The Unruly Muse

Food For Thought

Episode Summary

Just in time for holiday celebrations the Unrulies nosh their way through the ways food lubricates our ways of relating, sharing, nurturing, and relaying culture. How do families pass food and the memories of food through the generations? Food metaphors permeate our language and our thinking from ancient times to the present. Bon appétit!

Episode Notes

Teaser: Quotes from Ernestine Ulmer, Julia Child, and Maya Angelou

Song 1: Shaving Cream Eyes  (Robert Hopper; played by JVM and Dan Modaff)  

Poem 1: “One Toe Crooked” by Hilda Raz. Published in Letters from a Place I’ve Never Been: Collected and New Poems.University of Nebraska Press, 2021. https://hildaraz.com/

Short Story: “Old Vines” by Lynn C. Miller. Forthcoming in the collection The Lost Archive, University of Wisconsin Press, April, 2023.

Feed the Cat break:  a cut of Baby Fat by T-bone Kelly from his CD Toast

Poem 2: “Carciofo”by Katherine DiBella Seluja. Published in bosque journal #8, 2008 and forthcoming in Point of Entry, UNM Press, 2023. 

Song 2: Platter of Love  (JVM)                      

Episode artwork by Lynda Miller 

Show theme and Incidental music by John V. Modaff 

The Unruly Muse is Recorded in Albuquerque, NM and Morehead, KY. 

NEXT UP: Episode 23, “Collecting”