Food Dude Bruce Newbury

We all know that the most amazing food experiences are unexpected. Us foodies expect the unexpected. Here we go. First, Amazing fried chicken sandwich and much more at Pioneer Lakeside Cafe in Malletts Bay, Vermont on Lake Champlain run by a lovely couple, Lindsay and Jean-Luc Metecat who are the real deal complete with a chef story to tell. Then, Amazing fried chicken sandwich #2 at Neon Marketplace - complete with gas pumps and trendy electric vehicle charging stations out front. Fave line by Food Development Queen Elise Babey: "The sauce is scorching hot but at the same time you can't stop eating it!" Oh yes - and they have Pat LaFreida burgers. That's right. Enjoy.

Or.."Even The Bumble Wouldn't Pass Up Deer Meat!" So what if we held a Chili Cook-off on the first day of deer season? Well, we did. Kinda forgot, kinda thought it might actually bring in everyone who stayed home from deer camp. We got both! Hunter pulls in with his bagged 193-pound full rack buck in the back of the pickup, and the winner was Hunter's Chili with a secret ingredient. Cabot Creamery and Island Homemade Vermont Ice Cream made it all possible with celebrity judges from WVMT NewsTalk Radio and our host the incredible Spanked Puppy in Colchester VT headed up by Ted and Kristine Tomlinsen. As broadcast Nov 12 2022.

Wherever you go in Vermont, you can find AMAZING beer. The Vermont Brewers Association has made it easy and organized to discover and enjoy craft beers and great food. After all, everything tastes better in Vermont, right? Emma Arian of Vermont Brewers Association is our guide on the Burlington Beer Trail and wait 'til you hear what you can win! As broadcast on Food Dude Radio WVMT Nov 19 and Dec 3 2022.

It is pie season to be sure. So...which pie is the top crust (is that even a thing?). We took a different route with the help of our friends at NEON Marketplace who took the best parts of the pie and spun them into milkshakes! Which would you choose? Food scientist Elise Babey and Food Dude Bruce discussed at a menu rollout this fall at the all new NEON Marketplace in Seekonk, Mass.

It's Demo Day on steroids! Dave's Marketplace places food makers from Rhode Island and New England in a couple select stores to sample their specialties. The doors open and the magic happens. Listen to a dozen choice local food creators from BBQ to popcorn to donut cakes as Bruce and Ben - Food Dude and Son - eat their way through Dave's Marketplace in East Greenwich RI on October 16, 2022. Interviews with Troino's Italian Stuffed Peppers, The Food Shack, Granny Squibb's, Rhed's Sauces and Salsa, Inpopnito Popcorn, Smoke & Squeal BBQ, RI Guys Donut Cakes, Laluna Kombucha, Bee Well Honey, Newport Chowder Company and Ocean's Balance.

In 2014, Chef Sean Sherman opened The Sioux Chef in Minneapolis/Saint Paul. winner of several James Beard awards for his cookbook and his Indigenous restaurant Owamni in Minneapolis, spoke in October at the URI Honors Colloquium and chatted with Bruce about his and our heritage.

Sponsored by Cabot. We finally made it back to The Big E. And like thousands of visitors, we ate our way through the Fair. With the help of some friends. Listen for Mo Frenier from The Big E; Nicole Fletcher from the Fletcher Farm in Massachusetts-a Cabot farmer; Ron from Mother Myrick's Confectionery in Manchester, Vermont; Sean Maloney from 13 Stars Hot Sauce of Rhode Island; Bob's BBQ; and Food Dude and Son with Ben Newbury out on the Food Court where we took on Chompers, Hot Wings and the Giant Cream Puff. All sponsored by Cabot.

Steve DeLuca of Foodlove with Food Dude Bruce Newbury as broadcast from the Newport (RI) International Boat Show Sept 16 2022

Mitch Belanger, Special Projects Manager interview with Food Dude Bruce Newbury as broadcast WADK AM/FM at the Newport International Boat Show

Labor Day, the official unofficial end of summer and all that. What a way to wrap it up with Food Trucks and Sundaes on Sunday of Labor Day Weekend at The Sacred Cow Scoop Shop and Market at Munroe Dairy in East Providence, RI with seven food trucks and a few hundred friends.

Business of Greater Newport Sept 8 2022 from Innovate Newport This week’s host is Business Outreach Specialist, Isabel Marsh.  Guests: Susan Breen, Member Relations and Allison Ebner, Director of Member Services from the Employers Association of the NorthEast, discussing employee retention strategies for small business owners Business of the Week sponsored by Humphreys Bldg Supply: Kurt Edenbach, Vice President, Memorial Funeral Home. 

So it turns out that chef-owner Christopher Bender is known as ... Bender. I may be late to this party in fact, but anyway, here is the sound of a great Newport opening party for Christopher - i mean Bender's and Dave Crowell's new Chart House Inn with fabulous leading lady, Nicole Canning! 

It's always fun to sit down with my friend Lou Perella. Sometimes we have specific topics and other times like this one we just let the tape roll - it's really an mp3 - and see where it takes us. There's a Chef's Secret embedded here about Lou's meatballs. That led to a reveal about our friend Robert Irvine and Restaurant Impossible and ... well, just give a listen. You'll enjoy it.

Your Food Dude is most often asked, "What is your most memorable meal?" That is, next to, "why don't you weigh 400 lbs?" The memorable meal answer has an easy first part. It is always, "That time my wife Brenda and I..." After that there are many choices. Chef's tables, special places, occasions, on and on. So I asked Ted Tomlinsen, proprietor of the one and only Spanked Puppy in Colchester, Vermont. He started the conversation with two memorable meals and the convo is still going on! With special guest appearance by Griff!!

So your Food Dude has been bringing you the "scoop" for over twenty-five years. This summer, we're literally bringing you the scoop on our Island Homemade Ice Cream Summer Scoop Tour. Here is the sound of us making lots of friends on a perfect July afternoon in the heart of the Green Mountains in Rochester, Vermont.

Bramble, in Essex, Vt is a new restaurant built on the vision of its two chef-owner partners, Shawn Hyer and Colleen Hunt, who literally cooked their way from Vermont across the country and back again. They are all about sharing plates, stories, and their vision on a recent jam-packed Monday night.

East Middlebury, in Addison County, has long been known as the “land of milk and honey.” Everything grows here. So it is not surprising that chefs grow here too. The Waybury Inn  has had one head chef for the last four or five decades - Donna Siebert - and she grew up across the street. What is remarkable is that Incoming Head Chef Tony Petri literally grew up next door, learned to cook and made his way to the Waybury. Here they are talking about food, culinary and the Waybury Inn.

So the Island Homemade Ice Cream team and I are out to get everybody to taste our Made In Vermont amazing Homemade Ice Cream, Sorbet and Ice Cream Pies - one scoop at a time. The Summer Scoop Tour made our first stop of the season at Sam Mazza's Farm Market in Colchester (VT) on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Maura scooped, the Head Scoop Bob was on hand and I had a chance to talk to some ice cream friends - some new, some tried and true. And for my WVMT fam - listen all the way to the end for a nugget just for you!

Burlington (VT) Wine & Food came back with a roar the weekend of June 25, 2022. With celebrity chefs and thousands of wine and food fans and a spectacular summer day on Lake Champlain, it was a smashing success. Come along with Food Dude Bruce Newbury as he asks almost obsessively "What's In Your Glass?" with celeb chefs Brian Duffy, Nick Liberato and Kev D .

BTV Wine and Food is almost here. Here is another of the great restos who will be there pairing amazing food with the greatest wines in the world. Meet Shawn Hyer who with his wife Colleen have put BRAMBLE on the map in Essex Vt. Can't wait to try Colleen's specialty at the Festival Saturday the 25th at HULA Lakeside. When you hear it, you'll be in line..behind me...but if you ask I will let you cut...