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Authentic South

A storytelling podcast that explores Southern culture through food, music, art, literature, the land and people.

Ranked #1

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Charlotte Historian Tom Hanchett and the Newest New South

Charlotte Historian Tom Hanchett and the Newest New South

“Folks started talking about the New South after the Civil War," says Tom Hanchett, staff historian at the Levine Museum... Read more

22 Jan 2020

17mins

Ranked #2

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Remembering Eudora Welty with Bill Ferris

Remembering Eudora Welty with Bill Ferris

Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction is still a study in detail and dialogue and wi... Read more

22 Jan 2020

13mins

Ranked #3

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Shenandoah Valley, VA Shape Note Singers

Shenandoah Valley, VA Shape Note Singers

Contributor Kelley Libby visits a shape note singing event in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Sometimes this style of... Read more

22 Jan 2020

10mins

Ranked #4

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Bestselling Novelist Cassandra King

Bestselling Novelist Cassandra King

Bestselling novelist Cassandra King talks about her book Moonrise as well as her writing relationship with her husband, ... Read more

22 Jan 2020

20mins

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Southern Folklorist Bill Ferris

Southern Folklorist Bill Ferris

Preeminent Southern folklorist Bill Ferris has spent the last 40 years documenting the South in print, photography and f... Read more

22 Jan 2020

16mins

Ranked #6

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The Indian Pass Raw Bar in Apalachicola, FL

The Indian Pass Raw Bar in Apalachicola, FL

The Indian Pass Raw Bar is the anchor of the community in the Florida panhandle. It sits on County Road 30A, just southe... Read more

22 Jan 2020

7mins

Ranked #7

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Southern Living Travel Writer Les Thomas

Southern Living Travel Writer Les Thomas

Les Thomas wrote his way across the South. His travel writing, for Texas newspapers,  Southern Living magazine and beyon... Read more

22 Jan 2020

7mins

Ranked #8

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Resurrecting Slave Cabins at James Madison's Montpelier

Resurrecting Slave Cabins at James Madison's Montpelier

From contributor Kelley Libby: For years, at historic plantation sites across the South, the focus was on the big house ... Read more

22 Jan 2020

10mins

Ranked #9

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Chef Vivian Howard

Chef Vivian Howard

Vivian Howard is the chef at Chef and the Farmer in the small Eastern North Carolina town of Kinston. She also "co-stars... Read more

22 Jan 2020

28mins

Ranked #10

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Food & Wine Editor-In-Chief Hunter Lewis

Food & Wine Editor-In-Chief Hunter Lewis

Hunter Lewis is currently the editor-in-chief of Food & Wine. When we interviewed him here, he was the executive edi... Read more

22 Jan 2020

23mins

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