It's Asheville Week as the NC F&B Podcast travels to the mountains for Chow Chow, An Asheville Culinary Event.

In this episode we chat cheese finally! Then, we go high atop downtown Asheville to the Montford Rooftop Bar to discuss the inns and outs of Asheville.

This episode features:

• Sasha Shreders -Cheese Expert for Cheney Brothers

• Philip Bollhoefer (exec chef) and Miranda Escalante (bev manager) at The Montford Rooftop Bar.

• Jen Rice- freelance writer for Eater, Food and Wine

• Stephanie Burnette- of Eat Drink Carolinas & Editing Manager of At Home Magazine

• Catherine Campbell- director of Bright Planning

  Listen all week for new episodes dropping, all about Asheville!

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  Hospitality industry veterans,Max Trujillo and Matthew Weiss, get behind the scenes of North Carolina's burgeoning food and beverage culture. Hear from local chefs, sommelier's, distillers, farmers, brewers and the whole lot of them in the NC F&B podcast.

  Max is a front-of-house vet/sommelier that moved from Los Angeles to North Carolina in 2013. Since moving to North Carolina, he's run restaurants, designed wine programs and builds craft cocktail menus and now produces multiple podcasts.

  Matthew is a certified sommelier from New York. His experience ranges from restaurant/bar to importing some of the finest wines in the world. He moved his family to North Carolina three years ago and works as a wine distributor.

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  Eat & Drink Merrily!