Against the Grain is heading back to the Luck Reunion festival, held on Farm Aid president Willie Nelson’s ranch outside of Austin, Texas. The night before the festival, the Luck Family Foundation puts on a PotLuck dinner, bringing chefs from across the country to prepare a regionally-sourced meal that is cooked over an open fire. Proceeds from this dinner benefit Farm Aid and the Texas Food and Wine Alliance. In past podcast episodes, we featured interviews with chefs we met there last year — folks like Rick Bayless, Bleu Adams and Michel Nischan. In this episode, we highlight some of the other chefs we spoke with last year and focus especially on how their work with local farmers builds what Farm Aid calls The Good Food Movement. Check it out! Listen to the episode below. And, make sure to subscribe in your podcast app of choice! Guests Amarys Koenig Herndon and Jordan Herndon Amarys Koenig Herndon grew up in restaurants—her father managed a local Chili’s, and from a young age, she’d help the servers with their side work. Her parents eventually opened their own restaurant, Live Oak Grill, where she was trained in every front of house position. Amarys continued […]
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