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To write a cookbook, a good author will go to great lengths to perfect a recipe or understand a cuisine. On this week's show, we meet four food writers who are driven by a deep culinary curiosity. You may know Melissa Clark from her weekly column in the New York Times food section or from one of her 45-odd published cookbooks. Melissa joins us, as does Vicky Bennison, the creator of the YouTube sensation, Pasta Grannies.

On this Continuum you'll hear a special program devoted to the art of the recorder in early music presented by the legendary short-lived David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London.

Dr. Michael White is the beloved New Orleans clarinetist leading the Original Liberty Jazz Band. He's also a composer, musicologist, jazz historian, and professor at Xavier University. He's a leading authority and culture bearer of traditional jazz. He's performed globally, is heard on over 50 recordings, received the NEA National Heritage Fellowship. Although Michael has ancestors in traditional jazz, he started in classical music. He later joined the famed St. Augustine High School Marching 100, but it wasn't until his late teens that Michael first heard New Orleans jazz played live at the Jazz and Heritage Festival. He went on to play with Ernest “Doc” Paulin’s brass band, 1975, at a church parade, and in social club parades and jazz funerals. Then, with Danny Barker's Fairview Baptist Church marching band. He later worked with the Young Tuxedo Brass to Wynton Marsalis's band, among many. We'll hear some of that music and more from Dr. Michael White and the Original Liberty Jazz Band.

On this week’s edition of Le Show Harry brings us News of NiceCorps, News of Crypto-Winter, News from the Land of Thousands of Princes, News of Inspector’s General, News of Microplastics, News of the Olympic Movement, News of the Atom, The Apologies of the Week, great music and more.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we learn about Blight Month in Baton Rouge and hear how rising mental health concerns can be addressed both by the legal system and the community. Plus, we get more insight into the history and purpose of the oldest-known man-made structure in the Americas, the LSU mounds.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we get a behind-the-scenes look at the second season of NPR’s ‘White Lies’ podcast. We also learn how some New Orleans businesses are still facing challenges this carnival season, and we say goodbye to two of our reporters.

On this week's show, we continue our exploration of all things king cake. Throughout Carnival season, local bakers are hard at work creating their own spin on the treat – one that can make or break their year. When Steve Himelfarb and his wife Becky Retz opened Cake Café, they set out to develop their own signature cake – a delicious combo of apple and goat cheese that has outlasted the bakery itself. We catch up with Steve at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) where his king cake has become an annual fundraising tradition. Then, we conclude our two-part conversation with Matt Haines, author of "The Big Book of King Cake" – a definitive king cake bible. We explore the countless varieties of king cakes from across the state and the bakers behind each innovation.

On this week’s edition of Le Show Harry brings us What the Frack?!, News of the Godly, News of Crypto-Winter, News of NiceCorps, and The Apologies of the Week. We also get to listen into Donald Trump’s phone calls and hear why Harry has split News of Smart World into a specialized Elon Musk edition.

Today on Louisiana Considered, it’s a show all about libraries. We learn how New Orleans Public Libraries are celebrating Black History Month through youth programs and digital offerings. Plus, we get an update on censorship after Attorney General Jeff Landry released his “Protecting Innocence” report.

Aurora Nealand was recently praised as one of the top ten soprano saxophonists in America by Downbeat Magazine. She grew up in an eccentric family on the California coast and then Colorado, listening to Stravinsky, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Joan Baez and the Pixies. Her mom was a gardener who played classical piano, her dad an archivist who went to rock band practice between jobs. She received musical training at Oberlin College and Jacques Lecoq School of Physical Theatre in Paris, all before embarking on a bike trip across the US to chronicle the dreams of rural America. In 2004 Aurora ended up in New Orleans, where she learned to play traditional jazz in the streets. Now she leads her band, the Royal Roses, and sometimes has the persona of Rory Danger. Aurora attributes the interest in a broad range of styles to her travels and nontraditional upbringing.