Family Tree Food & Stories

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00:01 Today I'm talking with Nancy May and Sylvia Lovely. What a wonderful last name. Thank you. Family Tree Food and Stories.  Sylvia is in Kentucky. Kentucky, you got it. Nancy is in Florida. There you go. So good morning ladies. How are you?  Good morning to you and so good to be with you. I love your voice.  Thank Doing good. Yeah. Thank you.

00:28 I always feel weird when people say that because I don't hear it the way other people hear it, but that is totally fine. And what a lovely compliment. Thank you. Sure.  All right. So what's the weather like in Florida, Nancy?  It is warm and a little sticky. It's August,  but that said, we have  lovely air conditioning inside. So the weather inside is beautiful.  It's sunny outside.  And what's the weather like in Kentucky, Sylvia?

00:54 I might say a big ditto. It's about 95. It's very hot. The weather's supposed to break. I wish I was in Minnesota where my son lives in Duluth. It'd be a little cooler. He says it's cooler up there. But it's coming our way. So that's good news. Yes. Fall is definitely coming. I heard geese honking the other day and our trees are just starting. The maples are just starting to change. Wow. That's early.

01:20 And it's been cooler at night. mean, the last couple of nights it's been warm because we've had rain and thunderstorms, but  it's coming. And I'm not sad to see the summer go. It has been so hot and so muggy here.  That's what Ross says too, up in Duluth.  But you're around the Minneapolis St. Paul area. Is that where you are? I am an hour southwest of Minneapolis.  Okay. All right.

01:44 Yep. I am where the Jolly Green Giant started out. yeah, that's right. how cool. That's right.  We did some work on that, didn't we, Nancy? It's been several episodes ago. And frozen foods for sure. Yeah, exactly. ho ho,  Green Giant.  Well, you just gave me a perfect opening. Tell me about yourselves and what you guys do. All right, Nancy, you want to go first?  Sure. So  I'm Nancy May  and  I'm the co-host of

02:13 Family Tree Food and Stories podcast. And we are also the co-author of a book called My Family Tree Food and Stories, which is a book that shows you how to take all your family recipes or the recipes that you love, whether it's family or not, and write the stories related to the recipes. Some are good, some are like, yeah, you know, those flops actually make good stories and good fodder for future conversations too.  And there's always a way to fix a recipe and a meal. But let  me see.

02:42 I am not the best cook in the world, but I keep trying  and  that's half the fun. But food is an outlet to be creative and  bring family and friends together at the table. In fact, we just had a nice  gathering of some friends at our home the other night and somebody said,  oh, well, I don't cook at home for friends. Why not? Because I much rather do that than meet somebody at a restaurant because that way you actually know who they are as people in your home and whether you want to invite them back or not.

03:11 So that's kind of our,  we like them or do we not like them?  And let me piggyback onto that.  I'll tell how we came together, Nancy. That could be an interesting thing. How did Florida marry Kentucky?  We came together because of a local podcaster here.

03:31 in Lexington, Kentucky, which is where I am based. And he introduced us in the rest of his history. We just started clicking together. I mean, I guess that's kind of the best word for it. We compliment each other beautifully. I don't cook. I so admire, I own a restaurant, Azura Restaurant and Patio here in Lexington. It's high-end restaurant, lots of seafood, steak, and that kind of thing serves the local ra