Bonus Episode || Southern Hospitality with James Farmer

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Southern hosts and hostesses, unite! On this special bonus episode, Annie chats with Southern lifestyle guru James Farmer. James is the author of A Time to Celebrate, A Time to Cook, Dinner on the Grounds, and several other beautiful coffee table books all about Southern hospitality. He's in Thomasville this week for the city's annual Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival, and -- if you're local! -- you can find James at the following events: + Cocktails and Conversations on Thursday, November 17, at 5:30 p.m. Tickets available here. Join James, Julia Reed, and the Mashburns as they chat about Southern hospitality inspired by the fall season! + Book signing at downtown Thomasville's store Relish on Friday, November 18, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. James will be signing copies of his beautiful books during this free event. You can find James online on Instagram and his website. James is reading: + The Flower Hunter and the People by Matthew Jennings + Liberating Paris by Linda Bloodsworth Thompson

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to a bonus episode of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.
0:09.3	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:15.8	And today, I thought I would share with you an interview I did recently with James Farmer.
0:22.6	James is a Southern lifestyle expert. He has written several cookbooks and coffee table books all about Southern
0:29.1	hospitality, and he is going to be in Thomasville this week for a couple of events for our
0:34.8	Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival. I'll put links in the show notes
0:39.1	to those events in case you are local and you would like to attend either of those. But I conducted
0:45.5	this interview as part of an article I did for the Thomasville Towney. And I decided that despite
0:52.2	some background noise from kiddos running throughout the store,
0:55.9	you all might be interested in it.
0:57.4	So the audio quality is a little different from what you are probably used to.
1:01.2	And you will not hear Chris's voice on this podcast.
1:04.8	I conducted the interview with James by myself since it was part of the article I was writing.
1:10.2	But I think you'll enjoy it.
1:11.5	And James is a really fantastic storyteller.
1:13.6	And I thought, despite the audio quality being a little different, you all would enjoy
1:17.5	hearing from him and hearing what he had to say.
1:21.1	So without further ado, here is my interview with James Farmer.
1:25.9	Hello. Hi, James. It's Annie. my interview with James Farmer.
1:28.7	Hello.
1:30.7	Hi James, it's Annie.
1:32.8	Annie, how are you?
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