Foodie and the Beast – March 4, 2018

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today’s show: * Spike Mendelsohn – you know the name – celebrity chef – top chef home run hitter – successful cookbook author – stints on everything from “Iron Chef America,” “Beat Bobby Flay” and his own shows, including the Food Network’s “Kitchen Sink” – now married guy, dad and, oh yeah, head of a successful restaurant group that includes the Good Stuff Eatery – well, he’s here, and we’re gonna hear from him on lots of subjects, including his new restaurant, Santa Rosa, an authentic Mexican taqueria; * Gwyn Whittaker, founder and CEO of the Greenfare Organic Café in Herndon, in to talk Greenfare and its many programs for healthy lifestyles; * Alex Cohen of Twenty Tables, a mobile restaurant concierge platform designed to provide consumers affordable meals while also feeding D.C.’s hungry and food-insecure; * Cameron Syme and John Rochfort, two of Australia’s preeminent craft whisky distillers. We’ll taste and talk Australian whiskies and how they just might take over the world!