Encore: Hoda Kotb Is a Southerner

Biscuits & Jam

Meredith Corporation

Food, Music, Music Interviews, Arts

4.6 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Sid Evans, Editor-in-Chief of Southern Living Magazine, chats with Hoda Kotb, one of the anchors of ‘The Today Show’ on NBC and an author. She was raised in West Virginia while visiting family in Egypt. Unfortunately, her father passed away while she was in college, which of course took an emotional toll, but the lessons she took from the experience has helped her to move through her life successfully. Before her time covering world events, she spent time as a local news reporter in various markets and, in more recent years, she’s also become an author. In fact, her time working in New Orleans local news led her to fall in love with the town, which recently led to a cover story in the April issue of Southern Living in which Hoda shares the best of her old hometown. 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 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	Hey everyone, it's Sid Evans, editor of Southern Living and host to Biscuits and Jam.
0:03.9	We're taking a quick break this month, but we'll be back with Season 5 on February 20th.
0:08.8	Today, I wanted to reshare an award-winning episode with Hoda Kotby, who is a talented author
0:14.2	and one of the co-anchors of The Today Show on NBC.
0:17.6	Enjoy, and we'll see you next week.
0:33.1	Welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living. I'm Sid Evans, editor-in-chief of Southern Living Magazine. And in this episode, I'm talking with someone who's best known as one of the anchors of the Today Show on NBC.
0:40.1	Hoda Kotby was raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, but she also spent plenty of summer vacations visiting family in Egypt,
0:47.8	trips that gave her a unique perspective on the world.
0:50.9	She worked as a local reporter in small towns such as Greenville, Mississippi,
0:55.3	in Fort Myers, Florida. But it was her six years at WWL in New Orleans that led her to fall in
1:01.3	love with a place that now feels like a second home. Hoda talked to me about her best friend,
1:06.6	Karen Swenson, who just wrote a story about her in Southern Living, the Baklava recipe passed down from her mother and the way her father's untimely death in
1:15.8	1986 affected the course of her life.
1:18.9	All that and how she finds inspiration in every day on a very special Biscuits and Jam.
1:29.4	Hoda Kotby, welcome to Biscuits and Jam. Hoda Kotby, welcome to Biscuits and Jam.
1:32.5	Sid, I can't believe I'm on with you.
1:34.7	How are you?
1:35.8	I'm great.
1:36.7	I'm great.
1:38.0	The last time I saw you, we were in New Orleans doing a photo shoot for Southern Living, and you were dancing with
1:47.7	the jazz bands on the street at about 9 in the morning. Can I tell you something? We found my
1:53.2	happy place. You know what I'd love about that? First of all, we're dancing with a jazz band.
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