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  • Food/Drink
    • Bucket Lists
      • Original Arkansas Bucket List
      • Appetizers
        • Faded Rose
        • Kemuri
        • Lost Forty
        • Yaya’s Euro Bistro
      • Breakfast and Brunch Bucket List
        • Petit & Keet
        • Root Cafe
      • BBQ
        • BBQ Bucket List
        • Whole Hog Cafe NLR
        • Smokin’ Buns
        • Hawgz Blues Café
        • Count Porkula
      • Cajun/Creole Bucket List
        • Copper Mule
        • Eat My Catfish
        • Faded Rose
        • Maddie’s Place
      • Catfish
        • Catfish Bucket List
        • Cathead’s Diner
        • BJ’s Market Cafe
      • Chicken Wings
        • Great American Wings
        • Sauce(d)
      • Dive Bucket List
      • Farm Fresh
        • Boulevard Bread Company
        • Local Lime
        • Root Cafe
      • Festivals Bucket List
      • Food Trucks
        • Delta Biscuit Company
        • The Lab Food Truck
        • Tacos Godoy
      • Holiday Food Bucket List
        • Burge’s Hickory Smoked Turkeys and Hams
        • Lindsey’s Hospitality House
        • Taylors’ Made Cafe
        • YGFBFKitchen
      • Pancakes and French Toast
        • Eden Restaurant inside the Hotel Hale
        • Kemuri
        • The Pancake Shop
      • Pasta
        • Bruno’s Little Italy
        • Graffiti’s Italian Restaurant
        • Ristorante Capeo
      • Pies
        • Blue Cake Co. / Honey Pies
        • Charlotte’s Eats & Sweets
        • Community Bakery
        • Rosalia’s Family Bakery
      • Pizza Bucket List
        • Deluca’s Pizza
        • Old Mill Pizza
        • Pizza Cafe
        • U.S. Pizza
      • Salad Bucket List
        • Cheers in the Heights
        • Scallions
        • Taziki’s Mediterranean Café
        • ZAZA Fine Salad and Wood Oven Pizza Co.
      • Sandwich Bucket List
        • Boulevard Bread Company
        • Cross Creek Sandwich Shop
        • Gadwall’s Grill
      • Seafood
        • Boudreaux’s Grill and Bar
        • Eat My Catfish
        • Lakewood Fish & Seafood House
        • Oceans at Arthur’s
      • Soup/Chili Bucket List
        • Baja Grill
        • Cheers in the Heights
        • Scallions
      • Southern Plates Bucket List
        • Charlotte’s Eats and Sweets
        • Cotham’s in the City
        • Cypress Social
        • Maddie’s Place
      • Steak
        • Steak Bucket List
        • Bone’s Chophouse LR
        • Arthur’s Prime Steakhouse
        • Sonny Williams’ Steak Room
        • Cache Restaurant
      • Taco
        • Taco Bucket List
        • Baja Grill
        • Cantina Laredo
        • Mexico Chiquito
        • Tacos 4 Life
    • Top Five Restaurants
      • Fort Smith
      • Russellville
    • Fry Day
      • David’s Burgers
      • Doe’s Eat Place
      • Dugan’s Pub
      • The Faded Rose Restaurant
      • The Pantry
      • The Root Cafe
      • Twisted Fries
    • Recipe Monday
    • Taco Tuesday
      • Baja Grill
      • Casa Mañana
      • Heights Taco & Tamale Co.
      • Local Lime
      • Tacos 4 Life
      • Tacos El Gordo
      • Tacos Godoy
      • The Fold Botanas and Bar
    • Thirsty Thursday
      • Abbi’s Teas & Things
      • Diamond Bear Brewing Company
      • East Sixth Brewing Co.
      • Flyway Brewing
      • The Grind Coffee Bistro
      • Guillermo’s Gourmet Coffee
      • The Library Kitchen and Lounge
      • Nexus Coffee & Creative
      • Nutrition Hub
      • Post Winery
      • The Purple Cow
      • River City Coffee
  • Home/Garden
  • Arts/Culture/People
    • Heather’s Favorite Things
      • Bentonville
      • Apple AirPods
      • Aromatique’s Winter Collection
      • Branson Part 1
      • Branson Part 2
      • BraveHoods
      • Buxom Full-On Plumping Lip Cream
      • Christmas List Part 1
      • Christmas List Part 2
      • CoolSculpting with Dr. Yee
      • Dragon Eggs at Kemuri
      • Dr. Bruce Sanderson, Lasercare Skin Clinic
      • Just Peachy
      • Kakki Jones, hair and makeup artist
      • Kim Hamric, stylist Dillard’s
      • OOH La La Salon
    • Intriguing Women 2020
    • Made in Arkansas
      • Aromatique
      • Fischer’s Honey Company
      • James Hayes Art Glass Company
      • Natural Way Food Group
      • Organized Chaos Collection
      • Ouachita Chocolate
      • Pink House Alchemy
      • Wicked Mix and Wicked Minis
    • Men of Distinction 2020
    • Wednesday’s Women
      • Adora Curry
      • Anna Beth Gorman
      • Ashley Childers
      • Beth Goodrich
      • Jan Lewandowski
      • Nashwa Krisht
      • Regina Taylor
      • Shalonda Michelle
      • Summer Khairi
      • Taren Robinson
  • Health
  • Travel
  • Contests/ Nominations
    • Nominate AY’s Best Lawyers 2021
    • Nominate an AY’s Man of Distinction 2021
    • Nominate a Wednesday’s Woman
    • Nominate AY’s 2021 Intriguing Women
  • More
    • Subscribe to AY Print Magazine
    • Subscribe to AY’s newsletter
    • Custom Publications
    • Men of Distinction 2020
    • Submit Your Event For Our Online Calendar
    • About Us
    • Mental Health Guide
    • Digital Issues
    • COVID19
    • Archive
      • Faces of Arkansas 2019
      • Best Realtors 2019
      • About You Magazine Named Platinum Media Sponsor for 68th Annual Home Show
        • 68th Annual Home Show 2020
          • All About Home
            • Arkansas Flower and Garden Show
            • Beyond Brick
            • Bosley Construction
            • Brandy Harp
            • Financial And Professional Services
            • Game Time Wraps
            • Gary Houston Electric
            • Green Living
            • Hartness Construction
            • KellCo Custom Homes Inc.
            • Outdoor Living
            • Precision Door Service of Central Arkansas
            • Richard Harp Homes
            • Staci Medlock
          • Behind The Hottest Neighborhoods
            • Bosley Construction: The Preserve at the Woodlands
            • Schrader Homes
            • KellCo Custom Homes: Stonehill (Sherwood)
            • Light Innovations: A Better Way To Light
            • Brandy Harp: Principal Broker of Jon Underhill Real Estate
            • Richard Harp Homes: Master Certified Green Professional
            • West Lake Village
            • Waterview
      • 2019 Best Healthcare Professionals
        • Northwest Arkansas
        • Northeast Arkansas
        • South Arkansas
        • Central Arkansas
      • Intriguing Women
      • Intriguing Women 2019
      • Faces of Arkansas
      • AY’s Cutest Dogs 2019
      • Runway: A Look Back
  • Food/Drink
    • Bucket Lists
      • Original Arkansas Bucket List
      • Appetizers
        • Faded Rose
        • Kemuri
        • Lost Forty
        • Yaya’s Euro Bistro
      • Breakfast and Brunch Bucket List
        • Petit & Keet
        • Root Cafe
      • BBQ
        • BBQ Bucket List
        • Whole Hog Cafe NLR
        • Smokin’ Buns
        • Hawgz Blues Café
        • Count Porkula
      • Cajun/Creole Bucket List
        • Copper Mule
        • Eat My Catfish
        • Faded Rose
        • Maddie’s Place
      • Catfish
        • Catfish Bucket List
        • Cathead’s Diner
        • BJ’s Market Cafe
      • Chicken Wings
        • Great American Wings
        • Sauce(d)
      • Dive Bucket List
      • Farm Fresh
        • Boulevard Bread Company
        • Local Lime
        • Root Cafe
      • Festivals Bucket List
      • Food Trucks
        • Delta Biscuit Company
        • The Lab Food Truck
        • Tacos Godoy
      • Holiday Food Bucket List
        • Burge’s Hickory Smoked Turkeys and Hams
        • Lindsey’s Hospitality House
        • Taylors’ Made Cafe
        • YGFBFKitchen
      • Pancakes and French Toast
        • Eden Restaurant inside the Hotel Hale
        • Kemuri
        • The Pancake Shop
      • Pasta
        • Bruno’s Little Italy
        • Graffiti’s Italian Restaurant
        • Ristorante Capeo
      • Pies
        • Blue Cake Co. / Honey Pies
        • Charlotte’s Eats & Sweets
        • Community Bakery
        • Rosalia’s Family Bakery
      • Pizza Bucket List
        • Deluca’s Pizza
        • Old Mill Pizza
        • Pizza Cafe
        • U.S. Pizza
      • Salad Bucket List
        • Cheers in the Heights
        • Scallions
        • Taziki’s Mediterranean Café
        • ZAZA Fine Salad and Wood Oven Pizza Co.
      • Sandwich Bucket List
        • Boulevard Bread Company
        • Cross Creek Sandwich Shop
        • Gadwall’s Grill
      • Seafood
        • Boudreaux’s Grill and Bar
        • Eat My Catfish
        • Lakewood Fish & Seafood House
        • Oceans at Arthur’s
      • Soup/Chili Bucket List
        • Baja Grill
        • Cheers in the Heights
        • Scallions
      • Southern Plates Bucket List
        • Charlotte’s Eats and Sweets
        • Cotham’s in the City
        • Cypress Social
        • Maddie’s Place
      • Steak
        • Steak Bucket List
        • Bone’s Chophouse LR
        • Arthur’s Prime Steakhouse
        • Sonny Williams’ Steak Room
        • Cache Restaurant
      • Taco
        • Taco Bucket List
        • Baja Grill
        • Cantina Laredo
        • Mexico Chiquito
        • Tacos 4 Life
    • Top Five Restaurants
      • Fort Smith
      • Russellville
    • Fry Day
      • David’s Burgers
      • Doe’s Eat Place
      • Dugan’s Pub
      • The Faded Rose Restaurant
      • The Pantry
      • The Root Cafe
      • Twisted Fries
    • Recipe Monday
    • Taco Tuesday
      • Baja Grill
      • Casa Mañana
      • Heights Taco & Tamale Co.
      • Local Lime
      • Tacos 4 Life
      • Tacos El Gordo
      • Tacos Godoy
      • The Fold Botanas and Bar
    • Thirsty Thursday
      • Abbi’s Teas & Things
      • Diamond Bear Brewing Company
      • East Sixth Brewing Co.
      • Flyway Brewing
      • The Grind Coffee Bistro
      • Guillermo’s Gourmet Coffee
      • The Library Kitchen and Lounge
      • Nexus Coffee & Creative
      • Nutrition Hub
      • Post Winery
      • The Purple Cow
      • River City Coffee
  • Home/Garden
  • Arts/Culture/People
    • Heather’s Favorite Things
      • Bentonville
      • Apple AirPods
      • Aromatique’s Winter Collection
      • Branson Part 1
      • Branson Part 2
      • BraveHoods
      • Buxom Full-On Plumping Lip Cream
      • Christmas List Part 1
      • Christmas List Part 2
      • CoolSculpting with Dr. Yee
      • Dragon Eggs at Kemuri
      • Dr. Bruce Sanderson, Lasercare Skin Clinic
      • Just Peachy
      • Kakki Jones, hair and makeup artist
      • Kim Hamric, stylist Dillard’s
      • OOH La La Salon
    • Intriguing Women 2020
    • Made in Arkansas
      • Aromatique
      • Fischer’s Honey Company
      • James Hayes Art Glass Company
      • Natural Way Food Group
      • Organized Chaos Collection
      • Ouachita Chocolate
      • Pink House Alchemy
      • Wicked Mix and Wicked Minis
    • Men of Distinction 2020
    • Wednesday’s Women
      • Adora Curry
      • Anna Beth Gorman
      • Ashley Childers
      • Beth Goodrich
      • Jan Lewandowski
      • Nashwa Krisht
      • Regina Taylor
      • Shalonda Michelle
      • Summer Khairi
      • Taren Robinson
  • Health
  • Travel
  • Contests/ Nominations
    • Nominate AY’s Best Lawyers 2021
    • Nominate an AY’s Man of Distinction 2021
    • Nominate a Wednesday’s Woman
    • Nominate AY’s 2021 Intriguing Women
  • More
    • Subscribe to AY Print Magazine
    • Subscribe to AY’s newsletter
    • Custom Publications
    • Men of Distinction 2020
    • Submit Your Event For Our Online Calendar
    • About Us
    • Mental Health Guide
    • Digital Issues
    • COVID19
    • Archive
      • Faces of Arkansas 2019
      • Best Realtors 2019
      • About You Magazine Named Platinum Media Sponsor for 68th Annual Home Show
        • 68th Annual Home Show 2020
          • All About Home
            • Arkansas Flower and Garden Show
            • Beyond Brick
            • Bosley Construction
            • Brandy Harp
            • Financial And Professional Services
            • Game Time Wraps
            • Gary Houston Electric
            • Green Living
            • Hartness Construction
            • KellCo Custom Homes Inc.
            • Outdoor Living
            • Precision Door Service of Central Arkansas
            • Richard Harp Homes
            • Staci Medlock
          • Behind The Hottest Neighborhoods
            • Bosley Construction: The Preserve at the Woodlands
            • Schrader Homes
            • KellCo Custom Homes: Stonehill (Sherwood)
            • Light Innovations: A Better Way To Light
            • Brandy Harp: Principal Broker of Jon Underhill Real Estate
            • Richard Harp Homes: Master Certified Green Professional
            • West Lake Village
            • Waterview
      • 2019 Best Healthcare Professionals
        • Northwest Arkansas
        • Northeast Arkansas
        • South Arkansas
        • Central Arkansas
      • Intriguing Women
      • Intriguing Women 2019
      • Faces of Arkansas
      • AY’s Cutest Dogs 2019
      • Runway: A Look Back

Category Archives: Blog

junior

Junior League of Little Rock Counts Down to 2019’s Holiday House

Blog, Home & Garden, Latest News from AYBy Tyler HaleSeptember 23, 2019

This year, the Junior League of Little Rock (JLLR) and AY About You Magazine are going to make sure you have a very happy holiday season. That’s because Junior League and AY are partnering for Holiday House, an annual shopping extravaganza.   With approximately 200 merchants and more than 14,000 shoppers, Holiday House has become…

Miranda

Miranda Lambert is Coming to Arkansas

Arts & Culture, Blog, UncategorizedBy Tyler HaleSeptember 23, 2019

A country music “Wildcard” is coming to the Verizon Arena in January.   Miranda Lambert is bringing her Wildcard tour to Arkansas on January 23, 2020. The concert, held at Verizon Arena, will be at 7 p.m.   Ticket sales for the concert begin Friday, September 27, at 10 a.m. Tickets will be available at…

baker

The Final Cake: Heather Baker and Lisa Fischer Draw Contest to a Close

Blog, FoodBy Tyler HaleSeptember 23, 2019

All good things eventually come to a close, and the “Heather and Lisa Eat Cake Because It’s Heather’s Birthday” contest has almost arrived at its end. During September, AY Publisher Heather Baker and AY Editor-at-Large Lisa Fischer have been doing their culinary duty by tasting the best cakes that Arkansas has to offer.   The…

recipe

Recipe Monday: Bacon-Brown Sugar Pork Tenderloin

Blog, Food, Recipe MondayBy Lisa FischerSeptember 23, 2019

Since the weather hasn’t cooled like I had hoped (as well as the rest of you had hoped),  I normally would be posting some soups by now. I kinda jump the gun on soup-making by whipping up a bowl often in August. Since I don’t like pumpkin spice anything, it’s my only connection to fall. …

flamingo

Flamingo Time! Heather Baker and Lisa Fischer Take On the 9th Cake

Blog, FoodBy Tyler HaleSeptember 20, 2019

It’s coming down to the wire with the “Heather and Lisa Eat Cake Because It’s Heather’s Birthday” contest! Eight cakes have entered the AY office, and eight cakes have been defeated.   AY Publisher Heather Baker and her trusty gal Lisa Fischer, AY Editor-at-Large, have been tasting cakes from around Arkansas in preparation for Baker’s…

UCA

Hitting the Beach: UCA Football Team Heads to Hawaii

Blog, SportsBy Tyler HaleSeptember 20, 2019

The UCA Bears are hitting the beach this weekend, traveling to Honolulu to take on the University of Hawaii’s Rainbow Warriors at Aloha Stadium on September 21. Coming off a devastating defeat from the Washington Huskies, the Rainbows are cautiously hopeful for their chances against the so-far undefeated UCA team.   This will be the…

steak

Visiting an Arkansas Steak Icon: Sonny Williams’ Steak Room

Arkansas Bucket List, Blog, Food, SteakBy Tyler HaleSeptember 20, 2019

It’s still September, and steaks and bourbon are still firmly on our minds. Especially for AY Publisher Heather Baker and KARK host DJ Williams as they hunt down the best steaks in Arkansas as part of the AY Steak Bucket List.   This week, they won’t have to go far to find a delicious steak.…

avocado

Something Special: Heather Baker and Lisa Fischer Eat an Avocado Cake

Blog, FoodBy Tyler HaleSeptember 20, 2019

With less than a week to go to AY Publisher Heather Baker’s birthday, the “Heather and Lisa Eat Cake Because It’s Heather’s Birthday” contestis quickly coming to a close. But never fear, there are still more delicious cakes to be tasted.   It’s been a marathon for Baker and AY Editor-at-Large Lisa Fischer this month…

morris

Fine Tuning: Hogs Should Take Care of San Jose

Blog, SportsBy Mark CarterSeptember 20, 2019

Hog fans sat in a cloud of “not again” midway through the fourth quarter Saturday in Fayetteville. The Hogs had just surrendered another late lead to Colorado State, and Razorback fans were staring at a 34-all shootout heading into the final stretch.   Given Arkansas’ recent history of fading down the stretch, no one could…

Jamie

Let the Professional Handle It: Jamie McAfee Makes a Chocolate Cake

Blog, FoodBy Tyler HaleSeptember 19, 2019

It’s a hard life eating delicious cake and judging them, but someone has to do it! Fortunately, for the “Heather and Lisa Eat Cake Because It’s Heather’s Birthday” contest, the task is split up between AY Publisher Heather Baker and AY Editor-at-Large Lisa Fischer.   And they’ve been hard at work, tasting cakes from around…

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