This year's progressive dinner was different from previous years. This is the fifth time my mother and I attended. If you're new to the blog, Jonesborough, Tennessee is the state's oldest city. Maybe you glimpsed it on the Great Food Truck Race. Jonesborough was featured in "Small Town Trouble." As you might expect, the town was depicted in a certain fashion. Rather not in the best light in my estimation. It's a quaint, touristy town. Lots of history, lovely architecture, and down home vibes.
Every year the The Heritage Alliance of Northeast Tennessee & Southwest Virginia hosts the Progressive Dinner. This gives the curious a chance to tour the insides of historic homes that are not normally open to the public. It's great fun. And the food is usually above average.
Sadly, I cannot share photos of the dishes, as I have in the past (2004, 2005, 2007 ) because a new tour policy prohibited photography inside any of the homes. I snapped a few photos inside the Historic Eureka Inn, where we convened prior to boarding buses that schlepped us from home to home, but those really don't count.
This is also the first year that I didn't finish my entrée. The hors d'oeuvres were not my favorite, either. Another first, I actually liked the dessert. It was sort of a coconut creme pie-ish type of thing. It's usually something chocolate, which is not my favorite. Or tiramisu, which I find ubiquitous, hence too common.
As you might understand, the combination of no photography and disappointing fare has rendered an otherwise lovely blog post about the Progressive Dinner into a complaint about it instead.
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