Introducing When Southern Women Cook: Our Miniseries on Barbecue Trailblazers

Proof

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Cooking, Culinary, Food, Arts, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

For far too long, the art of barbecue and grilling have been considered “men’s work.” But women were cooking with fire since the earliest days of American history, too. In our next miniseries on Proof, hosted by Cook's Country magazine's Toni Tipton-Martin and Morgan Bolling, we profile four women who have been stoking embers and bringing the heat to Southern cuisine. The first episode drops Thursday, August 1!

This series is also an audio companion to a forthcoming book from America’s Test Kitchen called Women Southern Women Cook: History, Lore, and 300 Recipes from Every Corner of the American South. You can preorder the book where books are sold:

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0:00.0	Hi listeners it's Tony Tipton Martin let's try something real quick
0:06.4	picture someone cooking meat over a grill or live fire
0:11.6	Conjure the image in your mind.
0:14.0	Now tell me the gender of the cook you just pictured.
0:17.8	I'm willing to bet you've got the image of a man in your head.
0:21.8	And that's understandable. Throughout a lot of history, grilling and
0:24.9	barbecuing was primarily seen as man's work. But women were cooking with fire in
0:30.3	early US history too. As a journalist in food history scholar, I've always been struck
0:35.9	by the ways that women's contributions in and out of the kitchen have been sidelined. Our
0:41.2	latest book aims to change that. It's called When Southern Women Cook, History,
0:47.0	LORE, and 300 recipes from every corner of the American South. I worked on this
0:52.4	project with one of my favorite southern
0:54.6	women, my cooks country colleague Morgan bowling. This book was a real labor of
0:59.8	love for us Tony and while it covers all kinds of cooking grilling is a special passion of mine.
1:07.2	And it's a type of cooking where we see women's contributions have been especially
1:10.8	undervalued. Again there's this perception that grilling is a man's domain,
1:15.1	and we're here to change that.
1:16.6	But of course, there was no way we can include the stories
1:19.8	of every amazing woman making an impact
1:22.1	on Southern cooking in our book.
1:24.3	So that's where this podcast mini series comes in.
1:27.8	Over the next four weeks, we're sharing the stories of some of the amazing women cooking
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