The Bitter Southerner Podcast Georgia Public Broadcasting
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- Society & Culture
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The Bitter Southerner Podcast, hosted by Bitter Southerner magazine editor Chuck Reece, explores the culture and history of the American South. It is a co-production of Georgia Public Broadcasting and The Bitter Southerner magazine.
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BONUS: "Jamón, Y'all" from America's Test Kitchen
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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Can the South Be Redeemed?
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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Progress, Heartbreak & Art: The TVA
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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Hillbillies Need No Elegy
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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The Ways of Waffle House
How could a 2,000-store restaurant chain become, to Southerners, something more than just another place to eat?
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The Exactly Right Cake
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.
Customer Reviews
Transplanted Southerners need this!
As a transplanted southerner, I miss home sometimes and your podcast takes me back. Each episode is thought provoking, well researched and down right fun to listen to. Please bring it back.
Great journalism!
I finally happened upon The Bitter Southerner after hearing a plug for it on WFAE in Charlotte. Wow! As a Southerner from the NC foothills, the episodes feel familiar, but they dig deeper into the culture of the South, told in our own words. The long-form format is simply best of journalism, something I miss so much and something that's sorely needed in our polarized times. I've lived all over western NC and the Piedmont and am now in Charlotte which, of course, isn't far but can seem that way. Thank you for sharing the fullness of the Southern experience in a way that's not the one dimensional. Please come back with more episodes!
Love it!
Chuck! Please bring this podcast back! I have listened to them all! I need more!