Lookouts fans, remember the man who sold beer and peanuts through the stadium? Can you help us find him?

Got a good squash recipe for you today. But first, we need some help, Food as a Verb community. Some investigative help.

Anybody out there remember the beer guy from the Chattanooga Lookouts? Old-school, slinging Miller Lites, hauling around that backpack full of suds, peanuts, bottled water? It musta weighed 85 pounds in 95 degree heat.

Beer here! Get ya beer here!

The Lookouts don't contract with vendors anymore, apparently. They have beer gardens – which are nice – and cashless systems – nice, too, I guess. But we're curious about that beer guy. What happened to him? Wish we knew. Kinda want to give him a standing ovation for making the games so ... genuine. And less thirsty. Hell, it couldn't have been easy, lugging that around for three hours in the July sun?

Anybody out there remember him? Know how we can contact him? If so, email david@foodasaverb.com.

(Speaking of baseball, the Braves won't catch the Phillies to win the division, but will roll past them in the playoffs. And Chris Sale will win the Cy Young. Finally.)

• Two Sundays ago, we published about farmland loss. Across Tennessee, we are losing 10 acres of farmland every hour with one million acres in jeopardy by 2040.

"Staggering," one reader said.

At the forefront of preserving farmland? Brooks Lamb, who lives in Memphis and works for the American Farmland Trust. Over the last six months, I've gotten to know Brooks. He is old-soul wise and wicked smart. What a friend to have in your corner.

Last year, he published Love for the Land, a brilliant and beautiful examination of Tennessee farmers and the ethics by which they live.

The book is both academic and front porch, weaving in first-person farmer stories with policies and statistics, all of it undercut with references to Wendell Berry's vision of agrarian virtues.

Lamb writes:

Because we eat, breathe, drink and live, we are all dependent on good farms and farmers and we must take responsibility to ensure better stewardship. Urban, suburban and rural people alike are better off when we amplify, value and practice imagination of, affection for, and fidelity to place.

When we act with the empathy, courage and hoe that we want to see in others. ... Heeding lessons from farmers who persist in place, we can embrace these virtues. Rather than give up or get out, we can dig in.

Rather than go big, we can go home. For the sake of people, place and planet, we should live with love for the land.

Would any of Food as a Verb readers want to read this together? Buy a copy – here or from our friends at The Book & Cover – and meet up this fall at, say, the Little Coyote porch to discuss?

Interested? Email david@foodasaverb.com.

Who knows, maybe we can talk Brooks into joining us.

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Now, onto some recipes.

Letty Smith at Circle S Farm kindly shared Good Grazing, a cookbook she authored (and Tosh Hopkins illustrated) in 2008.

We visited Letty a while back, writing about her, Jennifer Blair and their draft horses, Judy and Jane.

As many of you know, Letty is one of the finest humans around. Her cookbook is down-home and delightful. She shared with us so we could share with you.

For today, Vegetable Creole and Stuffed Squash.

You can order your own copy here. You can also buy ingredients for both recipes at today's Main Street Farmers' Market.

There's still time to vote our city's farmers' market in the American Farmland Trust contest.

We're just a few votes shy of first place in Tennessee.

You can vote here.

Food in our Phone returns next week. Working on two powerful stories for this Sunday; not sure which one we'll share, but there's a good chance it involves this, one of my very favorite Food as a Verb photos:

Have a great hump day, everyone.

All photography by Sarah Unger (sarah@foodasaverb.com)

All design by Alex DeHart

All words by David Cook (david@foodasaverb.com)

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