Jenn Seasly's Foodlore Podcast
Jenn Seasly's Foodlore Podcast
Podcast Description
Foodlore is a podcast uncovering the personal and cultural stories behind food—from Sunday meals to heritage recipes and forgotten rituals.
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The podcast explores various themes related to food culture, such as family traditions, regional cuisines, and food safety myths, with episodes like 'The Educated Palate of a Seven Year Old', which delves into childhood food memories, and 'The Best Fried Catfish Story You've Never Heard', sharing heartwarming stories tied to southern dishes.
Foodlore is a podcast uncovering the personal and cultural stories behind food—from Sunday meals to heritage recipes and forgotten rituals.
What if the foods on your New Year’s table weren’t random… but symbols of abundance, prosperity, and long life?
In this episode of Dr. Jean Seasly’s Foodlore, you share the comforting Southern traditions that shape your New Year’s Day — from creamy pressure-cooked black-eyed peas to pork for progress, greens for prosperity, and golden cornbread for wealth. You also explore how cultures around the world ring in the year with symbolic dishes:
- 12 grapes at midnight in Spain
- Lentils in Italy
- Dumplings and whole fish in China
- Long soba noodles in Japan
- A hidden coin cake in Greece
- Marzipan pigs in German
And of course, football snacks, ruffled chips with French onion dip (non-negotiable), crockpot queso, sparkling sangria secrets, and the joy of that “what day is it?” week between Christmas and New Year’s.
Because sometimes abundance isn’t just about money — it’s about comfort, memory, and gathering around food that feels like home. 👉🏻 Try the featured recipe here
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