Culture & Flavor

Founder, The Soulful Company Restaurant Group: Lake & Oak Neighborhood BBQ and the upcoming Soul: Food & Culture. Author of SOUL: A Chef’s Culinary Evolution in 150 Recipes. Chef Todd Richards is an award-winning chef known for his contemporary cooking style rooted in Soul & Southern cuisines. A native of Chicago, and based in Atlanta since the early 1990s, Richards is a self-taught ch...

Madame Barbara Trevigne, a native of New Orleans and descendant of Paul Trevigne, best known as the editor of L'Union, a bilingual black owned newspaper in New Orleans during slavery and reconstruction.  Madame Barbara Trevigne received her Master’s in Social Science from Tulane University School of Social Work, a New Orleans Tour Guide and foremost historian on the life of Marie Laveau. Trevigne...

Meet Ma'at Zachary, an award-winning Media Executive and Content Strategist, who is a true leader with a heart of gold. Ma'at was the creative architect on many high-impact campaigns for some of the biggest names in the industry, Chevy, Cadillac, MasterCard and a current project HBCU Tailgate Throwdown. Ma'at's story begins as an HBCU alumna trained as a mechanical engineer who was determined to b...

Our guest today is Ryan Mitchell, son of BBQ hall-of-famer Ed Mitchell from Wilson, North Carolina. Ryan serves as the business-savvy brain behind his father’s brand. At a very young age, Ryan began working in the Mitchell family restaurant. Although BBQ was the only way of life he knew, Ryan pictured a different path for this career: After high school, Ryan charted his own course and attended Eas...

Our guest today is Ms. Linda Green, a New Orleans culinary icon known as the Yakamein Lady. If you haven't had it, Yakamein is a classic New Orleans peppery beef noodle soup. Ms. Green, a former lunch lady for Orleans Parish Schools, took her mother and grandmother’s yakamein recipe and turned it into a generational business. Culture & Flavor is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at ht...

Coming soon from HRN, Culture & Flavor is a podcast about food and culture centered in Black & Indigenous foodways. Hosted by Zella Palmer, Director and Chair of the Dillard University Ray Charles Program in African American Material Culture in New Orleans, Louisiana. Each episode features high vibrational conversations with cultural bearers, chefs, farmers, scholars, bbq pitmasters and mo...