
Ep 005 - Sheri Castle: The Seven Essential Southern Dishes
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07/30/22 • 61 min
We’re so excited to bring y’all our grand finale for this first BATCH: a conversation with writer and TV host Sheri Castle as she talks us through her piece, “The Seven Essential Southern Dishes.”
This is a good one y’all - it’s the Bitter Southerner’s second most read, discussed, shared and argued over story of all time. We’re talking about highly contentious stuff here. Sugar in cornbread. Cream cheese in poundcake.
Thank y’all so much for listening to this first BATCH of stories! We are so grateful for all of the feedback you’ve given us and time you’ve spent with us. We’re taking just a few weeks to get the next BACTH of stories together; we’ll be back soon!
Original Story
The Seven Essential Southern Dishes
Credits
Hosted by Kyle Tibbs Jones
Produced by Ryan Engelberger
Engineered by Kayla Dover, Thomas Sully Allen and James Phillips
Featuring original music by Curt Castle
Recorded at Tweed Recording and Chase Park Transduction in Athens, GA and at James Phillips’ studio in Old North Durham
We’re so excited to bring y’all our grand finale for this first BATCH: a conversation with writer and TV host Sheri Castle as she talks us through her piece, “The Seven Essential Southern Dishes.”
This is a good one y’all - it’s the Bitter Southerner’s second most read, discussed, shared and argued over story of all time. We’re talking about highly contentious stuff here. Sugar in cornbread. Cream cheese in poundcake.
Thank y’all so much for listening to this first BATCH of stories! We are so grateful for all of the feedback you’ve given us and time you’ve spent with us. We’re taking just a few weeks to get the next BACTH of stories together; we’ll be back soon!
Original Story
The Seven Essential Southern Dishes
Credits
Hosted by Kyle Tibbs Jones
Produced by Ryan Engelberger
Engineered by Kayla Dover, Thomas Sully Allen and James Phillips
Featuring original music by Curt Castle
Recorded at Tweed Recording and Chase Park Transduction in Athens, GA and at James Phillips’ studio in Old North Durham
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Ep 004 - Shane Mitchell : The Queen of Delicacies
This weekend, the Bitter Southerner is back with a real peach of an episode.
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 most popular food stories.
In episode 4 of BATCH, James Beard Award winning author Shane Mitchell reads her piece on peaches; their beauty, what makes a good one, the people who grow them, the pageants(!) and the story of how they got here.
Welcome back to BATCH, y’all.
Original Stories
Credits
Hosted by Kyle Tibbs Jones
Produced by Ryan Engelberger
Engineered by Thomas Sully Allen, Kayla Dover and Evan Kleinecke
Featuring original music by Curt Castle
Recorded at Tweed Recording and Chase Park Transduction in Athens, GA and 5th Street Studios in Austin, TX
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In our new BATCH of episodes - "Earth Stories" - we've recorded some of our favorite contributors reading their stories about special and fragile places across the South. Listen to these wonderful writers read their powerful words and then talk with our host, Kyle Tibbs Jones.
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