Chef Enrika Williams and Glenda Barner (Sugar's Place)

About this episode

The episode discusses Southern food traditions with Chef Enrika Williams and Glenda Cage Barner.

On today's show, we're talking about Southern food traditions with two women who are keepers of those traditions in very different ways. Chef Enrika Williams trained at a culinary school in Atlanta and came home to Jackson, the city that's always felt like endless possibilities for her imagination and creativity. And Glenda Cage Barner opened Sugar's Place on West Griffith Street with her son, Chef Donovan Barner, in 2008. Named for her mother, Velma—everyone called her Sugar—the restaurant feeds everyone from law students to judges, bringing people together over soul food. TRANSCRIPT: https://www.visitjackson.com/blog/soul-sessions-enrika-williams-glenda-barner

People in this episode

Guests: Glenda Cage Barner, Chef Enrika Williams

Topics covered

• Southern food traditions
• soul food
• culinary arts

Keywords

• Jackson
• Sugar's Place
• culinary school
• community

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Sugar's Place

Places: Atlanta, Jackson

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