The Hospitalitarian Podcast

In episode five of The Hospitalitarian, I'm speaking with Allen Guy Wilcox, founding artistic director of Theater at Woods Hill, about building “Shakespeare in a Barn” on his family’s Oneida County farm and sustaining an arts nonprofit through relationships, community support, and big artistic swings.  Allen shares how the theater’s unique barn setting merges performance with hospitality and...

Episode 4: Friendship, Food, & Freedom from Gluten – Dan Hurlbut of Honest Weight & No Forkin’ Gluten In episode four of The Hospitalitarian, host Tim Hardiman reunites with longtime friend and former kitchen coworker Dan Hurlbut, now food service manager at Honest Weight Food Co-op in Albany, where he leads a culinary department of about 55 people producing over $4 million annually in scr...

In this episode of The Hospitalitarian, I welcome Suzie Jones of Jones Family Farm for a thoughtful, wide-ranging conversation about farming, food, family, and the real economics behind local food systems. Suzie's story begins more than 20 years ago, when she and her husband Peter left Gloucester, Massachusetts for the Mohawk Valley, trading corporate and retail careers for the uncertainty—an...

Today's episode is about something we all use every single day and almost never think twice about salt. My guest is David Iannicello founder of Syracuse Salt Company and the only artisan salt maker currently producing salt in central New York. So nearly a hundred years after the last local salt operation shut down, David brought salt making back to a city that was once known worldwide as the...

In this Episode, a follow up to my conversation with Frank Elias, the tables turn. What begins as a continuation of our earlier discussion becomes something else entirely — a fun,  reflective, and I promise, completely unscripted conversation about transition, identity, and what comes after building a brand and letting go of it.  Frank presses pause on the telling of his own story and asks me to t...

Frank Elias is the founder of Utica Coffee roasting company, and for more than 20 years, he's been building one of the most dynamic beverage businesses in the Mohawk Valley. What began as a small Saturday only coffee shop has grown into a regional roaster shipping hundreds of thousands of pounds of coffee each year while staying deeply rooted in their community. So in this conversation we&apo...

Introducing The Hospitalitarian Podcast Tim and Melissa chat about the mission of this podcast and how this concept came to be, what to expect in future episodes, the history of where we’ve been and a glimpse of where we’re going. Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and visit www.hospitalitarianpod.com to follow us on social media or to sign up our mailing list.

 The Hospitalitarian podcast focuses on conversations with forward-thinking people who make the community of New York State hospitality compelling and noteworthy. If it's happening in food, beverage, or agriculture in New York, we are digging in.