Food is a Love Language
Coffee + Crumbs Podcast
Ashlee Gadd
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Food is a love language, and if it's your love language, this episode is for you. Ruth Gyllenhammer, writer and content director for Coffee + Crumbs, joins Ashlee and Katie to talk about getting out of your comfort zone, the gift of being fully present, and what it looks like to feed our families. Whether you're away from home, or looking to start new rhythms around your family table, we hope this episode encourages you to practice hospitality right where you are.
This show is brought to you ad-free by our generous Substack community. If you'd like to support the work we do for as little as $3/month, head to coffeeandcrumbs.substack.com to join us (and get bonus episodes!). For show notes, go to coffeeandcrumbs.net/podcast.
Ruth talks about her travels to Shanghai; listen to this bonus episode to hear how we do Traveling with Friends.
For more encouragement in your motherhood journey, check out the stories at Coffee + Crumbs.
Show notes:
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Pre-order You're In Good Company
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The Artist Date of the Era by Ruth Gyllenhammer
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Ashlee's Instagram post about the Taylor Swift concert in Germany
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The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We believe motherhood is a gift, an art, not a science. |
| 0:07.2 | We believe it takes a village to raise our kids and that motherhood is better when we stick together. |
| 0:12.8 | Most of all, we believe motherhood is holy work. |
| 0:16.9 | At the core of our show, we want you to feel safe, known, encouraged, and loved. |
| 0:22.4 | This is the Coffee and Crumbs podcast. |
| 0:28.6 | Hey, friends, welcome back to the Coffee and Crumbs podcast. |
| 0:31.9 | I am here, as always, with my dear friend Katie. |
| 0:34.5 | Hello, Katie. |
| 0:35.5 | Hello, friends. |
| 0:37.0 | And today we are joined by our good |
| 0:39.8 | friend Ruth Gillenhammer. I'm going to tell you a little bit about her before we officially |
| 0:44.1 | welcome her to the show. And then we are just going to hop into another great conversation about |
| 0:49.6 | food, friendship, and hospitality as part of our ongoing series called Your In Good Company in |
| 0:55.7 | celebration of our upcoming book. |
| 0:57.3 | Ruth Gillinghammer is a writer and content director for coffee and crumbs. |
| 1:01.2 | She lives in Southern California with her husband and four children and writes about home |
| 1:05.7 | and habits in her substack homemaking. |
| 1:08.9 | Hello, Ruth. |
| 1:09.9 | Welcome to the show friend. Hello, hello. I'm so glad to be here. |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah, we're so glad to have you. Ruth is awesome. And as Ashley mentioned, the content manager, |
| 1:19.7 | which means she wrangles 12 busy, distracted mothers and says, you told me you'd have your essay three days ago. I don't have |
| 1:29.7 | it yet. I love you. But I got a love. So Ruth doesn't have the easiest job in the world, |
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