Latest Americansouth Podcast Episodes
How Pineywoods Cattle Bucks Big Beef
Gravy - April 24, 2024 07:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “How Pineywoods Cattle Bucks Big Beef,” Gravy producer Stephanie Burt takes listeners out to the rolling pastures of the South to meet Pineywoods cattle, a breed that’s been grazing in the Southern region of the United States since the 1500s. The cow that some see as old fashioned is being con...
Unshelled: George Washington Carver's Real Legacy
Gravy - April 10, 2024 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “Unshelled: George Washington Carver's Real Legacy," producers Ishan Thakore and Katie Jane Fernelius explore a lesser-known aspect of Dr. George Washington Carver’s legacy: his role as a conservationist and a practitioner of sustainable agriculture. Carver’s life defies easy explanation. He w...
Yock Is for Lovers: Chinese Soul Food in Tidewater Virginia
Gravy - March 27, 2024 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn "Yock Is for Lovers: Chinese Soul Food in Tidewater Virginia," Gravy producer Nicole Hutcheson delves into the history of Yock-a-Mein, tracing its origins to the Tidewater region of Virginia and delving into its significant role in shaping the distinctive culinary tradition known as Chinese so...
California Dreams and Flossie’s Mississippi Tamales
Gravy - February 28, 2024 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “California Dreams and Flossie’s Mississippi Tamales,” journalist and Gravy producer Eve Troeh joins businesswoman Sandra Miller Foster to tell the story of the restaurant Flossie’s, and the mother-daughter dream that fueled it. This story grew from a simple question: “Does anyone serve Missis...
Gravy Travels Due South
Gravy - February 26, 2024 06:01 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIf you're looking for a show that is a source for news, information, and perspectives from across North Carolina and the South, then you should really check out Due South from our public radio friends at WUNC—North Carolina Public Radio. Due South is a place to make sense of what’s happening in o...
The Miracle of Slaw and Fishes: Louisiana’s Lenten Fish Fries
Gravy - February 14, 2024 08:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsOrder a catfish po-boy or a few pounds of crawfish in Acadiana any Friday between Mardi Gras and Easter, and you may be surprised to learn that your delight is another person’s sacrifice. The Catholic tradition of abstaining from meat during Fridays in Lent is alive and well in Southwest Louisian...
From Stuckey's to Buc-ee's
Gravy - January 31, 2024 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsFew companies have inspired more fanatical devotion among Texans than the convenience chain Buc-ee’s. Described by the New York Times as both a “Disneyland of roadside capitalism,” and the “through line of America’s second most sprawling state,” its iconic, buck-toothed beaver mascot has been spo...
Mahalia Jackson's Glori-Fried Chicken
Gravy - January 17, 2024 08:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn addition to her work as an international recording artist and civil rights activist, the Queen of Gospel entered the restaurant business in the late 1960s with Mahalia Jackson’s Glori-fried Chicken. The fast food chain was more than a brand extension for the star; it was the first African Amer...
It's Hip To Be a Cube: Maggi Bouillon Unwrapped
Gravy - January 03, 2024 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn the episode “It’s Hip to Be a Cube: Maggie Bouillon Unwrapped,” Gravy producers Katie Jane Fernelius and Ishan Thakore take a deeper look at a humble but ubiquitous pantry staple—the bouillon cube. As many home cooks know, these dehydrated cubes of salty, umami flavor dissolve in water to crea...
Gravy Recommendation: Southern Songs and Stories
Gravy - December 29, 2023 08:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIf you appreciate Gravy, you'll likely enjoy Southern Songs and Stories. The episode we're sharing with you today features Jake Xerxes Fussell, a musician whose music is well-known in Oxford, Mississippi, the town the Southern Foodways Alliance calls home. From Southern Songs and Stories: In this...
Filipino Balikbayan is Homecoming in a Box
Gravy - December 20, 2023 12:32 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsChristmas is the time of year when many people line up at the Post Office to ship gifts to far-flung loved ones across the country, maybe even the world. In the Philippines, this practice is not just customary, but a state policy called the Balikbayan Program. Balikbayan, which is the Tagalog wor...
What's Next for the Women of Mama Dip's Kitchen?
Gravy - December 06, 2023 08:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn "What's Next for the Women of Mama Dip's Kitchen?" Gravy producer Leoneda Inge takes listeners to Mama Dip’s Kitchen, known for its chicken and dumplings and scrumptious homemade desserts. The restaurant has fed tourists, celebrities, and steady customers for nearly fifty years in Chapel Hill,...
Tasting the South in the San Fernando Valley
Gravy - November 22, 2023 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “Tasting the South in the San Fernando Valley,” producer Rebecca Katz tells the story of how three black women created a soul food institution in one of the whitest parts of the San Fernando Valley that still thrives today. During the Second Great Migration in the 1940s, large numbers of Black...
Adaptation, Survival, Gratitude: A Lumbee Thanksgiving Story
Gravy - November 08, 2023 09:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsAt this point, most of us know the Thanksgiving story about the Pilgrims and the Indians happily indulging in a joint feast is a vast oversimplification of what actually happened. But how many of us still have an idea of Native people that's stuck in the past? "People didn't believe that I was Na...
The Swamp Witches
Gravy - October 25, 2023 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsWinter mornings are serene in the cypress groves of the Mississippi Delta. There’s the glide of the canoe, and the gentle ripple of camouflage waders disappearing into waist-deep water. What finally breaks the pre-dawn quiet is the fire of a shotgun, and the splash of a Labrador Retriever. And th...
Czech Out Texas Kolaches
Gravy - October 11, 2023 08:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “Czech Out Texas Kolaches,” Gravy producer Evan Stern invites listeners to join him on a return trip to his native Texas to explore the history, origins, and evolutions of kolaches through the voices of bakers of varying backgrounds and perspectives. This episode complements the oral history p...
North Carolina Pottery from Clay to Kiln
Gravy - September 27, 2023 08:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “North Carolina Pottery from Clay to Kiln” Gravy producer Wilson Sayre invites us to consider the vehicles that our food sits on—plates. In this episode, she takes us to central North Carolina, where the story of the hand-thrown pottery and its relationship with food is told with gusto. If yo...
A Shrimp Boat Blessing with no Shrimp Boats
Gravy - September 13, 2023 08:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “A Shrimp Boat Blessing with no Shrimp Boats,” Gravy producer Irina Zhorov takes listeners to Bayou La Batre, on Alabama's Gulf Coast. Long known as the seafood capital of Alabama, Bayou La Batre has hosted a Blessing of the Fleet – a festival to bless local commercial shrimp and fishing boats...
Annie Fisher’s Beaten Biscuits Meant Business
Gravy - August 30, 2023 08:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “Annie Fisher’s Beaten Biscuits Meant Business,” Gravy producer Mackenzie Martin digs into beaten biscuits, the tender, flaky hardtack rolls that date back to the 1800s, when they were often served with ham and particularly popular in the South. Historically speaking, beaten biscuits were incr...
Tasting Kentucky in Tiananmen
Gravy - August 16, 2023 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “Tasting Kentucky in Tiananmen,” Gravy producers Ishan Thakore and Katie Jane Fernelius explore how KFC became one of the most popular restaurant chains in China, and what its dominance reveals about other huge Southern firms. KFC is now part of the corporate conglomerate Yum! Brands, which i...
A Tale of Two Laredos
Gravy - March 15, 2023 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “A Tale of Two Laredos,” Gravy producer Evan Stern visits Laredo, Texas, which shares history, culture, and memory with its sister city across the border, Nuevo Laredo. For decades, Mexican border towns were renowned for refined, white tablecloth restaurants where jacketed waiters served a caf...
A Texas Cabrito Communion
Gravy - March 08, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “A Texas Cabrito Communion,” Gravy producer Evan Stern invites us to ride along as he joins the Avila and Aguirre families for a celebratory reunion and cabrito cookout at their YY Ranch, which sits below the Nueces River in Texas. The river once served as the boundary between Texas and the Me...
Blessed Egg Rolls and the Evolution of Rockport, Texas
Gravy - March 01, 2023 12:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “Blessed Egg Rolls and the Evolution of Rockport, Texas,” Gravy producer Evan Stern takes listeners to the small town of Rockport, Texas, which hugs the shores of Aransas Bay on the state’s Gulf Coast, about 35 miles northeast of Corpus Christi. There, he visits Saint Peter’s Catholic Church, ...
A Taste of Sicily on Galveston Bay
Gravy - February 22, 2023 12:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “A Taste of Sicily on Galveston Bay,” Gravy producer Evan Stern takes listeners to Galveston, Texas. Once perhaps the greatest town of significance between New Orleans and San Francisco, today its population doesn’t even crack the top fifty of Texas cities. But while Austin is often referred t...
Noodling with the Texas Wends
Gravy - February 15, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “Noodling with the Texas Wends,” Gravy producer Evan Stern takes us to the small, Central Texas town of Serbin, which was last included in the Census more than 20 years ago, when the population was only 37. But its sign still proudly announces itself as the “Home of the Texas Wends”—and the lo...
The Gulf’s Last Generation of Black Oystermen?
Gravy - December 14, 2022 12:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “The Gulf’s Last Generation of Black Oystermen?” Gravy producer Kayla Stewart takes listeners to south Louisiana, where Black men have played a key role in the region’s oyster industry—and where today, they are few and far between. Stewart speaks to one of the area’s last Black oystermen about...
Buying and Selling Food in the Black South
Gravy - December 07, 2022 12:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratings“Buying and Selling Food in the Black South” is the fourth installment in reporter Kayla Stewart’s 2022 Gravy podcast season, where she explores Black foodways in the South and beyond. For this episode, she speaks to Black business owners who are trying to improve food access in Black communities...
In Houston, Three Tastes of West Africa
Gravy - November 30, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn the episode “In Houston, Three Tastes of West Africa,” Gravy producer Kayla Stewart takes listeners to her hometown of Houston, Texas, which boasts one of the most vibrant international food scenes in the country. It’s a city where Black Americans have built their own communities and pathways ...
The Joyful Black History of the Sweet Potato
Gravy - November 23, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “The Joyful Black History of the Sweet Potato,” Kayla Stewart reports for Gravy on sweet potatoes, which Southern-born Black Americans have baked, roasted, fried, distilled—and long revered. Stewart takes listeners across the United States to learn how African Americans are finding new, intere...
Annie Laura Squalls and Her Mile High Pie
Gravy - November 16, 2022 12:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 531 ratingsIn “Annie Laura Squalls and Her Mile High Pie,” Gravy producer Kayla Stewart tells the story of Annie Laura Squalls, who, in 1960, became head baker at the Caribbean Room, the popular in-house restaurant at New Orleans’ renowned Pontchartrain Hotel. It was there where Squalls created her “Seven M...
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