{"podcast":{"title":"Family Tree Food Stories","slug":"family-tree-food-stories-7049295","podcast_index_feed_id":7049295,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/family-tree-food-stories/","website_url":"https://podcast.familytreefoodstories.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/053c96d6-e6f4-441a-90ff-baa85cb8b974/5c6zUaL_HnCCsFywVyfzbA4v.jpg","author":"Nancy May & Sylvia France","episode_count":91,"summary":"Family Tree, Food & Stories podcast will take you on a mouthwatering journey through generations of flavor! We're digging up and sharing the juiciest family secrets, hilarious dinner table disasters, and the heartwarming moments that make your favorite foods, meals, and relationships unforgettable. From Great-Grandma's legendary cheese crust apple pie to that questionable casserole your Uncle Bob swears by. With Family Tree, Food, and Stories, we're serving a feast of laughter, tears, and everything in between. So, are you ready to uncover and share those unforgettable stories behind every bite and create some new memories along the way? Join our growing family of food enthusiasts and storytellers as we Eat, laugh, relive the past, and learn how to create new memories together because. . . every recipe has a story, and every story is a feast.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T18:22:55.082537+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/family-tree-food-stories-7049295"},"episode":{"title":"How to Make the Perfect Wedding Toast; The Secrets of How it Came to be are Hiding in a Soggy Piece of Bread!","slug":"how-to-make-the-perfect-wedding-toast-the-secrets-of-how-it-came-to-be-are-hiding-in-a-soggy-piece-of-bread","published_at":"2026-06-11T08:47:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/family-tree-food-stories-7049295/how-to-make-the-perfect-wedding-toast-the-secrets-of-how-it-came-to-be-are-hiding-in-a-soggy-piece-of-bread","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/family-tree-food-stories-7049295","url":"https://family-tree-food-stories.captivate.fm/episode/cast-iron-show","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/812b6df7-612c-494d-950d-0e00ecaf4f68.mp3","summary":"Wedding season, and somewhere right now, a panicked best man is googling \"how to give a wedding toast.\" This episode of Family Tree Food & Stories is the #WeddingToast crash course that every best man and maid of honor needs. It’s 6 simple rules for giving a toast people will remember, rather than have to endure. Then, do you know where the word \"toast\" comes from? It’s about a soggy piece of bread dropped in bad wine. Hosts Nancy May and Sylvia Franc e serve up wedding speech tips, the myth behind clinking glasses, a 12-hour toasting tradition from the country of Georgia, and the family stories that prove a great toast is never about the wine; it's about who you raise the glass to. From a 300-year-old pickup line that turned a person into \"the toast of the town,\" to a slightly tipsy pastor who serenaded a bride in barbershop harmony, to Grandma's rhubarb wine that only came out when something truly mattered, this episode will make you laugh, teach you something useful, and give you the confidence to stand up and nail your next toast. 🎯 Five Things You'll Learn (and Use for the Next Wedding): The 2-Minute, 1-Story Rule. Stand up. Tell one story that proves who they are. Raise the glass. Sit down. That's the toast people quote for years — and the formula that saves you from becoming the guy who hired a guitarist for his own speech. Why does “toast\" literally mean bread? A wine crouton from the 1600s is hiding inside the most heartfelt 15 minutes of any wedding, and it's the dinner-party fact you'll be repeating all summer. The poison-clink legend is fake. Glasses don't clink to dodge poison. They clink to complete the meal's fifth sense, and yes, breaking eye contact in parts of Europe earns you seven years of bad luck (and worse). The toasts ARE a real part of the…","meta_description":"Wedding season, and somewhere right now, a panicked best man is googling \"how to give a wedding toast.\" This episode of Family Tree Food & Stories is…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1722,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/family-tree-food-stories-7049295/episodes/how-to-make-the-perfect-wedding-toast-the-secrets-of-how-it-came-to-be-are-hiding-in-a-soggy-piece-of-bread/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/family-tree-food-stories-7049295/how-to-make-the-perfect-wedding-toast-the-secrets-of-how-it-came-to-be-are-hiding-in-a-soggy-piece-of-bread.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}