On this episode of the Food About Town podcast I sat down in the studio with Matty Miller, the head chef from the Owl House over on Marshall Street. We got the chance to hang out for a while discussing his past working in Rochester restaurants, why he ended up working in the kitchen and hit up some of his favorite places. Of course we ended up going on plenty of tangents, but that makes things...
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On this episode of the Food About Town podcast I sat down in the studio with Ben MacDonald, the man behind Brew Mechanics. Ben and I made a trip to the Food Truck Rodeo prior to our podcast recording so we talked about that before we dove into beer. On that front, we discussed the local beer scene, what Ben is trying to do with his business and tasted a fantastic beer I brought back from Vermont...
On this episode of the Food About Town podcast I sat down in the studio with Sean O’Donnell, the chef de cuisine at Aunt Rosie’s, following his pop up dim sum event. I’ll be discussing the event in more detail in a post coming soon, but I wanted to spend some quality time with Sean talking about the Flour City Food Core event, his path as a chef and some about our mutual...
On this episode of the Food About Town podcast I sat down in the studio with Kevin McCann from McCann’s Local Meats to talk about his new butcher shop at the Edge of the Wedge complex. We hit a number of different topics including culinary school, different cuts of meats, whole animal butchery and how to start a new business in a new city. Kevin had a lot to say and was very insightful...
On this episode of the Food About Town podcast I sat down in the studio with Chris Clemens from Exploring Upstate and Veronica Volk from WXXI and we talked about condiments! This has been a few months in the making after Chris and I touched on condiments in Episode 16 of the F.A.T. podcast and he explained his distaste for mayonnaise. Twitter came in to the situation a few days ago and Veronica...
On this episode of the Food About Town podcast I sat down in the studio with Calvin Eaton who created The Gluten Free Chef blog and the Ask the Gluten Free Chef podcast. Calvin has a fascinating backstory filled with issues that he has worked hard to overcome and I was impressed with his positive attitude about everything. He lives a gluten free lifestyle and we talked about that among other food...