Episodes

Jan. 4, 2022

111: How to be Savvy with Food Safety at Events

Francine Shaw, Founder/CEO of Savvy Food Safety

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Dec. 28, 2021

110: Creating a Stellar Food & Beverage Event

Hotel catering menus are pretty standard. You have your choice of this breakfast or that. Lunch and dinner choose from chicken, beef or fish with salad and dessert. Bonni Scepkowski was never one to follow the standard rules of meeting. …

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Dec. 21, 2021

109: A Catch of a Chef

Chef Keith Rhodes of Catch restaurant (Wilmington, NC)

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Dec. 7, 2021

107: Enhancing Dining Experiences Born out of Necessity But With Inge…

This episode is the second of three recorded at IMEX America. Tracy is chatting with Mark Cooper, CEO and Sean Anderson, Global Board President of IACC, an international collection of 400 small to mid-size conference, training and meeting venues that...

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Nov. 30, 2021

106: A Sip of Paradise

When Keyatta Mincey Parker realized that she and other restaurant and bar workers need to de-stress, she created a community garden with 501c3 status where bartenders can go and wind down. With the mission to provide a “healthy and safe …

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Nov. 23, 2021

105: IMEX America's Sustainability Efforts

Dale Hudson, Knowledge and Events Director for IMEX Group

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Nov. 16, 2021

104: Food & Beverage Tourism

Erik Wolf, Executive Director & Founder of the World Food Travel Association,

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Nov. 9, 2021

103: Landless Farmers Digging in to Feed & Foster Community

Judith Winfrey is a farmer, partner, serial entrepreneur, and overall fabulous human being who has fused her passion for good food to save humans and the planet by empowering, nourishing and enriching people and their communities. She and her husband...

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Nov. 2, 2021

102: Cultivating Mushrooms

I met Kyle Winfrey and Austin Roper a few months ago when visiting the New Bern (NC) Farmers Market. Through Urbia Farms they were selling mushrooms. And, they were selling big white blocks for customers like me to grow mushrooms …

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Oct. 26, 2021

101: Food Laws — Current & New — Impacting Meeting Menus

Since COVID-19 hit, there has been a greater emphasis on food safety — at home, in the grocery stores, restaurants, and at #meetingsandevents. Guests/attendees want to know what’s in the food, how it is prepared, and how it will be …

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Oct. 20, 2021

100: Celebrating 100 Episodes

Tracy looks back and listens to some of the guests who have inspired, educated and pushed us all to think about food and beverage. She shares clips from previous episodes to give you an idea of what she has learned …

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Oct. 12, 2021

99: Creating Inclusive Neurodiverse Food & Beverage Events

Haley Moss - Attorney, neurodiversity expert, author, speaker and educator

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Oct. 5, 2021

98: Celebrating National Goat Cheese Month

Did you know August was National Goat Cheese Month. Who knew!?! To celebrate, Tracy chatted with passionate goat farmer Mary Rigdon of Decimal Place Farm located in southeast Atlanta, GA. While the history of goat cheese goes back 9000 years …

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Sept. 28, 2021

97: Power of the Palate

Kathiana LeJeune, author of The Power of the Palate

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Sept. 21, 2021

96: Drink, Food & Culture

Bryan Dias, host of the NOLAdrinks radio and podcast show,

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Sept. 14, 2021

95: Prosecutor to Gluten-free Person of the Decade

Despite obvious differences, Jules Shepard sees the work she used to do (prosecuting domestic violence crimes) and what she does now (owning a hashtag#glutenfree flour and mixes company), as fundamentally the same. "At the end of the day I feel …

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Sept. 7, 2021

94: Convening Kosher

Nancy Sutta Burns and Marketing, Merchandising and Operations Strategy executive Deborah Shapiro talk about "Convening Kosher"

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Aug. 31, 2021

93: Entering a New Year of Conversations

It has been a year - 52 weeks - that the Eating at a Meeting podcast has been a thing. The recordings started as interviews for my blog (thrivemeetings.com/blog) and then Facebook live videos inside the Eating at a Meeting …

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Aug. 24, 2021

92: How Food is Culture

The Southern Food and Beverage Museum (SoFAB) - Liz Williams,

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Aug. 10, 2021

90: Understanding the Unique Characteristics of Fine Water

Fine Water Sommeliers Cori Bokath and Christine Hilgert

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Aug. 3, 2021

89: Managing the Minutia of Event Menus and an Autoimmune disease

Jennifer Johnson, general manager of The Johnson Meetings Group

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July 27, 2021

88: Blueberries, Strawberries, Oh My!

James Beard Award winning cookbook author and chef Cynthia Graubart

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