Season 5 with Celebrity Chef Art Smith | and another NY Times Best Seller!

Is this REALLY Season Five? Like, for real? In the short hiatus that we took after Christmas, 2025 came chugging through with Stats of our show like NEVER BEFORE.

This lil engine that could is NOW the #1 podcast in New Orleans! (www.goodpods.com) WHAAAA! And to guild the lily... the NolaPapa Podcast is now #5 in New Orleans! (www.feedspot.com)

There are others too, yall. Ded gum son!!! LET's GOOOO!

Starting us off this year is a chef I first saw back years ago when Top Chef was hotter than boudin! (spicy Louisiana rice sausage)

I followed along and remember thinking, oh he is spicy! But also funny! And also exquisitely detailed. Little did I know, celebrity Chef Art Smith has had such an esteemed career. Starting off from the very beginning when he admired Martha Stewart. Little did he know, he'd work for her but not only that, Oprah Winfrey and The White House! 

Today, Chef Art owns multiple restaurants, including one in my stomping ground of WALT DISNEY WORLD!!!! Yep, nestled in Disney Springs resides Chef Art's crown jewel called, Homecomin' . I love everything about it and CANNOT wait to visit there with my family. 

Sit back and welcome us all in as Chef Art spills the tea on not only Oprah, but my precious Martha Stewart. Like, y'all! OH MY!

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Later we welcome New York Times best selling Children's Book Author of ABC's of Black History- Rio Cortez sits down with me to talk about her BRAND NEW book that JUST hit the bookshelves! In a beautiful picture book brimming with G for Groundbreaking women, National Book Award nominee Rio Cortez and illustrator Lauren Semmer celebrate all the joys, challenges, and historic forward movement of women’s history in the United States, with a special focus on the Black women, brown women, transwomen, and others who make change happen. This is a book about Artists, Activists and Allies, about Civil Rights and Choice, about Freedom Fighters, Headliners, Labor -- and Librarians! It’s about historic moments—Kamala Harris being sworn in as the first African-American and first Asian-American Vice President of the United States; Title IX passing through Congress; Seneca Falls, where the first women’s rights convention was held; the Riot Grrrls movement; and so much more. 

This was such a fun little chat with Rio. She was so bright and her energy definitely translates to her beautiful work of art! 

Find her books where ever books are sold! Literally!  

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