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Host Stephanie Burt travels the Southern United States (with a fork!) and chats with some of the most interesting voices in the culinary South. From chefs to farmers, bakers to brewers, and pitmasters to fishermen, they all have a story. Listen and learn more behind some of your favorite foods.

The Southern Fork Stephanie Burt

    • Arts
    • 4.9 • 142 Ratings

Host Stephanie Burt travels the Southern United States (with a fork!) and chats with some of the most interesting voices in the culinary South. From chefs to farmers, bakers to brewers, and pitmasters to fishermen, they all have a story. Listen and learn more behind some of your favorite foods.

    A Special Episode from The One Recipe: Toni Tipton-Martin’s Recipe for Blackberry-Ginger Bourbon Smash

    A Special Episode from The One Recipe: Toni Tipton-Martin’s Recipe for Blackberry-Ginger Bourbon Smash

    Hi y’all, It’s Stephanie, I’m excited to share with you another podcast you should check out through this episode of The One Recipe from APM Studios. 
    On The Southern Fork I've talked to a lot of people about their food and their recipes. Pretty much everyone who cooks aspires to have a clutch of recipes they can make their own. The ones that we send to friends because we know it’s going to work every single time. The One Recipe is about building that library, one recipe at a time. Host Jesse Sparks, Senior Editor at Eater, talks to chefs and gifted cooks from all over the world about their One and the story behind it. 
    This episode features Award-winning culinary historian Toni Tipton-Martin and her one recipe: a Blackberry-Ginger Bourbon Smash, the perfect drink to end dry January. Here is The One Recipe. 
     

    • 18 min
    A Special Episode from The Broadside: How Y'all Conquered the World

    A Special Episode from The Broadside: How Y'all Conquered the World

    Hi! Stephanie here. It’s been a while since you’ve heard from me, but as we get close to Thanksgiving, I want you to know that I’m thinking of y’all, and I’m thankful for every one of you who listen to The Southern Fork. I’m working hard over here in the background making podcast plans and interview itineraries for 2024, but in the meantime, I wanted to share with you a little audio treat -- an episode of The Broadside from WUNC. Since you’re subscribed to The Southern Fork, you might like to check it out too, and this particular episode covers one of my favorite words: y’all and how it’s become a part of culture beyond the South. It’s a short listen for a big subject, and a perfect partner while you’re commuting this next week, or prepping those appetizers for your Thanksgiving table. I wish you all a great holiday and I hope you enjoy The Broadside.

    • 20 min
    Season 8 Finale: Your Favorites & Steph's Best Bites

    Season 8 Finale: Your Favorites & Steph's Best Bites

    Host Stephanie Burt recaps Season 8 of the show, sharing the most listened to podcasts, her favorite bites of the season, and other details to keep the conversation going. Let’s Dig In.

    • 26 min
    Live with Alyssa Maute Smith: Charleston Wine + Food (Charleston, SC)

    Live with Alyssa Maute Smith: Charleston Wine + Food (Charleston, SC)

    Charleston Wine + Food is a multi-day wine and food festival that takes place the first full weekend each March, and I have covered it as a media person, and/or participated as talent for all of its going-on 18 years excepting one. The following interview took place live in the midst of the Culinary Village at this year’s festival, and I’m sharing it now because I already have the 2024 festival on the brain. Not only is my behind the scenes planning well underway, but tickets go on sale to the public on October 19. I lovingly call it my Super Bowl, because it is, and the connections and education from it seeds much of the work I do. One of those relationships is with Alyssa Maute Smith, my conversation partner here and the festival’s Executive Director. Alyssa, a native Charlestonian, stepped into the Interim role in April of 2022, having successfully served as the festival’s Marketing + Communications Director for 6 years, then in 2023 was officially granted the title. There’s no mistaking the energy of Charleston Wine + Food, and Alyssa's enthusiasm for the work and for this community she calls home is a good compass for its future. And I’m proud to call her my friend.

    • 27 min
    BBQ Inspirations for the Fall Equinox from Chris Lilly, Tuffy Stone, & Hector Garate (The American South)

    BBQ Inspirations for the Fall Equinox from Chris Lilly, Tuffy Stone, & Hector Garate (The American South)

     Although The Southern Fork Summer Tour is over, we still have a few weeks together, and the weather has started to turn in much of the South. I don’t know about you, but soon after I feel that first cool breeze, I can’t wait to have a plate of barbecue. Maybe it’s because in my North Carolina childhood, barbecue “stands” as it were, popped up at church parking lots and auxiliary halls each Autumn, using good food to raise money for good causes, but no matter where I am this time of year, I’m thinking about the combo of time, smoke, and the skill of a pitmaster to create this iconic Southern food. The South is full of barbecue styles, each with throughlines of technique but different nuances, and unlike a barbecue purist, I love them all. So in honor of the Fall Equinox, today we dive into the archives for some barbecue inspiration from three who know their way around hot coals: Chris Lilly of Big Bob Gibson in Decatur, AL, Tuffy Stone, the Professor of Barbecue, out of Henrico, VA, and Hector Garate of Palmira BBQ in Charleston, SC.
    Full episodes:
    Chris Lilly: Big Bob Gibson (Decatur, AL)
    Tuffy Stone: Professor of Barbecue (Henrico, VA)
    Hector Garate: Palmira BBQ (Charleston, SC)

    • 18 min
    Southern Fork Sustenance: A Conversation with Chef Scott Peacock (Marion, AL)

    Southern Fork Sustenance: A Conversation with Chef Scott Peacock (Marion, AL)

    Alabama native Scott Peacock is a James Beard Award-winning chef and one of the foremost authorities on American Southern cuisine. He might be best known for his work at Watershed restaurant in Decatur, Georgia, and his partnership with culinary icon Edna Lewis, but his recipes and writing have appeared in numerous publications as well, including The New York Times, Better Homes & Gardens, Gourmet, Food & Wine, and Bon Appetit. Although I was very aware of his reputation, it was through one of those recipes that I first personally encountered Scott, since I believe recipes well-written by one and well-executed by another become a sort of strange collaborative alchemy. Soon we connected further over the familiarities of food, common friends, and special Southern locales, and one such place for Scott is Marion, Alabama—the heart of Alabama’s Black Belt region — where he has opened the historic kitchens of Reverie mansion for the Black Belt Biscuit Experience. These intimate, small-group workshops on the fine art of traditional Southern biscuit-making are built on his celebrated biscuits that have been on the covers of Gourmet and Food & Wine, and which Food & Wine named one of their 40 best recipes ever published, but the class is as much meditation as it is method. I could think of no better baking and conversation partner to end this year’s Southern Fork Summer Tour, and here he invites us deep beyond ingredients and techniques into the art of presence, the commitment to a creative path, and the power of passionate attention to detail.
     

    • 39 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
142 Ratings

142 Ratings

Chambersstevens ,

Perfect!

I just discovered this podcast last month. And now I have binged all 8 seasons! The host is so warm and smart and she brings out the best in each of the guests! Traveling to Charleston in June. I can’t wait to try out some of her ideas!

SarahPSChef ,

Conversation with Scott Peacock

This is a wonderful, heartfelt, soulful conversation that allows Chef Scott Peacock to really dive deep into his philosophy and sources of inspiration for his cooking. As a Frequent Flyer Biscuiteer, I loved hearing more stories, loved how the conversation unfolded and sparked wonderful memories and associations. I hope it inspires listeners to take the journey to Marion and join the ranks of Biscuiteers Who Know. It will change your life.

Bama7777777 ,

Making Space

Stephanie does a fantastic job of making space for the interview to happen! I thoroughly enjoy her intentional style and the respect she has for the moment.
Great podcast - 10/10

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