423: Food Superstitions
Spirits
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever spilled some salt and tossed it over your shoulder? Broken a wishbone with friends and family? Have you ever wondered WHY we blow out candles on birthday cakes? We dig into some of our favorite and curious food superstitions from around the world!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of enslavement, racism, pregnancy and birth, animal death, colonization, poisoning, sex, and death.
Housekeeping
- Recommendation: This week, Amanda recommends this mutual aid list of displaced Black families and this comprehensive list of resources for folks impacted by the L.A. fires. If that’s you, we’re thinking about you.
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- Kitchen Sisters is a podcast about stories from the flip side of history. Listen on your favorite podcast app and kitchensisters.org.
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Cast & Crew
- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin
- Editor: Bren Frederick
- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod
- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman
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About Us
Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm a |
| 0:02.0 | M. |
| 0:03.0 | M. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm |
| 0:05.0 | Bhop |
| 0:06.0 | Bhop |
| 0:07.0 | B |
| 0:08.0 | Bhop Welcome to Spirits podcast to boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:32.5 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:37.2 | And I'm Julia. And Amanda, |
| 0:39.1 | this year for the holidays, Jake got me a sort of themed gift, like his gifts were themed for a |
| 0:45.6 | specific thing. It's something he really likes doing. He really loves, like, picking a thing that I |
| 0:49.5 | showed interest in in the previous year and then like spoiling me with it. Aw. It's beautiful. |
| 0:54.8 | It's cute. It's very cute. |
| 0:56.5 | He loves doing that. |
| 0:57.5 | He's a very thoughtful gift giver. |
| 0:59.0 | So I'm a big fan of that. |
| 1:00.9 | Okay, well, apart from bragging about your sweet husband, Julia, what relevance does this |
| 1:04.9 | have to spirits? |
| 1:06.2 | I promise it's relevant. |
| 1:07.7 | I promise. |
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