Food Dude Bruce Newbury

Every taste is a memory but sometimes you have to go back to where it all began. For me it was the A & W Drive-In on Route 7 in Middlebury, Vermont. It was great to sit at the same picnic table looking out onto the Green Mountains and talk to Anthony Neri about how retro is cool. Then its off to the Outback at the Spanked Puppy in Colchester with Ted, Chef Tim and Bernie The Spice Guy for some spicy secrets!

Which we could call every episode. This one has it all. People you would like to meet and talk to, food you would love to eat and to find and - well, fun just follows the Food Dude around! So, in order, here are: Stephanie from Rochester Cafe and Country Store on Route 100 in Rochester, VT; Ted Tomlinsen from The Spanked Puppy in Colchester VT; and Ben Newbury and me at The Meltdown in Barre VT.

Poutine. It's not just comfort food. It's a way of life. And it has taken its place on many menus in Rhode Island. How did this Quebecois invasion take place? Deliciously. It's so mainstream, it has its own food competition - The Poutine Indulgence to benefit the Museum of Work and Culture in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Ecouter, mes amis. Allons!

Back in the Jurassic era of podcasts - 10 years ago - Bruce had a podcast. Back then, there were actual food events too. One was known as "The Woodstock Festival Of Meat." It was called Meatopia. What a time it was. Let's go back to a 105-degree summer weekend and partake of "Meat In The Heat". Its a podcast of a podcast and it sounds like a good time.

So we are sending this one out to Food Dude Pod Fan Maggie at the Scoop Shop in East Providence. Which works because that's where we begin with Maureen Maloney from Sacred Cow Granola. Then its off to KNEAD Doughnuts in Rhode Island for another Walk - Talk - Taste with Brit Decosta. Radio nerd friends - listen all the way to the end! Brought to you by Gaspar's  - the Portuguese sausage the whole world can enjoy!

Everyone else is saying Bob Burke's Pot au Feu restaurant came in second in the Small Business Big Wins sweepstakes. But that wins a Silver Medal, right? So let's hang that medal where it belongs and take a Victory Lap. After the year we have put in, we deserve it and no one more than Bob and his crew. Here's the setup and the votegetting followed by the victory lap and an impassioned wish for all restaurants and all of us too. Enjoy and best wishes Bob and all of us.

OK, I clickbaited you. The premise is that I, your old dj, will talk over anything like they used to on AM radio - EXCEPT for the piece of music that leads off this episode. You will LOVE the interview with Amy Goodson from the Beef Association ( It's What's For Dinner - Dun Dun Dun!) and the most beautiful Prime Rib Roast your mind can picture. Then Ted Tomlinson from the Spanked Puppy in Colchester VT and I drop every celebrity chef's name as we talk tiramisu, eggnog and biscotti, interrupted by my Walk N Taste with Maureen Maloney at her Sacred Cow Granola/Munroe Dairy Pop-Up Market and Ice Cream Scoop Shop. There is a lot packed inside this episode. Enjoy. And leave listener comments at this link: https://anchor.fm/food-dude-bruce-newbury/message And don't forget to review!

C'est what? It's the annual wine funfest from France known as the New Beaujolais Arrival - Le Beaujolais Nouveau c'est arrivee! It is a food journey, a wine journey and a literal journey and it takes place every Third Thursday of November by French law. One of the authorities on how to enjoy it is Bob Burke, our friend and restaurateur at Providence's Pot au Feu Bistro. He knows the history and how best to celebrate this fun food tradition. We will stop first at KNEAD Doughnuts to taste some amazing pastry creations and give you a gift idea from Gaspar's Linguica. Allons!

Your Food Dude got invited to the beautiful Waybury Inn in East Middlebury, Vermont to a pancake breakfast. The guests were friends of the Inn. The breakfast turned into a lovefest. Everyone wanted to say how much the Waybury meant to them this spring and summer like no other. And innkeeper Joe Sutton and his staff - Adam, Amy, Brie, Chrissy, Donna, and Robert - wanted to give the guests an amazing experience as they always do. And I got to listen to some special friends of the Inn say how much they loved it. Enjoy. For best results, check out the slideshow from the breakfast on the Waybury Inn Facebook page.

Right? Didn't you think about it? There are some nice people in Barre VT who are living the dream and they opened in the midst of the pandemic. Follow your dreams. Donna and Diane from The Meltdown are up first. Then, Chef Ed Bolus and General Manager Kate Turner light it up from downtown at Providence's famed Mill's Tavern. Leave us a message at the link, like us and review us too. Enjoy. https://anchor.fm/food-dude-bruce-newbury/message

That really ties it all together - and Lou Perella says it best. (I used to talk like that too.) The restaurant community is getting anxious - you and I have to let them know we want them to stay open any way we can have them. If it means eating outside with a blanket next to a heater, bring it on. Sol Bayer-Pacht from Farmers & Foragers talks about scallops, his famous Vermont Philly Cheese Steak and where we can find it this fall (still at the Marina through Oct). Rick Simone from Federal Hill has good news about Al Fresco On The Hill - and Lou Perella is at his pasta machine with delicious fall creations. Enjoy. And don't stay away!!

Ted Karousos asking the musical question. Ted's Blue Plate Diner is getting it done these days but that 's not what he wants to talk about. He gets it said for the restaurant biz these days. Then, Master Sommelier Michael Meagher shows his expertise at the Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival. Then two Ice Cream Scientists create some boozy milkshakes that yes we do really need. And listen all the way to the end for a radio geekgasm.

Prepare to eat like a local. The creator of the famous Cream of Garlic Soup, chef/restaurateur Doug Mack at Mary's at Baldwin Creek in Bristol VT. Then on our way to Canteen Creemee Company in Waitsfield to chat with Charlie Menard, there's a little something for my fellow radio nerds at the 19:28 mark. Call it a little mashup. Enjoy it all.

It's a thing as we will find out from Rooted In Vermont's Shane Rogers talking about Open Farm Week. Also Matthew MacCartney at the Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival which is happening! And there's a new Dave's Marketplace store in the midst of all this pandemic stuff which I have a thought or two on. So leave me a message, let me hear from you - just click the link below. https://anchor.fm/food-dude-bruce-newbury/message

Ted Karousos is back at the Blue Plate Diner with important things to say about the current state of the restaurant business, the coronavirus and how we feel about both those things. Then as a special treat, my chat with Peter Noone, "Herman" of Herman's Hermits before his recent concert at Misquamicut, Rhode Island (wait til you hear the pride of Manchester, England try that one!)

 I'm right there with the bedsheets, the razors and the "supplements."  I actually do have a legit promo code to save you $10 with our new friends at New England Country Mart on some amazing foods. You will meet Elyssa and Jeff from NECM who have a success story to tell. Also today our friend Lou Perella in the kitchen at Perella's Ristorante in Rhode Island and you know we won't be far from the farm. Then we're off to SoCal with celeb chef and food personality Jamie Gwen to check in on the restaurant struggles out there. And we have to have a word about a not-so-nice side of some people at some restaurants back East.

Ok, spoiler alert - the answer is GAZPACHO. Travel to the amazing new Black Flannel Brewing Company in Essex VT by way of the Bennington Farmers Market where hops are an important ingredient but not in the way you may think. Then it's off to Block Island RI to catch a restaurateur doing good at Ballard's. And we wind up on Federal Hill in Providence with the unofficial Mayor of the Hill and a summer dining success story in this summer like no other. 

It's a double Ted Talk! Ted Karousos from the Blue Plate Diner in Newport Rhode Island talks about an aspect of restaurant dining we never thought about before it was taken away from us. Then Ted Tomlinsen at the Spanked Puppy in Colchester VT talks Lobster Rolls in this summer like no other. And a word about Gaspar's Linguica on the grill too.

Sounds like some kind of mindfulness exercise doesn't it? Nope, it's all food. Shane Rogers of Rooted In Vermont and Vermont Farm to Plate joins me to talk about amazing local food and where to find it all around the state. Then our fave Granola girl Maureen Maloney with some breaking granola news about something we can all enjoy later this summer. Enjoy.

Let's try this and see if we can get some True Crime people to wander over here. This is a food podcast and it is delicious. We talk to Charlie Menard from Canteen Creemee Company in Vermont. Two kinds of people in this world: Those who know what a creemee is and those who don't. Before that it's Brianna from Waybury Inn where we all want to go.