CLARIFIED BUTTER
The show about meals, memories and milk fats.
Clarified Butter is a show about people...and people gotta eat. Hosts Amy Allen & Whitney Jewett trade stories from all walks of life talking family recipes, communal meals and those dishes they only seem to make when no one else is around. It's about food traditions-- the ones we are born into and the ones we make for ourselves.
Seasons One and Two feature longform interviews with special guests. Season Three-- starting June 2018!-- welcomes a new cohost for a new conversation format! Join us!
SEASON 3
Break out the ice-cream and cake, it's time to dig into birthday celebrations!
Pack your bags and write your mom a postcard because it's time for summer camp!
Soups, tonics, cures for you tum-tum. Join hosts Amy and Whitney as they share their go-to comfort foods and worst (most hilarious) sick day stories.
It's always greener in someone else's kitchen. Whitney and Amy talk what it's like to snack and treat at friends' houses.
Introducing Whitney Jewett, our new cohost!
SEASON 2
SEASON 1
ABOUT AMY ALLEN
"Food is Amy's window to the world," or so said the professor who introduced her Senior poetry reading in college. It was an apt way to frame a chapbook inspired by food; it's also Amy's favorite compliment she's ever received.
Amy was born and raised in Greensboro, NC where her family's roots run deep. Her father is a public defender; her mother, a hospital administrator; her brother, a physical therapist. Amy, meanwhile, fights for humanity with storytelling. She holds a B.A. in American Studies from the University of North Carolina, with minors in Folklore and Creative Writing. She performs improv around the triangle with teams Hush Hush, Lakehouse, Baehive, and The Core and teaches for Mettlesome. In her spare time, she makes prints, quilts, and thinks too often about learning to make goat cheese.
She loves her dog Ralphie.
ABOUT WHITNEY JEWETT
Whitney Jewett is a damn Yankee. A New England native, she grew up in lovely Littleton, NH and spent most weekends across the Connecticut River at her step dad, Steve's house in St. Johnsbury, VT. She now resides in beautiful Carrboro, NC with her partner, Alan and their quirky garden.
Whitney returns home to the White Mountains every summer to direct at Windsock Theatre Camp, where she was a camper. She received her B.A. in Global Studies from Lesley College in Cambridge, MA, with minors in Sociology and Women's Studies.
Whitney loves diners, antiquing, and syrup.
CREDITS
Hosts: Amy Allen (Seasons 1-3) & Whitney Jewett (Season 3)
Producers: Ashley Melzer (Season 1-3) & Jess Bowers (Season 3)
Music: (Season 3) "Popsicle Styx" by Ashley Melzer
(Season 1-2) "Wildwood Flower" by the The Carter Family adapted by Ashley Melzer
Technical Support (Season 1-2) : Brian Sutorius
Additional Audio Production on Season 1, Episodes 1 & 2: Nick Vandenberg
WE RELISH
Some of our favorite food resources.
- The Hungry Ear, editor Kevin Young - Wonderful anthology of food poetry.
- Gravy, Southern Foodways Alliance - A great quarterly & podcast from the Southern Foodways Alliance
- Nothing in the House - Need to make a pie? This blog can help.
- Cake Wrecks - Hilarious.
- Smitten Kitchen - Delicious, beautiful and mostly doable.
- The Great British Baking Show - Sponge and Jam!