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Maura Fitzgerald is usually found at the Island Homemade Ice Cream Scoop Shop and Cafe. The other weekend, she was on the ski trails at the Trapp Family Lodge and called in to the Bruce Newbury Show on her way back!

The food story in Rhode Island this year is...Biscuits ! Amazing buttermilk biscuits from a Southern recipe. Irregardless Biscuits of Providence, RI is on everyone's list these days. Chef-owners Joe Hafner and James Dean talked biscuits with me in January.

Hey, I want to go! That's what everyone in Vermont is saying after word got out about the Inaugural Celebration for Governor Phil Scott being held in Barre, Vermont. (Vermonters know you say it like Barry.) It's called the Celebration of 14 - an important number to the guest of honor and to the state which has 14 counties, each one represented with amazing food and artisan created products that are being shown off. Erica Scott takes us to the party in this interview.

It was a great year at Island Homemade Vermont Ice Cream in 2024 and promises to be an even better one in 2025 with a cherry on top! Maura Fitzgerald talks about all the tasty treats we enjoyed in this year gone by from the Eclipse to the holiday flavors. And wait til you hear the scoop for 2025. As broadcast on December 28 2024 on WVMT AM/FM.

This year, everyone celebrates at the same time. Christmas and Hanukkah fall on the same day. Add in the Solstice and New Year's and the party is on until almost Groundhog Day, right? Every week is a celebration at Barkeaters restaurant in Shelburne, Vermont with Julie and David Zeidler. We caught up with David as he was gathering ingredients for the week's theme of themes - kind of a Greatest Hits - a Celebration of Celebrations!

It's our own Christmas special. Steve Mayfield and I stroll the Country Christmas Loft in Shelburne, Vermont to find everything you need for the holiday. We're wrapping up Christmas right down to the wrap and the tinsel. Hop on the sleigh and join us.

Just what we needed for the holidays. Our neighbor from the North Tony called in to talk Montreal bagels, hockey and brought a good vibe along. On the Bruce Newbury Show December 14 2024.

In the spirit at the festive Waybury Inn in Middlebury, Vermont as Chef Antonio fills us in on Christmas Eve and a wonderful family tradition in the making coming this season! And we talk creemees too because it's Vermont.

We spend some holiday time in Newport, Rhode Island with Nicole Canning and Chef Christopher Bender at their Chart House Inn and Stoneacre Brasserie and Stoneacre Gardens. Chef Christopher shares his Christmas Eve menu and a *glam* New Year's Eve Newport Experience too. Innkeeper Nicole gives us a tour and we break some news about a unique Experience coming to the Newport Mansions in 2025!

Our regular visit from my Vermont home at The Waybury Inn in Middlebury with Chef/Innkeeper Antonio Petri. The holidays are closing in fast and so are the parties, the dinners, the gift card shopping and fa-la-la! Then we do some good by hanging out with the good. Lisa Raiola does more good for more food makers than just about anyone in Rhode Island with her Hope and Main launch platform facility - the talk of the industry. We caught up with Lisa on Giving Tuesday.

We're jumping into the season with two great food personalitites from all over New England. Chef Antonio Petri one of the innkeepers of the Waybury Inn in Middlebury Vermont brings us through his kitchen and dining room for Thanksgiving and beyond. Then its off to the first Christmas party of the season in Providence RI with Harrison Elkhay, President of Chow Fun Food Group - Harry's, Ten Prime and more.

Everyone knows Butterball at this time of year - Butterball Turkey. Every year we chat with the Butterball Turkey Talk Line experts and get their advice and horror stories! We've never asked the Ladies about wine pairing with turkey. That's Bob Burke's department. Mon ami, the longtime proprietor of Pot au Feu in Providence RI each year keeps the tradition of the new Beaujolais wine release from the French vineyards. It's a light red wine that pairs perfectly with Thanksgiving dinner. There's French law involved and more but its a lot of fun. Listen to both stories right here. Allons!

How to get Newport diners to visit a Providence restaurant ? Move it to Newport! A highly-anticipated new food hall in Providence is having a sneak peek in Newport in early December. Track 15 will host a preview event on December 4 at Giusto in Newport, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center. Here's a preview with Chris Marsella, CEO, Marsella Development Group and Alyson Novick, Director of Development, MLK Center.

The Food Dude's Official Coffee of course. Vermont Coffee Company ambassador Jacob Ouellette talks Compostable Pods and warm holiday aromas. Hey as the song goes about the feeling nothing can buy "when they pass around the coffee and the pumpkin pie!"

Dr. Michaelangelo La Luna of the University of Rhode Island hosted special guests for an invitation-only home-cooked Calabrian dinner during Italian Heritage Month. While not a trained chef, he loves cooking and sharing meals with other people, something that he got from his family in Calabria where he grew up. He will make you run out for a multi-course pasta dinner like a "Big Night!" Enjoy. And a thousand thanks!

Something different for Halloween. The War of the Worlds radio play adapted by Providence Rhode Island radio in 1974 from an adaptation by Buffalo NY radio in 1971 and 1968 and at some point adapted from the Orson Welles play by Howard Koch back in 1938. Got all that? This one is rare indeed. You'll hear the title intoned reassuringly by one of the great reassuring voices who the kids all loved on snow days. Enjoy - especially the jingles and ads, my fellow radio nerds.

Barkeaters Restaurant in Shelburne, Vermont has become one of the great dining destinations. David and Julie Zeidler have settled in as proprietors over the past year. One of the more popular touches they have added is Theme Weeks with an exciting new menu each week. David and I talked about two recent big weeks that have guests and friends looking forward to see what the next theme will be!

Welcome to the second Providence(RI) Restaurant Renaissance. A new food hall to be called Track 15 will open in 2025. Bruce talks to chef proprietors Sanjiv Dhar of Little Chaska and Alp Gumuscu who has a new concept called Tolia, and Chris Marsella, CEO of Marsella Development Corporation.

Big news from the Waybury Inn in Middlebury, Vermont. The Inn has been busy with fans of the 1980's hit sitcom, "Newhart," wanting an inside look at the exterior setting for the beloved comedy and to remember the late Bob Newhart. This fall, those memories will come alive with the first "Newhart Weekend" which Chef Antonio Petri reveals in our chat from the Waybury's living room. There is more in store including some creations from the Chefs that will make it an unforgettable Fall.

To perfectly prepare your palate - and the rest of you - for an exceptional meal, there is The Aperitivo - in this case a perfectly balanced Negroni cocktail. The legendary Jimmy Bruton from the just as legendary Via Carota in New York was at the Newport (RI) International Boat Show serving up perfect cocktails. As broadcast on Food Dude Radio Sept 21 2024.