Eat It

Today we spoke about the ongoing industry issue around staff underpayment (AKA wage theft), had a chat to Brae's chef and owner Dan Hunter about his recent Good Food Guide Restaurant of the Year win, and discussed saison and porter with Scott McKinnon from Wolf of the Willows brewery.

Today we spoke to Australia's Fisheries Research & Development Corporation's Crispian Ashby about their new app "SAFS", caught up with John at the QVM, and chatted about the 40th anniversary edition of the Good Food Guide with Roslyn Grundy.

Today we spoke to Sustainability Victoria's CEO Karl Muller about the new laws around disposal of e-waste, caught up with John at the Queen Vic Market, and chatted to one of Melbourne's leading restaurant proprietors Caterina Borsato.

On today's show we talked about the latest articles on red meat consumption with Rosemary Stanton, and caught up with Arbory Bar's Nick Bennett.

Today we spoke to food writer Dani Valent, caught up with John at the market, and talked Teeling Whiskey with Martin Lynch.

Today we spoke to Maker & Monger's Anthony Femnia about sourcing Comte cheese from France, Baker Bleu's Mike Russell spoke about his journey into baking, and Jamsheed winemaker Gary Mills spoke about his approach to winemaking.

Today we spoke to Melbourne super-chef Andrew McConnell, had a market report with John, and paired some riesling with a leek tart with winemaker Duncan Buchanan.

Today we spoke to Dr Renae Beale from the Royal Society of Victoria about the upcoming Extra-Sensory event at Parliament House, chatted about Ethiopian cuisine with Saba Alamayoh, and talked about the new-wave of Italian restaurants in Melbourne with food writer Michael Harden.

We spoke to industry veteran Tony Eldridge about the industry's wage-theft problems, and also chatted to Pat Nourse about his role in the San Pel Top 50 list and how he thinks the Roman's have RUINED coffee.

Today we spoke to Simon Blancher about his upcoming food event underneath Fed Square, Bellota Wine Bar's Nicky Reimer told us what she's cooking to stay warm in winter, and Shaun Byrne talked us through his new book All Day Cocktails.

Today we spoke to Dr Gie Liem about the upcoming Science Week "Extrasensory" event at Parliament House, caught up with John at the market, and talked Australian spirits with Union Electric's Huw Griffith.

Today we spoke to Dr Rosemary Stanton about the emergence of the food star rating system back into the news, we had a market report from John at the Queen Victoria Market, and enjoyed some cheese and cannoli with Giorgio Linguanti from That's Amore Cheese.

Two legends of the Melbourne hospitality scene joined us in-studio today, Matteo Pignatelli from North Fitzroy’s Matteos Restaurant and Gail Donovan from St Kilda’s Donovans. PLUS we talked all things Campari with their Brand Ambassador Luca Baioni.

Today's show was all about the Queen Vic Market! We had a market update from John, a preview of next week's truffle festival at the QVM, and also spoke to Julie Boening about the 69-year history of the American Doughnut Kitchen vans.

Today we were joined by The Stokehouse's Ollie Hansford, Mamasita's Nick Peters & Martin Zozaya, as well as Byron Bay Cooking School's Sam Gowing.

It's mushroom season! And we had a chat to Bar Lourinha's Matt McConnell about what he was able to find on a forest floor this Sunday morning. We also spoke to Matt Wilkinson about his new role at Four Pillars Gin, as well as covering off Cam's most recent recipe mistake... store-bought stock!

Today we spoke to Annam's Jerry Mai about her new book Street Food Vietnam, chatted to super-chef Donovan Cooke about his upcoming collaboration with the Gin Palace, and we discussed home made raspberry wine with Diego Capalani.

Today we caught up with John at the Vic Market, food writer and Melbourne Food & Wine Festival's Pat Nourse, and chef at The Atlantic Nick Mahlook.

Today we spoke to Burch & Purchese's Darren Purchese about his new book "Chefs Eat Breakfast Too", Smith & Daughters chef Shannon Martinez chatted about how to cook a decent quality meal for $4 per head, and we quizzed mushroom guru Cameron Russell about the current state of the mycelium.

On today's program we spoke to Phil Kelly about next weekend's Kellybrook Cider Festival, caught up with John at the Queen Vic Market, and chatted to Dr Tim Crowe about some of the world's nutritional hotspots.

It's Easter weekend! And we spoke to Attica's Ben Shewry about his recent baking sale to raise funds for victims of the Christchurch shooting, checked in with Smith & Daughter's Shannon Martinez about how to cook dinner for $4, and also talked wine (and cooking Easter bunnies) with winemaker Duncan Buchanan.

Today Cam and Matt were joined in the studio by Bar Lourinha's Matt McConnell talking Autumn dishes, we had a market report from John at the Queen Victoria Market, and Anther Gin's Sebastian Reaburn popped in with the first of this year's batch of his Cherry Gin.

Today we welcomed Bushy back to the RRR microphones to talk about the happenings in the Macedon community, we spoke to Bellota Wine Bar's chef Nikki Reimer, and Madame Brussel's Ms Pearls and bar manager Kayla mixed us a drink.

We speak to Brae's Dan Hunter, have a market report from John, and catchup with Liam Matthews about renovating and revamping The Carringbush Hotel in Abbotsford... a vegan pub!

On today's show we spoke to Tami Jonas from the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance about her recent trip to meet with the UN in Rome, Long Song chef David Moyles chatted about his upcoming Eel Dinner celebrating thousands of years of indigenous culture from the Port Fairy area, and we finished the show talking tomato passatta season with Spriga Espresso owner Mario Simeone.