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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...

Someone just said Bruce could charge $3.99 a minute to talk about food. Pretty good but our first guest has it going on too - listen to Elise talk about the new pizza at NEON in Rhode Island - but beware - it's dangerous if you're hungry! Then it's Shawn Hyer from Bramble in Essex VT to talk Burlington Wine & Food, the famous V Smiley from Minifactory in Bristol VT and Bruce, Ted Tomlinsen and Anthony Neri and Karen hanging out on a Sunday afternoon Outback at the Spanked Puppy in Colchester VT.

The Sold Out Burlington Wine & Food is coming soon. [Wine and] Food Dude Bruce talks to Tony O'Rourke of Iron Wolf Wines and Celebrity Chef Kevin des Chenes about the big return of the Festival!

Meet two of the leading Bakemasters - as in Clambake - in Rhode Island and maybe the world. Captain Vinny of the Warren (RI) Fire Brigades has been putting on clambakes at the local firehouses for decades. Similar to the super-secret chili recipes firehouses are famous for all over the nation, in our part of New England its the clambake secrets - what kind of sausage goes with that seafood, how long are the fires burning, which gets put first on the hot rocks that do the cooking, and how many games of horseshoes and how much beer will we need before the whole thing is ready! Capt Vinny says if you ask ten bakemasters you will get ten answers and they will all be absolutely right! So we asked legendary Newport (RI) bakemaster T.R. McGrath who goes back generations for some of his secrets. Listen and try to find out who puts on the ultimate clambake.

Back at it for 2022 - Burlington (VT) Wine and Food at HULA Lakeside - what is it and how can I go? Tracy and Mike Stolese have the details. Then we are off to Pauline's Cafe in South Burlington with David Hoene and Backyard Bistro with Adam Spell.

What happens when you have a Chili Cook-Off and Summer breaks out! It happened in May in Vermont. Thanks to some intrepid Chili chefs, amazing Cabot Creamery Cheese and Sour Cream and Island Homemade Ice Cream to cool us down, it was fantastic. With Ted Tomlinsen, Anthony Neri, Maura Fitzgerald and the crew from the Spanked Puppy in Colchester, Vermont.

A Food Dude interview collection from this Spring in Vermont including Chef Robert Smith III at Starry Night Cafe, Ferrisburgh (a native); Lynn and Jim Williams at Back Door Bread in Charlotte; Peter Creyf of Waffle Cabin who visited us at Waybury Inn, Middlebury; and Matt Bonoma at Vermont Cookie Love in North Ferrisburgh. 

Back to The Show - the Food Shows that is. From the New England Food Show in Boston and the Hope & Main/Farm Fresh RI Food Hub Marketplace Show in Providence, it's food talk in person! In order of appearance, we talk with Maureen Maloney of Sacred Cow Granola, Sanjiv Dhar of Flavorfied, Sean Kontos and Ainsley McStay of Harvest Kitchen, Peter Kelly of Anchor Toffee,  Mark Snyder of Ital-Crust, Kari Udderly of Beef Advisory Council and Steve Persson of The Nordic, all recorded on site April 3 and April 5, 2022.

Chef and restaurateur Christopher Bender raising the bar on the Newport RI dining scene with a Game Dinner, a Wagyu Dinner and an entry into the Newport Burger Bender. Listen to how Stoneacre is back in a big way.