Episode 146 || Food for Thought

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, we're coming to you a couple days early! Spend time with us, and then spend time with your loved ones. Best of both worlds. This week, Annie and Chris talk about food books, cookbooks, and how feasting structures our lives. Also, bedbugs. Featured this week: + The Comfort Food Diaries by Emily Nunn + Cooked by Michael Pollan + Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community by Wendell Berry + Voracious by Cara Nicoletti + A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg + Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal + The City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller + Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin + Dough Knights and Dragons by Dee Leone + Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon + Bread and Wine by Shauna Niequist + Of Mess and Moxie by Jen Hatmaker Follow Joy the Baker here. (Or Drake on Cake here.) This week's episode is sponsored by the Paxton House, a historic bed and breakfast in downtown Thomasville. Make a reservation at their website above and follow them on Instagram here! Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like our side-podcast Unpopular Opinions, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0	So you know how everything's terrible.
0:04.6	Yeah.
0:05.5	Let me tell you about the Williams building where I work.
0:10.6	Okay, I heard part of this, I think.
0:12.7	I came to hear the update.
0:16.0	So I walked by my office a few weeks ago,
0:19.2	and there was a sign on the bench outside in the hallway
0:22.9	that said, do not sit here, biting insects cited. And I said, huh, doesn't seem like biting
0:32.9	insects typically, you know, live in a wooden bench, but sure.
0:40.3	And if they do, I mean, biting insects wouldn't be termite.
0:42.4	But, like, get rid of the bench would be my thought.
0:46.8	And so the next day, instead of they're just being a sign on the bench, the bench was gone.
0:48.6	Okay, that at least makes a little bit of sense.
0:56.8	But later that week, we received an email to the whole department that was just like, hey the way everybody the whole building's infested with bed bugs awesome and I was like oh cool of course it is what are we
1:03.6	going to do about that and they're like don't worry about it the building's going to be closed on
1:07.6	Saturday we're going to have everything treated and everything will be okay.
1:11.7	Great.
1:12.4	Cool.
1:13.7	Here's the thing.
1:18.5	My office is on the first floor, 20 feet from that initial bench.
1:21.3	And I was like, I don't trust this.
1:24.7	I'm going to be okay until I wasn't.
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