Welcome to season 3 of the Two Cat Kitchen and we start things off with a bang! We have special musical guests Alpaca Lunch with some great old-time tunes and fascinating insights into the music and life in general. In lieu of a recipe this month we feature culinary excerpts from an interview that was part of the Gathering the Stories of Appalachian Foodways oral history project. Katie Bills, a senior at Berea College, interviewed Mrs. Mildred McFadden about her experiences in the kitchen. The project was supported by the Appalachian College Association Colonel Lee B. Ledford Research Scholarship Award. We hope you enjoy the interview and the great tunes from Alpaca Lunch!

Performed by Alpaca Lunch:

Scott No 1 by Bill Driver

Green Valley Waltz, Trad. arr. Alpaca Lunch

28th of January, Trad. arr. Alpaca Lunch

What You Gonna Do With the Baby, Trad. arr. Alpaca Lunch

Ragged But Right, Trad. arr. Alpaca Lunch

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It’s our last episode of season 2 and we’ve got a fun-filled extravaganza to cap things off! No special guest this month but we do have not one but two informative segments- Two Cat Corner featuring poems written by our own Sara Grady, and a new feature here on the Kitchen called Two Cat Science. We delve into a couple of interesting studies involving- you guessed it- cats! The first looks at how cats rely on body size awareness when negotiating small openings, and the second examines contrafreeloading or the willingness of cats to work for food when equivalent food is freely available. Sounds fishy to us but check out the segment for the low-down! And we cap things off with a recipe for Langues de Chat featuring out new AI bot culinary assistant Tomy. All in all a hum-dinger of an episode!

Performed by The Coconotes:

Solace of You by Corey Glover and Vernon Alphonsus Reid, © Songs Of Smp, Hifi Asset Acquisition Co Lp

Performed by Two Cat Tango:

Down to the Mission by R. McKinney, © Two Cat Music

Cat Science articles:

Pongra´ cz, Cats are (almost) liquid!—Cats selectively rely on body size awareness when negotiating short openings, iScience (2024), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110799

Mikel M. Delgado, Brandon Sang Gyu Han, and Melissa J. Bain (2022). Domestic cats (Felis catus) prefer freely available food over food that requires effort. Animal Cognition 25:95–102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-021-01530-3

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Doug Wilder joins us for a fantastic episode featuring great songs and a great recipe for- you guessed it- wings! Doug fills us in on his latest musical exploits and GardenFest in Gray, Maine, a festival he helps organize which takes place Labor Day weekend and features musical medicine, nature, ecstatic dance, laughter, organic food, healing workshops and more! Last but not least we have another episode of Two Cat Theater- the exciting conclusion of the radio play Raton Rojo! We finally find out what Ms. Fellini was up to. All this and more right here on the Two Cat Kitchen!

Performed by The Coconotes:

Jamaica Mountain Home, Trad., arr. The Coconotes

Performed by Doug Wilder:

Trying Times by Doug Wilder

Hello Joy by Doug Wilder

Raton Rojo Cast:

Willem Conley: Leon “Spanky” LaRue

Dewni Weerakkody: Lenore Fellini; Johnny Hairball

Jeff Tabor: Freddy Mew; Felix ‘Fat Cat’ Purrdy

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