Food Dude Bruce Newbury

There was a song about West End Girls and the boys from another part of town, wasn't there? This is about the girls and boys who grew up to Make Food Their Business. That's the buzzword at Hope & Main, the groundbreaking foodservice incubator in Rhode Island that has expanded to Providence - the west end of town in fact. The all new, state-of-the-art West End Kitchens is just opening i...

You have to pregame these days. Not wanting to be one of the cool kids, we're in. Let's pregame the 2026 Burlington Wine and Food on June 27 at HULA Lakeside in Burlington (VT). Tracy and Mike Stolese and I line things up and get you all ready to come and sip and taste and hang by the lake. Then Meg Gonzalez from Grafton Village Cheese/Vt Farmstead and I slice it up and give just a little...

This ain't no space aliens podcast friends, although if the algorithims bring that crowd in, I can always use the clicks. It's our good friend Heather Singleton, Chief Operating Officer of the Rhode Island Hospitality Association talking abou the recent Summit for high school juniors and seniors and alumni of the RIHA Education Foundation PROSTART competition - just don't call it the C...

Talking to Heather Robenhymer from Rhode Island Blood Center about upcoming blood drives at Dave's Fresh Marketplace locations during June. As broadcast June 3-5 on Bruce Newbury's morning show on WADK AM/FM Newport RI.

That's the name of our first guest's place, translated. Che! Empanada is an up and coming New England food success story in Metro West Boston. Albie Alvarez-Cote creates traditional and modern empanadas in the Argentinian style. Flaky pastry and flavorful fillings add up to a GOALLLLL! and just in time for the Summer of Soccer - er, football. Then we are off to Vermont just in time for pat...

Green Up and Leaf Out! And Tent Up too! Chef Antonio Petri and Bruce are first on the patio to see the Great Outdoors, the Waybury's beautiful tent, return for the season. What a season we have planned. Music, food, drinks and a great time in Vermont for another amazing season. Let's get started.

Let's go see what's new at the Show. Food Dude Radio has been on the show circuit this spring. We're just back from the New England Restaurant and Bar Show in Boston where attendance was over the top. Better business is done in person. It was always the way. We talked to start up entrepreneurs, friends with well known brands, celebrity chefs and everyone who would talk with us. Paul Wa...

Covers a lot of ground, doesn't it? It is finally springtime in New England and there are a lot of people celebrating. There are lots of reasons to celebrate. And there are many reasons and people to remember. Every spring aroudn this time, friends and family in Middlebury, Vermont raise a beer to someone who is remembered in just that way. Known and Loved Week is special and you'll hear w...

The Broadcast Bistro was in the middle of a foodie frenzy at the Buyers Marketplace Show held in April in Providence RI. Farm Fresh RI and Hope & Main welcomed 75 food creators and makers. Listen for Great Aunt Louise's, Kitchen Garden Farm, Grain Reaper Baking Co, Big Little Pies, Butterfly Bakery Hot Sauces, Benia's Pierogi, Vermont Bean Crafters, Hope & Main, Chill's Cheesec...

We have been anxiously awaiting any sign of spring! Here are a couple - The First Clambake of the season. McGrath Clambakes of Newport RI brought it inside and it was a first course only but was a great success at the Newport EXPO. How about the great tent at the Waybury Inn in Vermont? It will be going up soon. Chef Antonio Petri says so. And there is Mother's Day. And we still have the rest...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! We're all Irish. As the saying goes, if your great-grandmother set foot in Ireland on her way to Europe, you're Irish. We're off to Tipperary for some lovely Artisan Blue cheese that will make your eyes smile. Then it's off to Newport, RI, almost as Irish at least this time of the year, and into the parlor of the Chart House Inn with our innkeeper Nicol...

The Olympics have nothing on The Great Chili Cook-off in Newport, Rhode Island. As the curling and luge was going on, hundreds of chili fans sampled some of the greatest chili creations from Newport and Rhode Island restaurants and chefs. With Food Dude reporter Ben Newbury, we talk to the creators and more important, the tasters as they vote for the Chili Champions. Who's going for (red) Gold...

A Super Side trip for New England fans on today's episode. Joy Sterling and Iron Horse Vineyards want to be part of the Welcome Wagon for everyone following the Patriots out to the Bay Area. Just an hour from the Golden Gate in Sebastopol are some of the Russian River Valley's finest sparklers and Chardonnay and more. Perfect with Dungeness crab which is in season right now. Speaking of se...

Chef Cara Marie Mourning, new executive chef, Mill's Tavern, Providence and Emily Schario, content officer and founder of The B-Side. I'm an influencer, you're an influencer, he's an influencer, she's an influencer, wouldn't you like to be an influencer too! We get to talk to a couple of people who are really on the leading edge of what is going on in food and in one kitche...

I'm allowed one Dad joke per episode. So Providence RI needs some love. One of my hometowns, it had a tough week before the week before Christmas. So my friends at Track 15 send this one out. Then its off to the Vermont inn where it always snows on Christmas Eve - the Waybury - my Vermont home with Chef Antonio. And then back to PVD for the best cooking class ever with Dean of Students and Cha...

Borrowed from Mardi Gras - Laissez les bontemps rouler! Let the good times roll. By French law, on the Third Thursday of November the new Beaujolais wine may be released. It has been in the barrel and the bottle for about ten minutes. Okay, six months. It's a fun, fruity red wine that as Bob Burke says, you want to date, not marry...Ah, the French. So, he throws a party every November and it&#...

And there's ice cream, coffee milk and chips! We're tasting our way through a bunch of treats today. First, seafood - that's the Blue food. Emmy Award Winning TV Personality / Chef/ Cookbook Author / James Beard Winner Andrew Zimmern and Award Winning Chef and Sustainable Seafood Expert, Barton Seaver talk and share recipes from their new Blue Food Cookbook. Then we're off to Dave&...

So the cheese never stands alone. We had a great time at the Grafton Village Cheese Company's Okemo Valley Tasting Room and Retail Store in Proctorsville, Vermont. Inside we were treated to the state of the cheesemaker's art with aged cheddar and some of the finest cheddars and other specialty cheeses that have ever been tasted. Outside, our neighbors had some high-end hardwood grills goin...

It's tea time so mind your manners and pinkies up! We're off to a Gilded Age style High Tea in Providence RI at the always amazing Mill's Tavern. Then you'll be one of the first to try the new JT Commons restaurant in Newport just over the line in Middletown. It's a cool concept from Newport Restaurant Group. And I think I see Peak Foliage. How about Foliage and Flavor! Everyth...

Wait what?? We're all over it on this week's episode. You'll be among the first to taste with your ears the new Girl Scout Cookie Exploremores. And of course what goes better than a Fall Pumpkin Beer? We'll pop the top on a few with Jen Brinton of Greysail Brewing in Rhode Island. Bookend all that with a stay at my Vermont home, the Waybury Inn, and my Newport hideaway, the Chart H...

Wanna be my Tailgate Date? We're going tailgating with Chef Jamie Gwen who has already said she would. Don't fight over me now. It's Maine Lobster Week and Gillian Britt will be our tour guide all over the great State of Maine. And from the Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival, culinary director Chef Kevin Des Chenes and guest celebrity chef Jen Behm-Lazzarini.

So, how's your French? If you know, you know. In French, it's "House of Tent" which works. We're at Waybury Inn where the new "Great Outdoors" tent just went up. Some guests are already calling the Waybury Dome. It's going to host some amazing events this fall and Chef Antonio fills us in on a big one upcoming - O'hAnleigh's 1000th Show Sept 21. Now if y...

Who says no to pie and coffee? Not us. Especially when its Vermont Coffee Company and the North American Maple Pie Competition! Jacob Powsner who is Baird Farm's Coffee Bean Counter is first up from his family farm's 4th Annual North American Maple Pie Competition before the event took place. Then, it's our first-ever Coffee Show with Mira Rinder-Goddard from Vermont Coffee Company tak...

Fans of Farmers' Markets have their favorites, each with its own special charm. The Shelburne (VT) Farmers Market is getting more charming each week. It has become one of the largest in Vermont. We spent the last Saturday in July visiting with the vendors and turned it into an hour of Food Dude Radio. And we just got started. Also, a stop at Vermont's only A&W Drive-In and we get ready...

You ask everyone, "How is your summer going?" and the reply is usually, "Great but too fast." Summer has a habit of slipping away. Summer food events come fast and furious. Here are a couple more to savor before the seasons change. The Summer Soiree to benefit Little Sisters and Fishes At The Fort on behalf of Eating with the Ecosystem. Meet Lauren Clem who is organizing the So...