Food Dude Bruce Newbury

These days it is easy to only see the downside. But there are bright spots in the gloom and doom. They are where we are getting our food. Our food supply is our restaurants. That's why it was so seismic when they all closed. But guess what? We have discovered takeout in a big way. Restaurants are helping us again as we are helping them. Listen. Then order takeout. And tip. With Ted Tomlinsen who i...

Restaurants are our food supply - yanked out from under us. Bruce talks with two Johnson & Wales University professors about what we might do in our own kitchens to fill the gap and why we feel so bad about our favorite places getting changed to takeout only. Some good comfort food ideas coming your way here.

Brianna Truax joins Bruce in the lobby of the Waybury Inn for a midwinter chat on a Bluebird day. As broadcast from The Waybury Inn, Middlebury Vt February 22 2020

So here we are at Dave's Marketplace in Wickford Rhode Island with Dave's Scratch Bakery Brownie Cheesecake and Aveyo Spoonable Avocado "Yogurt". Which will Father Jack go for? Sounds like a game of Clue or something but it all happened on the radio and you can hear it again right here.

On location at Food Dude's second home, The Waybury Inn in Vermont to preview a slopeside Elegant Mountain Dinner at the nearby Snow Bowl. And then its back to Rhode Island to sit down with Ted K at the Blue Plate to wipe away a tear for the Top of the Hub and other bygone restos. Then some learnin' with Professor Chef Branden Lewis from Johnson & Wales University - JWU - on their new degree i...

These iconic restos are closing and Ted K and Bruce are heartbroken. Plus the Big Game is here and the best part as always is the food - Bruce talks  to Tech Chef George Duran. BTB Gaspar's Linguica and Chourico at the Blue Plate Diner and Dave's Marketplace in Rhode Island. 

And the first hour of the first pod of the new decade in the Broadcast Bistro that the Food Dude built...We welcome a new radio affiliate, preview Providence (RI) Restaurant Week and talk EVOO with an authentic EVOO Taster - you can tell by his accent! As broadcast Saturday January 4, 2020.

Blue Plate Diner's Ted Karousos talks about trends for 2020 for Uber Eats, DoorDash and the rest. Bruce says don't underestimate the diner! Then Yankee Mag Food Editor Amy Traverso calls in about Christmas in Vermont and in Newport RI.

Kicking Off Christmas a week before Thanksgiving at the Country Christmas Loft in Shelburne, Vermont. With proprietor Steve, Steve from Aviation Deli, Kurt Wright from The Morning Drive on WVMT, Ben Newbury and the spirit of Christmas all around along with Montreal bagels from Myer's and cookies and pies from Sam Mazza's. As broadcast on WVMT November 23, 2019.

It's not really my inn - it's Bob Newhart's! It's not really his either, it just played it on TV - it's Joe and Tracey Sutton's Waybury Inn in Middlebury VT - but I get a big "Welcome Home" every time I stay there. And it did snow the week I came back just in time for Thanksgiving. Amy and Chef Donna and I talk about the best Thanksgiving dinner and Christmastime afterwards. That's about an hour a...

And what are we gonna eat in the year 2030? Ted Karousos has been doing some research. The Tastiest Talk Show is at the Local Taste Of RI Day at Dave's Marketplace, Smithfield Crossing. We talk to Lily Scott of Lily's Bone Broth, Christina McDonald from Gotham Greens and talk about Sacred Cow and Palm's Mojo Sauces. Also Chef George and his Air Fryer Turkey, more Thanksgiving help, the Question du...

Record breaking food and a great time at The Spanked Puppy in Colchester, Vermont with Ted Tomlinson, Marcus Certa, Ben Newbury, Walt Palm and others on a brisk sunny fall Saturday. As broadcast on Food Dude Radio.

You know the "Third Place"? Do you have one? Did you know you have had one all your life? Ted Karousos and I talk about what it used to be called. Also the most recent Food Dude Dining Out with Bruce Newbury radio episode as broadcast from the counter of the Blue Plate Diner with Southern Vermont deli, chowder winners, Sacred Cow Granola, Cora and Patrick at their County Cork Irish Pub, the Questi...

Everything tastes better in Vermont. BBQ, Sweet Potato Coconut Curry Soup, Amazing Oats, Brisket Baked Potato, Cider Doughnuts And The Last Creemee of the Season. From Middlebury to Essex Junction to the Champlain Islands and from The Waybury Inn to the Spanked Puppy to Mark BBQ and beyond. This is my food footprint as broadcast live September 28, 2019 on WVMT and Food Dude Radio. 

Ted and Bruce talk Beyond Meat and the Impossible Burger. Then its off to the Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival with guests Trudy Coxe, Annie Copps, Chefs Robert Sisca and Terence Feury, wine expert Robin Kelley O'Connor, restaurateur Lou Perella and the sounds and tastes from the 2019 Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival as broadcast live Saturday September 21, 2019.

Bruce reveals Boston chef Robert Sisca' s "go-to" dish. Then a Ted Talk about what makes a Diner a Diner at the Blue Plate Diner, Chef George Duran with Tailgating 101 and then we are off to a real Rhode Island clambake with Bakemaster TR McGrath whose company is celebrating 50 years.

Food Dude Radio direct from the deck at Waybury Inn, Middlebury, Vermont - the exterior of Bob Newhart's inn in "Newhart." (You got the reference!) As broadcast August 24, 2019 with Brianna, Chef Donna, Innkeeper Joe Sutton and Marcus Certa from WVMT and a lot of amazing food.

What a great show as broadcast LIVE from the Iron Works in Warwick RI. And did we have food! Ben and I tore through that menu like the Kool-Aid Man and ate enough to look like him. Chef Joe Calderone did the cooking, General Manager Derek Emery was our host. Also, a chat with Tom Bivins at the Vermont Cheesemakers Festival and Alex Allen with some Summer Sippers from Allens Wine and Spirits. And B...

A great show from Iron Works in Warwick RI. And so much food! We busted through that menu like the Kool-Aid Man and ate enough that we should have looked like him! So great with Chef Joe Calderone and General Manager Derek Emery and Ben Newbury before he goes off to college! We visit with Tom Bivins at the Vermont Cheesemakers Festival and Alex Allen with Summer Sippers from Allens Wine and Spirit...

How many of you are gonna get the reference? A great chat with Yankee Mag's Food Editor Amy Traverso, the highlight of the "hour" of Food Dude Radio-Dining Out with Bruce Newbury as broadcast on Saturday July 27 2019 from 1149 Restaurant in East Greenwich, Rhode Island

The Food Dude broadcasting on Moon Day with Tang Soft Serve, Lobster and much more from Dave's Marketplace in Rhode Island. Do you refrigerate your ketchup and mustard? What was James Beard's favorite fruit? What wine is best at a clambake? And Tang soft serve, really? With foodie friends, Ted Karousos, Alex Allen, and Lou Perella. As broadcast July 20, 2019

Summertime and the drinks are chilled and...the Uber Eats driver is on his way. It's the summer of 2019 and our deck or boat picnic may be delivered by an app-based service. And there will be a glitch or two. Luckily and keep a good thought that it is good luck for us that a clambake can't be brought by Uber Eats or any of the other delivery apps. So what wine goes with a clambake or at a cookout?...

The first show of summer with beautiful weather (at last) and great food adventures to have. The radio show live on June 22 with Ted Karousos, Alex Allen, Lou Perella, some great restos some new, some tried and true - and the Food Dude to describe it all and make us hungry! Sponsored by Gaspar's - great on the grill!

Remember Hollywood Bread? TAB? Bruce does. Ted does not but recalls some eating and diet habits from the past that maybe should be brought back. Sponsored by Gaspar's, the Portuguese sausage that is great on the grill!

The Food Dude in his native habitat - upon the radio! Thinking Person's Radio of course (also known as AM). We name the Oldest Restaurant in your state, taste wine, food, doughnuts and put some seriously tasty ideas for dining out in your foodie head. As broadcast live Saturday June 8 2019 on the Food Dude Radio Network heard from Montauk to Montreal. Enjoy!