{"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":"The Secret History of Tea: Personal Rituals & Family Stories","slug":"the-secret-history-of-tea-personal-rituals-family-stories","published_at":"2026-04-23T08:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/family-tree-food-stories-7049295/the-secret-history-of-tea-personal-rituals-family-stories","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/family-tree-food-stories-7049295","url":"https://family-tree-food-stories.captivate.fm/episode/tea-with-friends","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c8e7b9a7-2312-4403-b123-899f37dc72c8.mp3","summary":"5,000 Years of Comfort #FoodHistory, British Afternoon @Tea, #SouthernSweetTea & the Rituals That Still Bring Family & Friends Together. Have you ever sat down with your mom or a good friend with absolutely no agenda other than just... being together? Nancy's mom had a word for it: \"sharing a cuppa.\" She and Nancy would drive down to Alice's, their local general store-luncheonette, not because they needed anything, but because that was their girl-time ritual. Their way of making the whole world stop spinning for a little while. Simple. Here's the part that'll get you through... the exact thing Nancy and her mom shared turns out to be one of the oldest comfort-food traditions in human history. That quiet little ritual over a shared cup? Well, it's over 5,000 years old. Which somehow makes every #cuppa feel a little more meaningful, doesn't it? This week on Family Tree Food and Stories , Nancy May and Sylvia Lovely pour their own cuppa and take you straight into the rich, surprising cultural food history hiding inside your favorite cuppa. And if you think tea is simple, buckle up, because it turns out to be the second most consumed beverage on the planet and holds some of the best family food stories, heritage recipes, and generational traditions that you might not have known about. From # EmperorShenNong accidentally inventing tea in ancient China, to scholar # LuYu loving tea so much that he wrote the world's very first book about it, to Anna, the #DuchessOfBedford, getting peckish between lunch and dinner and accidentally turning a personal snack into the institution of # British @AfternoonHighTea. But wait, there's more! Sylvia shares her funny and somewhat uncomfortable experience of being exactly the right size for a traditional Japanese kimono during a tea…","meta_description":"5,000 Years of Comfort #FoodHistory, British Afternoon @Tea, #SouthernSweetTea & the Rituals That Still Bring Family & Friends Together. Have you…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2259,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/family-tree-food-stories-7049295/episodes/the-secret-history-of-tea-personal-rituals-family-stories/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/the-secret-history-of-tea-personal-rituals-family-stories.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}