It was bound to happen.
I mean, I am a psychologist after all.
Food has a powerful effect on people. Sometimes just because it tastes great or terrible, sometimes because there is some meaning that underlies an experience with a particular food. Food can make you happy or happier. It can disappoint you or lift you higher and out of your funk. It can bring back warm memories so that every time we have it (or cook it), those memories are recreated. And, just as easily, it can cause us pain and suffering because of an event or person it is associated with. We may never want to eat, see, smell or even think of that food again.
I am fascinated with the effect that food can have on us. So, why not, a whole podcast season of exploring people’s relationship, good or bad, with food. What does it mean to you? What’s your favorite? What’s your guilty pleasure? What’s the worst? So…Tell Me A Food Story is going to take you on a food ride through the lives of eight different people from every walk of life. Some are in the food business, some just love food but all of them have a story to tell.
Here are the victims, er, kind folks who volunteered their time to talk to us. This is alphabetical order, we haven’t decided whose episode is whose so you’ll have to listen to ALL of them! That’s part of our evil plan to get you to listen to us!! Bwahahah….
Judy Lockhart Allen - Food Writer, Recipe Developer, Food Stylist and Food Magazine Junkie who survived and lived to tell the tale of working for Martha Stewart
Joe Breaux - Our Favorite Sommelier, Joe leads our wine tasting classes at the kitchen and is the least stuffy of any wine person we know
Mark Gibson - Musician, Singer and Songwriter and he just happened to write our podcast theme music
Roy S Johnson - Director, Content Development and Columnist at Alabama Media Group and one of my very good friends from high school, Roy has had and continues to have an impressive writing career
Shaylea Morgan - Our Favorite Kids Chef Instructor, Shaylea is helping us build our kids cooking program
Daisi Owens - Food Blogger and mother of two little boys at My Stir Crazy Kitchen and the first person who we interviewed for Season 2 of the podcast
But in our first episode, Natalia and I tell all…SURPRISE!
You’ll hear some funny and not so funny stories from experiences we’ve had and about our families’ very different food histories and approaches to food.
No secrets, here, as usual. So, hope you’re ready for Season 4…here it comes.
What's your food story?
We'd love to hear it. Share it in the comments below and more likely than not, you'll hear it in one of our episodes.
And, in case you haven't heard, we have reopened our kitchen and our hands-on classes. We are wearing masks and guessing that soon it will be mandated beyond food workers. I mean, you wear a seat belt, a helmet when you ride your bicycle or motorcycle, what's the difference?
