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Gravy — 295 episodes

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1

The Piggly Wiggly Way: A Memphis Story

2

Making Groceries in Louisiana

3

Spilling the Tea in the Mississippi Pine Belt

4

Tasting Haiti in New Orleans

5

Object Permanence: An Essay

6

American Barbecue’s European Adventure

7

Sap's Rising in Highland County, Virginia

8

Real Organic Podcast

9

Sniffing Out American Truffles

10

Virginia Has the Blue Catfish Blues

11

A Taste of the Other Georgia in Pensacola

12

Apalachicola Bay Reopens

13

The Miracle of Slaw and Fishes: Louisiana’s Lenten Fish Fries

14

Trade, Taste, and the Evolving Tale of Texas Whiskey

15

Fruitcake in Space

16

How a Humble Crab Dish Became the Soul of Tampa

17

Southern caviar is wild, nutty, and...sustainable?

18

Boars Gone Wild: Texans Hunt, Trap, and Cook a Piggy Pest

19

Texas Pecans, A Thirsty Nut to Crack

20

Tending Episode 6: What Next?

21

Tending Episode 5: What Now?

22

Tending Episode 4: Texas

23

Tending Episode 3: Kansas

24

Tending Episode 2: Georgia

25

Tending Episode 1: North Carolina

26

Tending: A Preview

27

The Long Recovery: Farmers and Hurricane Helene

28

An Orthodox Jewish Congregation Keeps on (Food) Truckin' in Birmingham

29

Southern Cooking Comes to Portugal

30

We Sure Eat Good When Someone Dies

31

Virginia Public Schools Serve Indigenous Cuisine

32

Culinary Characters Unlocked: Marisa Baggett

33

Planting it Forward in Houston

34

What's Brewing in Memphis?

35

There’s No Business Like Hansen’s Sno Bliz-ness

36

There’s No Business Like Hansen’s Sno Bliz-ness

37

From Stuckey's to Buc-ee's

38

Oh, Snapper! Mislabeled Mississippi Seafood

39

Buzzkill: Save which bees?

40

The Southern Genius of the Cuban Sandwich

41

A Muddy Future for Louisiana Crawfish

42

Fruitcake in Space

43

Got (Raw) Milk? The Small Family Dairy Farms Behind a Big Controversy

44

What’s in Store for the Pawpaw Patch?

45

Flambéed! The Art & Theater of Bananas Foster

46

Conch: Queen of the Florida Keys

47

South Asian Food Makes Northwest Arkansas Taste Like Home

48

Cultivating Mexico in Northwest Arkansas

49

A Pea for the Past, a Pea for the Future

50

What Makes Gumbo...Gumbo?

51

The Joyful Black History of the Sweet Potato

52

Eating at the End of the World

53

Where There's (Southern) Smoke, There's Help for Restaurant Workers

54

Catch of the Day: Why Alabama Loves Red Snapper

55

The Deli Diaspora

56

America's Lost Peanut and the Price of Bringing it Back

57

Apalachicola Oysters and the Battle for a Florida Bay

58

The Kitchen Electric: Selling Power to Rural America

59

Bala’s Bistro: Where Mali Meets Memphis

60

Minnie Bell’s Feeds the Fillmore’s Soul

61

Reel It In: Building Local Markets for Fresh Fish

62

Ironies and Onion Rings: The Layered Story of the Vidalia Onion

63

Gravy Recommends the Podcast Sea Change

64

Flambéed! The Art & Theater of Bananas Foster

65

How Mi Tierra Shaped Modern San Antonio

66

The Rise and Fall and Rise of Pitmaster Ed Mitcehll

67

Wherefore art thou, ROMEO? At Jack’s!

68

How Pineywoods Cattle Bucks Big Beef

69

Unshelled: George Washington Carver's Real Legacy

70

Yock Is for Lovers: Chinese Soul Food in Tidewater Virginia

71

Catering: Behind the Pipe and Drape

72

California Dreams and Flossie’s Mississippi Tamales

73

Gravy Travels Due South

74

The Miracle of Slaw and Fishes: Louisiana’s Lenten Fish Fries

75

From Stuckey's to Buc-ee's

76

Mahalia Jackson's Glori-Fried Chicken

77

It's Hip To Be a Cube: Maggi Bouillon Unwrapped

78

Gravy Recommendation: Southern Songs and Stories

79

Filipino Balikbayan is Homecoming in a Box

80

What's Next for the Women of Mama Dip's Kitchen?

81

Tasting the South in the San Fernando Valley

82

Adaptation, Survival, Gratitude: A Lumbee Thanksgiving Story

83

The Swamp Witches

84

Czech Out Texas Kolaches

85

North Carolina Pottery from Clay to Kiln

86

A Shrimp Boat Blessing with no Shrimp Boats

87

Annie Fisher’s Beaten Biscuits Meant Business

88

Tasting Kentucky in Tiananmen

89

A Tale of Two Laredos

90

A Texas Cabrito Communion

91

Blessed Egg Rolls and the Evolution of Rockport, Texas

92

A Taste of Sicily on Galveston Bay

93

Noodling with the Texas Wends

94

The Gulf’s Last Generation of Black Oystermen?

95

Buying and Selling Food in the Black South

96

In Houston, Three Tastes of West Africa

97

The Joyful Black History of the Sweet Potato

98

Annie Laura Squalls and Her Mile High Pie

99

SFA Symposium and Spoonbread

100

A Symposium Memory

101

Rib Tips, Hot Links, and the Mississippi Roots of Chicago Barbecue

102

Father, Son, Fire: A Chat with Howard and Harrison Conyers

103

Southern Barbecue Goes West

104

Brisket Pho, a Viet Tex Story

105

Henry Perry, Kansas City's Barbecue King

106

Bread and Friends

107

Making that Dough

108

Fresh Flour to the People

109

Bread by Fire

110

Genealogy of a Bakery

111

Even After Those Roses Bloom

112

Can Co-Ops Fix a Broken Food Delivery Model?

113

The Bare Minimum

114

The Bitter and the Sweet of Craft Chocolate in the Global South

115

Memphis Restaurant Workers Unite!

116

What's in the Fridge?

117

"Married," by Jo McDougall

118

Thresh & Hold

119

"Carlo Flunks the Seventh Grade," by Greg Brownderville

120

Filipino Balikbayan is Homecoming in a Box

121

New Orleans Street Vendors, Then and Now

122

The Skinny on the South Beach Diet

123

The Kitchen Electric: Selling Power to Rural America

124

Pulp Fact: How Orange Juice Created the Sunshine State

125

"Easy," by Ed Madden

126

Take the Woods Ballistic! Black Belt Nightlife

127

Migration: Making Meals and Homes in Alabama

128

Alabama Hunters: Pretty Don't Tree No Coon

129

Cooking Up a Living in Alabama

130

New Stewards on Old Homesteads in Alabama

131

"Pesach in Blacksburg," by Erika Meitner

132

"Grace," by Jake Adam York

133

The Mithai Life of North Carolina

134

The Southern Genius of the Cuban Sandwich

135

Syrian-ish: Damascus Meets Little Rock at Layla's Restaurant

136

Ethiopian Atlanta: A Tale of Three Restaurants

137

Tempeh Brings Indonesia to Houston

138

"Drill," by Atsuro Riley

139

"Because Men Do What They Want to Do," by TJ Jarrett

140

The Holy Trinity: From the Bayou to the Bay

141

Puerto Rican Pasteles: Unwrapping the Diaspora

142

Horchata: An Ancient Drink that Crossed the Globe

143

A Pea for the Past, A Pea for the Future

144

The Deli Diaspora

145

Eating a Muffaletta in Des Moines, by Brian Spears

146

It is Simple, by Jon Pineda

147

Scrap That: Charlotte's attempt to compost food waste

148

Christians Take Up Climate Change

149

Take it Easement: Save a farm to save the future?

150

Low-Carbon Dining: How much can restaurants do?

151

A Peach for a Warming South

152

Goat is the Future: An Interview with Tom Rankin

153

Praising Fireflies with Aimee Nezhukumatathil

154

Pondering the Fate of Food: An Interview with Amanda Little

155

Mapping the Green Book: An Interview with Candacy Taylor

156

Such As, by Wo Chan

157

Visible Yam

158

We the People are Larger Than We Used to Be

159

Magic City Poetry

160

Punchin' the Dough: Singing about Food Labor

161

Food Festival Financials

162

Shucking, by Elton Glaser

163

Cajun Kibbe: Eating Lebanese in Louisiana

164

Two Tales of Donaldsonville: True Friends & The Chance Café

165

Nueva Acadiana

166

The Miracle of Slaw and Fishes: Louisiana’s Lenten Fish Fries

167

Ten Gallons and a Bag of Cracklins: Filling Up in Cajun Country

168

Eat 'Em Till You Beat 'Em: Florida’s Lionfish Problem

169

Grape Expectations for Virginia Wine

170

Sorghum: Planting Possibilities

171

The Rise and Fall and Rise of Pitmaster Ed Mitchell

172

Greetings from Ham & Bacon High School

173

Harassment and the Service Economy

174

Spinning Carolina Gold Rice into Sake

175

Are prison diets punitive? A report from behind bars

176

Access Denied: Cooperative Extension and Tribal Lands

177

Preserving Community Canneries

178

Mahalia Jackson's Glori-Fried Chicken

179

Where Mexico Meets Arkansas

180

A Taste of Dollywood

181

Electric Tofu

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182

Biscuit Blues

183

The Magical, Meandering Life of Eugene Walter

184

When Menus Talk

185

Cooking Up Social Change with Julia Turshen

186

Catering: Behind the Pipe and Drape

187

JoAnn Clevenger: New Orleans’ Uptown Girl Scout

188

Spring Season Trailer

189

A Table for All?

190

Pop-Up Identity

191

Home-Cooked Expectations

192

Bottled Myth

193

A New Recipe for Charlotte

194

Y'all Have Chilaquiles?

195

Smoking on the South Side

196

Vinegar & Char

197

Visible Yam

198

The Swamp Witches

199

Comfort Food

200

Agave Diplomacy

201

What Is Latino Enough?

202

Catfish Dream

203

The Price of Cheap Milk

204

Native Strangers of the South

205

Where Kentucky Meets Somalia

206

A Message and a Verse

207

Subterranean Chop Suey

208

Hungry in the Mississippi Delta

209

Hostesses of the Movement

210

Dispatch from Duplin County

211

Home with the Armadillo: The Austin Sound, with a Side of Nachos

212

Hidden in Plain Sight: Las Pulgas of New Orleans

213

Baptism by Biryani

214

A Taste of Place: Whiskey as Food

215

A Most Civil Union: from Reconstruction to Restaurateur

216

Stories from the Hem of my Mother's Apron

217

Of Hunger and Humanity: Resilience on the Texas Coast

218

The Wise Family at Work: A Sound Portrait

219

Booze Legends

220

Kimchi and Cornbread

221

Shad Stories: The Ebb and Flow of the Founding Fish

222

Pie by Another Name: The Burekas of Or Ve Shalom

223

Hostesses of the Movement

224

The Mala Project: Chinese Flavors, Tennessee Family

225

Bluegrass Tacos

226

Separation of Church and Coffee

227

Going Whole Hog in Israel

228

How A Texas Vine Saved European Wine

229

Farmer's Blues

230

Halal Memphis

231

Booze Legends

232

Corned Beef Sandwiches in the Delta

233

The Chili Powder Cheat: A Tex-Mex Story

234

Southern Food Gets Christopher Columbus-ed

235

Korean BBQ in Coolsville: A Memphis Report

236

Reclaiming Native Ground

237

Ironies and Onion Rings: The Layered Story of the Vidalia Onion

238

Hungry in the Mississippi Delta

239

ENCORE: The Emotional Life of Eating

240

A Tale of Two Krauts

241

The Southern Story of Coca Cola (Gravy Ep. 51)

242

Beyond the Golden Leaf (Gravy Ep. 50)

243

Maize Migrations (Gravy Ep. 49)

244

Transplanted Traditions: From Southeast Asia to North Carolina (Gravy Ep. 48)

245

What Is White Trash Cooking? (Gravy ep. 47)

246

Repast (Gravy Ep. 46)

247

Dancing the Shrimp Dry: How Chinese Immigrants Drove Louisiana Seafood (Gravy Ep. 45)

248

The Leftovers In A Coal Miner's Lunchbox (Gravy Ep. 44)

249

An Apple Quest (Gravy Ep. 43)

250

Schnitzel and the Saturn V (Gravy Ep. 42)

251

ENCORE: Dinner at the Patel Motel (Gravy Ep. 33)

252

Fish Camps: Fried Seafood and Family in a North Carolina Mill Town

253

A Seafood Phenomenon: the Wonder of Alabama Jubilees (Gravy Ep. 40)

254

The Middle East in Music City (Gravy Ep. 39)

255

What’s Growing in Mossville? (Gravy Ep. 38)

256

Halo Halo: Growing up “Mix Mix,” Filipino in the American South (Gravy Ep. 37)

257

The New Old Country Store (Gravy Ep. 36)

258

Wanting the Bourbon You Can’t Have (Gravy Ep. 35)

259

Jell-O Makes the Modern (Mountain) Woman (Gravy Ep. 34)

260

Dinner at the Patel Motel (Gravy Ep. 33)

261

Mexican-ish: How Arkansas Came to Love Cheese Dip (Gravy Ep. 32)

262

A Trailer, a Temple, a Feast: Making Laos in North Carolina (Gravy Ep. 31)

263

The Pull of Pollo: How the Chicken Industry Transformed One Arkansas Town (Gravy Ep. 30)

264

Hip Hop to Bibimbap: the Atlanta of Christiane Lauterbach (Gravy Ep. 11)

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Fighting for the Promised Land: A Story of Farming and Racism (Gravy Ep. 29)

266

Southern Fried Baked Alaska (Gravy Ep. 28)

267

Delta Jewels (Gravy Ep. 27)

268

South by South of the Border Soul Food (Gravy Ep. 26)

269

The Cajun Reconnection (Gravy Ep. 25)

270

The Mason Jar Pickle (Gravy Ep. 24)

271

Combat Ready Kitchen (Gravy Ep. 23)

272

A Salt Story: West Virginia Siblings Mine the Past to Build a Future (Gravy Ep. 22)

273

Coming Out Meatless (Gravy Ep. 21)

274

Red Beans, Red Wine, & Rebuilds: a Katrina Anniversary Special (Gravy Ep. 20)

275

Ice Cream, Coffee, and Community in Alabama: A Gravy Road Trip (Gravy Ep. 19)

276

Bill Smith Turns Up the Volume (Gravy Ep. 9)

277

Holding Onto the Bayou (Gravy Ep. 18)

278

A Charleston Feast for Reconciliation (Gravy Ep. 17)

279

Fried Chicken: A Complicated Comfort Food (Gravy Ep. 16)

280

A City Built on Barbecue (Gravy Ep. 15)

281

The Last Jews of Natchez (Gravy Ep. 14)

282

A Migration Reversed (Gravy Ep. 13)

283

Tamales for the Derby (Gravy Ep. 12)

284

Hip Hop to Bibimbap: the Atlanta of Christiane Lauterbach (Gravy Ep. 11)

285

Our Bourbon Street or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Hand Grenade (Gravy Ep. 10)

286

Bill Smith Turns Up the Volume (Gravy Ep. 9)

287

The Pie Formerly Known as Derby (Gravy Ep. 8)

288

Brothers, Soldiers, Farmers (Gravy Ep. 7)

289

The Jemima Code (Gravy Ep. 6)

290

Sweet, Sour, Bitter, Salty: The Emotional Life of Eating (Gravy Ep. 5)

291

Live at Fred's Lounge (Gravy Ep. 4)

292

The Fight for Water and Oysters (Gravy Ep. 3)

293

Separation of Church and Coffee (Gravy Ep. 2)

294

Adaptation, Survival, Gratitude: a Lumbee Thanksgiving Story (Gravy Ep. 1)

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