Bread & Family w/ Julia Turshen
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re joined by author, podcaster, and cook, Julia Turshen, who tells us about the familial folklore of her family’s history with baking. We talk about how bread baking is matriarchal, dough starters as a connection to the past, and the romance between a miller’s son and a baker’s daughter,
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Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about food, religious persecution, death, theft, politics, and illness (HIV/AIDS).
Guest
Julia Turshen is the bestselling author of Now & Again (named the Best Cookbook of 2018 by Amazon and an NPR ‘Great Read’), Feed the Resistance (named the Best Cookbook of 2017 by Eater), and Small Victories (named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2016 by the New York Times and NPR). She also hosts the IACP-nominated podcast called ‘Keep Calm and Cook On.’
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.2 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:08.0 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:09.1 | And this is episode 140, Bread and Family with Julia Tertian. |
| 0:12.7 | A different Julia, but still a great one. |
| 0:15.1 | Absolutely. |
| 0:15.7 | I almost mismanaged a file when I tried to upload two files titled Spirits 140, Julia. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah, it happens sometimes. I'm sorry. I know. This was pre-Multitudio days. So now I have |
| 0:28.6 | Brandon making sure I make no mistakes. Thank you, Brenda. We love you. You know who else we love? |
| 0:34.1 | Our new patrons. Our new patrons. Allie, Chris, Rachel, Kylie, Megan, and Kat, |
| 0:39.0 | thank you so much for joining. We're so happy to have you. We are. We are. Drinks are on us later. |
| 0:44.8 | Not right now because it's like 10 o'clock when we're recording this. We're at work. It's true. |
| 0:49.4 | And as always, thank you. We love you to our supporting producer level patrons. Philip, Eeyore, Skyla, Mercedes, Samantha, Marissa, Sammy, thank you. We love you to our supporting producer-level patrons. |
| 1:00.2 | Philip, Eeyore, Skyla, Mercedes, Samantha, Marissa, Sammy, Josie, Neil, Jessica, and Phil Frash. |
| 1:07.5 | As well as our legend-level patrons, Amanda, the stars in our skies, the bread to our butter. |
| 1:12.8 | Aela, Cody, Mr. Folk, James, Jess, Sarah, Sandra, Audra, and Jack Marie. |
| 1:14.9 | Thank you, everyone, so much. |
| 1:17.0 | We would love to share our drink with you, which is delicious. |
| 1:18.5 | Julia, please tell us what we're drinking. |
| 1:25.1 | So this week, I crafted an anchor and crossbones, which usually I pick something a little bit more thematic to the episode, but because Julia was talking |
| 1:29.4 | so much about the bread of her childhood and growing up with bread surrounding her, I wanted |
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