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The Not Old - Better Show

#41 Chef, Author, Sheri Castle

The Not Old - Better Show

Paul Vogelzang

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.7 • 106 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The Not Old Better Show Interview series, Author Sheri Castle, The New Southern Garden Cookbook

Welcome to The Not Old Better Podcast. As part of our Smithsonian Associates, Art Of Living series, our guest today is chef, author, cooking teacher, and public speaker, Sheri Castle. Ms. Castle, who hails from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, explores the rich history and heritage of the foodways of the Mountain South, a region whose cuisine—long overlooked or misunderstood—is riding the wave of new attention.

She looks at the wide variety of dishes that make use of quintessential mountain foodstuffs including corn, beans, wild greens, potatoes, sorghum, apples, biscuits, game, and freshwater fish. She introduces iconic Appalachian foods such as leather britches beans, dried-apple stack cake, chocolate gravy, candy roaster squash, and righteous skillet cornbread.  

Join Sheri, and Smithsonian Associates, Nov. 3, 2016, Ripley Auditorium, Washington DC, for Sheri Castle's presentation, titled "Shuck beans, stack cake, and chocolate gravy."

Enjoy.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the not-old better show I'm your host Paul Vogel-Zang.

0:12.7

As part of our Smithsonian Associates Art of Living series, our guest today is Chef, Writer,

0:20.9

Recipe Developer, Cooking Teacher, and popular public speaker, Sherry Castle.

0:27.0

Sherry Castle is from North Carolina and she has wonderful stories to tell. As a matter of fact, she believes

0:35.9

she is a storyteller and I'm here to tell you that she is. She also believes

0:40.7

that stories happen only to those who can tell them.

0:44.3

Join me today in welcoming Sherry Castle and join me and Sherry

0:50.0

at the Smithsonian Associates event, November 3rd, 2016, in the Ripley Auditorium in downtown

0:56.8

Washington, D.C. at 645 until 845.

1:02.4

Sherry will be there speaking.

1:04.0

Her topic is shuck beans, stack cake, and chocolate gravy.

1:08.0

That's right, I said chocolate gravy.

1:10.0

Sherry's going to be there also to sign her new book, the new Southern Garden cookbook.

1:16.0

It's going to be available there for sale, and then Sherry of course will sign it.

1:19.7

So join me today in welcoming to the not oldold better show, Sherry Castle.

1:24.0

Welcome Sherry Castle and Sherry it is just a pleasure to talk to you.

1:28.6

I know that you're going to be joining us at the Smithsonian Associates coming up on November 3rd. We'll talk a little bit about that.

1:37.2

First and foremost, along with a big hearty welcome from us here in Washington, D.C.

1:42.8

I want to just make sure that our audience knows

1:45.6

that you are a storyteller, along with being

1:49.9

a very famous chef and author.

1:51.9

And so I love that noun story teller and I just want to

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