
John T. Edge travels around the region, introducing viewers to Southern tastemakers, food, culture and history.

Pablo Rivadeneyra rotisserie cooks lime-marinated chicken; Larry and Betty Jean Scott work a smoke-belching pit at Scott's BBQ; in these two places, we get a glimpse of the hard work that defines life in the South.

Sands, the soul food café, cooks oxtails and cabbage and ropy okra; Arnold's Country Kitchen, Kahlil Arnold dishes created corn, hashed turnip greens, and fried green tomatoes; the differences between black and white cooking come into focus.

Herby K's is a 1936 vintage beer garden and fry house; Lucky Palace serves wok-fried t-bones and pork egg foo young; both of these restaurants are survivors, like Shreveport itself.

If you're a local of New Orleans, you might recognize West African borrowings in music and food but Italian New Orleans has been largely forgotten.