The Dirty Spoon Radio Hour

Stacy Moore believes he contracted Coronavirus in Boston while he was there for work. But it wasn't until he came home to the Mountains of North Carolina that he began to show symptoms. He fills us in on the process of getting tested and diagnosed, and the dangers of passing it to loved ones. There's also a story about snakes! For more information on COVID-19 and testing procedures, visit www. CDC...

This one hits a little too close to home for us. Dirty Spoon Editor-at-Large Catherine Campbell talks with Jon about how she came to understand that she likely has COVID-19 and how it has effected her and her family in quarantine. For more information on how to find out if you might have coronavirus, please visit www.cdc.gov

Today we're in Atlanta, a city that is reeling in the throes of Coronavirus, checking in with Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Bon Appetite contributor Angela Hansberger. Angela catches us up to speed on how Atlanta restaurants are staying afloat and responding to the pandemic.

Today we head to Nashville to check in with Samantha Harlow, the lead singer of The Bad Signs. Between the band and her job at the famed bar Robert's Western World, the shutdown has decimated Harlow's work life. But she's helping to launch a new startup in town, Two Broke Bartenders, to help out of work bartenders get back to work.

Where we hoped to be opening season 3 from the Southern Foodways Alliance Spring Symposium with conversations with the best and brightest in Southern food, a global pandemic had other plans for us. With Catherine in quarantine, Jon heads out to make sense of the COVID-19 shutdown in Asheville and talks to Sam Thielman (Tow Center, the Guardian, NBC News) about how to source trustworthy information...

Finding trustworthy news sources is already hard in the digital age, but throw a global pandemic into the mix and all hell breaks lose! Don't worry, Sam Thielman, Editor at the Tow Center and contributor to NBC News and the Guardian, is here to help us sort through the media circus to try to find trustworthy sources. Follow Sam on twitter @samthielman.

With everyone on edge and locked in their homes, chef Joe Marple devised a brilliant distraction: the March Sadness Sandwich Tournament. A Facebook based voting tournament among his friends, pitting America's favorite sandwiches against one another. Grilled Cheese vs Meatball Hoagie, Patty Melt vs Fried Chicken, Pulled Pork vs the Bacon Egg and Cheese. People got really into it, and it was, oddly,...

Today we visit Los Angeles to talk with Managing Editor of Foodal Allison Sidhu about how to make the best use of those overstocked pantries during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Jon explores the ripple effect business closures have on one another in downtown Asheville, and talks with alt-weekly Mountain Xpress Managing Editor Virginia Daffron and Development Coordinator Laura Hackett about the recent layoffs and Xpress' new vision to save indie journalism in a post COVID-19 world.

We hop over to Freiburg Germany to check in with cook and Dirty Spoon artist Katrin Dohse on life in Germany under the COVID-19 lockdowns. Katja compares the German response to other nations in the EU, and explores the perils of being an expat in a time of crisis.

Jon talks to Kara Irani, the communications director for Western North Carolina's largest food bank, MANNA. In the midst of this crisis, millions of American's have lost their jobs. That can make it hard to keep food on the table. Places like MANNA are here to help. To get help from MANNA call their helpline at 1(800)820-1109 or to donate to pay it forward, head to mannafoodbank.org.

Jon checks in with Americana rocker Beth Bombara on how her home town of St. Louis is responding to the COVID-19 outbreak and what kind of impact it is having on the music scene there. They also talk about and listen to selections from her new record Evergreen, and Beth gives some suggestions of records to keep you entertained during quarantine.

In the wake of COVID-19, Jon and Catherine talk about Catherine's Asheville Strong campaign, a simple, but strong program that seeks to stimulate local restaurants while the city of Asheville shuts down for the Corona Virus.

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Entrepreneur Sara Stender Delaney talks about how her road to recovery drove her to found the fair trade tea company, 3 Mountains. Journalist Sofia Ferreira Santos explores an alternate history of the worldwide love of rice. And Ron Hayes reflects on family traditions in the kitchen, and the matriarchs and patriarchs that hold our cultures together.

Author Ed Southern remembers Granny's Crowded Kitchen Counter and discovers the deeper meaning behind our Holiday gluttony, Heather Newton talks about her family's tradition of eating out for Christmas, and Jon talks about the gift of forgiveness.

Jon talks with an authority on Appalachian cuisine, Chef Travis Milton, Trisha Kostis looks at the tricky family dynamics of the restaurant kitchen, and Tricia Stearns explores motherhood through comfort food.

Jon talks with the founder and cohost of the Skillet podcast, Jen Nathan Orris. An accomplished and career radio journalist, Jen Nathan Orris has spent her career reporting for print and radio, capturing other people's stories. Her remarkably well produced podcast Skillet goes into people's home kitchens to learn how to make a dish that means something to them. But when people show you how they pr...

Montreal journalist Anna Nguyen explores Birdman and talks to Top Chef's Chris Scott about the new venture. Skillet host Jen Nathan Orris talks about what makes the show so different from other food shows. And Andy Winder explores what he learned about masculinity from the kitchen as a transgender man.

Asheville's new food festival Chow Chow was this weekend, which brought up Jon's skepticism of the relevance of food festivals these days. So the Dirty Spoon crew hit the ground for the 4 day festival to talk to chefs and pioneers in the food world to get their perspectives. Guest interviews feature Sam Jones (Skylight Inn BBQ, Sam Jones BBQ), Kaley Laird (Rhubarb, Benne on Eagle, formerly of Thom...

Jon and Catherine visit Chow Chow, a new food festival in Asheville with insight from chef Katie Button and author Ronni Lundy, and, much to Jon's surprise (he kind of hates food festivals, if you remember), he's pretty much on board.

Catherine explores the largest hand made cookie company in the country and digs into the heritage of Moravian culture in the American south. Jon talks about the joys of eating alone.

Author and Journalist Mackensy Lunsford has documented the history of Asheville's burgeoning food scene since the beginning of it's upward trajectory. In the process she has become an award winning journalist and writer. Jon's conversation with her touches on the dwindling of the local news room, living with the label of "fake news", and the future -- or lack thereof -- of a trendy city like Ashev...

Jon talks to Asheville Citizen-Times Journalist Mackensy Lunsford about the importance of food journalism and the state of Asheville's media scene, Deona Kelli Sayed recalls raising her Afghani born son in America, and Ann Hillesland remembers the intimacy of feeding her father during his hospice care.

Jon's conversation with Meredith Leigh, author of the Ethical Meat Handbook, which goes beyond the basics of home butchery, and into the nitty gritty details of what it means to eat meat in a conscious way. This episode opens with Jon's conversation with Meredith, and closes with her reading the intro to the second edition of her book.