We travel through the eyes, memories, stories & discoveries of a New Orleans native,a historian, founder & president of Southern Food & Beverage Museum ( www.sofabinstitute.org ), Liz Williams. The heir to two culinary legacies - Sicilian and Southern (Cajun- country cooking).

We talk about Artichokes, Offal, Angel Food Cakes, beloved grandparents and Parakeets...of moving tributes to the memories of her elders and ancestors, their living histories and culinary legacies.

And..true well-being and a sustainable life from reviving southern traditions of using every bit of plants and animals for food, gratefully and reverentially.

Welcome to an exquisite, soul-provoking exposition, stories and wisdom by award winning chef-native historian-culinary anthropologist, Dr. Lois Ellen Frank.

Stories of Chilies. Sacred Corn. The Sisters. Seeds-the Memory Keepers. Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) Wisdom for a Sustainable earth

Reviving healing foods, indigenous traditions and restoring health with ancient science and wisdom.

Doing old things in new ways at www.redmesacuisine.com

We are hungry for more...

Today our spotlight is on Mi’kmaq First Nation and their practices. Old Medicine, ceremonies, matters and practices dear to their heart. Of Cedar boughs & baths. Of Bread and Bear Grease. Both lighthearted and heartfelt.

Our Guest:

Teresa Edwards, BA,JD - A Mi'kmaq First Nation woman. A Barrister-at-Law. A Human rights activist - a woman who has grown up in her culture and traditions and speaking some of her language. (Hear her welcome and introduction in their language)

An Inspired Palette - A call to adventure. Creating a cuisine of your own...an expression and experience of Vitality, Celebration and Connection.

Exploring origins and connecting threads of cuisines, spotlight on a beloved, comforting, ancient and now ordinary food - The noodle. Redefining a meal... honoring traditions...a tiny question...what is your rhythm? And how is it woven into a cuisine of your own...

An Inspired Palette - Cuisines, Celebrations & Cures; Rhythms, Rituals & Traditions.

A newer way, exploring cuisine as healing and celebration; Vitality through delight, discovery and adventure. Common threads, uncommon ways.

A kaleidoscope - unifying foods and flavors, distinct and unique styles and cuisines.

Flying over the World Atlas of Scents, Flavors, Clusters of Cuisines; Celebrating Spring Equinox, Nowruz and a banquet of sacred symbolic foods, doing old things in new ways and new things in old ways.

Searching for Stories of and in Cuisine - the memory keeper and the most tensile thread in every cultural tapestry,

We unfold our maps to chart our trails for 2014, marking clusters, cradles and connecting threads around the world.

Our route in 2014, Americas - Spotlight on the American South, Creolization, First Nations/Natives and brilliant synthesis today. Weaving our way through "The Banana Leaf" , "Silk Routes", "The Jewish Diaspora", "The Ways We Wed" and other "Delightful Interjections", features, and adventures from our "Underground Club"

In this show, we explore the current trends that draw us back, retracing our culinary steps and the surprising story of our meals, especially birth and evolution of breakfast.

Salute to Cereal Grains, its history and culinary evolution on National Cereal Day!

Spotlight - Burmese Breakfast, an all day food and a national dish, plus their other breakfast - street foods, peasant foods and hardy poor man's breakfast - a healthy, imitable fare, both mysteriously exotic and comfortingly familiar.

And an adventure sheet for this weekend.

An Exploration of "Food as a Memory Keeper", a deeper context of comfort foods, exploring unusual, unexpected comfort foods of strangers and familiar. History of a few of well-celebrated comforts. Spotlight on Conjee (Kanji, Jook, Porridge, Gruel) as the most unexpected, unfashionable but one with 3000 odd years of popularity.

Exploring Mayans and their Magic Beans. Cassanova's Cuisine. Trailing on the heels of Marco Polo. Alluring Scents, Aphrodisiac Cuisines and Sacred Celebrations. 11 Foods of Love for 2014 - Extraordinary Ways of Ordinary Things