From a young age Nico had a head in the cupboard and an eye over the shoulder of his grandmother learning about the depth of flavour and the variety of spice in Caribbean cooking and soul food. Bringing this knowledge to Latin America, he ran a catered event company and a small restaurant in Buenos Aires for 6 years. Combing the depth of the flavours & aromas from the Caribbean with south American zests, the menus began to take more influences from Peru, Colombia, Argentina and Mexico....

Lino Yerima Asana is a Cameroonian American filmmaker currently living in New Orleans. His films often explore and celebrate themes of black dynamism, identity, and transnationalism. Some of his films and videos have been featured by Okay Africa, Bitter Southerner, Nowness, and Indiewire and screened at several film festivals. In addition to developing his first feature film, "The Parking Lot Attendant" (An SFFILM Rainin 2022 Screenwriting Grant Finalist), Asana is currently in...

I was lucky enough to meet Gustavo Bottino and his wife at last year's Churrascada Barbecue festival in São Paulo, Brazil. Gustavo is the co-founder and curator of the festival, as well as the co-founder and creative director of Soil Vegan Cafe in Amsterdam. We talk about his journey opening an animal-free cafe, how he curates the indigenous and visiting barbecue specialists for each year's festival, and much more.

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 chef and two-time semifinalist for James Beard Foundation Awards - Best Chef: Southeast. On today's...

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 was honored by Alliance Française for preservation of Creole culture. She has collaborated and...

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 become a storyteller. Passionate about culture, spirituality, history, technology, fashion and...

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 East Carolina University to pursue his dreams of playing college football and earning a degree in...

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.

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 more - where there is flavor, there is history - Join Zella Palmer and her guests as they share...