NPR: Hidden Kitchens Podcast

A journey to kitchens hidden behind bars — that come and go with the Angola Prison Rodeo at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Each April and again in October the public is invited in to this maximum security prison to watch convicts ride wild horses and bulldog steers, before an arena full of thousands. Alongside this convict spectacle, dozens of inmate organizations sell down home southern food.

This episode of Hidden Kitchens stretches back some 3,000 years, from San Francisco, to India, to Persia. Niloufer Ichaporia King, author of My Bombay Kitchen, brings us into the ancient and disappearing world of Parsi cooking.

Hercules, a slave of George Washington, and James Hemings, owned by Thomas Jefferson, began a long connection of presidents and their African-American cooks. And President Lyndon Johnson's black cook may have influenced his work on civil rights reform.

Hercules, a slave of George Washington, and James Hemings, owned by Thomas Jefferson, began a long connection of presidents and their African-American cooks. And President Lyndon Johnson's black cook may have influenced his work on civil rights reform.

Hercules, a slave of George Washington, and James Hemings, owned by Thomas Jefferson, began a long connection of presidents and their African-American cooks. And President Lyndon Johnson's black cook may have influenced his work on civil rights reform.

Lebanese immigrants began arriving in the Mississippi Delta in the 1870s, working as peddlers, then grocers and restaurateurs. In this episode of Hidden Kitchens we go to Clarksdale where BBQ, the blues and a kind of Lebanese meat loaf meet -- at the legendary intersection of the Highways 61 and 49, where bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil.

Lebanese immigrants began arriving in the Mississippi Delta in the 1870s, working as peddlers, then grocers and restaurateurs. In this episode of Hidden Kitchens we go to Clarksdale where BBQ, the blues and a kind of Lebanese meat loaf meet -- at the legendary intersection of the Highways 61 and 49, where bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil.

In the 1970s, C.B. Stubblefield's BBQ joint and roadhouse in Lubbock, Texas became a gathering spot for an emerging Texas music scene --Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, Jesse Taylor, Terry Allen and many Texas greats played there regularly lured in by Stubb's great BBQ and beautiful nature. C.B Stubblefield, a former army cook in the last all Black regiment of the Korean War, generously fed and supported both black and white musicians, creating an atmosphere of community and breaking ...more

In the 1970s, C.B. Stubblefield's BBQ joint and roadhouse in Lubbock, Texas became a gathering spot for an emerging Texas music scene Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, Jesse Taylor, Terry Allen and many Texas greats played there regularly lured in by Stubb's great BBQ and beautiful nature. C.B Stubblefield, a former army cook in the last all Black regiment of the Korean War, generously fed and supported both black and white musicians, creating an atmosphere of community and breaking barriers in ...more

In the 1970s, C.B. Stubblefield's BBQ joint and roadhouse in Lubbock, Texas became a gathering spot for an emerging Texas music scene --Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, Jesse Taylor, Terry Allen and many Texas greats played there regularly lured in by Stubb's great BBQ and beautiful nature. C.B Stubblefield, a former army cook in the last all Black regiment of the Korean War, generously fed and supported both black and white musicians, creating an atmosphere of community and breaking ...more