Radio & Podcast

Multiple ways to be in the know about all the deliciousness happening locally, nationally, and internationally. Tune in to the food variety show, Foodie & The Beast, with David & Nycci Nellis on Federal News Network, or take a deep dive with Nycci on Industry Night on Real Fun DC.

FOODIE & THE BEAST

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Paws, Pours & Purpose: This Week on Foodie & The Beast
 We had a full studio and an even fuller lineup this week, so buckle up.We welcomed Hancie Stokes, Director of Communications for SMYAL, DC's LGBTQ+ youth community center, whose mission is to support and empower LGBTQ+ youth to build a world where queer and trans young people thrive. Hancie came in loaded with info on all the good work SMYAL is doing right now, plus a first look at their upcoming fall brunch. Mark your calendars.Now, I may be barking up the wrong tree, but I think Chef and Entrepreneur Tony Jackson may be onto something big. Tony's built businesses around two things he loves, great food and dogs, and now those worlds are colliding with the launch of DMV Dog Grub, his new line of handcrafted, small-batch dog treats. So be a gooood listener, and sit! And stay! And wait to hear what Tony's got to say.Then we sat down with Monique Rose, an entrepreneur, restaurateur, and hospitality leader with more than 20 years of experience building businesses and creating memorable guest experiences. She's the founder of the La'Caj seafood concept, and she walked us through her whole journey, from where she started to what she's building now.And because the seasons are shifting, we brought in the drinks experts to talk about having the right wines on hand for fall. Micky Edwards, co-owner of Sohal Wine & Spirits, the neighborhood wine and spirits destination she opened with her husband, Alex, in 2025, joined us alongside Lakeisha Mays, founder and owner of Vista Stellata (Starry Vision), an Italian wine brand born from a lifelong love of wine that took root during trips to Napa Valley and deepened through years of education across Europe. Both of them came in loaded down with the wines you're going to want to have on hand this season.Catch the full episode, and get ready to take notes.
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INDUSTRY NIGHT

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Industry Night: His Mom Died, So He Wrote a Cookbook
Gus Constantellis, the comedian behind the viral Greek Mom videos, joins this DC food podcast to talk about the cookbook his mother's death made him write. Four days after she passed, he posted a meatball video that changed everything, and comedy turned out to be the only way he knew how to survive what came next.Gus Constantellis is the Greek American stand up comedian and writer behind the Greek Mom videos, the ones where he becomes his late mother, Julia, on camera with more love than most tributes manage. The character went viral during the pandemic and never really stopped. The real story is what happened after Julia died. Four days later, Gus posted a video making her meatball recipe, the first thing she ever taught him to cook, and that grief turned into My Greek Mom's Recipes, a cookbook with the tagline she died, I wrote this cookbook. On this episode of Industry Night, the DC food podcast hosted by Washington DC restaurant insider Nycci Nellis, Gus talks about the forty years his mother spent in America without learning English, the difference between the edited version of her the internet fell in love with and the real woman who complained about restaurants and got sick from fish, and how he decided which family recipes and stories belonged in the book. It is a conversation about comedy as a coping mechanism, food as a language that outlives the person who spoke it, and what it means to keep someone's voice alive on the page after it is gone from the room.Watch the interview here, or listen to it here.
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