TrueSouth - Season 7

TrueSouth - Season 7

Season 7

Season seven began August 27 in Oklahoma City, Okla., exploring the oil and cattle work that puts money in pockets and ribeyes on tables at Cattlemen's Steakhouse and Junior's Supper Club. Episodes premiere every other Tuesday, ending Nov. 19. Up next, we drive the Upstate of South Carolina to eat chilidogs with short story writer George Singleton. In coming episodes, dive into coal mining and its legacies in Jasper, Ala., travel southwestern Little Rock, Ark., to eat chicken al carbon, and close the season with our annual behind the scenes road trip. 

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DatesAug 27, 2024 - Nov 19, 2024
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Oklahoma City
Season 7Episode 130 min

Oklahoma City

Season 7 kicks off in Oklahoma City, exploring the oil and cattle work that puts money in pockets and ribeyes on tables. Cattlemen's Steakhouse, open since 1910, sits hard by the Oklahoma National Stockyards. Junior's Supper Club, owned by the Shumsky family, does business at the bottom of mid-rise, where the light is always low and every hour is happy hour.
Aug 27, 2024
Austin, TX
Season 7Episode 230 min

Austin, TX

Rudy Cisneros still looms large on the east side of Austin, TX, a city within this rapidly-changing city. At Cisco's, open since 1950, the migas and huevos rancheros are good as ever. Also on the east side, we track Kareem El-Ghayesh of KG BBQ, a new arrival from Cairo, Egypt, who has learned to two-step and introduced Texas to pomegranate-speckled ribs.
Sep 10, 2024
Lexington, TN
Season 7Episode 330 min

Lexington, TN

TrueSouth explores the Whole Hog Triangle of Tennessee, where the old ways of cooking barbecue endure and two families work together to secure a future for this remnant of our rural past. Defined by Lexington to the west, Parsons to the east, and Jacks Creek to the south, the triangle is set below I-40, east of Jackson.

Sep 24, 2024
Little Rock, AR
Season 7Episode 430 min

Little Rock, AR

Narvaez welcomes the crew into his world, which revolves around Baseline Road, the Camino Real of Little Rock. He and his brother Raul Narvaez own four business in town, including El Super Pollo, a western wear store and two grocery stores. Cooks at El Super Pollo work beneath a tent, in front of the western wear store, turning out whole chickens, kissed by flames and brightened by a spice mix that carries flavor all the way to the bone and gives the birds a neon-orange color.

Oct 8, 2024
Jasper
Season 7Episode 530 min

Jasper

Johnson works downstate in Mobile, Ala. as a writer and teacher. His next novel, tentatively titled Lou, was inspired by recent research: sorting through old family photos, listening to old family stories, asking new questions. When Caleb was a boy, Ronnie shielded his son from talk of the mines. For this episode, Caleb and Ronnie sat down to talk about that work, what it made possible for their family and the price they paid across generations.

Justice Evans grew up in his father's welding shop on the edge of Jasper and the coal mines drove that business. Justice followed his father, Howard Evans, into said business. He also followed his father onto the track. His father raced a stock car at the nearby Sayre Speedway and by second grade, Justice was racing a souped-up go-cart. Now, he races his father's old Monte Carlo.

Oct 22, 2024
Upstate, SC
Season 7Episode 630 min

Upstate, SC

Singleton grew up in Greenwood, S.C. and now lives on the outskirts of Spartanburg with his partner Glenda Guion, a ceramicist. They make their living as artists, working in side-by-side backyard sheds, accompanied by their dog, Cleo.

Two restaurants anchor this story. Both serve chili-slaw dogs, born of the days when cotton mills were the primary employers here. Singleton's stories, which are sometimes sad and always funny, focus on what happened after the mills closed and people had to figure out new jobs and new ways to feed their families. Both spots make their own chili and slaw and serve dogs that are worth detours:

Holmes Hot Dogs – On the edge of Spartanburg, S.C., Holmes Hot Dogs is owned by Kyle "Cowboy" Childers.

Saxon's Hot Dogs – Set in a gravel lot in Abbeville, S.C., Saxon's Hot Dogs is run by Sue Beasley.

Nov 5, 2024
Behind-the-Scenes
Season 7Episode 730 min

Behind-the-Scenes

The seventh season of Emmy Award-winning TrueSouth Presented by YellaWood wraps up with the crew's annual behind-the-scenes episode – showcasing the 1,000-plus mile road trip across the SEC footprint, beginning in Oklahoma City, Okla. and ending in Spartanburg, S.C.

Traveling, the crew talked about what it means to live and work in the South and marked changes in TrueSouth restaurants they've come to know and love: Helen Turner (season three) of Brownsville, Tenn., the hardest working woman in barbecue, a veteran of four decades in the pits, put down her cleaver back in August. Hunter Evans (season five) from Elvie's in Jackson, Miss., renovated the Mayflower, the beloved Greek seafood restaurant downtown. We lost Carol McKinney (season four) of the Iowa Buffet in St. Louis this year. Ask the crew to name their favorite bar and no one will agree. Ask them to name their favorite barkeep, though, and it's unanimous.

Nov 19, 2024

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