A girl’s gotta eat–she may as well eat like a heroine.Join book-obsessed kindred spirits Jenny Williams and Lorilee Craker as they time travel through favorite heroine classics to glean all the foodie wisdom: How to eat, picnic, comfort, host and more like your best-loved bookish stars. Elevate your eating life to the level of Anne of Green Gables, Jane Austen, Maya Angelou and Zora Neale Hurston; come to the table with us as we learn how to eat like heroines.
Episode 8 | Everything Laura Ate at Little House on the Prairie
We pledge this episode to Miss Ingalls and the food she ate in the book LHOTP, which is, again, a paen to eating. But! On the way to Kansas and in Kansas, they had far less ingredients and cooking was much more challenging. So much cornbread, and Sweet Molasses–SO MUCH molasses. Also in this episode: One of the dearest Christmas vignettes ever committed to the page. Shownotes:Bookish foodies, let’s hop in the old covered wagon for a trek across raging creeks and pioneer pathways, all the...
19 Dec 2023
Podcast Update + a Fun Announcement!
Hey there, listeners! We took a bit of a break to finish our manuscript, but we're back with an update and an announcement about our book. In this short episode that deviates from our normal format, we tell you what to expect for our Season One finale, and answer a few of our most asked questions about Eat Like a Heroine, the book ...
6 Apr 2023
Episode 7 | Everything Laura Ingalls Ate in the Little House in the Big Woods
Inspired by Lorilee’s recent trip to Little House in the Big Woods, this episode will be devoted to Laura Ingalls Wilder and especially her first book in the series, which is really an ode to food. 9 pages on cheese! 30 pages on maple syrup! There’s a whole lot to love about food eaten at the Little House in the Big Woods. Timeline note: this episode was recorded before our Christmas episode, in which we made a pretty big announcement. We also make that announcement here, which, if you d...
16 Dec 2022
Episode 6 | A Heroine’s Christmas: Mrs. Beaver, Maya Angelou, and the Sugarplum Fairy Show Us All How It’s Done
In this Very Special Episode, we sprinkle the show with some Sugar Plum Fairy pixie dust and join our heroines in making merry via food and drink during Christmastide. From Laura Ingalls Wilder’s peppermint sticks to Mrs. Beaver’s holiday hospitality, we find out how our bookish leading ladies celebrated the “most wonderful time of the year.”Shownotes:One thing we love about celebrating Christmas is how various foods and drinks pop up at that time of year and no other. After all, nobody drink...
11 Dec 2022
Episode 5 | Comfort Like a Heroine Part 2: Food for the Brokenhearted
Today, we’ll shift our focus from comforting sick and convalescing friends to showing up for those who are hurting emotionally. From Mrs. Jennings of Sense and Sensibility trying to revive a jilted Marianne with dried cherries to Cassie Logan of Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry caring for her traumatized neighbor, the heroines teach us that food made with love can be ultra healing. Shownotes:Cherries wearing nightgowns. Southern Crowder Peas. Healing Caramel Cake. This quirky trio of edibles ...
14 Nov 2022
Episode 4 | Comfort Like a Heroine Part 1: Pollyanna, Jo March, and Other Visiting Angels
One thing that struck us as we read classic novels is the many references to our heroines taking food to sick people. Today we revisit “invalid care,” and show how bookish stars such as Pollyanna and Jo March teach us how to become more thoughtful, compassionate, and supportive via food and drink to our friends and family today.Shownotes:Pollyanna, you’re killing us here with this meat jelly thing! And Jo March–what on earth is blancmange and why did you bring it to Laurie?Today we tell you h...
16 Sept 2022
Episode 3 | Everything Anne of Green Gables Ate (and Dropped Like a Red Hot Coal)
Was Marilla Cuthbert really running a secret bakery? What was Gilbert Blythe thinking when he offered Anne that luscious strawberry apple? And how did Anne end up serving her idol Vicks Vapo Rub layer cake, and nearly poisoning her to death? We found 13 food references–from the Raspberry Cordial-ridiculous to the sublime, in our favorite book.Shownotes:Listen, it’s Gilbert Blythe for us, even if he was HIGHLY ill advised in giving Anne Shirley that apple. Today, we do a deep dive into ev...
26 Aug 2022
Episode 2 | Picnic Like a Heroine, Part 2: Elevate Your Blanket Banquet with Maya Angelou
As we turn our heroine’s spotlight on Maya Angelou (who took “blissful stickiness” to a whole new level), we also reveal how the picnic moved outdoors, and how the French came to be involved in a baguette-big way.Shownotes:You know what’s sticky? Barbeque sauce, that’s what. But very nice for picnics.Today, we use Emma as a picnicking cautionary tale and fly over to Maya Angelou, who wrote the most glorious sentence of all time about barbeque sauce. We discuss her masterwork, I Know Why the C...
3 Aug 2022
Episode 01 | Picnic Like a Heroine, Part 1: Blissfully Sticky with Katy Carr
Who was the mystery heroine who picknicked like a boss and taught us that the bar should be set at “blissfully sticky”? Get your red checkered blanket ready to roll, because we can’t wait to talk all things heroine and picnics.---------------ShownotesNo one picnics as blissfully as a heroine. In this show, we give props to Katy Carr, of What Katy Did: She knew how to elevate the ploughman’s lunch to something magical. We reveal the captivating history of the picnic, dating back centuries...
3 Aug 2022
Episode 00 | From Anne Shirley to Zora Neale Hurston: An Introduction to a Foodie/Bookish Podcast
Why did Anne of Green Gables invite her minister over for cold tongue? What was up with Ma’s Spider Pan in Little House on the Prairie? And why were the heroines obsessed with currants, blancmange and calf’s foot jelly? A snappy sketch of everything the bookish stars have to teach us about how to nourish and flourish here and now.-----------------Shownotes:If your bookish/foodie heart goes thump at the thought of deconstructing the picnic in Emma, the semi-murderous ingredients in Anne of Gre...
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