Arkansas Brewing Company (originally Riley-Lyon Inc.) was a short-lived brewery in the 1980s based in Little R...

The Arkansas Cornbread Festival, an annual celebration of Southern culinary heritage, was inaugurated in 2011...

The Arkansas Food Hall of Fame was established by the Department of Arkansas Heritage (DAH) in 2017, with the ...

The Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance is a nonprofit collaborative network of more than 400 hunger relief organi...

Eliza Jane Burnett Dodson Ashley spent more than thirty years as the cook in the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion...

Atkins Pickle Company was the major industry in the town of Atkins (Pope County) for more than fifty years, an...

Barbecue (both the cooking technique and the social institution) was introduced into the Arkansas Territory an...

The Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival celebrates the pink tomato industry in southeastern Arkansas. Origina...

Beer brewing in Arkansas dates back to the mid-nineteenth century. Documentation on early beer brewing in Arka...

Bruno’s Little Italy in Little Rock (Pulaski County) is one of the most well-known restaurants in central Ar...

Lester “Spike” Cavender of Harrison (Boone County) created Cavender’s All-Purpose Greek Seasoning with h...

Arkansas caviar, which is distributed nationally, consists of eggs from certain freshwater fish caught in the...

One of several new vineyards in Arkansas, Chateau Aux Arc of Altus (Franklin County) promotes itself as the la...

Cheese dip is considered to be an important part of Arkansas’s food culture. Not only is cheese dip more pop...

Cotham’s is a Little Rock (Pulaski County) restaurant that began as a country store in Scott (Pulaski and Lo...

On August 17, 1967, Cowie Wine Cellars was established as a federal and state bonded winery in Paris (Logan Co...

Diamond Bear Brewery in North Little Rock (Pulaski County) revived beer brewing in the state of Arkansas. It...

In nineteenth-century Arkansas, the distilling of spirits was done mostly for home consumption. Some small-sca...

The Dixie Cafe was a chain of home-cooking restaurants based in Little Rock (Pulaski County) that grew into tw...

Ed Walker’s Drive-in and Restaurant at 1500 Towson Avenue in Fort Smith (Sebastian County) is a thriving ico...

Feltner’s Whatta-Burger at 1410 North Arkansas Avenue in Russellville (Pope County) is a venerable restauran...

Because nutrition is essential to human survival, the production and consumption of food has been central to l...

Franke’s Cafeteria was established by C. A. Franke in Little Rock (Pulaski County) in 1924. It was widely re...

In 1960, Bernell “Fatman” Austin (born on February 26, 1921) leased a parcel of land east of Atkins (Pope ...

Grapette soda was developed by Benjamin Tyndle Fooks in Camden (Ouachita County) in 1939. Once one of the best...

The Jackson Cookie Company, which originated in North Little Rock (Pulaski County), produced a variety of conf...

Jones Bar-B-Q Diner, a nationally known eatery in Marianna (Lee County), is perhaps the oldest continuously op...

The Kream Kastle is a family owned and operated restaurant located at 112 North Division Street in Blytheville...

Lassis Inn is a catfish restaurant located at 518 East 27th Street in Little Rock (Pulaski County), founded in...

Donnie Lee Lindsey, longtime bishop within the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) in Arkansas and noted businessm...

Located in Little Rock (Pulaski County), the Lost Forty Brewery was founded in 2014 by John Beachboard, Scott ...