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Quick Bites: Johnette Downing, Louisiana’s Pied Piper

Children in Louisiana grow up with so many local traditions that schools could practically add an extra class to cover all of them! Luckily, songwriter Johnette Downing is around to set these traditional stories to music. Johnette’s award-winning books and songs have earned her many nicknames, from “the pied piper of Louisiana music traditions” to “the musical ambassador to children.” 

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Accidental Ecstatic Hypoventilation – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

This is probably not quite how Kate Becker intended her serious practice of healing and self-development through breath-work to be interpreted, but did you know you can get high AF from breathing? Breath-work is cheaper than drugs and the effects of happiness linger on and reverberate through your life long after the high is gone….

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Happy Birthday, Leah Chase

Join us this week as we celebrate the 96th birthday of a New Orleans icon, our dear friend, Leah Chase. We’ll spend the hour honoring Leah’s talent and achievements as the undisputed Queen of Creole Cooking.

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In Memorium 2018: Culinary Legends Lost

On this week’s show, we look back on the lives of some extraordinary people we lost in 2018. We begin by revisiting our 2011 conversation with the late, great Anthony Bourdain. We had the opportunity to speak with Anthony after he was hired as a scriptwriter for the HBO series, Treme. Seven years later, we were absolutely…

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