Foodie and the Beast - Feb. 9, 2025

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis.   On today’ show: ·        U.S. Navy vet Mark McLaughlin is a co-founder of Baltimore’s Old Line Spirits, a second-generation veteran-owned distillery.   Old Line is one of the oldest producers of American single malt whiskey, which has just become the first new category of whiskey to be recognized by the U.S. government in over 50 years;                                                                                                         ·        Gus May, co-owner of La Tejana,  a Tex-Mex breakfast taco shop inMount Pleasant, joins us. More than 30 million egg-laying chickens have beenkilled to stop the spread of avian flu. Maybe it’s working, maybe not. But theend result is that the national egg supply is radically diminished and pricesare skyrocketing. Gus will gives us his perspective from the retail level;                                                                                                   ·        Esquire calls him “the chef who redefined Vietnamese cuisine in America.” Kevin Tien of Moon Rabbit joins us to discuss pho and other aspects of his culinary work;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ·        Ferzan Jaeger is the founder and owner of Olive and Loom in Kensington, Maryland and  the District Candle Lab in Northeast D.C. You’ll hear how you can see how fragrance candles are made.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.