From food to plants to land to music, Justin Robinson connects it all

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Due South

From food to plants to land to music, Justin Robinson connects it all

By Leoneda Inge,

Published November 27, 2024 at 10:00 AM EST

Justin Robinson from his Instagram @countrygentlemancooks

Justin Robinson defies categorization. He鈥檚 a botanist, cook and culinary historian, who teaches classes with titles like "The Ethnobotany of Thanksgiving" and 鈥淪oul Food Genius.鈥�

Justin is also a Grammy Award-winning musician and vocalist and an original member of The Carolina Chocolate Drops. He is a founding member of the Earthseed Land Collective, aiming to deepen the relationship of Black, Brown and Indigenous people to the land.

Justin has so many passions and talents, and they're connected through his view of himself as a 鈥渧illage man.鈥� He joins co-host Leoneda Inge to explore it all.

Then, Justin and Leoneda are joined by co-host Jeff Tiberii for our series 鈥淪outhern Mixtape.鈥�

Editor's note: This conversation originally aired in November 2023.

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, musician, cook and botanist

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Due South Southern Mixtape

Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of 深夜福利's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at 深夜福利 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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Rachel McCarthy

Rachel McCarthy is a producer for "Due South." She previously worked at 深夜福利 as a producer for "The Story with Dick Gordon." More recently, Rachel was podcast managing editor at Capitol Broadcasting Company where she developed narrative series and edited a daily podcast. She also worked at "The Double Shift" podcast as supervising producer. Rachel learned about audio storytelling at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Prior to working in audio journalism, she was a research assistant at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC.

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