Episodes - Authentic US Podcast
1) #AuthUsStories Launch Preview: "Fawn" by Sanyasi
Authentic US Presents "Josh Vasa & Sanyasi" For a sneak peek at the relaunch of the Authentic US podcast, check out this track called "Fawn." It was...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Episode 21: Resurrecting Slave Cabins
For years, at historic plantation sites across the South, the focus was on the big house and not on the slave cabins. But cabins like that are now being resurrected on the grounds of Montpelier, James...Show More
3) Episode 20: 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" with her husband Ben Knight on their Peabody Award-winning PBS show “A Chef’s ...Show More
4) Episode 19: Southern Living's Hunter Lewis
Hunter Lewis is the executive editor at Southern Living magazine. Before that, he had stints at the publications Bon Appetit and Saveur. In this episode he discusses writing and cooking, Eastern North...Show More
5) Episode 18: To Eat a Pig, Pt. 2
In the last episode, we met Sean Kelley, a writer who had set out to raise a couple of pigs for the sole purpose of butchering them himself. He was so adamant about that mission that he even named the...Show More
6) Episode 17: To Eat a Pig, Pt. 1
Sean Kelley is a journalist, and in this show, he begins telling us about raising a couple of pigs so that he could slaughter them and eat them and just learn about that entire process firsthand. Kee...Show More
7) Episode 16: Chef Hugh Acheson
Hugh Acheson is one of the most celebrated and influential chefs in the country. He has three restaurants in Athens, Georgia: The National, Five and Ten, and Cinco y Diaz. Empire State South is one of...Show More
8) Episode 15: The Newest New South
Charlotte, NC historian Tom Hanchett discusses the ever-evolving culture of the New South, especially as it relates to food.
9) Episode 14: Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking
Cynthia Graubart attained culinary celebrity status last year. She won a James Beard Award for the cookbook she co-wrote with famed Southern author Nathalie Dupree. It’s called Mastering the Art of So...Show More
10) Episode 13: Remembering Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction today is a study in detail and dialogue and wit. Her settings were often Southern, but her themes were universal. The Mississi...Show More