NC F&B Podcast

If you were a Game of Thrones fan, you know it was nearly impossible for a non-noble to realize his dream. Brandon Sharp did, from Cali to North Cackalacki

Topics discussed in this episode include;

• The importance of Michelin stars and the stress they create
• Working at the French Laundry
• The inner workings of the CIA
• Starting out as a busboy in a Chi-chi's
• Achieving California dreams and then giving them up for North Carolina
• Should a burger be on the menu at a fancy restaurant?
• Purchasing power of great chef's
• The differences between east coast chef's & west coast chef's

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Follow the show @ncfbpod and hosts at Max Trujillo & Matthew Weiss

Support our Sponsors: The Folks Foundation! https://www.folksfoundation.org

Proof Alcohol Ice Cream https://proofalcoholicecream.com

Triangle Wine Company https://trianglewineco.com Use promo code 'NCFB' at checkout!

Get home food delivery from Inland Seafood by shopping at https://domesticseafood.com

The NC F&B Podcast is Produced and Engineered by Max Trujillo of Trujillo Media

For booking or questions about the show, contact: [email protected] or [email protected]

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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 veteran/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 four years ago and works as a wine distributor.

Eat & Drink Merrily!

Innovation and sticktoitiveness are just a few words that come to mind when you consider what these 4 businesses are doing to battle against Covid-19. This episode shines a light on four Triangle-area food industry professionals who are stepping things up during quarantine to provide for the community. We talk to Jacob Boehm of Snap Pea about how he cooked Passover dinner for 50 plus family and friends on his own dime and continues to pay his salaried employees. Chef Jake Wood of Lawrence BBQ talks about what it's like to roll out a new business in a curbside capacity. Neal Benefield of Hawthorne & Wood discusses about how they've pivoted their fine dining menu into one that makes sense for takeout. We then go to downtown Cary where Chef Christoper "coco' Lopez and GM Hayden Hall of Postmaster tell us why they changed their entire concept into @govt.cheeseburger. Make sure to tune in tomorrow to hear more! Oh, and there might be a Brisket Block Party in the future!

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Follow the show @ncfbpod and hosts at Max Trujillo & Matthew Weiss

Support our Sponsors: The Folks Foundation! https://www.folksfoundation.org

Our newest sponsor ehungry.com! Join up with their services and receive a free 60 day grace period and only 1.9% of sales after that!

Proof Alcohol Ice Cream https://proofalcoholicecream.com

Triangle Wine Company https://trianglewineco.com Use promo code 'NCFB' at checkout!

The NC F&B Podcast is Produced and Engineered by Max Trujillo of Trujillo Media

For booking or questions about the show, contact: [email protected]

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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&Bpodcast.

Max is a front-of-house veteran/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 four years ago and works as a wine distributor.

For questions, comments and booking, contact us at [email protected]

Eat & Drink Merrily!

Steve Palmer is a beacon lighting the way for how restaurants should be run. Steve creates an environment that is employee centered. Indigo Road Hospitality has 24 restaurants across the south that have all become integral parts of their community. On top of running restaurants, Steve created Ben's Friends a restaurant industry support system for those struggling with addiction. Oh, and by the way he's also a two time JBF award nominee for outstanding restaurateur! This is more than worth the listen!

If you want to buy a gift card to help Indigo Road employees, 100% of the purchase goes to the employees while Indigo Road bears the actual cost of the meal: theindigoroad.com/giftcards/

If you are struggling with addiction and you are in the food and beverage industry: bensfriendshope.com/

Get Steve Palmer's book 'Say Grace: How the Restaurant Business Saved My Life'

https://www.amazon.com/Say-Grace-Restaurant-Business-Saved-ebook/dp/B07ZQW2XSB

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Follow the show @ncfbpod and hosts at Max Trujillo & Matthew Weiss

Support our Sponsors: The Folks Foundation! https://www.folksfoundation.org

Our newest sponsor ehungry.com! Join up with their services and receive a free 60 day grace period and only 1.9% of sales after that!

Proof Alcohol Ice Cream https://proofalcoholicecream.com

Triangle Wine Company https://trianglewineco.com Use promo code 'NCFB' at checkout!

The NC F&B Podcast is Produced and Engineered by Max Trujillo of Trujillo Media

For booking or questions about the show, contact: [email protected]

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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&Bpodcast.

Max is a front-of-house veteran/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 four years ago and works as a wine distributor.

For questions, comments and booking, contact us at [email protected]

Eat & Drink Merrily!

Anthony Scalabrino, founder of @oakcityamarettoco, joins us to give you a little break from coronavirus-related content and to appreciate how awesome our previously "normal" lives. We talk to Anthony about how he got the signature amaretto recipe from his Sicilian grandmother, who brought the family recipe over to Michigan where Anthony grew up. (Fun fact - His badass grandma also worked in the Keebler factory!) Anthony also gives us the basic formula and process for making amaretto and generously lets us add some into our coffee while we chat (a fantastic combo, btw). Might we recommend a splash in your own coffee tomorrow morning while you listen?... We're in quarantine, who cares!

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Fun Instagram Follows:

Lydia Santogade for great food ideas and hilarious movie reviews and dating drama @lydiasantogade

Kingfisher in Durham is doing fantastic virtual Happy Hours most nights. Follow them @kingfisherdurm

Raleigh Magazine for great live chef demos. Follow them @raleighmagazine

Follow the show @ncfbpod and hosts at Max Trujillo & Matthew Weiss

Support our Sponsors: The Folks Foundation! https://www.folksfoundation.org

Our newest sponsor ehungry.com! Join up with their services and receive a free 60 day grace period and only 1.9% of sales after that!

Proof Alcohol Ice Cream https://proofalcoholicecream.com

Triangle Wine Company https://trianglewineco.com Use promo code 'NCFB' at checkout!

The NC F&B Podcast is Produced and Engineered by Max Trujillo of Trujillo Media

For booking or questions about the show, contact: [email protected]

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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&Bpodcast.

Max is a front-of-house veteran/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 four years ago and works as a wine distributor.

For questions, comments and booking, contact us at [email protected]

Eat & Drink Merrily!

This episode features 9 captains of our the culinary industry from all over the state. Max and Matt brought these fine folks together with the hope of finding some light at the end of the Corona Virus tunnel. Guests include Real Estate Developer Marty Kotis/Greensboro, Mike Lee of M Restaurants/Durham, Chef Travis Myers formerly of Willow in Winston Salem, Chef Jeff Bacon of Providence /Winston Salem, Leah Howard of Cultivated Cocktails/Asheville, Ben and Gabe Barker of Pizzeria Mercato, Billy Mellon of Manna/Wilmington.

How to apply for the loan discussed click here.

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Follow the show @ncfbpod and hosts at Max Trujillo & Matthew Weiss

Support our Sponsors: The Folks Foundation! https://www.folksfoundation.org

Our newest sponsor ehungry.com! Join up with their services and receive a free 60 day grace period and only 1.9% of sales after that!

Proof Alcohol Ice Cream https://proofalcoholicecream.com

Triangle Wine Company https://trianglewineco.com Use promo code 'NCFB' at checkout!

The NC F&B Podcast is Produced and Engineered by Max Trujillo of Trujillo Media

For booking or questions about the show, contact: [email protected]

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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&Bpodcast.

Max is a front-of-house veteran/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 four years ago and works as a wine distributor.

For questions, comments and booking, contact us at [email protected]

Eat & Drink Merrily!

As close as you can get to drinking from a cow's utters. Cream on top and no homogenization, that's the key to Ranlew Dairy's milk!

In this episode, we find out how the price of milk came to be, what happened to all the dairy farms and who is the best square dancer in the Trujillo family. Also, remember when the milkman use to deliver? Most of you probably don't but find out what happened to that anyway. Pull up a cold glass and tune in!

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Follow the show @ncfbpod and hosts at Max Trujillo & Matthew Weiss

Support our Sponsors: The Folks Foundation! https://www.folksfoundation.org

Our newest sponsor ehungry.com! Join up with their services and receive a free 60 day grace period and only 1.9% of sales after that!

Proof Alcohol Ice Cream https://proofalcoholicecream.com

Triangle Wine Company https://trianglewineco.com Use promo code 'NCFB' at checkout!

The NC F&B Podcast is Produced and Engineered by Max Trujillo of Trujillo Media

For booking or questions about the show, contact: [email protected]

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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&Bpodcast.

Max is a front-of-house veteran/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 four years ago and works as a wine distributor.

For questions, comments and booking, contact us at [email protected]

Eat & Drink Merrily!

We welcome Jill Donovan, the leading lady behind Donovan's Dish. You might recognize the name from the AMAZING shrimp and grits they brought to our This Is Not A Happy Hour event two weeks ago. (Yes, we still think about it almost every day.) During the episode, we talk to Jill about how coronavirus is affecting the catering and event industry, as well as what she's personally doing at Donovan's Dish to maintain a safe, non-contact "Dish to Door" delivery system. We also talk about her time in college studying fashion merchandising and how it set her up for the retail aspect of her business, the tanning salons she started with her mom called Jill's Beach, and what a typical dinner at home looks like for her and her kids. Make sure to tune in tomorrow to hear the rest of our conversation!

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Follow the show @ncfbpod and hosts at Max Trujillo & Matthew Weiss

Support our Sponsors: The Folks Foundation! https://www.folksfoundation.org

Our newest sponsor ehungry.com! Join up with their services and receive a free 60 day grace period and only 1.9% of sales after that!

Proof Alcohol Ice Cream https://proofalcoholicecream.com

Triangle Wine Company https://trianglewineco.com Use promo code 'NCFB' at checkout!

The NC F&B Podcast is Produced and Engineered by Max Trujillo of Trujillo Media

For booking or questions about the show, contact: [email protected]

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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&Bpodcast.

Max is a front-of-house veteran/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 four years ago and works as a wine distributor.

For questions, comments and booking, contact us at [email protected]

Eat & Drink Merrily!

Our friend Bobby McFarland once worked for Chef Floyd Cardoz in New York. Floyd was Bobby's mentor and taught him how to be a great cook. On our journey to up north for "New York Week", Bobby reached out to Floyd to ask if we could interview him for our podcast. Not only did he agree, but he invited us to his home. His wife made us tea, we pet his dog, he gave us the best tasting asparagus from his garden. It was unreal.

Floyd Cardoz passed away today, reportedly from the COVID virus. Our hearts are broken and there is a sense of helplessness occurring. Our instinct is to remember Floyd today, by re-releasing our interview with him from August 2nd, 2018.

Rest in Peace Chef...

It's night one of a 5-part series highlighting our studio/offices at The Kitchen, for the 2nd annual This is NOT a Happy Hour event series.

The podcasts this week are more of a talk-show environment with people from all over the industry stopping by the podcast to chat about what they do and what's going on in the Food and Beverage community right now.

Why isn't this a Happy Hour? NC ABC Liquor laws do not allow alcohol to be discounted at any specific time during the day, thus we aren't allowed to have that magical discounted time from 4-7pm when people gather at their local eateries/bars to network, socialize or just satiate their bellies, at the end of a long workday.

It's a fun, short listen each day, packed with information and entertainment. Eat & Drink Merrily!

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Follow the show @ncfbpod and hosts at Max Trujillo & Matthew Weiss

Support our Sponsors: The Folks Foundation! https://www.folksfoundation.org

Our newest sponsor ehungry.com! Join up with their services and receive a free 60 day grace period and only 1.9% of sales after that!

Proof Alcohol Ice Cream https://proofalcoholicecream.com

Triangle Wine Company https://trianglewineco.com Use promo code 'NCFB' at checkout!

The NC F&B Podcast is Produced and Engineered by Max Trujillo of Trujillo Media

For booking or questions about the show, contact: [email protected]

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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&Bpodcast.

Max is a front-of-house veteran/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 four years ago and works as a wine distributor.

For questions, comments and booking, contact us at [email protected]

Eat & Drink Merrily!

Due to the government shutdown of restaurants and bars, we'd like to use our platform to bring our industry together for the purposes of solutions, shared ideas and community.

In a virtual town-hall format, we speak with about 10-15 leaders in the community such as: Lynn Minges of the NCRLA, to Chefs Teddy Diggs, Beth Littlejohn, Jake Wood, as well as Russell Solovay and Brian Hudson of Sysco Foods, Melissa Katrincic of Durham Distillery, Kevin Barrett of Dram & Draught, Chris Roche of Triangle Wine Company, Candice Herriott of Something ELSE About Food, Forrest Mason, Kristin Baughman Taber of Tabletop Media and David Shaner of Offline Media, Trish Wytek and the Professor and Mary-Ann... here on the NC F&B Podcast!

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Follow the show @ncfbpod and hosts at Max Trujillo & Matthew Weiss

Support our Sponsors: The Folks Foundation! https://www.folksfoundation.org

Our newest sponsor ehungry.com! Join up with their services and receive a free 60 day grace period and only 1.9% of sales after that!

Proof Alcohol Ice Cream https://proofalcoholicecream.com

Triangle Wine Company https://trianglewineco.com Use promo code 'NCFB' at checkout!

The NC F&B Podcast is Produced and Engineered by Max Trujillo of Trujillo Media

For booking or questions about the show, contact: [email protected]

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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&Bpodcast.

Max is a front-of-house veteran/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 four years ago and works as a wine distributor.

For questions, comments and booking, contact us at [email protected]

Eat & Drink Merrily!