Matt’s segments for “Connoisseur’s Corner” usually air on WBZ (1030 AM) Saturdays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25, and 11:55 AM and Sundays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25 AM.
Recent samples can be found at https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1002-Connoisseurs-Corner-28654273/.
If you have ideas for future segments, please send them to Matt@Matts-Meals.com.
Also, please follow me on Twitter @MattsMeals73.
Thanks for listening and thanks for supporting our friends and neighbors in the food-service industry!
Bon appétit!
Matt’s segments for “Connoisseur’s Corner” usually air on WBZ (1030 AM) Saturdays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25, and 11:55 AM and Sundays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25 AM.
Recent samples can be found at https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1002-Connoisseurs-Corner-28654273/.
If you have ideas for future segments, please send them to Matt@Matts-Meals.com.
Also, please follow me on Twitter @MattsMeals73.
Thanks for listening and thanks for supporting our friends and neighbors in the food-service industry!
Bon appétit!
Matt’s segments for “Connoisseur’s Corner” usually air on WBZ (1030 AM) Saturdays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25, and 11:55 AM and Sundays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25 AM.
Recent samples can be found at https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1002-Connoisseurs-Corner-28654273/.
If you have ideas for future segments, please send them to Matt@Matts-Meals.com.
Also, please follow me on Twitter @MattsMeals73.
Thanks for listening and thanks for supporting our friends and neighbors in the food-service industry!
Bon appétit!
Matt’s segments for “Connoisseur’s Corner” usually air on WBZ (1030 AM) Saturdays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25, and 11:55 AM and Sundays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25 AM.
Recent samples can be found at https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1002-Connoisseurs-Corner-28654273/.
If you have ideas for future segments, please send them to Matt@Matts-Meals.com.
Also, please follow me on Twitter @MattsMeals73.
Thanks for listening and thanks for supporting our friends and neighbors in the food-service industry!
Bon appétit!
Matt’s segments for “Connoisseur’s Corner” usually air on WBZ (1030 AM) Saturdays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25, and 11:55 AM and Sundays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25 AM.
Recent samples can be found at https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1002-Connoisseurs-Corner-28654273/.
If you have ideas for future segments, please send them to Matt@Matts-Meals.com.
Also, please follow me on Twitter @MattsMeals73.
Thanks for listening and thanks for supporting our friends and neighbors in the food-service industry!
Bon appétit!
Matt’s segments for “Connoisseur’s Corner” usually air on WBZ (1030 AM) Saturdays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25, and 11:55 AM and Sundays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25 AM.
Recent samples can be found at https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1002-Connoisseurs-Corner-28654273/.
If you have ideas for future segments, please send them to Matt@Matts-Meals.com.
Also, please follow me on Twitter @MattsMeals73.
Thanks for listening and thanks for supporting our friends and neighbors in the food-service industry!
While I wait for them to bring their beer-backed bars back, the folks at ReGrained have entered another food field and are ready to take it by storm! In fact, their latest triumph has already been selling out over and over.
And no wonder!
Their new upcycled Strozzapreti pasta is produced in collaboration with the folks at Semolina Artisanal Pasta and is as authentic and delicious as any pasta you might have ever enjoyed (if not moreso!).
Not only is the ReGrained Supergrain+®-infused pasta delicious and satisfying (despite having very low fat), but it is also organic and has more protein and fiber than most pastas. In addition, each box recovers more than a pound of what would otherwise be wasted food and saves 80 gallons of water in the process of being less processed. And, as ReGrained is a certified B corp, sales also support environmental causes.
While all this may be very impressive (and indeed it is!), what may make the story most startling is that the entire partnership and product development was handled via zoom during the pandemic!
Who says working from home is less productive?
I guess NOTHING can keep a good food idea down, eh?
Matt’s segments for “Connoisseur’s Corner” usually air on WBZ (1030 AM) Saturdays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25, and 11:55 AM and Sundays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25 AM.
Recent samples can be found at https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1002-Connoisseurs-Corner-28654273/.
If you have ideas for future segments, please send them to Matt@Matts-Meals.com.
Also, please follow me on Twitter @MattsMeals73.
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Even as people continue to shelter in place, there are some things that are tempting enough to voyage forth.
One of these, at least for many, is chocolate.
Fortunately, there is a new a way to get your favorite treat without leaving home. Infact, this new service can take you to places you might not go even if you could!
Worldwide Chocolate is offering a subscription service unlike any other. In each Chocolate Flight Club package, you receive over 400 grams of samples of some of the best chocolates the world has to offer (including our friends at Dick Taylor, Dylesia, Ghiradelli, Lake Champlain, Nirvana, and MORE), along with tasting notes, a tasting survey sheet that will help you pick your faves, and links to exclusive video content that tells you even more about what’s in the beautifully-packaged box that can be as wonderful a gift for others as it is for you.
Though some items are exclusive to the Club, once you find some new favorites, you can go back to WorldWide Chocolate to pick up more or most of them (and maybe to find even more tempting treats)!
Whether you are wary of going out even for your favorite treat or just want to discover a worldwide menu of it, the Chocolate Flight Club from Worldwide Chocolate is for you (and anyone else you like).
Chocolate. Delivered. Sounds great, no?
Matt’s segments for “Connoisseur’s Corner” usually air on WBZ (1030 AM) Saturdays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25, and 11:55 AM and Sundays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25 AM.
Recent samples can be found at https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1002-Connoisseurs-Corner-28654273/.
If you have ideas for future segments, please send them to Matt@Matts-Meals.com.
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As listeners and readers know, I am a big fan of Vermont! Where else can you find such an independent spirit (not to mention a VERY independent Senator) surrounded by such beauty?
While the scenery and vibe are great, many of the great food and drinks that come from the Green Mountain State make things even better no matter where you are! And while I have raved about Republic of Vermont honey, Good Mix and Yolo snacks,True North granola, Boves sauces and Benito’s and Greene’s Gourmet hot sauces, Schmilk Chocolate and Lake Champlain Chocolates, Vermont Amber organic toffee and Fat Toad Farm caramel, Ackermann, Runamok and Tonewood syrups and Sugar Bob’s Smoked Maple Products, Side Hil Farm preserves, Cabot and Jasper Hill Farm cheese and the famed Vermont cheese tours, as well as Sap and Tretap maple drinks, Töst, Vermont Organic Coffee, Vermont Switchel, 14th Star and Halyard Brewing, and Snow Farm Wine, as I am such a cider fan, I cannot mention the Green Mountain state without honoring the great family farmers who produce Champlain Orchards ciders.
While many other makers have one or two cider fan favorites, Champlain not only has a tree-full of award winners but are coming up with new varieties nearly every season! From the cleverly-named “core” set that includes their bestselling Kingston Dry, their smooth and gentle Foxboro Rose, and their Vermont-loyal Mac and Maple to winter’s ice cider and spring’s Honeycrisp and Estate series stunners like the Redfield Dry and the Crimson Topaz (which is as beautiful and sparkling as it sounds!), they literally have a cider for every taste and to complement every other favorite food, whether it comes from Vermont or not! It is no wonder they are part of the Lake Champlain Tasting Trail and a favorite stop along that historic route!
So no matter which food you choose from the 14th state or any other, be sure to wash it down with some of Vermont’s finest, among which is surely Champlain Orchards ciders.
Matt’s segments for “Connoisseur’s Corner” usually air on WBZ (1030 AM) Saturdays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25, and 11:55 AM and Sundays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25 AM.
Recent samples can be found at https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1002-Connoisseurs-Corner-28654273/.
If you have ideas for future segments, please send them to Matt@Matts-Meals.com.
Also, please follow me on Twitter @MattsMeals73.
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When people think about Vermont (especially at this time of year), most conjure images of snow, skiing, and other cold-weather activities.
Who would have known that the Green Mountain State is also home to one of the best homemade hot sauces around?
But that might be expected from a company called Greene’s (with a final “e”) Gourmet!
As founder Chris Greene was raised on a Texas cattle ranch, his fascination with hot peppers may be more understandable (especially when you find out that his mother used Tabasco instead of soap to cure him of cursing). Still, it may be hard to see how he was able to bring that southern heat all the way to the mountains of Vermont. But forget seeing- the secret to Greene’s Gourmet is in the taste!
Woooowie!
Made without capsaicin extract, dyes, or anything fake, Greene’s sauces bring real southern heat to any dish and reveal his authentic upbringing and dedication to his favorite flavors, among which are the rich and garlicky Smokey Red, the gingery Dragon’s Fire, the appropriately intense Atomic Habanero and (also appropriately) a green sauce called Very Verde (“verde” being Spanish for “green”) that lowers the temperature but not the flavor.
If you want to get the full Greene experience, order a Firehouse Five and get 5 bottles for just $5 each!
After a day on the slopes or just at the office, it can be a good idea ro add some spice to your life. So what better way to do it than with the handmade, down-home flavors of the self-proclaimed Hot Sauce Guy, Chris Greene?
Matt’s segments for “Connoisseur’s Corner” usually air on WBZ (1030 AM) Saturdays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25, and 11:55 AM and Sundays at 7:25, 8:25, 9:25 AM.
Recent samples can be found at https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1002-Connoisseurs-Corner-28654273/.
If you have ideas for future segments, please send them to Matt@Matts-Meals.com.
Also, please follow me on Twitter @MattsMeals73.
Thanks for listening and thanks for supporting our friends and neighbors in the food-service industry!
During a recent escape to Nashville, I came upon an old Southern favorite that used to git a lotta folks in hot water, even tho that was jest what they used ter make it with!
I am talkin’ about- of course, moonshine.
And while the popular drink may have come out of and mountain creeks and into the main-stream, there is one place that I found mixes the old traditions with new flavors in a way that is both authentic and, to use an overused word, awesome!
Ole Smoky makes moonshine like Grandpappy used ter. However, in addition to a pure ‘shine that tastes a lot better than turpentine, they also offer a range of flavors and proofs that can suit any taste and tolerance. From the “barely legal” original, and the 128-proof Blue Flame to a milder and sweeter apple and pumpkin pie and Tennessee’s famed banana pudding flavors, a coffee companion called Mountain Java, and even Moonshine cherries, peaches, pickles, and pineapples, Ole Smoky can take you from the bar to the birthday party to the boardroom with all the sweet snap of White Lightnin’.
If you are still a but wary to dip a toe in the still, Ole Smoky also has a raft of whiskeys that come straight-up blended or blended with caramel, habanero, peanut butter, and even another hip beverage- cold brew! They also make their own Amaretto and a bunch of liquers and canned cocktails that take their sweet southern satisfaction to new places and new levels.
Prohibition may be long over and drink trends may come and go, but the legend and lure of moonshine has hung one for over 100 years. Ole Smokey is one reason why!