Industry Night With Foodie & The Beast

Beer Guru joins this week's episode of Industry Night to talk ALL things craft beer. Greg is Managing Partner and Beer Director of Blue Jacket and Beer Director of Neighborhood Restaurant Group. In April 2010, Food & Wine named Engert as one of its Sommeliers of the Year, the first time the publication has ever selected a beer professional for this prize.

It’s among the rarest, most critically endangered – and, most critically acclaimed -- breeds of cattle. Since the 1600s, Randall Linebeck cattle have been famed for their unique flavor. Today, Chapel Hill Farm in Berryville, VA is one of only two farms anywhere in the world where these fabulous animals are nurtured and where the breed is sustained and grown. Celebrated chefs, like Chef José Andrés, call Randall Linebeck, “a delicious way to taste history." Farmer Joe Henderson and his daughter Lulu, proprietors of Chapel Hill Farm, are in with tastes and talk of Randall Linebeck.

Today (Monday, February 19, 2018), we’re talking – and drinking – every aspect of coffee with one of the world’s foremost authorities on a cup o’ Joe and its impact on us and the people who grow it for us, food journalist and author Michaele Weissman. In 2008 Michaele published her groundbreaking book, God in a Cup: the Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee, and a lot of other fine work since – always on the subject of coffee. And we’re going to talk about it all … over several cups of Spike Gjerde’s awesome coffee made at Counter Culture Coffee in DC’s Line Hotel.

This week on Industry Night, Nycci & David are joined by Justin Rosenberg and David Katz of Honeygrow. Honeygrow is a restaurant concept born in Philly in 2012, offering wholesome, fully customizable stir-frys, salads, honeybars + cold pressed juices.

Pisco, Brandy & Beyond! This week's guest on Industry Night is Glendon Hartley of Service Bar. Glendon is now the Vice President of the United States Bartenders Guild chapter of DC and is heading up new projects as the Creative Director of the Menehune Group Consulting company to elevate the nation's capital as one of the country's best places to eat and Drink.

This week on Industry Night, Nycci & David explore fermentation with special guests SHane & Meaghan Carpenter of Hex Ferments and Lane Harlan, owner of WC Harlan and Clavel Mezcaleria in Baltimore.

This week's guests: Dave Coleman and Mike McGarvey, founders and proprietors of DC’s 3 Stars Brewing, a craft brewery founded only a couple of years ago that now has distro across the DC region and up into New York.

Nycci & David Nellis host an in depth conversation on sexual harassment in the restaurant industry with an esteemed panel of guests including Chef and Restaurateur, Ruth Gresser (Pizzeria Paradiso); Catherine Miller, founding Executive Director of the Chefs’ Action Network and Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy at the James Beard Foundation, and Drew McCormick, Executive Beer director for Pizzaria Paradiso.

On the inaugural episode of Industry Night with Foodie and the Beast, hosts Nycci and David Nellis sit down with Brian McNair, Executive Director of Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen to chat about how he, Jose and the WCK team coalesced to develop the process and program empowering people to become part of a broader solution for health, education, jobs, social enterprise and …. disaster relief. Along with its broader portfolio of programs, WCK has stepped into the gap in huge emergencies created by the recent natural disasters in Houston, Puerto Rico and California to prepare and feed nutritious meals every day to hundreds of thousands of people. And, it wouldn’t be a F&TB show without somebody pouring something. Fortunately, Chris Houk and Jeffrey Barrientos, brought in a selection of bubbles (and their knowledge) from their portfolio at Moet Hennessy.