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Biscuits & Jam

Encore: Jessica B. Harris Believes in a Welcome Table

Biscuits & Jam

Meredith Corporation

Music Interviews, Arts, Food, Music

4.8608 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Episode Description: Jessica B. Harris may have been born and raised in New York City, but she has Tennessee roots through her father and has spent much of her life split between homes in the Northeast and the South – specifically New Orleans. For more than fifty years, she has been a college professor, a writer, and a lecturer, and her many books have earned her a reputation as an authority on food of the African Diaspora, as well as a lifetime achievement award from the James Beard Foundation. A few years back, Netflix adapted her book, High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America, into a 4 part docuseries. And I’m very proud to say that she’s a longtime contributor to Southern Living with a regular column called The Welcome Table. This episode was recorded in the Southern Living Birmingham studios, and Sid and Jessica talked about her mother’s signature mac and cheese, the cast-iron skillet she’d be sure to save if ever her house were on fire, and her dear friend, the late New Orleans chef Leah Chase.  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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey y'all, we're taking a quick break this week, so we're resharing my conversation with Jessica

0:34.8

B. Harris from last season. Her new book, Braided Heritage, Recipes

0:40.0

and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine, will be available everywhere on June 10th. We'll be back

0:46.4

next week with Wyatt Flores, a rising singer-songwriter from Stillwater, Oklahoma, who's making

0:52.5

serious waves in the country music scene. We'll see you soon.

1:01.8

Hey y'all, welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living. I'm your host, Sid Evans,

1:06.5

and today I'm talking with someone who, as a friend of hers once said, does Southern better than most Southerners.

1:12.6

Jessica B. Harris may have been born and raised in New York City, but she has Tennessee roots through her father

1:19.6

and has spent much of her life split between homes in the Northeast and the South, specifically New Orleans.

1:26.6

For more than 50 years, she's been a college professor,

1:30.0

a writer, and a lecturer, and her many books have earned her reputation as an authority on food

1:36.2

the African diaspora, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award from the James Beard Foundation.

1:42.6

A few years back, Netflix adapted her book, High on the Hog, a culinary journey from Africa

1:48.8

to America, into a four-part docu-series.

1:52.6

And I'm very proud to say that she's been a longtime contributor to Southern Living with a regular

1:57.7

column called The Welcome Table.

2:00.3

Jessica was here in our Birmingham studio,

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