk watermelon. About how sweet the melons that grow up north by Cave City are, and the sheer size and variety farther south in Hope, whose watermelon festival attracts forty thousand people every August. They argue over sunlight and geology—is it the limesto... Read More
Written by: Stacy Hurst, Director of the Department of Arkansas Heritage If you are in Arkansas for any length of time, you are sure to discover the delicious food and unique food culture of our state. Whether it’s Delta tamales from Rhoda’s in Lake Village, the world’s sweetest watermelon in... Read More
Director of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, Stacy Hurst, joins THV 11 to show off the new Arkansas Food Hall of Fame App. Click here to watch the video on THV 11! Read More