Episode 503 || Eat Like a Heroine with Lorilee Cracker and Jenny Williams

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, we’re preparing for the holidays and forgoing our traditional episode format to bring you an author interview with Lorilee Cracker and Jenny Williams, authors of Eat Like a Heroine. This beautiful book contains wisdom on how to eat, picnic, comfort, host and more like your favorite literary heroines and is perfect for gift-giving. Annie, Lorilee, and Jenny chat about food in literature and what our childhood heroines can teach us in adulthood. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search “Episode 503” to find the books mentioned in this episode), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Eat Like a Heroine by Jenny Williams and Lorilee Craker From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram, Tiktok, and Facebook, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. Thank you to this week’s sponsor, Thomasville, Georgia. There is something truly special about the holiday season in Downtown Thomasville. The twinkling lights, beautifully decorated store windows, and holiday events all add to the festive feeling of the season. Let us be your shopping and dining destination this holiday season, so spend Christmas in Thomasville with us. Activities are held every weekend leading up to Christmas, including this year’s 38th Annual Victorian Christmas on December 12 and 13. Learn more by visiting thomasvillega.com or call 229-228-7977. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. This week, Annie is reading Penitence by Kristin Koval. If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can also support us on Patreon, where you can access bonus content, monthly live Porch Visits with Annie, our monthly live Patreon Book Club with Bookshelf staffers, Conquer a Classic episodes with Hunter, and more. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Our Executive Producers are...Jennifer Bannerton, Stephanie Dean, Linda Lee Drozt, Ashley Ferrell, Susan Hulings, Wendi Jenkins, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Gene Queens, Cammy Tidwell, and Amanda Whigham.

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front Porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.
0:08.0	What a lovely lesson from the heroines, that good company, a few delicious trifles, and a dash of out of the ordinary, is often all we need to remember that there is more to the story than our limited point of view.
0:40.2	Loreley Craker and Jenny Williams eat like a heroine. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf,
0:46.8	an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. And today, in honor of the
0:52.0	impending holiday season, we are breaking with our more
0:55.4	traditional episode format to bring you an author interview with Lorley Craker and Jenny Williams,
1:01.4	the writer and illustrator behind Eat Like a Heroin, a beautiful book perfect for gift-giving
1:06.8	this holiday season. Together, the three of us will be chatting about food in literature and what our childhood
1:13.0	heroines can teach us in adulthood.
1:15.8	Hi, Jenny.
1:16.8	Hi, Laura Lee.
1:17.9	Hi, Annie.
1:18.5	Thanks so much for having us.
1:20.3	Hi, Annie.
1:21.6	I'm so glad you all are here.
1:23.0	This is such a delight.
1:23.9	We don't do a ton of other interviews anymore.
1:26.0	I do some on Patreon, but just because
1:28.8	of scheduling and things like that, it can be tough. But I was so thrilled and honored to be asked
1:34.4	to endorse y'all's book back when it released a few months ago. And so it's so wonderful to
1:40.5	get to bring you on the show. I do want to talk a little bit about how the two of you
1:46.0	began working together because when we got on to record, it occurred to me, oh, Laura Lee is in
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