The Bitter Southerner wants to read you a story! (Make that batches of stories.) Yes, we’re launching a brand new podcast called BATCH, and in our first BATCH series we're sharing some of our most popular food stories. We Southerners love our food and we take our regional recipes seriously. In the coming episodes, we’re going talk about red beans, peaches, memories of the pound cake we had growing up and stories of people doing good and changing lives through food. We will laugh. We might cry. We’ll definitely have a good time. Join us here - for BATCH.
The Bitter Southerner wants to read you a story! (Make that batches of stories.) Yes, we’re launching a brand new podcast called BATCH, and in our first BATCH series we're sharing some of our most popular food stories. We Southerners love our food and we take our regional recipes seriously. In the coming episodes, we’re going talk about red beans, peaches, memories of the pound cake we had growing up and stories of people doing good and changing lives through food. We will laugh. We might cry. We’ll definitely have a good time. Join us here - for BATCH.
This weekend, the Bitter Southerner is back with - can you believe it? - the third episode of BATCH!
If you are listening for the first time, at BATCH we have our favorites read some favorites. What we mean by that is that we dig around in our archives and record readings of the stories y'all love. In our first batch of episodes, we're sharing some of our popular food stories.
And in today's episode, we're actually sharing two stories: a tale of love and a tale of… well, also love, but with some hate mixed in too.
First, a story about a food that we sometimes disregard. For one reason or another, we can be unfair to beans. You'll see what I mean when writer Nikesha Elise Williams in Jacksonville, Florida reads her story “Beans and Rice: More than a Poor Man’s Meal”
Next, Kathleen Purvis reads a story about a food she just hates, and how family can get you into, and out of, sticky situations. “Lemon Meringue Pie: A Lesson In Love, Hate and Bravery.”
Welcome back to BATCH, y’all.
Original Stories
Lemon Meringue Pie: A Lesson in Love, Hate and Bravery
Beans and Rice: More than a “Poor Man’s” Meal
Credits
Hosted by Kyle Tibbs Jones
Produced by Ryan Engelberger
Engineered by Thomas Sully Allen, Kayla Dover and Daniel Clarkson
Featuring original music by Curt Castle
Recorded at Tweed Recording and Chase Park Transduction in Athens, GA; Studio Evolution Sound in Charlotte, NC; and at Nikesha Elise Williams’ home studio.