Foodie and the Beast – July 29, 2018

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis.

On today’s show:

This show is awash in thought provoking topics info AND lotsa liquid refreshment. Guests include local entrepreneur, Kristof Grina, co founder of Up Top Acres, which bring greening to rooftops and other underutilized spaces with urban farming techniques yielding bountiful crops for city dwellers; Michael Iglesias, beverage director at chef Victor Albisu’s new Poca Madre and Taco Bamba “combo” restaurant in the Penn Quarter, is in with tastes and talk if his selection of his more than 90 premium mescals; one of the world’s foremost authorities on culinary culture, Amy Riolo, who is the national spokesperson for the American Diabetes Association’s new, Quick Diabetic Recipes Cookbook, and is in discussing the value of the tasty, delish recipes in her new cookbook, and, finally, Sam Nellis, Foodie and the Beast’s Number Three son, has become an acclaimed mixologist in his position as assistant GM and the guy in charge of the cocktail programs at The Red Hen and Chef Mike Friedman’s other property, All-Purpose Shaw – he’s invented a signature line-up of flavored spritzes, and we get to sample them all!