Gravy Podcast
Series produced by Southern Foodways Alliance
Gravy is the SFA’s collection of original stories—fresh, unexpected, and thought-provoking. Like all of the SFA’s work, Gravy shares stories of the changing American South through the foods we eat.
Gravy showcases a South that is constantly evolving, accommodating new immigrants, adopting new traditions, and lovingly maintaining old ones. It uses food as a means to explore all of that, to dig into lesser-known corners of the region, complicate stereotypes, document new dynamics, and give voice to the unsung folk who grow, cook, and serve our daily meals. Gravy the print journal lands in the mailboxes of SFA members four times per year. Gravy the podcast releases a new episode every other week.
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In “The Bitter and the Sweet of Craft Chocolate in the Global South,” Gravy explores the complex conversation about ethical chocolate, from central...
- Added: Mar 24, 2022
- Length: 23:07
Gravy follows a group of restaurant workers that’s slated to become the first formal union of food and beverage workers in Memphis, Tennessee.
- Added: Mar 24, 2022
- Length: 22:09
What’s in the fridge? In New Orleans, solidarity means a stocked fridge. Learn more about street refrigerators and social aid in this episode of Gr...
- Added: Mar 24, 2022
- Length: 22:05
In “Making That Dough,” Gravy explores the business of cottage bakeries—and how small-scale bakers make amazing loaves out of home kitchens and con...
- Added: Aug 23, 2022
- Length: 24:43
There's a small but mighty revolution among bakers in the South and beyond to take flour seriously, creating new markets and new flavors.
- Added: Aug 23, 2022
- Length: 28:07
Gravy listeners travel into the mountains of western North Carolina, to a town called Marshall and a property that’s been used as a bakery for more...
- Added: Aug 23, 2022
- Length: 31:27
Gravy takes listeners to a small house in Marshall, NC, where two large, wood-fired ovens anchor the space and attract a very specific kind of baker.
- Added: Aug 23, 2022
- Length: 23:01
Gravy talks to the new owners of Walnut Family Bakery, and learns how they plan to make their space into a gathering spot for the community.
- Added: Aug 23, 2022
- Length: 27:38
In “Henry Perry, Kansas City’s 'Barbecue King,'” Gravy producer Mackenzie Martin tells the story of Henry Perry, the first person to really make a ...
- Added: Nov 08, 2022
- Length: 23:40
Gravy explores the emergence of Viet Tex, a cuisine created in recent years by contemporary Vietnamese-Texan chefs.
- Added: Nov 10, 2022
- Length: 19:56
In “Southern Barbecue Goes West,” Gravy takes listeners to Idaho Falls, Idaho, to explore what happens when a Southerner leaves the South and opens...
- Added: Nov 10, 2022
- Length: 25:27
In “Rib Tips, Hot Links, and the Mississippi Roots of Chicago Barbecue,” Gravy dives into the history of Chicago barbecue and its connection to the...
- Added: Nov 10, 2022
- Length: 24:10
In this special interview edition of Gravy, Howard Conyers—a barbecue expert and NASA scientist—introduces listeners to a formative influence in hi...
- Added: Nov 11, 2022
- Length: 23:25
Gravy tells how Annie Laura Squalls created the famed Mile High Pie when she was head baker at The Caribbean Room, the in-house restaurant at New O...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 24:48
Gravy explores sweet potatoes, which Southern-born Black Americans have baked, roasted, fried, distilled—and long revered.
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 28:01
Gravy investigates why Houston is the center of a West African renaissance.
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 28:22
For centuries, Black Americans have been finding their own ways to feed themselves and their communities.
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 24:29
Black men have played a key role in Louisiana's oyster industry—but today, they are few and far between.
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 27:26
Gravy asks how KFC became one of the most popular restaurant chains in China, and what its dominance reveals about other large Southern firms.
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 22:42
Gravy digs into the history of beaten biscuits, the tender, flaky hardtack rolls that date back to the 1800s, and the success of entrepreneur Annie...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 25:28
