As the United States rolls back pandemic era restrictions, many restaurants are welcoming eaters back and expanding their seating capacity. After more than a year of isolation, reopenings offer a sorely missed space to connect. 

This week on Beer Sessions Radio, Jimmy is celebrating American Craft Beer Week with a great group of guests.

Join us for a conversation with Peter Reinhart, Chef on Assignment at Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte, NC. In addition to his role as a chef instructor in the Baking & Pastry program, Peter teaches a course on food media, and he is also the founder and executive director of the Johnson & Wales International Symposium on Bread.

Michael Davenport proclaims: “along with peanut butter, I think salads are the gifts of the Gods.” However he would not stand for a bowl of iceberg lettuce with bottled dressing. He suggests employing everything  from fruit to fish, spices, condiments, nuts and even cottage cheese to turn fresh greens into a delicious and satisfying meal.

How will Garcia’s ambitious green infrastructure plans promote urban farming in NYC?

I don’t recall in which online forum I saw it, but someone asked the question, "Why are so many mezcaleros named Don?" It made me laugh, but it’s funny because it illustrates one of the translation problems with agave spirits. We dive deep into that problem in this week's episode of Agave Road Trip!

On this week’s show we discuss Joan Didion’s 2005 book, “The Year of Magical Thinking”. This is a brutally honest self observation of her life after the sudden loss of her husband, author John Gregory Dunne, and simultaneous hospitalization of her daughter Quintana Roo.

Spring has sprung, and we are too! On sexy spring produce that is! Tune in to hear the latest Ben Affleck news, PLUS Nic has the spicy history of radishes, and Z is all in for peas and the adorable ancient tradition of “Knocking Up”, and no, not that knocking up, get your mind out of the gutter…...and into the trash, because this episode is unnecessarily filthy!