Matthew Cooper

Matthew Cooper, executive chef of The Preacher’s Son restaurant in downtown Bentonville, will leave the restaurant in pursuit of a new project. His last day will be Dec. 12. read more >

An announcement may be coming that Chef Lee Richardson, the celebrated former executive chef at the Capital Hotel, is taking his talents (in some form) to Cache, the restaurant owned by Rush Harding and his son, Payne. read more >

Since December, a small store in downtown Little Rock has been selling health in bulk. Matthew Cooper, who owns Dandelion with his wife, Priscilla Fincher, described the store as the biggest bulk dealer of white and black organic tea in the state, even as it shares a 500-SF space with another business, the Freckled Frog. “It can get crowded in here,” he noted. read more >