Biscuits & Jam

Trisha Yearwood’s Christmas Spirit

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The last time Trisha Yearwood was on the show was back in 2021, when she was here to discuss a cookbook called Trisha’s Kitchen, but this year has b...

How Fred Minnick Went from the Battlefield to the Bourbon Trail

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fred Minnick is one of the most knowledgeable people in America when it comes to whiskey. Born and raised in the small town of Jones, Oklahoma, he dev...

Rebecca Gardner Is a Screaming Blast

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rebecca Gardner, the founder of Houses and Parties, grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas, which she remembers as vibrant, colorful, and filled with family...

Encore: Donna Jean Godchaux-Mackay Is Grateful

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, Sid Evans, Editor-in-Chief of Southern Living Magazine, chats with Donna Jean Godchaux-Mackay, a singer who’s lent her voi...

Fannie Flagg Always Has Something to Look Forward To

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fannie Flagg grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, where she had close family ties to the Irondale Cafe, a restaurant that’s still serving fried chicken, ...

The Biscuits & Jam Holiday Special

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

All year long Sid has been asking his guests about how they celebrate the holidays, and in this episode we’re sharing some of those answers for the ...

Erika Council’s Rise to Biscuit Fame

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Erika Council, a chef, author, and the owner of Atlanta’s wildly popular Bomb Biscuit Company, stopped by the Southern Living offices to do this int...

How Jamey Johnson Went from the Marines to Music Row

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jamey Johnson has called Nashville home for half his life, but he was raised in Montgomery, Alabama, in a family where pretty much everyone either pla...

John T. Edge Goes Searching for Home in a Powerful New Memoir

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

f you’re a Southerner who’s interested in food, you probably know John T. Edge from his work as the founding director of the Southern Foodways All...

Josh Mancuso May Be the Funniest Guy In College Football

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Mancuso has been rooting for the Tennessee Vols since he could walk, but he’s also an actor, filmmaker, and director who knows how to tell a st...

Lainey Wilson, Southern Living Cover Star, Is Keeping Her People Close

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Sid talks to one of the biggest and brightest stars in country music – Lainey Wilson. Back in May, he drove up to Nashville and got to hav...

Tiffany Derry Is the Best Thing on Food TV

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Texas-born Chef Tiffany Derry is quickly becoming a fan favorite in the world of food TV. She was raised in Beaumont, Texas, though most of her family...

Marcus King’s Blue Ridge Dreams

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marcus King grew up in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains in a working class family with deep roots in music. His grandfather played country and w...

Ivy Odom Just Wrote the Next Great Southern Cookbook

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

 Ivy Odom has in many ways become the face of Southern Living. In addition to creating videos about all things Southern on social media, Ivy is a wri...

Design Legend Charlotte Moss on the Southern Living Idea House

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Charlotte Moss was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia and went to college at VCU, where she was an English major. Her mother didn’t especially lo...

Encore: Riley Green Wishes Grandpas Never Died

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Riley Green got his start playing in bars and restaurants around his hometown of Jacksonville, Alabama—and lately he’s been performing in stadiums...

How KIRBY’s Modern Soul Honors Her Family History

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The soulful musician known as KIRBY was born in Memphis, Tennessee, but she grew up in the tight-knit community of Eudora, Mississippi, surrounded by ...

Hey Jesus, Ellen Skrmetti Is Calling

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ellen Skrmetti was born and raised in Ripley, Mississippi, not far from Memphis, in a family that was devoted to the Southern Baptist church. For Elle...

Texas Chef Tristen Epps Wants His Guests to Have an "Aha" Moment

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chef Tristen Epps, who just won Season 22 of Bravo’s Top Chef, grew up the son of a single mom who was a JAG, a lawyer with the military. That meant...

Katie Lee Biegel’s Appalachian Roots

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Katie Lee Biegel grew up in Milton, West Virginia, descended from a long line of women who really knew how to cook. Her grandparents had a big vegetab...

Bryce Leatherwood's Tribute to His Grandfather

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bryce Leatherwood is only 25 years old, but three years ago he won Season 22 of The Voice, and he just released a self-titled debut album that’s alr...

Ashleigh Shanti Is Rewriting the Story of Appalachian Food

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Sid talks to Ashleigh Shanti, who recently won a James Beard Award for her beautiful and thought-provoking cookbook called Our South: ...

Shuai Wang’s Journey from China to Charleston

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chef Shuai Wang was the runner-up on the 22nd season of Bravo’s Top Chef and is the force behind two standout restaurants in Charleston, South Carol...

Dylan Scott Will Be Country Till He Dies

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dylan Scott grew up in Bastrop, Louisiana, a small town in the northeast corner of the state, not far from the home of another Louisiana sensation - L...

Encore: Brian Baumgartner Is Probably Smoking Something

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Baumgartner may be best known to many people, across at least a couple of generations, as Kevin from The Office, but there’s much more to the ...

Emily Ann Roberts Is One Part Yeehaw, One Part Meemaw

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Ann Roberts grew up in Karns, Tennessee, just outside of Knoxville, with hardworking parents who had deep roots in both faith and music. She wen...

Maggie Rose Should Not Be Underestimated

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Maggie Rose was born and raised in Potomac, Maryland, where she grew up eating blue crabs, attending Catholic school, and singing solos in front of he...

Chef Duane Nutter Is Proof That Chefs Can Be Funny

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Duane Nutter spent his first seven years or so in Morgan City, Louisiana, but his mother later moved the family to Seattle in search of schools that c...

Wyatt Flores’s Red Dirt Roots

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Wyatt Flores is a 23-year-old singer-songwriter from Stillwater, Oklahoma, who’s making a name for himself in the Red Dirt music scene, building on ...

Encore: Jessica B. Harris Believes in a Welcome Table

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode Description: Jessica B. Harris may have been born and raised in New York City, but she has Tennessee roots through her father and has spent mu...

Maddie and Tae on Motherhood, Sisterhood, and Stadium Songs

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Maddie Font and Taylor Kerr, better known as Maddie & Tae, are really in the thick of it these days as they balance their ever-growing music careers w...

Valerie June Has Joy in Her Soul

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Valerie June was raised in Humboldt, Tennessee, just north of Jackson, and though she now spends a good deal of time in New York, she still has a plac...

Robin Roberts Will Always Call the South Home

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As a co-anchor of ABC’s Good Morning America, Robin Roberts is an icon in morning news. She’s also a member of the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fa...

Grace Potter’s Buried Treasure

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Grace Potter was raised in rural Vermont by parents who were seeking a different way of life, one with an emphasis on the arts and a connection to the...

How Randy Travis Got His Voice Back

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After more than 40 years as one of the most popular and recognizable voices in country music, during which he earned a pile of Grammys and a rightful ...

Encore: The Indigo Girls Are Full of Gratitude

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode Description: Since 1985, Emily Sailers and Amy Ray have been known as the Indigo Girls, and they’ve never once stopped making music or shari...

Craig Morgan's Journey from the Army to the Opry

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Craig Morgan is that rare country artist who actually grew up around Nashville, but he also breaks the mold in a lot of other ways. After finishing hi...

Bless Your Heart, Landon Bryant

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Landon Bryant stopped by the Southern Living offices recently, and it was for the staff to meet him in person after a couple of years watching his hil...

Wright Thompson’s New Book About Emmett Till Is a Must-Read

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Wright Thompson grew up in Clarksdale, Mississippi, before going on to write for ESPN, The Atlantic, and the New York Times, among other publications....

Riley Green Wishes Grandpas Never Died

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Riley Green got his start playing in bars and restaurants around his hometown of Jacksonville, Alabama—and lately he’s been performing in stadiums...

Roy Wood Jr. Wants to Connect

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You may know Roy Wood Jr. from his long stint on The Daily Show, his new CNN comedy show Have I Got News For You, or from his new standup special Lone...

The War and Treaty Are Getting Carried Away

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The War and Treaty’s Michael and Tanya Trotter grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, DC, respectively, but both have family roots in the South...

Biscuits & Jam Returns on March 4th for Season 6 with The War & Treaty!

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for the launch of Season 6 of Biscuits & Jam on Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 with The War and Treaty’s Michael and Tanya Trotter. Learn more ab...

Encore: The Red Clay Strays Were Made for This Moment

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

 Sid talks to a couple of guys from Alabama who are founding members of one of the hottest young bands in the country—the Red Clay Strays. Brandon ...

Encore: Fawn Weaver’s Whiskey Rebellion

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Since 2016, Fawn Weaver has been obsessed with uncovering the true story of Nearest Green, a former slave who helped teach Jack Daniel the complicated...

Encore: Cody Johnson Is As Texas As They Come

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode Description: Cody Johnson was born and raised in a little place called Sebastopol, Texas, about a half hour northeast of Huntsville. It was th...

Encore: Grace Bowers May Be 18, But She’s an Old Soul

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Grace Bowers grew up in Northern California, but when she was not quite 15 years old, her parents decided to move the family to Nashville for better s...

Brenda Lee Is Still Rockin’

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brenda Lee spent the early years of her life in Georgia, and though her family didn’t have a lot of money, they always made sure she had batteries t...

Jessica Harris Believes in a Welcome Table

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jessica B. Harris may have been born and raised in New York City, but she has Tennessee roots through her father and has spent much of her life split ...

Craig Conover’s Southern Charm

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Craig Conover is one of the longest running stars of Bravo’s reality show, Southern Charm, which means audiences have been following his roller-coas...

Encore: The Rise of Scotty McCreery

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scotty McCreery burst onto the country music scene when he became the youngest male singer to ever win American Idol back in 2011, when he was just 17...

Evie McGee-Colbert’s Very Funny Cookbook

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Evie McGee-Colbert grew up in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, the daughter of a true Southern hostess and a father who would take her to her danc...

The Biscuits & Jam Holiday Special

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, Sid Evans, Editor-in-Chief of Southern Living, revisits some of his favorite conversations from Season 5 - many of which hav...

Cody Johnson Is As Texas As They Come

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cody Johnson was born and raised in a little place called Sebastopol, Texas, about a half hour northeast of Huntsville. It was the kind of small commu...

Toni Tipton-Martin Is America’s Culinary Detective

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Growing up in Los Angeles, Toni Tipton-Martin lived for a time with her Southern-born grandmother who happened to be a professional chef, and who expo...

Lucy Buffett on the Power of Gumbo

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lucy Buffett grew up as the kid sister of Jimmy Buffett in a working class neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama. A self-proclaimed gypsy rebel, she had ple...

Encore: Bethany Joy Lenz Has Stories to Tell

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bethany Joy Lenz was born in Florida and grew up in Texas, which is where she first got involved in the performing arts, carrying on a tradition she i...

Grace Bowers May Be 18, But She’s an Old Soul

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Grace Bowers grew up in Northern California, but when she was not quite 15 years old, her parents decided to move the family to Nashville for better s...

Leanne Morgan May Be the World’s Funniest Grandma

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Leanne Morgan was raised in Adams, Tennessee, a little farming community not far from the Kentucky border. Her parents ran a small grocery store, and ...

Kelsey Barnard Clark’s Magic Recipe

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kelsey Barnard Clark was raised in Dothan, Alabama, which is a short drive from the Gulf Coast. But it wasn’t until she spent several years living i...

Jess Pryles Is Playing with Fire

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jess Pryles was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, but her fascination with the American South eventually led her to Austin, Texas, where she’...

Mitchell Tenpenny Wants to Make His Family Proud

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mitchell Tenpenny basically grew up in the music business, with a grandmother who was the CEO of Sony Publishing and a mother who advocated for songwr...

The Red Clay Strays Were Made for This Moment

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sid talks to a couple of guys from Alabama who are founding members of one of the hottest young bands in the country—the Red Clay Strays. Brandon Co...

Anne Byrn’s Baking Masterpiece

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anne Byrn was born and raised in Nashville and, though she calls Tennessee home, her career has taken her all across the South as she’s written abou...

John T Edge’s Search for the True South

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John T Edge grew up in Clinton, Georgia, raised in a Confederate general’s house that introduced him early on to the complicated legacy of the South...

Hayes Carll Has a Story for You

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Texas troubadour Hayes Carll was born in Houston and raised in the Woodlands, a famous planned community that was much smaller back then, surrounded b...

The Blind Boys of Alabama’s Ricky McKinnie

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ricky McKinnie, the leader of the Blind Boys of Alabama, was born and raised in Atlanta, where he got his start singing in the church alongside his mo...

Fawn Weaver’s Whiskey Rebellion

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since 2016, Fawn Weaver has been obsessed with uncovering the true story of Nearest Green, a former slave who helped teach Jack Daniel the complicated...

Encore: Wynonna Judd Will Never Stop Singing

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Wynonna Judd was one half of one of the most famous duos in country music history, and she’s also been plenty successful out on her own. She was las...

Brian Kelley Speaks His Truth

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Kelley was born and raised in Ormond Beach, Florida, just North of Daytona. At one point, he thought he might have a baseball career ahead of hi...

Ashley Christensen’s Pride of Place

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ashley Christensen is a two-time James Beard Award winning chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author from Raleigh, North Carolina, who has a way of taki...

Encore: Jennifer Nettles Loves a Farmer

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer Nettles was born and raised in rural South Georgia, where she got very involved in 4-H as a kid, a relationship that’s still a big part of ...

Tyler Florence Is Heating Up the Grill

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tyler Florence is a Southern chef and Food Network star who, after 16 previous cookbooks, is finally releasing one that focuses on his passion for gri...

The Indigo Girls Are Full of Gratitude

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since 1985, Emily Sailers and Amy Ray have been known as the Indigo Girls, and they’ve never once stopped making music or sharing their message of a...

Kimberly Schlapman Loves a Whiskey Song

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kimberly Schlapman, a founding member of the band Little Big Town, has been a musician almost all her life. As a little girl she played piano alongsid...

Brian Baumgartner Is Probably Smoking Something

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Baumgartner may be best known to many people, across at least a couple of generations, as Kevin from The Office, but there’s much more to the ...

Darius Rucker’s Wild Ride

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Darius Rucker gained fame in 1994 when David Letterman heard his band, Hootie and the Blowfish, on a local radio station and insisted they play The La...

Pat Martin Is Fired Up About Barbecue

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pat Martin probably knows as much about whole hog barbecue as anyone in the world. Best known for his eponymous restaurant chain, Martin’s Bar-B-Que...

The Rise of Scotty McCreery

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scotty McCreery burst onto the country music scene when he became the youngest male singer to ever win American Idol back in 2011, when he was just 17...

Craig Melvin Is a Proud Dad

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

TODAY Show co-host Craig Melvin has put a lot of thought into what it takes to be both a father and a son. His 2021 memoir, Pops: Learning to Be a Son...

Encore: Lauren Daigle’s Cajun Soul

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sid Evans, Editor-in-Chief of Southern Living Magazine, chats with Lauren Daigle, a musician who began her career as a Christian artist, but who’s m...

The Castellows’ Family Traditions

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Castellows are three sisters—Eleanor, Lily, and Powell Balkcom—who started sharing their music on Instagram just a couple of years ago, and no...

Tyler Hubbard Is Trying to Be Strong

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tyler Hubbard was born and raised in Monroe, Georgia, where he grew up working in the garden with his family, competing in motocross races, and playin...

Emmy Russell Finds Her Voice

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Emmy Russell was born in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, and grew up touring and performing with her grandmother, Loretta Lynn, as well as her mother, Pat...

Jennifer Nettles Loves a Farmer

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer Nettles was born and raised in rural South Georgia, where she got very involved in 4-H as a kid, a relationship that’s still a big part of ...

Cedric Burnside Is Redefining the Blues

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cedric Burnside is the grandson of the famous bluesman R.L. Burnside, and he’s also a Grammy-winning artist who’s taking the genre into new territ...

Devon Allman’s Rock n Roll Story

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Devon Allman grew up in Texas and Missouri, and didn’t meet his father, Gregg Allman, until he was a teenager. A simple letter brought the two of th...

Encore: Camila Alves McConaughey’s Texas Spirit

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Camila Alves McConaughey may be best known for her connection to her famous husband, Matthew, but she has a career and a fan base of her own. After gr...

Charles Esten’s Long Road to Nashville

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Charles Esten was born in Pennsylvania, but moved to Virginia with his mother and his sister after his parents divorced. After college, he played Budd...

Brittney Spencer Just Wants a Night In

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nashville-based country star Brittney Spencer talks about her deep respect for The Chicks, her admiration for the trailblazing country artist Mickey G...

José Andrés on the Healing Power of Food

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

José Andrés was born and raised in Spain and has brought his love of Spanish cuisine to successful restaurants in New York City and Washington DC. W...

Season 5 of Biscuits & Jam Launches February 20th, 2024!

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Southern Living is excited to announce the launch of Season 5 of Biscuits & Jam on February 20th, 2024 with chef José Andrés. Since 2020, Sid Evans...

Encore: Dennis Quaid’s Gospel Truth

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Before he starred in Breaking Away or The Big Easy, Dennis Quaid was a kid from Houston, Texas, who grew up loving Elvis Presley and wanting to play r...

Encore: Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akins Are Superfans (and Rivals)

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Country star Thomas Rhett grew up in Valdosta, Georgia, with a father and grandfather who primed him to be a Bulldogs superfan. Meanwhile, his wife, L...

Encore: Hoda Kotb Is a Southerner

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, Sid Evans, Editor-in-Chief of Southern Living Magazine, chats with Hoda Kotb, one of the anchors of ‘The Today Show’ on NBC and a...

Encore: Ruston Kelly Shares His Weakness

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, Sid Evans, Editor-in-Chief of Southern Living Magazine, chats with Ruston Kelly,  a singer-songwriter with a remarkable talent for c...

A Biscuits & Jam Holiday Special

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, Sid Evans, Editor-in-Chief of Southern Living Magazine, revisits some of his favorite conversations about the holidays from Season 4....

Emeril and EJ Lagasse Are Ready to Serve

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Back in 1982, Emeril Lagasse famously took over from Paul Prudhomme as executive chef at Commander’s Palace in New Orleans, and after an incredible ...

Brent Cobb's Tribute to a Lost Friend

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Brent Cobb grew up in Ellaville, Georgia, where he was encouraged by his parents – especially his songwriting father – to pick up a guitar. Follow...

Bethany Joy Lenz Has Stories to Tell

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bethany Joy Lenz was born in Florida and grew up in Texas, which is where she first got involved in the performing arts, carrying on a tradition she i...