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Connect With Food. It all started with lunch, Faturday lunch where good friends Sam, Dave, and TJ would catch up on things and eat amazing food. One meal led to another and the Faturday Omaha podcast, and now radio show on 91.5 FM in Omaha was born starting in 2018.
The Faturday team has been recognized by NP Dodge as a “16 Omaha Podcasts You Should Be Listening To”
We look to connect you with wonderful food and the wonderful people in and around the restaurant industry. We aim to entertain, educate, and hopefully make you laugh! Listen if you’re hungry. More at FaturdayOmaha.com
The Faturday team has been recognized by NP Dodge as a “16 Omaha Podcasts You Should Be Listening To”
We look to connect you with wonderful food and the wonderful people in and around the restaurant industry. We aim to entertain, educate, and hopefully make you laugh! Listen if you’re hungry. More at FaturdayOmaha.com
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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2025 James Beard Nominee David Utterback of Yoshitomo is on the mic! Heart, craft, attention to detail, David shows all of this on the plates he serves. He’s also a busy guy, ya know running three restaurants, traveling to Japan to keep up to date and learn from other Chefs, bringing in the top tier seafood to Nebraska, oh and also cooking to benefit charity.
Dave took time out from his day to talk with me about all of these things after we had a chance to connect at the Foodbank for the Heartland Celebrity Chef Gala. We talk Japanese steel, core memories, and also what he might like to do with those big sushi boats….so
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Art and Soup March 9th, 2025! How does food help? It nourishes the heart, mind, and body. Art has its impact to the senses and mind as well. Combine the two and you get Art and Soup!
This is the "VNA’s 28th annual event supporting nursing services in domestic violence shelters, homeless shelters, and maternity homes.” On the show is Carole Patrick who heads up Art and Soup and Chef Brian O'Malley of MCC who leads the culinary side of the roughly 20 restaurants that bring soup for a cause that the public can experience.
Oh, I bug Chef for some cooking tips while we’re at it. Hang onto your fork, listen if you’re hungry, and connect with food!
If you’re a person that knows me well then you know that a cup of coffee is not far from my hand. We have great coffee shops around our area and I am thankful for small shops from Hawaii to Lebanon right back to Omaha.
Our guest is Autumn Pruitt owner of Hardy coffee which of course started as a bakery….. um what, yep bakery to coffee, cake to cup, and on the show we will talk about all of those things. Pour yourself a cup of whatever delicious you dig and then...
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There is a lot packed in this episode, get ready to get an overview of Rotisserie Urban Bistro from chicken to empanada, saffron rice, plantains and more. We are going to talk about one of my favorite cookbooks and two of my preferred recipes therein.
I’m going to get personal * GASP * with my cooking journey and I would love to hear about yours as well and we will close out our show with a quick note regarding an event at MCC Institute for the Culinary Arts that resulted in an award winning Chef and a heartfelt evening of family.
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It's a new season and with a new season comes growth and as you know farmers make things grow. Growing is what Tim Fonfara of Omaha Urban Farmer does be that in the outdoors in his city surrounded ¾ acres or inside where microgreens pop up all year.
We're checking in on how the farm weathered the …um...weather. We talk a bit about how a person would get going on growing these greens and I learn about the difference between microgreens and sprouts and taste some carrot and cilantro micros on the mic.
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Ok, ok, I may have been a bit greedy when seeking our guests on the show today. I’ve become quite curious on how cottage food production and pop-ups differ with rules and certifications etc. Additionally, our local food trucks and industry folks brought No More Empty Pots to my attention. We’ve had CEO Talia McGill on the show before to give us an overview of No More Empty pots. This episode also features Alisha Waugh who is the Kitchen Coordinator of No More Empty Pots’ commissary kitchen. She so kindly addressed all of my questions and I look forward to you listening to our conversation and adding new knowledge to your repertoire.
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Cups Cafe is BACK and No More Empty Pots is here to stay! Taila McGill is the President and CEO of No More Empty Pots a non-profit that provides an array of food based services to our community.
Rayn Tot heads up an extension of No More Empty Pots with the newly relaunched Cups Cafe. Talia and Rayn joined in studio to talk education, assistance and opportunity as well as what the brand new launch of Cups Cafe will entail. We had a great conversation and I look forward to you enjoying and learning as I did.
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Shaheen’s Afghan Cuisine brings the flavors of Afghanistan to Omaha, Nebraska and they now have two locations serving up Mantu (ground beef dumplings), Kabobs, Kabuli Pulao with its basmati rice and lamb shanks and more.
Shahen Shah leads this family centered restaurant and grocery. His two sons Omed and Waheed joined me in studio to talk about this flavorful cuisine and about Shaheen’s approach to serving its customers in a way to help them feel welcomed like they would be in Shahen’s home country.
I absolutely love our wide variety of cuisines available right here in Omaha, and right here on our show you are in for great conversation so hang on to your fork and listen if you’re hungry!
Sarah Baker Hansen recently wrote an article for the Flat Water Free Press titled “As food costs rise, local restaurants — and diners who support them — adjust to paying more” At a time when we’ve seen a lot of restaurant closures, this article might just ring true with a lot of owners and diners. Coincidentally, just hours before we went in studio a noted local restaurant that was even featured on Food Network announced it was closing. We talked about the article, the varied factors affecting restaurants, and more including a local spot serving soup dumplings.
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When you hear Jordan Caniglia you might think that there is a good chance he has worked at or owns a restaurant in Omaha and you would be right! Caniglias A Mano has been serving up a thin crust style pizza for about 5 years and made a move to a larger location close to 72nd and highway 370 since their initial start.
Jordan joined us in studio to talk about pizza of course, but also challenges, and some of his influences. I like that you can try out the pizza a slice at a time to experience all of the toppings and I hope that you…
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You can find Caniglia's A Mano info here https://www.canigliasamano.com/
How do you pack all of Naples Italy into a food truck? Well, you can start with a motivated Brazilian with Italian parents who found food was his passion, cooked at several restaurants, moved to the US to learn English then went over to Italy to study VPN pizza.
That person is John Anthony St. Patrick and that food truck is Spacca Naploi. I encountered this hot and fresh pizza and John Anthony when I went out for dinner and we connected afterward to talk all things pizza. Oh and he does handmade Mozzarella and brought some in studio!
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Cake! Stacey Leick of Buttered Marshmallow has reached quite a milestone for her bakery and for anyone in the restaurant/food industry and that is 5 years! She joined us in studio and per usual there were delicious treats in tow and an as of yet brand new item for a taste test.
We are going to talk about her progress, and maybe profiterole, oh and Paris too as Stacey took vacation but rolled that into learning about pastry. Stavcy has a lot of heart and that energy definitely comes through in her cakes, so…
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You thought Candy Land was cool, well on this episode we’re heading to the candy lab! That candy lab is Sprinkk and the person that created Sprinkk is Tessa Porter and she is a candy scientist, engineer, business owner and she took time out of her day to allow the microphones in the lab.
This episode was a ton of fun to make as I really love to learn and each room of the lab offered that opportunity. This is a sweet episode indeed and you’re going to enjoy where candy and science collide…or smoosh.
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More Sprinkk here https://www.sprinkk.com/
When Chef Jamil Bah-Traore reaches out and says something is happening you know it’s something good. Something good that somehow I was not aware of but we fixed that right up quick and that is Afro Fest! Afro Fest 2024 was held Labor Day weekend and brought food, culture, connection, and happiness to downtown Omaha. To give you the inside info about the start of Afro Fest and where the future is headed we have Chef Jamil of the House of Bah Foundation and Joubel Folly Teko of Afro Omaha. So…
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Take a moment and envision what you imagine you would see on the menu of a cafe in a car dealership…and then throw that right out the window the ‘63 split window. The Corvette Cafe, yes it’s located inside of a car dealership, but the menu is anything but stock. This more like the ZR1 customized version of as it travels the roads from scratch bread, and pizza, to in house made enchilada sauce as well as breakfast. We have Chef Ryan Eckhert and Chef Dan Hoffman on to grant us a license to drive. So…
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