Episodes

  • BONUS: "Jamón, Y'all" from America's Test Kitchen

    BONUS: "Jamón, Y'all" from America's Test Kitchen
    Mar 20 2020
    In a special bonus episode of The Bitter Southerner Podcast, Bridget Lancaster of America's Test Kitchen introduces a story from her podcast called Proof. In it, reporter Maya Kroth looks at how a Spanish pig is changing Southern farmlands. She meets Georgia farmer Will Harris, who is upping the South’s pork game by introducing Iberian pigs to the United States. These pigs are the source of jamón ibérico, a precious cured ham produced in Spain.
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    45 mins
  • Can the South Be Redeemed?

    Can the South Be Redeemed?
    Mar 6 2020
    For our grand finale this season, we’re going to attempt to answer a question that ... to every truehearted Southerner … is among the most difficult questions ever: Can the South be redeemed? Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin talk about their mission to tell the Civil Rights Movement through comics....we hear about a Freedom Rider’s lifelong fight against injustice....Pulitzer Prize winning columnist John Archibald on overcoming the “great silence” that exists in many of our lives....and Peggy Wallace Kennedy reflects on the legacy of her father, former Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Progress, Heartbreak & Art: The TVA

    Progress, Heartbreak & Art: The TVA
    Feb 21 2020
    The Tennessee Valley Authority’s dams brought electricity to the rural South, and in our region’s lore, it looms huge: the classic story of people vs. progress. As these dams were completed, entire communities were washed away. In this episode of The Bitter Southerner Podcast, we explore the progress, heartbreak and art inspired by the TVA.
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    53 mins
  • Hillbillies Need No Elegy

    Hillbillies Need No Elegy
    Feb 7 2020
    In his book “Hillbilly Elegy,” author J.D. Vance argues that the people of Appalachia cause the region’s problems — and not the industries that have spent centuries extracting its rich resources. On this episode, three mountain women help us set the record straight about Appalachia.
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    37 mins
  • The Ways of Waffle House

    The Ways of Waffle House
    Jan 24 2020
    How could a 2,000-store restaurant chain become, to Southerners, something more than just another place to eat?
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    42 mins
  • The Exactly Right Cake

    The Exactly Right Cake
    Jan 10 2020
    Being part of a Southern community means baking the exactly right cake when we gather. NYT bestselling cookbook author Anne Byrn joins us to talk about the history of famous Southern cakes, two sisters running a Georgia bakery share how they're cooking with a purpose, and we dig into the pages of the "White Trash Cooking" cookbook.
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    44 mins
  • BONUS: Best Southern Albums of 2019

    BONUS: Best Southern Albums of 2019
    Dec 20 2019
    Host Chuck Reece welcomes NPR Music's Ann Powers to help us run down the 10 best Southern albums of 2019.
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    44 mins
  • An Undeserved Gift: Okra

    An Undeserved Gift: Okra
    Dec 13 2019
    Okra is not native to North America. It arrived here at the same time enslaved Africans did. No one — no botanist, no historian — can confirm exactly how it got here. But it has connected Southerners across the lines of race, faith, and gender for centuries. In this episode of The Bitter Southerner Podcast, James Beard Award winning journalist Shane Mitchell travels to New Orleans to show how okra unites in the gumbo pot and in our lives.
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    35 mins