Local chefs talk Southern food; Pat "Mother Blues" Cohen on singing the blues

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Due South

Local chefs talk Southern food; Pat "Mother Blues" Cohen on singing the blues

By Leoneda Inge,

Jeff Tiberii, Stacia Brown

Published January 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST

Due South Live! at Motorco Music Hall in Durham June 2024

In the summer of 2024, Due South hosted its first-ever live show at Motorco Music Hall in downtown Durham.

Co-hosts Leoneda Inge and Jeff Tiberii sat down with blues performer Pat "Mother Blues" Cohen to discuss her life and career.

Then, they were joined on stage by four local award-winning chefs to talk about biscuits, barbecue and business.

Today we listen back to a special one-hour broadcast of that event.

This encore edition of Due South originally aired October 30, 2024.

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Harvey Dalton Arnold Band and Pat "Mother Blues" Cohen perform at Due South Live! at Motorco Music Hall.

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Pat "Mother Blues" Cohen performs at Due South Live! at Motorco Music Hall.

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Co-hosts Leoneda Inge and Jeff Tiberii at Due South Live! at Motorco Music Hall.

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Michael 鈥淢ike D鈥� De Los Santos, Bill Smith, Ricky Moore, and KC Hysmith at Due South Live! at Motorco Music Hall.

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Michael 鈥淢ike D鈥� De Los Santos, Bill Smith, Ricky Moore, and KC Hysmith with co-hosts Leoneda Inge and Jeff Tiberii at Due South Live! at Motorco Music Hall.

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Bill Smith, Ricky Moore, and KC Hysmith at Due South Live! at Motorco Music Hall.

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Due South Live! at Motorco Music Hall

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Bill Smith, Michael 鈥淢ike D鈥� De Los Santos, Ricky Moore, and KC Hysmith at Due South Live! at Motorco Music Hall

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Co-hosts Leoneda Inge and Jeff Tiberii at Due South Live! at Motorco Music Hall.

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Due South Live! at Motorco Music Hall in Durham June 2024.

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Due South Live! at Motorco Music Hall in Durham June 2024.

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Due South Live! at Motorco Music Hall in Durham June 2024.

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Leoneda Inge and Pat "Mother Blues" Cohen. Due South Live! at Motorco Music Hall in Durham June 2024.

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Due South Live! at Motorco Music Hall in Durham June 2024.

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Guests

Pat "Mother Blues" Cohen and her band, blues singer and entertainer

Ricky Moore, James Beard Foundation award-winning chef, entrepreneur, and author. Chef and owner of Saltbox Seafood Joint in Durham.

Michael 鈥淢ike D鈥� De Los Santos, entrepreneur, purveyor of award-winning barbecue sauces and rubs. Owner of Mike D鈥檚 BBQ in East Durham.

Bill Smith, author, chef, recognized by the James Beard Awards as a finalist for Best Chef Southeast in 2009 and 2010. Chef at Crook's Corner in Chapel Hill for nearly three decades until his retirement in 2019.

KC Hysmith, food scholar and writer, associate editor, along with Marcie Cohen Ferris, of 鈥淓dible North Carolina: A Journey Across a State of Flavor"

Due South

Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of 吉彩网网站's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at 吉彩网网站 as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda鈥檚 work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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Jeff Tiberii

Jeff Tiberii is the co-host of 吉彩网网站's "Due South." Jeff joined 吉彩网网站 in 2011. During his 20 years in public radio, he was Morning Edition Host at WFDD and 吉彩网网站鈥檚 Greensboro Bureau Chief and later, the Capitol Bureau Chief. Jeff has covered state and federal politics, produced the radio documentary 鈥淩ight Turn,鈥� launched a podcast, and was named North Carolina Radio Reporter of the Year four times.

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Stacia Brown

Stacia L. Brown is a writer and audio storyteller who has worked in public media since 2016, when she partnered with the Association of Independents in Radio and Baltimore's WEAA 88.9 to create The Rise of Charm City, a narrative podcast that centered community oral histories. She has worked for WAMU鈥檚 daily news radio program, 1A, as well as 吉彩网网站鈥檚 The State of Things. Stacia was a producer for 吉彩网网站's award-winning series, Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon and a co-creator of the station's first children's literacy podcast, The Story Stables. She served as a senior producer for two Ten Percent Happier podcasts, Childproof and More Than a Feeling. In early 2023, she was interim executive producer for WNYC鈥檚 The Takeaway.

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