Episodes

  • S3 - Episode 17: Brim Restaurant Chef/Owner Kate Sidoti

    S3 - Episode 17: Brim Restaurant Chef/Owner Kate Sidoti
    Nov 13 2025
    Gluten-free. No seed oils. The hottest trends in nutrition have been part of life for nearly a decade at Brim, a farm-to-fast casual restaurant founded by former personal chef Kate Sidoti. Kate talks about her food inspiration, the challenges of running a restaurant, and why after so long in Uptown Minneapolis she's now in the suburbs with her second spot. Brim survived through COVID, through riots after George Floyd, and through a very slow recovery in the city.
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    31 mins
  • S3 - Episode 16: The Minnesota Women of Mezcal

    S3 - Episode 16: The Minnesota Women of Mezcal
    Oct 27 2025
    Two Minnesota women, linked through a connection to Prince, have founded their own mezcal brand. Why? How? Ingrid Chavez and Jacqui Thompson, co-founders of Las Melodías de la Luna Mezcal, join Jason DeRusha on DeRusha Eats to talk about their history, their love for mezcal, and why having a woman-owned company with a woman distiller makes a difference. The Prince connection? Jacqui Thompson managed Prince’s Paisley Park recording studios and co-founded the PRN Alumni Foundation, a nonprofit established by Prince’s team to continue his legacy of social justice. She co-founded the agave brand Revel Avila in 2012. Ingrid Chavez is a songwriter, poet, producer, artist, and entrepreneur who has collaborated with major musicians like Lenny Kravitz, Madonna and was a recording artist on Paisley Park Records albums.
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    29 mins
  • S3 - Episode 15: IS THE CRAFT BEER ERA OVER? Jim Diley, Co-Founder of Fulton

    S3 - Episode 15: IS THE CRAFT BEER ERA OVER? Jim Diley, Co-Founder of Fulton
    Oct 8 2025
    From college friends to garage beer brewers, the buddies who started Fulton in 2009 rode the craft beer wage. Sweet Child of Vine and Lonely Blonde were on tap everywhere, the tap room near Target Field was bumping. Today - the business has changed, and Fulton has matured as a business along with it's founders. Jim Diley is a lawyer who left his day job to be COO of Fulton and talks with Jason DeRusha about the growth in seltzer, THC drinks, and the future of beer in Minneapolis.
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    33 mins
  • S3 - Episode 14 - The Lanchava Collection

    S3 - Episode 14 - The Lanchava Collection
    Sep 29 2025
    It's one of the oldest producers of wine, some call it the birthplace of wine: Georgia. And a group of Minnesota brothers are working to spread the word about their homeland on the coast of the Black Sea, where Eastern Europe and Western Asia come together. The Lanchava Collection is seeing sales increase three-fold, through a combination of hustle, passion, and quality production. Luka, Konstantin and Saba Lanchava join Jason to talk about their partnership with Total Wine & More, why they've named their wines after their 9 Georgian-born brothers and sisters, and how Minnesota fits into their success.
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    31 mins
  • S3 - Episode 13 - Stephanie Hansen

    S3 - Episode 13 - Stephanie Hansen
    Sep 19 2025
    When Stephanie Hansen sold her Twin Cities printing and direct marketing business - she faced a crisis. Who was she? What did she want to do? A decade later, she's just published her second cookbook, and her Emmy-award winning TV show "Taste Buds with Stephanie" is syndicated all over the United States. Stephanie talks with Jason DeRusha about finding her lane from the perspective of an eater and a home cook. The "True North Cabin Cookbook - Vol. 2" is in bookstores everywhere
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    37 mins
  • S3 - Episode 12 - Nate Burleson

    S3 - Episode 12 - Nate Burleson
    Aug 5 2025
    He's the co-anchor of CBS This Morning, NFL Today, host of Hollywood Squares, and a former Minnesota Vikings player. But Nate Burleson is coming to Minneapolis as he puts in the work to support his new vodka, created with Detroit micro-distiller Valentine Distilling Co. Lionblood Orange Vodka is his vision in a bottle. Nate and Jason discuss the multiple trips he took to Detroit to dial in the flavor, as well as discussing accountability, the Vikings new quarterback, the stress that caused his facial hair to fall out, and how he prioritizes things with so many different jobs.
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    25 mins
  • S3 - Episode 11 - Brett Anderson, NY Times food writer

    S3 - Episode 11 - Brett Anderson, NY Times food writer
    Jul 1 2025
    What Is Great Hmong Food? These Chefs Have the Answer" wrote New York Times food reporter Brett Anderson. So what got Anderson interested in Minneapolis chefs Yia Vang and Diane Moua, and their restaurants Vinai and Diane's Place? He was born in Minnesota, has family here, and spent 5 years talking to these chefs about "an extremely rare occurrence in American culinary arts: the emergence of a cuisine virtually unknown outside its own immigrant community, stewarded by chefs trained in Western-style restaurant kitchens - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/dining/hmong-minnesota-food.html
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    33 mins
  • S3 - Episode 10 - Quang Restaurant

    S3 - Episode 10 - Quang Restaurant
    Jun 26 2025
    The road to Minnesota's most recognized Vietnamese restaurant started with a St. Cloud family sponsoring a refugee couple and their 7 children. Lung Tran escaped Vietnam during the War with her husband Quang Truong. Her daughter Heather Mandanas and her grandson Andrew Truong share their family's story through food and through our conversation. Quang opened with just a few tables in 1989, today it's busy, it's successful, and it's legacy.
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    40 mins