Food Dude Bruce Newbury

The Food Dude Visits The Farm and makes some great friends. How Now Brown Cow was 3 days old here - a week ago - and her sister is about a month old. Cabot Creamery Co-operative has a great partner here at Liberty Hill Farm in Rochester VT. Makes it extra good when you pick up Cabot Cheddar at Dave's Marketplace. WADK 1540AM now on 101.1 FM and Newstalk WVMT

By the bubbling brook With Ted Tomlinsen at The Spanked Puppy in Colchester Vermont - when you can snatch the Lobster Roll from my hand, grasshopper. ..just checking to see if anybody reads this.

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!