LOCAL MEAT PRODUCTS

Made in right here in the Smokey Mountains of East Tennessee, Benton’s bacon and country ham has gained national exposure for its flavor and quality from their traditional dry curing process.

“Our business was started in 1947 by the late Albert H. Hicks, a dairy farmer who began curing and selling country hams out of a painted block building. Allan Benton and his employees have honed the dry-curing of hams and bacon into a culinary art and have catapulted the products from a simple breakfast mainstay into the world of gourmet cooking, where they have been praised for their characteristic flavor.”

“Goolsby’s Sausage Company was founded in April 1981 by James Goolsby. As with many family business ventures, experience at an early age provided the foundation necessary for success. James grew up on a farm in Viola, Tennessee where sausage making was a common practice in the Goolsby kitchen.”

“Since 1930, the Swaggerty Family has been making what is quite possibly the best pork sausage you’ll ever taste. Committed to producing only the very finest premium pork sausage products using the best ingredients to honor a tradition started back in 1930 by our grandfather, Lonas Swaggerty.“