My Family Recipe Podcast
1) Cornbread and the Soul of African American Cuisine with Adrian Miller
On the season finale of My Family Recipe, host Arati Menon welcomes Adrian Miller, AKA “The Soul Food Scholar.” Not many people can boast their accomplishments as a food writer, James Beard award winn...Show More
2) Time-Traveling Butterscotch Pie with Jennifer Justus
The Little Blue Cookbook was a nearly lost family heirloom that Jennifer Justus discovered a few years ago. Decades prior to that, the cookbook’s butterscotch pecan pie recipe provided great comfort t...Show More
3) The Curry That Reunited My Family with Nyanyika Banda
Nyanyika Banda has a passion for studying the foodways of the African diaspora. Growing up surrounded with the culinary traditions of her father’s Malawian culture, she has had a lifelong hunger for e...Show More
4) Building Community, a Cabbage Bake at a Time with Lavanya Narayanan
Lavanya Narayanan’s culinary heart is deeply rooted in both Indianapolis and India. Her family found a unique community of immigrants and ties to their shared Tamil culture in the Midwest: sharing mus...Show More
5) Missing Mom’s Sunday Sauce with Gary Schiro
Gary Schiro had made plenty of his mother’s recipes, but one Sunday morning-not long after his mother passed away-an attempt to make her traditional meatballs and sauce went wrong. Gary wished he coul...Show More
6) Get to Know Our Host, Arati Menon
Arati Menon’s voice is a part of every episode of My Family Recipe. Her empathy and humor tie together the threads of diverse family recipes into the beautiful tapestry that is this series. In this ep...Show More
7) How Grandpa Unclogged a Toilet with Pie with Katie Workman
Katie Workman’s Grandpa Bernie was a smart-cookie, a storyteller, and...according to family vignettes, a very slow eater. Katie shares a comedy of errors about her attempts to connect with her grandfa...Show More
8) Cake, Intimacy & an Asian-American Experience with Coral Lee
This episode features Coral Lee, Food52 Podcast Network’s Producer. For this conversation, she is on the other side of the mic sharing a deeply personal story of the cake that encapsulates her grandmo...Show More
9) 3 Generations of Women, 1 Leche Flan with Giselle Krachenfels
Leche flan became Giselle Krachenfels’ favorite dessert both because it was delicious and because it connected her with Filipino culture. Having mixed heritage, Giselle felt the need to prove her Fili...Show More
10) Baked Ziti is a Love Language with Joelle Zarcone
When Joelle Zarcone was growing up, her mom made bolognese sauce every Sunday. Even after leaving home, Joelle’s mom would bring along her wooden spoon for visits, leaving her daughter’s freezer well ...Show More