Omaha Hospitality Hall of Fame 2025

Omaha Hospitality Hall of Fame 2025

Get ready to Connect With Food and meet the 2025 inductees into the Omaha Hospitality Hall of Fame Doug Case, Andy Reetz, Chad Hartmann, Jim Major, Loren Koch, and Mike Kelley. Brian O'Malley, the Associate Dean of MCC Institute for the Culinary Arts, and I talked with the inductees in MCC's studio to bring you the voices and the stories behind this years group of honored individuals. Please listen, like, and share and as always Connect With Food!

Chef Kasper of Timbers at Lied Lodge

Chef Garrett Kasper brought an amazing menu revamp and food focused overhaul to Timbers At Lied Lodge. I was given the opportunity to try the food at this Nebraska City gem and then had a wonderful conversation outdoors overlooking the tree line in the distance.  Taking the time to make the drive from wherever you are will yield excellently plated dishes with flavors both familiar and exciting.  Please listen in to Chef's story and our conversation as we Connect With Food.

Pizza Expo 2025

My heavens get ready, we have a multi-topping hand tossed artisan episode for you. I was fortunate to attend International Pizza Expo 2025 in March and through this was able to connect, learn, have fun, and recap in Vegas to bring expo to you. Additionally I was able to interview Eidref Laxa of the What's Good Dough podcast who competed this year at Expo and is just an all around nice person to slice it up with. This episode also features a new segment from Danell Taylor aka the Omaha Fattie as he reports in from a new opening of Wild Chicken. Hang onto your fork, listen if you’re hungry, and get ready to connect with food!

Lazy Buffalo 1 Year Anniversary with Brady Hess

Brady Hess of Lazy Buffalo BBQ located 3924 1/2 Farnam St in Omaha, a half you say? Well it’s a small place, but there are plenty of seats next door where you take your BBQ at Scriptown brewing, but anyway. At the time of this conversation Lazy Buffalo is right about 1 year old and longtime listeners will remember Brady’s voice as we have followed his food journey from 2021 and now have caught up to present day where he now has his own brick and mortar serving up his food his way from dill potato salad to a stacked sandwich named after his father, Alan Earl.     Hang onto your fork listen if you’re hungry and get ready to connect with food!

House of Bah Making Dolma with Chef Jamil and Chef Fatima

The doors unlocked at Bohemian Gardens after hours to allow Chef Jamil Bah Traore and Chef Fatima El Qasby to teach you and I all about North African Dolma. Chef Jamil and I have been talking about cooking together for a while and the timing was just right as the House of Bah’s upcoming Indigo Table event at Bohemian gardens is coming up April 26th and 27th and this dish is a candidate for the plate.  Listen in on how to get this recipe so you can give it a try! House of Bah Foundation is a non-profit providing a path for immigrant chefs to establish their footing in Omaha and more than that is making far from Omaha flavors familiar to our city’s palate.       Hang onto your fork listen if you’re hungry and get ready to connect with food!