Season 5, Episode 1: Chef Ouita Michel - Holly Hill & Co. & the Holly Hill Restaurant Group

In this Episode of The Bourbon Life Podcast, Matt and Mark spend some time hanging out with a true Kentucky treasure – 8-time James Beard Foundation Nominee, Chef Ouita Michel from Holly Hill & Co. and the Holly Hill Restaurant Group. The guys talk with Ouita about how her original plan to attend law school in New York City after graduating from the University of Kentucky changed when she decided instead to attend the Culinary Institute of America (where she also met her husband), how she and her husband decided to move back to Kentucky and purchase the Holly Hill Inn and how that one restaurant has now blossomed into a restaurant group with 7 additional restaurants and a bakery over the past 22 years, and her more recent Holly Hill and Co. venture which incorporates food culture, agriculture, and the arts to develop a sense of community through the restaurants, events, and other fun items like her new Bourbon Tasting Game. They also taste and review Woodford Reserve Bourbon, Four Roses Small Batch Bourbon, and Old Forester 1920. This Episode of The Bourbon Life Podcast is sponsored by Liquor Barn, James E. Pepper Distilling Co., The Stave Restaurant, Three Chord Bourbon, and District 7 Social. Check out all of our amazing sponsors online at:  www.liquorbarn.com  www.jamesepepper.com              www.thestavekentucky.com  www.threechordbourbon.com