When you ask someone about food, their answer will tell you a lot about who they are and where they come from.

This is especially true of musicians.

And if you're talking to musicians in the South, well, you better sit back and get ready for a good story.

Talking about Southern food is personal.

It's a way of talking about your culture, your family, your history, and yourself.

I'm Sid Evans, editor-in-chief of Southern Living Magazine,

and those are some of the conversations we'll have on Biscuits and Jam,

a new podcast series about food, music, and everything

in between. We'll hear from Kimberly Schlatman of the Grammy Award-winning Quartet Little Big Town.

Mama made chicken and dumplings a lot, and she still does. That's my favorite thing she makes.

When we're coming home and she says, what do you want me to cook for you i'm always like chicken and dump please we had so many italian cookies dozens of

kinds of italian cookies and breads and her family there was 12 brothers and sisters and they'd all

throw in and we'd have this giant feast of st joseph and i wish I'd have cooked more with them, because those

Italian cookies were incredible. We've got Grammy nominee Mary Gosey, who you just heard.

We also chat with country music hitmaker, Jake Owen.

When you cut it into squares, you then dip it into a nice batter that you then fry the square in like

a nice cast iron skillet.

James Beard's semi-finalist, Chee-D Kumar.

I remember I hated this turnip curry that my mom used to make.

I would kill to have it now.

I would make my mom's black-eyed pea recipe and and I would stir fry collard greens like a subsy, just like a regular Indian side dish.

Multiple ACM and CMA award winner Martina McBride.

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