There are crickets somewhere around and I kept listening.

And then it dawned on me it was the sweet porch.

Bye.

Thank you.

Welcome to episode 82 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books,

small business, and life in the South.

I'm Chris Jensen, a grad student and bookseller at

the bookshelf. And I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in

beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. Today we talked to Deborah Smith, the founder, I believe,

of The Taste of Thomasville Food Tour. Um, super fun because Deborah is a fan of the podcast. So it was really fun to finally get her

on the podcast. Right. And we have her food tour in the store most Fridays and just about every

Saturday. And it's a delight. We like having them here, having her around. And it was great to get a

chance to finally talk to her about

what this is and why she does it.

Yeah, so now you guys get to hear kind of some of the stuff that we hear about every week.

You get to hear about the founding of the Taste of Thomasville Food Tour, why a food tour

in our tiny little southern town, and all about the good food that you're missing out on

if you don't live in Thomasville.

So I hope you enjoy and hope you will come and try our food.

Man.

I know my head has and that when you read a clod. A chalkboard.

You know you're at the right half. Yeah, I'm in the middle here. Oh, okay. We're all going to get cozy on the couch. It's all going to be great. Okay. How are you? I'm fine. Good. Welcome to my house. Thank you. What a cute house. Thanks. This is so fun. This is so fun. I'm going to plug in this so my computer doesn't die.

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