Gravy Quarterly No. 95

The Spring 2025 issue of Gravy takes inspiration from this season of growth and rebirth, exploring the push and pull of change and continuity.

Mikeie Reiland visits International Market, a Thai eatery and retail shop in Nashville, where second-generation owners usher in the next era of the business as it celebrates a half-century of operations. Also in Tennessee, Brooks Lamb describes the particular challenges that owners of small- and medium-sized farms face as the state urbanizes and suburbanizes, and what systemic solutions are needed to assure long-term success. While he focuses on his home state, much of his findings hold true for other parts of the South and the country. Olivia Ware Terenzio asks what stays and what needs to change when new owners take on a longstanding restaurant in a city that has struggled and evolved.

Farhan Mustafa pens a love letter to the Golden Corral, which has served him a taste of his North Carolina home for more than thirty years. SFA Pihakis Documentary Filmmaker Zaire Love shares her Most Visited Places in Memphis, her home of both origin and choice. Finally, this issue features poetry from Sandra Agricola and cover art by Lindsey Bailey.