Foodie and the Beast – Nov. 1, 2015

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis.

On this week’s show:

* The annual Capital Food Fight benefiting DC Central Kitchen is coming up. Executive Director Mike Curtain is in talking about this huge foodie fundraiser featuring Jose Andres, Carla Hall, Spike Mendelsohn and other top chefs.
* Blue Cart is a new mobile app that helps restaurateurs, chefs and restaurant vendors track and manage inventory by putting all communications in one spot. Co-founders Konstantin Zvereff and Jag Bansal and their marketing guru, Andrew Genung, are in to tell us all about Blue Cart.
* The Post’s Bonnie Benwick and food journalist Cathy Barrow (“Mrs Wheelbarrow”) are in to report on reparations for the upcoming, Urban Kitchen pop-up benefiting Les Dames de Escoffier.
* Broodjes & Bier is a Dutch-inspired, sandwich company based in Washington, DC. Founder Sarah “Frim” Frimpong traveled to Amsterdam for a year of study abroad, got hooked on Dutch broodjes – SANDWICHES – and has made them her life’s calling. She’s in with tastes and talk of broodjes and what it takes to stand up a new food operation with the help of kickstarter and union kitchen.
* Mark Slater, the James Beard Award-winning somm, is back in studio to tell us about the new wine program he has created for Pennsylvania 6, opening mid-November in DC.