Eric Veney from Muriel's called in as our chef helper in the Ask The Chef segment. The Vintage Tom was Etienne's in Metairie, and we talked about The Poorboy Passport and other special things on our website. And we tried to get fascinating calls so someone can win a case of Creole tomatoes and another one of Creole Tomato salad dressing from Cousins Salad dressings.

We had no idea how much we didn't know about pork rinds. Mark Singleton from Southern Recipe Pork Rinds gave us an education. And Nicole Dorignac called in to guide us through the perils of shopping in this bizarre new world. 

No Guests today. We talked about cabrito and port wine sauce and what constitutes gourmet and non-gourmet food.

Debbie Pierce from the late great restaurant, The Bon Ton calls in to reminisce, and to give us the recipe for the famous Alvin sauce.

The topics were all over the map. Automats, roux, Waring Blender, Bart's.

It was a guest-free show. We talked donuts and alfresco dining, on a most-unusual day to talk about eating outside. 

Chef Matt England and owner John White from the Louisiana Pepper Exchange call in to talk capsaicin.

Plaquemines Parish farmer Ben Becnel calls in to talk about the Creole tomato harvest.  And Jay Vise with Second Harvest tells us about he PoorBoy Passport.

A fun show today with Andrea Ballard from Olympia Washington, who has a podcast on baking. And we reunited with Gregory, a caller from the old show who just found us.

Eric Cook from Gris Gris dazzles us with tales of his career.