Food Anthropology (FEASTS) with Katherine Spiers

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Loosen your belts and tuck a napkin under your chin because feasting season is here. Katherine Spiers -- journalist, food anthropologist and host of the wondrous culinary history podcast Smart Mouth -- lets Alie belly up for a buffet of questions about winter gatherings, Thanksgiving myths, stuffed peacocks, green bean casseroles, potato backstories, Friendsgivings, the hazards of deep frying, the eels of Jesus, some stuffing horrors and more. Listen to Smart Mouth (perhaps the episodes with Alie "Lobster Roll" Ward & Steven Ray "Corndogs" Morris?) Katherine Spiers's website, Twitter & Instagram. Her brand new podcast network is TableCakes. Special thanks to poet and writer Kenzie Allen (@cerena on Twitter) for the insight & resources on Native perspectives of Thanksgiving. Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes! Follow @Ologies on Twitter or Instagram Follow @AlieWard on Twitter or Instagram More links at www.alieward.com Sound editing by Steven Ray Morris Theme song by Nick Thorburn Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's your old pop dad here.
0:03.7	Just flip in pancakes and a flannel robe, alleyward.
0:07.5	Back with another episode of Oligies.
0:09.4	So listen my birdies, I know it's been dark.
0:11.7	We had a voting episode.
0:12.8	We had an apocalypse episode, but you know what?
0:15.7	We're alive.
0:17.0	The world is full of people.
0:18.8	Dancing at bot mitzvahs and there's frogs
0:21.3	and surprise parties and there's the smell of tiger lilies
0:24.5	and there are coyotes howling right now.
0:26.9	There's that feeling of going through a car wash
0:29.7	on a Sunday or still alive.
0:32.0	People want to fix things.
0:33.7	Sadness doesn't get shit done.
0:35.2	Sometimes we just have to take a breather
0:36.8	and just enjoy the moment.
0:38.1	So I present you an episode that is harvest as fuck
0:41.9	about feasts.
0:43.9	Feasts.
0:45.0	But first, eat this.
0:46.2	My thanks.
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