Food Dude Bruce Newbury

Another of the great things about food in Vermont. Meal prep meets Farm to Table. And in Vermont, you can see the farm from the table. That's Clarina Cravins's idea at Preppi Market and Eatery located inside the Hula Lakeside campus and at select pickup spots around the state. And there's delivery. Clarina tells the story in this episode. Enjoy.

Who doesn't love mustard? It's not a hot dog without it or a corned beef sandwich or a pretzel. No surprise, there is a National Mustard Museum , a National Mustard Day and a Worldwide Mustard Competition. We talk with Ken Zuckerman, board member of the Mustard Museum about all things mustard-y.

Springtime - flowers bloom, maple trees run, snow falls, all in the same afternoon! Springtime in New England is like that. Also, it is the awards season. Chef and innkeeper Antonio Petri talks about Easter and Spring menus at the Waybury Inn followed by the finalists from New England for this year's James Beard Awards.

That's what our shuttle driver called it. We're in Boston this week for the New England Restaurant and Bar Show along with many chefs, restaurateurs, and friends from front and back of house and personalities from the foodservice and beverage world. I hopped on the Culinary Stage with Chef Andy Teixeira of Newport Vineyards in Rhode Island and chatted on the show floor with an industry leader. Before that, I caught up with longtime friend Dante Bellini, a filmmaker from Rhode Island who just completed a documentary on the Malassadas - a delicious pastry best described as Fair fried dough's Mediterranean cousin - Portuguese to be precise. Enjoy!

Asking someone if they are a good tipper is like asking them if they are a good kisser - who says No? But, here comes that screen! WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo talks to us about a recent tipping survey. Your Chief Tasting Officer talks to Lisa Raiola who bestowed that title. She is CEO of Hope & Main the food launch pad in Rhode Island. And we make you hungry with waffle sandwiches and a clambake! Enjoy.

Another fun week at Barkeaters Restaurant in Shelburne, Vermont. This week's special menu was done by Julie Finestone who is married to David Zeidler and are the proprietors of Barkeaters. We called it the Julie Show on the air. As David pointed out, the show never ends. Then, we head south on Route 7 to Ferrisburgh Bake Shop where Jennifer Wyman is having an afternoon tea in March and shares details along with the menu of amazing bakery and lunch creations.

The 28th Newport RI Chili Cook-Off at the 37th Newport Winter Festival, February 15, 2025. 10 competitors, over a thousand tasters who voiced their choice and judged the Chili Champs. The winning chili chefs including restauratns and the Newport Fire Dept won cash and prizes including a prize package from Cabot Creamery of Vermont who furnished an essential ingredient to the contestants - mountains of Vermont Sharp Shredded Cheddar! Let's hear how it sounded and who the 2025 winner is!

We can eat at home. When we go out we often look for an experience we can't get at home. Add in special occasions of life and it becomes even more important. We sit down with some friends who are all about the experience. Russell Morin Fine Catering and Events has provided more memorable experiences than - well, than we can remember. And now making more friends with a fun new restaurant venue - CRU PVD in Providence RI. And Christine Phillips from GoProvidence gives us the scoop on Providence Restaurant Weeks going on in early February where there are at least 65 experiences awaiting you.

It's been a pretty good winter so far. Chef Antonio Petri says it's time to heat things up with a new menu at the Waybury Inn. There is something for everyone's taste from nightly favorites to exciting culinary adventures. Let's taste with our ears first in this episode.

Maura Fitzgerald is usually found at the Island Homemade Ice Cream Scoop Shop and Cafe. The other weekend, she was on the ski trails at the Trapp Family Lodge and called in to the Bruce Newbury Show on her way back!

The food story in Rhode Island this year is...Biscuits ! Amazing buttermilk biscuits from a Southern recipe. Irregardless Biscuits of Providence, RI is on everyone's list these days. Chef-owners Joe Hafner and James Dean talked biscuits with me in January.

Hey, I want to go! That's what everyone in Vermont is saying after word got out about the Inaugural Celebration for Governor Phil Scott being held in Barre, Vermont. (Vermonters know you say it like Barry.) It's called the Celebration of 14 - an important number to the guest of honor and to the state which has 14 counties, each one represented with amazing food and artisan created products that are being shown off. Erica Scott takes us to the party in this interview.

It was a great year at Island Homemade Vermont Ice Cream in 2024 and promises to be an even better one in 2025 with a cherry on top! Maura Fitzgerald talks about all the tasty treats we enjoyed in this year gone by from the Eclipse to the holiday flavors. And wait til you hear the scoop for 2025. As broadcast on December 28 2024 on WVMT AM/FM.

This year, everyone celebrates at the same time. Christmas and Hanukkah fall on the same day. Add in the Solstice and New Year's and the party is on until almost Groundhog Day, right? Every week is a celebration at Barkeaters restaurant in Shelburne, Vermont with Julie and David Zeidler. We caught up with David as he was gathering ingredients for the week's theme of themes - kind of a Greatest Hits - a Celebration of Celebrations!

It's our own Christmas special. Steve Mayfield and I stroll the Country Christmas Loft in Shelburne, Vermont to find everything you need for the holiday. We're wrapping up Christmas right down to the wrap and the tinsel. Hop on the sleigh and join us.

Just what we needed for the holidays. Our neighbor from the North Tony called in to talk Montreal bagels, hockey and brought a good vibe along. On the Bruce Newbury Show December 14 2024.

In the spirit at the festive Waybury Inn in Middlebury, Vermont as Chef Antonio fills us in on Christmas Eve and a wonderful family tradition in the making coming this season! And we talk creemees too because it's Vermont.

We spend some holiday time in Newport, Rhode Island with Nicole Canning and Chef Christopher Bender at their Chart House Inn and Stoneacre Brasserie and Stoneacre Gardens. Chef Christopher shares his Christmas Eve menu and a *glam* New Year's Eve Newport Experience too. Innkeeper Nicole gives us a tour and we break some news about a unique Experience coming to the Newport Mansions in 2025!

Our regular visit from my Vermont home at The Waybury Inn in Middlebury with Chef/Innkeeper Antonio Petri. The holidays are closing in fast and so are the parties, the dinners, the gift card shopping and fa-la-la! Then we do some good by hanging out with the good. Lisa Raiola does more good for more food makers than just about anyone in Rhode Island with her Hope and Main launch platform facility - the talk of the industry. We caught up with Lisa on Giving Tuesday.

We're jumping into the season with two great food personalitites from all over New England. Chef Antonio Petri one of the innkeepers of the Waybury Inn in Middlebury Vermont brings us through his kitchen and dining room for Thanksgiving and beyond. Then its off to the first Christmas party of the season in Providence RI with Harrison Elkhay, President of Chow Fun Food Group - Harry's, Ten Prime and more.

Everyone knows Butterball at this time of year - Butterball Turkey. Every year we chat with the Butterball Turkey Talk Line experts and get their advice and horror stories! We've never asked the Ladies about wine pairing with turkey. That's Bob Burke's department. Mon ami, the longtime proprietor of Pot au Feu in Providence RI each year keeps the tradition of the new Beaujolais wine release from the French vineyards. It's a light red wine that pairs perfectly with Thanksgiving dinner. There's French law involved and more but its a lot of fun. Listen to both stories right here. Allons!

How to get Newport diners to visit a Providence restaurant ? Move it to Newport! A highly-anticipated new food hall in Providence is having a sneak peek in Newport in early December. Track 15 will host a preview event on December 4 at Giusto in Newport, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center. Here's a preview with Chris Marsella, CEO, Marsella Development Group and Alyson Novick, Director of Development, MLK Center.

The Food Dude's Official Coffee of course. Vermont Coffee Company ambassador Jacob Ouellette talks Compostable Pods and warm holiday aromas. Hey as the song goes about the feeling nothing can buy "when they pass around the coffee and the pumpkin pie!"

Dr. Michaelangelo La Luna of the University of Rhode Island hosted special guests for an invitation-only home-cooked Calabrian dinner during Italian Heritage Month. While not a trained chef, he loves cooking and sharing meals with other people, something that he got from his family in Calabria where he grew up. He will make you run out for a multi-course pasta dinner like a "Big Night!" Enjoy. And a thousand thanks!

Something different for Halloween. The War of the Worlds radio play adapted by Providence Rhode Island radio in 1974 from an adaptation by Buffalo NY radio in 1971 and 1968 and at some point adapted from the Orson Welles play by Howard Koch back in 1938. Got all that? This one is rare indeed. You'll hear the title intoned reassuringly by one of the great reassuring voices who the kids all loved on snow days. Enjoy - especially the jingles and ads, my fellow radio nerds.

Barkeaters Restaurant in Shelburne, Vermont has become one of the great dining destinations. David and Julie Zeidler have settled in as proprietors over the past year. One of the more popular touches they have added is Theme Weeks with an exciting new menu each week. David and I talked about two recent big weeks that have guests and friends looking forward to see what the next theme will be!

Welcome to the second Providence(RI) Restaurant Renaissance. A new food hall to be called Track 15 will open in 2025. Bruce talks to chef proprietors Sanjiv Dhar of Little Chaska and Alp Gumuscu who has a new concept called Tolia, and Chris Marsella, CEO of Marsella Development Corporation.

Big news from the Waybury Inn in Middlebury, Vermont. The Inn has been busy with fans of the 1980's hit sitcom, "Newhart," wanting an inside look at the exterior setting for the beloved comedy and to remember the late Bob Newhart. This fall, those memories will come alive with the first "Newhart Weekend" which Chef Antonio Petri reveals in our chat from the Waybury's living room. There is more in store including some creations from the Chefs that will make it an unforgettable Fall.

To perfectly prepare your palate - and the rest of you - for an exceptional meal, there is The Aperitivo - in this case a perfectly balanced Negroni cocktail. The legendary Jimmy Bruton from the just as legendary Via Carota in New York was at the Newport (RI) International Boat Show serving up perfect cocktails. As broadcast on Food Dude Radio Sept 21 2024.

Let's visit two chef friends at different altitudes. Our great friend Lou Perella is in his kitchen in Warren, Rhode Island at sea level on Narragansett Bay with friends - read his menu at Perella's Ristorante and find a story with the name of every dish and then some. Mountainside, chef David Fitelson is getting ready for the upcoming ski season at The Wobbly Barn at the Killington resort. There are some exciting changes planned but guests will still find their favorites.

We love our chefs and we love our foodies on Food Dude Radio. That's why we talk to so many of them every week. Here are some of each. Kim called in to the show to give a big Thumbs Up to the Waybury Inn and another choice spot. Chef Antonio Petri must have been listening - he is next. Then Mary showed her fan appreciation for a chef couple that hosted us back in the spring - wait until you hear what she did for them.

It is called Hope & Main and is known as a food incubator. It could be called a Food Business Launch Pad. Over the last ten years more than 500 food businesses have been launched from a former school building in Warren RI. We love to check in with founder Lisa Raiola to find out the latest - lots to look forward to this Fall!

Fun, folks and food - trucks. The ingredients for a great Sunday afternoon. Perfect weather made it even better. It's Food Truck Funday at Munroe Dairy's Sacred Cow Scoop Shop and Market in East Providence , Rhode Island - East Providence-say it loud and proud. Ben Newbury joined me to walk and talk to the food truck operators who brought their game. As broadcast Sunday August 11 2024.

(Wait for it.) So the breakout hit of Fair Food Season just may be - Cheese Curds. That Wisconsin delicacy has made it to the other cheese state of Vermont. Find out all about it with our Curd Queen Cassie from The Curdeous Cow at the recent Addison County (VT) Fair. Before that we get in on the summer bounty with Chef Antonio Petri at The Waybury Inn. So we have...curds and way-bury...see what I did there. Enjoy.

The Corner Market Cafe at select Seasons convenience store locations is serving up an elevated experience starting with carefully chosen coffee! Bahjat Shariff, Chief Product Officer and Chef Lisa Costentino visited with me at INNOVATE Newport and brought lots of samples.

The world of wine and food in New England is full of stories and personalities. Here are a couple to get to know. Chef and now Innkeeper Antonio Petri at the Waybury Inn in Middlebury, Vermont dishes about his menu, celebrates blueberry season and previews what is to come as the bounty of local produce rolls in. Then, we get to revisit the iconic Sakonnet Vineyards in Rhode Island on the comeback wine trail talking to Operations Manager Marissa Stashenko on National Wine and Cheese Day. Enjoy;

Welcome aboard! We took 30 friends on the Spirit of Ethan Allen to cruise Lake Champlain on a summer Saturday. We sightseed - saw - did sightseeing. We played. We had an amazing lunch. Meet some of our guests and Chef Ricki about 22:00 in. As broadcast on WVMT AM/FM!

On location at Burlington (VT) Wine and Food 2024 during our live radio broadcast with a cast of ... many! Expert tasters Candy and Tim Cavanaugh, Liz Spitler from Common Roots, Chef Antonio Petri from the Waybury Inn, Meg from Grafton Village Cheese, Beth Kruger, Wine and Wellness tour guide, Cabernet taster Lise, Chef Greg from The Essex Resort and Spa. And we talk a little ice cream from Island Homemade Ice Cream - who else?

Talking to all kinds of friends during our live radio show at Burlington (VT) Wine and Food. Chef and now Innkeeper Antonio Petri from The Waybury Inn stopped by our location on his way through the Grand Tasting!

There are new innkeepers at my Vermont home The Waybury Inn in Middlebury VT. They're already good friends - one is Chef Antonio Petri. Then Amy Traverso, Yankee Magazine Senior Food Editor runs down The Best Of New England from the annual Summer Travel Guide.

Kicking off the 2024 Food Truck season in Rhode Island at Munroe Dairy at Sacred Cow Scoop Shop and Market for Food Truck Funday on Memorial Day Weekend 2024. With Championship Melt and Jay's Big Dog Eats, Maureen Maloney and James Martin from Sacred Cow Market and Scoop Shop.

It's Mother's Day weekend - the mother of all Dining Out days. We find ourselves at the Waybury Inn with an amazing buffet before us guided by Chef Antonio Petri. Then we set sail aboard The Spirit Of Ethan Allen on Lake Champlain, and wrapping up with a little celebration - Food Dude Radio's 28th Anniversary!

Food Dude Radio Weekend of April 27 2024. We're at our Vermont home The Waybury Inn with Chef Antonio Petri. Then from the Buyers Marketplace in Providence RI with our friends from famous Hope and Main food collaborative and co-workspace with RI Shellfish Company's Jeanine Caswell, Caribe & Co's Savannah Campbell, Shay and Guy from Navad Bakery and Baba Yaga Sauces Cesar Etribe.

The Kitchen Table Bistro in Richmond VT made so many friends with Sunday Brunch when it kicked off at the beginning of the year that a second day was added. Saturday Brunch at the Kitchen Table is the beginning of many new things for this bistro that is both a neighborhood spot and a destination. Chef-Owner Craig Anthony talked to us about it as broadcast on Food Dude Radio April 13 2024.

What if you had your own restaurant? Anyone who has been in the industry for more than ten minutes has had that thought at least for a moment. Julie Finestone and David Zeidler did. They are the owners of Barkeaters Restaurant in Shelburne, Vermont, a place that everyone in the area knows. David and Julie are listening to their guests as you will hear in our chat on Food Dude Radio.

It was a battle with spoons, bowls and steaming pots of the finest chili anyone could hope to taste. Eleven brave competitors went at it with a prize on the line - not to mention the title of honor - Chili Champion of Newport, Rhode Island. At the same time, the battle raged in the park in Rutland, Vermont. We have complete anchored coverage with our floor reporter Ben Newbury from the scene. As broadcast on Food Dude Radio February 24 2024.

This should get a Longest DIstance Traveled award. Hemenway’s Restaurant, located at 121 South Main Street in Providence, Rhode Island, will host a four-course wine dinner on Monday, March 4th, featuring the acclaimed wines of Hartford Court, part of the Hartford Family Winery in Sonoma County, California. The evening will be presented by Don Hartford, CEO and co-owner of Hartford Family Winery and a Massachusetts native. Your Food Dude Spanning The Globe to bring you an amazing night. As broadcast on Food Dude Radio Feb 24 2024,

We often "dine out in the past" talking about places and dishes we remember. This might be Dining Out In The Future as we talk with three up-and-coming food makers from Rhode Island: Paul Kubiski of Bootblack Brand Cocktail Syrups; Dr Kathryn Oh of Hopscotch Koji Breakfast Puddings; and Addison Caproni of Bow Bar. At INNOVATE Newport's Industry Spotlight, Feb 15 2024.

So we boldly say, Valentine's Day is the Super Bowl of Romance. When you hear this menu from Chef Antonio Petri at the Waybury Inn in Middlebury, Vermont, you'll know what we mean.

It's one of those "Is A Hot Dog A Sandwich" questions. It was asked by a well known maker of cream cheese. Challenge - Bagel bakers: Come up with a bagel without a hole to hold more cream cheese and stuff. The Montreal part is even more intriguing. Montreal bagels are a bit of a different breed and very popular outside of Montreal as well. St. Viateur Bakery is considered the leader in Montreal and the only bakery in Canada chosen for this social experiment. Owner Vince Morena and I talked about how it went.