# A New Seat at The Table and Mythbuster Recipes Tested

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Podcast: [Family Tree Food Stories](https://stenobird.com/podcast/family-tree-food-stories-7049295)
Published: 2026-06-04T08:15:00+00:00
Episode link: https://family-tree-food-stories.captivate.fm/episode/myth-busters-recipe-trial
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Generational Food Stories: When Your Mom Was the Worst Cook in America and Your Grandfather Took You to French Restaurants Instead. New foods, new stories, new hosts at our table. Nancy May of Family Tree Food and Stories welcomes guest co-host Sylvia France , while Sylvia Lovely steps back temporarily to focus full-time on Azor Restaurant and Patio in Lexington, Kentucky . Her mother put her on a diet at age five. Her dad did all the cooking. And yet Sylvia France grew up to be the kind of woman who cooks salmon in a dishwasher, raises kids who willingly eat yak, and shows up to a friend's house with a pedigreed sourdough starter registered in an international registry. (Yes. That's a real thing. His name is Fred.) This is what generational food stories actually look like, not the Currier & Ives version . The real one, with #Jell-O salad in a rectangle pan, mystery marshmallows, and the grandfather who said "order anything you want" at a French restaurant in Sarasota when you were eight years old and it changed her food life forever. Our Table Gets a New Voice Nancy May introduces Sylvia France, native Floridian, #self-taught cook, food history researcher, and new co-host of Family Tree Food & Stories . Sylvia's family food memories didn't come from a recipe box. They came from survival, from a grandfather with suspenders AND a belt (you've got to just smile at that one), from a trip to India where she politely moved food around a plate rather than offend a host, and from a Thanksgiving tradition she loved more, the night before, stealing uncooked #P epperidge Farm stuffing straight from the bowl. Meanwhile, Nancy shares her own table: a father who made her walk with books on her head and ordered the cheapest thing on every menu, a St. Lucia trip that included…

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