Shift Drink Podcast
1) Opie Crooks & Jill Tyler: #ShutUsDown, But Not Out
This week, notorious locavore Opie Crooks - executive chef of A Rake’s Progress, and hospitality hero - Jill Tyler, co-owner of Tail Up Goat and Reveler’s Hour, join us from the frontlines of what’s b...Show More
2) Rising Star Paola Velez’s Passion of the Fruit
This week, Executive Pastry Chef and confection Domini-queen of Kith and Kin, Paola Velez, joins us in our Corona-free recording bubble to discuss how she caught baking fever. From a cacao-farming fam...Show More
3) Ruben Garcia: Can’t Fight Nature
This week, Shift Drink alum Boby Pradichith continues to do the heavy lifting by bringing us chef, and mentor, Ruben Garcia. Freshly funemployed, we look back at Ruben’s 16-year legacy with Think Food...Show More
4) Francesca Arienzo: Baking the Law
This week, we are joined by Francesca Arienzo, mother-baker and dough-puncher of the Mexican-German — Filos Bakery. Francesca pinches off a piece of her therapy dough over Putin’s favorite shifty, div...Show More
5) Ann Limpert: The 101 on D.C.’s 100 Best
This week, Ann Limpert, Executive Food Editor of the Washingtonian keeps it cool on the hot seat, as she divulges her pastry past, serves up some “crispy” personal pizza predilections, and offers a de...Show More
6) Robin Ha: Korean Hand, American Girl
This week, the kimchi jar lid is popped on Korean food and the American experience with comic illustrator Robin Ha — just ahead of the release of her new graphic novel, Almost American Girl — and gues...Show More
7) Lane Harlan + Carlos Raba: Homies where the heart is
This week, arbiters of Charm City cool — Lane Harlan and returning guest Carlos Raba of Clavel, sit down with Mathew and poeticize everything from breakfast wine and the “hand of the maker,” to fishin...Show More
8) David Batista and Soung Wiser: Around the Corner and Back Again
This week, David Batista and Soung Wiser of All Souls, General Design Co, and the soon to be; The Little Grand, drop “the” formalities AND raise the Jaleo bar to discuss the origins of an iconic combo...Show More
9) Mr. Rovine Goes to Washington: The Fight Against Tariffs
This week we light a fire on the new season of Shift Drink to illuminate the impending U.S. tariffs on French wines, possibly going into effect later this month. Representing a cadre of importers and ...Show More
10) Felicia Colbert’s New Wine World Order
This week, we round out the season (and year!) with a clarion of D.C.’s wine community — Felicia Colbert — Wine Director at A Rake’s Progress. We discuss navigating to the peak of the wine world while...Show More