The series comes full circle with a look at our original food, the cuisine of ‘Turtle Island.’ We speak with chefs and Indigenous food experts like Lois Ellen Frank.
Victoria Flexner and Colleen DeBaise
Posts by Victoria Flexner and Colleen DeBaise
Seasoned: Culinary Pioneers – Elena Zelayeta
She elevated Mexican cuisine in America, and later enjoyed success as a cookbook author and TV host despite a disability that once plunged her into despair.
Seasoned: Women Culinary Pioneers – Edna Lewis
This celebrated Virginia chef introduced the farm-to-table movement and showed the rest of the country the fresh flavors of Southern cuisine.
Trailer for ‘Seasoned’ Podcast on Women Who Defined American Food Culture
Listen to the trailer for the 6-part podast series Seasoned on women culinary pioneers who taught us how to eat, cook and think about food.
Seasoned: Women Culinary Pioneers – Lena Richard
Down in the Big Easy, a Creole chef experiments with bold flavors and becomes one of the first multihyphenate food personalities, even as her life is cut short.
Seasoned: Women Culinary Pioneers – Cecilia Chiang
In San Francisco, an immigrant restaurateur brings authentic Chinese cuisine to the U.S. via The Mandarin. It’s a love letter to her childhood in China, pre-Communist Revolution.
Seasoned: Culinary Pioneers – MFK Fisher
Our 6-episode podcast kicks off with the California writer who invented the food memoir. Long before Anthony Bourdain, there was a woman who taught us how to enjoy food, drink and life.
100 Years of Power, Part 2: Slow Burn of Progress
From Eleanor Roosevelt to Shirley Chisholm, women begin to win control over their lives and bodies. With historians Susan Ware and Gina Luria Walker and advocate Nell Merlino.