Foodie and the Beast – June 7, 2015

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis

On this week’s show:
* Jerry Burt, national sales manager for SunWarrior (www.sunwarrior.com), a California-based, health food company that produces plant-based foods, proteins and supplements, is in to talk how even folks not going vegetarian or vegan can enjoy significant health benefits from introducing plant-based protein into their diets in a more meaningful way.
* Food and Friends’ Stacey England is back in-studio, this time to tell us about Food and Friends’ 25th Anniversary, Chef’s Best gala fundraiser. In with her is Foodie and the Beast friend and occasional co-host, Washington Post food writer David Hagedorn, who founded Chef’s Best and is to be honored with Food and Friends’ Visionary Leader Award at the event.
* Customer service may not be why we go and go back to a restaurant, but it’s failure may be why we never go back again. Kim Hunter and Frank Taylor from James Beard Award winner Michel Richard’s Central Restaurant are in talking about what it takes to train and reinforce training for customer service excellence.
* Graffiti is illegal or is it? At Chalk on the Walk in Reston, festival goers get to “purchase” a plot on Lake Anne Plaza to create whatever chalk artwork they want and win big prizes. Maurisa Potts is in to tell us all about it.
* A second-generation winemaker, former homicide prosecutor Lindsay Hoopes is one of the few women winemakers in what still is a mostly male arena. She’s in to talk about her career, what it takes to run her Napa Valley vineyard and, of course, to offer sips of some of her finest vintages.