DeRusha Eats

We’ll listen to an interview with a woman who brings her 26-pound bunny to an airport to help nervous travelers and about the woman who claims she found a cow tooth in her taco. Special thanks to Christine & Salt out of WTIC News and Talk in Hartford and the Dana & Parks Show out of KMBZ in Kansas City.

This week, we’re going to hear about the adventure one of our news teams had at a haunted car wash in California and about the heist of nearly $1 million worth of Pokémon cards. Special thanks to Daniella DeRobbio from KNX News in Los Angeles and A New Morning out of WBEN in Buffalo.

This week… we’re exploring new details about the shooting last week at Silver Rail Elementary School, political ads referencing the Annunciation School shooting from last year and analysis of the ongoing Cornell sex abuse scandal and more.

Featuring audio from 1010 WINS in New York, KYW Newsradio in Philadelphia, WCCO News and Talk in the Twin Cities, WBBM Newsradio in Chicago, KNX News in Los Angeles, the Dana & Parks Show out of KMBZ in Kansas City, Jason DeRusha out of WCCO, A New Morning out of WBEN in Buffalo Scoot and Tommy Tucker out of WWL in New Orleans and Marty Griffin out of KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh.

This week, we’re going to hear about the adventure one of our news teams had at a haunted car wash in California and about the heist of nearly $1 million worth of Pokémon cards. Then, we’ll listen to an interview with a woman who brings her 26-pound bunny to an airport to help nervous travelers and about the woman who claims she found a cow tooth in her taco.

Special thanks to Daniella DeRobbio from KNX News in Los Angeles, A New Morning out of WBEN in Buffalo, Christine & Salt out of WTIC News and Talk in Hartford and the Dana & Parks Show out of KMBZ in Kansas City.

Today on DeRusha Eats, Jason talks with Gail Rosenblum and Kait Ziemer-Davis from Sea Salt Eatery about their new book "Sea Salt Eatery: Recipes to Enjoy Year-Round", why they decided to write it, "Sea Salt Groupies", who their main influences were, and more. Now available from the University of Minnesota Press.

A Paducah, Kentucky kid who went from making bolts for toilets in his hometown to one of the finest pastry chefs in the country: John Kraus is celebrating more than 15 years of his Minneapolis bakery, Patisserie 46. He joins Jason to talk about why he moved to Minneapolis, the challenges of navigating COVID, George Floyd, civil unrest, and an immigration surge. Patisserie 46 in South Minneapolis to rave reviews in July 2010, and this first location continues to be a Twin Cities favorite. That year, John was named a “Top Ten Chocolatier” by Pastry Arts Magazine, along with Joshua Werner, who had joined his team.

In 2014 Kraus was selected as team U.S.A.’s captain at the 2015 Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie and took the 2015 bronze medal at the famed Olympics of pastry competitions. That same year, John was inducted as a member of Relais Desserts Group, the only American-born chef to be ever invited to join this prestigious group of the world’s top 100 pastry chefs.

In 2016, John opened the first Rose Street Patisserie, named for the first sugar flower he ever made, is his mother’s middle name, and not coincidentally, Rose is the last name of his wife and business partner Elizabeth.

In 2026 John and Elizabeth announced plans to move The Bread Lab into a new facility in Lilydale, Minnesota.

Hoyt Hill is the sommelier at Forepaugh's Restaurant in Saint Paul, in late April he got the opportunity to stage a couple days at Chef Thomas Keller's yountville, California restaurant The French Laundry. He talks about the experience, what makes a 3 Michelin starred restaurant different, and the guest who bought a $25,000 bottle of wine. Imagine what the tip was! Well don't imagine, listen to Hoyt talk about it in this edition of DeRusha Eats.

A 38-seat restaurant in South Minneapolis is the Best New Restaurant in America! Bûcheron was named James Beard Foundation's best new restaurant for 2025, built by two veterans of fine dining, both with experience in Gavin Kaysen's Minneapolis restaurants. But Jeanie Janas Ritter and her chef/husband Adam Ritter are trying to do something different: a new version of fine dining where high technique is matched with casual and friendly service as well as a family-friendly life for their team.

Bûcheron joins Jason on DeRusha Eats.

On this episode of DeRusha Eats, Jason is joined by Kitchen and Rail Co-Owner Joe Newhouse as they discuss opening a second location, opening during challenging times, their tribute to "Mort's Deli", what makes a good pastrami sandwich, having an "approachable menu" and more.

Megan Luedtke is the most significant voice in deciding what cocktails Minnesotans are drinking, and no one's talking about her. DeRusha Eats is. Megan shares what inspired her to start creating craft cocktails, the challenges of being a woman in a part of the restaurant world that's stereotypically male, and how she finds flavor inspiration for Daniel del Prado's restaurant group. You can find her cocktails at Porzana, Minari, Rosalia, Martina, Dexter's, Colita, Cardamom, Flora Room, and Thérèse, newly open at 50th & France in Edina.