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Thoughts from a Page PodcastThoughts from a Page PodcastJayda Justus - Book Recommendations for Holiday Gift GivingJayda Justus recommends books for gift giving this holiday.Her recommendations:Favorite Fiction:Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp by Michelle Moran What the Mountains Remember by Joy Callaway Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear Evelyne Redfern series by Julia Kelly Shogun by James ClavellThe Turtle House by Amanda ChurchillLondon or New York by Edward Rutherfurd A Woman of Intelligence by Karin Tanabe Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner Presidential or First Lady his...2024-12-0344 minFrom the Front PorchFrom the Front PorchEpisode 503 || Eat Like a Heroine with Lorilee Cracker and Jenny WilliamsThis week on From the Front Porch, we’re preparing for the holidays and forgoing our traditional episode format to bring you an author interview with Lorilee Cracker and Jenny Williams, authors of Eat Like a Heroine. This beautiful book contains wisdom on how to eat, picnic, comfort, host and more like your favorite literary heroines and is perfect for gift-giving. Annie, Lorilee, and Jenny chat about food in literature and what our childhood heroines can teach us in adulthood. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (se...2024-11-1456 minEat Like A HeroineEat Like A HeroineEpisode 8 | Everything Laura Ate at Little House on the PrairieWe 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 way to the L...2024-01-291h 10Eat Like A HeroineEat Like A HeroinePodcast 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 ...2023-12-1917 minEat Like A HeroineEat Like A HeroineEpisode 7 | Everything Laura Ingalls Ate in the Little House in the Big WoodsInspired 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 didn't catch our Christmas episode, might be news to yo...2023-04-061h 15Eat Like A HeroineEat Like A HeroineEpisode 6 | A Heroine’s Christmas: Mrs. Beaver, Maya Angelou, and the Sugarplum Fairy Show Us All How It’s DoneIn 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 drinks eggnog in July. We share our heroine’s glowy fe...2022-12-161h 03Eat Like A HeroineEat Like A HeroineEpisode 5 | Comfort Like a Heroine Part 2: Food for the BrokenheartedToday, 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 all have one thing in common: our favorite literary ladies employed them in the...2022-12-111h 15Eat Like A HeroineEat Like A HeroineEpisode 4 | Comfort Like a Heroine Part 1: Pollyanna, Jo March, and Other Visiting AngelsOne 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 how to comfo...2022-11-141h 09Eat Like A HeroineEat Like A HeroineEpisode 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 every morsel of food described in Anne of Green Gable...2022-09-161h 19Eat Like A HeroineEat Like A HeroineEpisode 2 | Picnic Like a Heroine, Part 2: Elevate Your Blanket Banquet with Maya AngelouAs 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 Caged Bird Sings, and gush a...2022-08-261h 14Eat Like A HeroineEat Like A HeroineEpisode 01 | Picnic Like a Heroine, Part 1: Blissfully Sticky with Katy CarrWho 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...2022-08-031h 01Eat Like A HeroineEat Like A HeroineEpisode 00 | From Anne Shirley to Zora Neale Hurston: An Introduction to a Foodie/Bookish PodcastWhy 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...2022-08-0353 min