Ashley Christensen’s Pride of Place

Biscuits & Jam

Meredith Corporation

Food, Music, Music Interviews, Arts

4.6 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Ashley Christensen is a two-time James Beard Award winning chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author from Raleigh, North Carolina, who has a way of taking classic Southern dishes and making them the talk of the food world. She grew up with parents who loved to cook, entertain, and play music in the kitchen, and Ashley has channeled that spirit of hospitality into her restaurants like Poole's Diner and Death & Taxes. At home, she and her wife, Kaitlyn Goalen, love to cook together too, and they’ve also authored two cookbooks, including 2021’s It’s Always Freezer Season. Sid also talks to Ashley about her infatuation with grilling, her dalliance with a music career, and how she sees diners and restaurants as places for people to put aside their differences. For more info visit: southernliving.com/biscuitsandjam Biscuits & Jam is produced by: Sid Evans - Editor-in-Chief, Southern Living Krissy Tiglias - GM, Southern Living Lottie Leymarie - Executive Producer Michael Onufrak - Audio Engineer/Producer Jeremiah McVay - Producer/Audio Editor Jennifer Del Sole - Director of Audio Growth Strategy & Operations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living. I'm Sid Evans, and as many of y'all know,
0:09.9	I occasionally talk with chefs on this show, but few have changed the conversation around southern
0:15.2	food as much as my guest today. Ashley Christensen is a two-time James Beard Award-winning chef, restaurateur,
0:23.1	and cookbook author from Raleigh, North Carolina, who has a way of taking classic
0:28.1	southern dishes and making them the talk of the food world. She grew up with parents who love to cook,
0:34.2	entertain, and play music in the kitchen. And Ashley has channeled that spirit of
0:39.0	hospitality into her restaurants like Poole's Diner and Death and Taxes. At home, she and her wife
0:45.4	Caitlin love to cook together too. And they've also authored two cookbooks, including 2021's It's
0:52.4	Always Freezer Season.
0:55.9	We'll talk about all that,
0:58.0	plus her infatuation with grilling,
1:00.3	her dalliance with a music career,
1:03.0	and how she sees diners and restaurants as places for people to put aside their differences.
1:06.3	All on this week's Biscuits and Jam.
1:10.2	Music this week's Biscuits and Jam.
1:29.1	Well, Ashley Christensen, welcome to Biscuits and Jam.
1:30.9	Great to be here. Thank you, Sid.
1:35.9	It's great to see you. It's been way too long. Where am I reaching you right now? I'm a little warm today because I'm sitting inside of the space that we are currently renovating to be the expansion of Pools Diner and based on it being empty,
1:48.9	saving our pennies and not running the air conditioning right now. Just sitting here making some
1:53.9	notes about some work we have going on next week. But I'm home in Raleigh, of course, and it's
1:58.7	really nice to be home this week. That's great. Well, I heard about that.
2:01.7	I saw the news, and it's exciting for pools, although I'm sure you're also a little bit
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