Culture & Flavor

Author: Heritage Radio Network

Coming soon from HRN, Culture & Flavor is a podcast about food and culture centered in Black & Indigenous foodways. Hosted by Zella Palmer, Director and Chair of the Dillard University Ray Charles Program in African American Material Culture in New Orleans, Louisiana. Each episode features high vibrational conversations with cultural bearers, chefs, farmers, scholars, bbq pitmasters and more - where there is flavor, there is history - Join Zella Palmer and her guests as they share stories that will have you praise dancing, cooking, conjuring and inspiring your culinary journey.
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Kaitlin Guerin | Lagniappe Bakehouse
Episode 55
Sunday, 3 August, 2025

On this episode of Culture & Flavor, Zella talks with Kaitlin Guerin, a New Orleans-based Pastry Chef and Baker with an artistic dance background and an affinity for creativity and science. After attending the pastry program at The Culinary Institute of America and working in Michelin-star kitchens in Denmark and California, Guerin returned home to New Orleans just before the pandemic to ground herself and be closer to family. She began her pastry pop-up, Lagniappe Baking, during the pandemic, selling exquisite yet nostalgic pastry boxes that celebrate and reconnect the Black foodways of the South through local, seasonal ingredients. This concept has followed her through the opening of Lagniappe Bakehouse, the Central City bakery and cafe that she and her life and business partner, Lino Asana, opening in September 2024. Lagniappe is a term used in Louisiana to mean “a little something extra.” Guerin was named one of Louisiana Cookin’ magazine’s “Chefs to Watch” in 2021, won the 2022 StarChefs Rising Stars Pastry Chef award, and is a member of Les Dames d'Escoffier New Orleans chapter. She is a 2025 James Beard Award nominee for Emerging Chef. Since opening, the Bakehouse has received Eater New Orleans’ 2024 “Best New Bakery” award, was featured in Vogue and CondéNast Traveler, and was listed in New York Times’ 2024 “Best Bakeries Across the US Right Now.”See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.