Ep. 35 - Chowcast and the Legendary Hot Truck Experience

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It's an Epic Podcasting Crossover Event, as we are joined by Sous & The Chef from Chowcast.net for a celebration of the unique Ithaca ritual that is The Hot Truck! In this episode you'll meet Sous & The Chef and find out more about their past in Ithaca, and then they stick around to help us review our late night Hot Truck meal. Check out photos from our night at our Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eatingithaca

And when you're done listening to this episode, be sure to visit www.Chowcast.net to hear the other half of the show as Dave & Andrea of Eating Ithaca become the guests on the Chowcast podcast and enthusiastically embrace their explicit language format. It's not to be missed!

If you enjoy our podcast, we'd love to hear from you. Leave a comment on the blog, call our voicemail line anytime at 607-215-4392, or send an email to: feedback at eatingithaca dot com. Remember to follow us on Twitter for continuing updates throughout the week!

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Stuff we talked about in this episode:

• The Chowcast Podcast
• Subscribe to Chowcast in iTunes
• Chowcast eats Hot Truck in March 2008
• The Hot Truck at Serious Eats
• Hot Truck info and menu via everything2.com
• The Hot Truck on Wikipedia
• Obituary for Hot Truck founder Bob Petrillose at 14850.com
• Shortstop Deli version of Hot Truck via Roadfood.com
• Ithaca Taste of the Nation

Ep. 34 - Ithaca Taste of the Nation and Lunch at Hope's Way

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It's almost time for one of the biggest annual foodie events in town, the Ithaca Taste of the Nation tasting dinner featuring 50 top restaurants and wineries from all around the region. We're talking with the man behind the scenes, Jerry Dietz, about just what makes this event so important.

Want to know what's new at the Ithaca Farmers' Market? We're visiting the booths of more great vendors. And in our latest restaurant review we're heading to lunch at Hope's Way at the Triphammer Mall to see how it stacks up to the competition.

If you enjoy our podcast, we'd love to hear from you. Leave a comment on the blog, call our voicemail line anytime at 607-215-4392, or send an email to: feedback at eatingithaca dot com. Remember to follow us on Twitter for continuing updates throughout the week!

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Stuff we talked about in this episode:

• Ithaca Taste of the Nation
• @Ithaca Farmers Market: Unexpected Farm
• @Ithaca Farmers Market: Ever Green Farm
• @Ithaca Farmers Market: Tio Tomas Tacos
• Hope's Way Cafe, Catering & Meeting Place
• Ithaca Festival 2009
• The Chowcast Podcast

"Chowcast" gets some tasty Hot Truck action

We had a visit from our Chicago friends and fellow podcasters, Sous & The Chef, this week. Like many former Ithaca students and residents who come back to town, it isn't long before they feel an overwhelming hunger for the legendary local concoction known simply as Hot Truck.

For those of us who live in Ithaca full time, it is easy to take dining institutions like the Truck for granted. Often it's only when you hear someone who's been away wax rhapsodic about the Truck that we are reminded just how much wonderful eating we have in Ithaca.

I encourage you to download their latest episode, recorded live in their "mobile studio" from the parking lot of Shortstop Deli, as they talk about their own experiences with eating Ithaca, and devour some hearty PMP and WGC favorites with gusto and explicit exclamations of appreciation that would make dear Bob Petrillose blush.