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 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!

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 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!

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 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!

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 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!

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 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!

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 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!

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 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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While I am always amazed at the new food ideas I get to explore and share, I must admit that I am sometimes at a loss for qwords when asked to describe them.

That is why I am so glad to have a copy of Scottish wordsmith Paul Convery’s Eat Your Words: The definitive dictionary for the discerning diner. 

Published (appropriately enough) by Mango Books, this exhaustive and well-executed tome offers just the right words for everything from bouillabaisse to nucules and even has an entire section on the appropriate terms with which to describe various dining habits and dietary regimes (lest you make some other flavorless faux pasat your next repast). The book includes such comprehensive categories as ingredients from the plant and animal worlds, terms affiliated with farming and fishing, delicious words from the English-speaking and international worlds of cuisine, and ways to talk about every level of hunger or distaste without upsetting other people’s stomachs.

So whether you see yourself (or others) as macerators, macrogasters, or somewhere in between, this well-armed amateur’s a la carte approach to appetizers, aristons, arval feasts and all other alimentary appointments is always appropriate.

www.mangopublishinggroup.com

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 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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I KNOW we just raved again about Spicy Shark and the work they are doing to save their noble namesakes, but as it is almost time to mark the 46^thanniversary of Jaws, I figured one more lap was not so bad.

Just in time for Father’s Day (which ALSO falls on June 20!), Spicy Shark is offering a 20% sale on all of their sauces and other tasty treats. All you need do is write “JAWSDAD” on the website (www.thespicyshark.com) and, until June 20 at midnight, you can enjoy everything for 20% off! 

Especially as Spicy Shark is a one-man operation, it is kind of a risk to offer so much. As we have seen, however, Spicy Shark founder Gabe DiSaverio is all about giving back!

From their signature Habanero and Jalapeno sauces to the Megalodon Carolina Reaper sauce and Scovie Award-winning Tiger Shark ghost pepper sauce to their smoked maple sriracha and award-winning hot honey and hot maple and blueberry maple syrups, The Spicy Shark has something to put on everything (and believe me, I do!).

You may pick up so many great condiments that you will need a bigger boat!

www.thespicyshark.com

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 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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While the coffee behemoths continue their Buckin’ and Dunkin’ coast-to-coast battle for supremacy, realafficiandos know that the best coffee comes from individuals who really care about what goes in your cups. 

As Matt’s Meals fans know, I am a BIG fan of the little guy and, when it comes to coffee, I turn to friends like the folks at Beantrust, Blue Fire, Red Barn, Dean’s Beans, Fazenda, PJ’s, Rwanda Bean, Vermont Artisan, and, of course, the brave servers at Soldier Girl and Veteran Roasters. Another favorite that has been around longer than many of these old friends is the family-owned operation known as Espresso Love Café. The Café is currently celebrating a quarter of a decade in Edgartown and 10 years in Boston’s Financial District!

In addition to the hand-picked ground coffee, Espresso Love also offers bold bowls, super sandwiches soups, fresh fruit, eggs, and (much like Beantrust and its daughter doughery Bonny Breads) fresh-baked pastries. In celebration of a decade, Espresso Love Café in Boston has also released a new decadent summer menu chock full of creative coffees and other treats. For those who cannot make it to the city or the Vineyard this Summer, Espresso Love Café also sells and ships their beans and pastries, as well as meaningful mugs and snazzy shirts online. 

Especially as many are reticent to go back to work or travel, it is good to know that, whether you are venturing back downtown or headed out to the Vineyard, there is a family who cares for you and has your favorite pick-me-up ready to go!

www.espressolove.com

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 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!

Having grown up in apple country, I am a BIG cider fan and am ALWAYS looking for that perfect pint.

Recently, I found an AMAZING set of ciders that combines the cider-making heritage of Bristol, England, with the “keep it weird” ethos of Austin, TX, to make some of the most original and delicious ciders I have ever tasted!

Austin Eastciders takes the noble apple and does some stuff with it that might make traditionalists wince but that will surely make everyone smile! While their original dry and seasonal spiced ciders are worthy additions to the apple armada, it is their watermelon, pineapple, grapefruit, blackberry, and other forwardly-fruited flavors that have me whoopin’ it up like a rodeo clown on a bender. 

In addition to their always-available and rarer “Maker’s Stash” ciders, Austin makes spiked seltzers that are also made with real fruit. The options are so varied, in fact, that I am yet to try them all, but I sure as heck look forward to!

While each can is great on its own, the Austin Eastciders website (https://austineastciders.com) has great recipe suggestions to make their wide range of flavors go even further along your route to refreshment.

Don’t get me wrong- Apples are wonderful! As with so many things, however, it’s what you do with them that counts!

Thanks to Austin Eastciders for doing all they do!

https://austineastciders.com