The Dine One Six

The Dine One Six podcast is focused on the Sacramento food scene along with the people and culture that make it special. The show features interviews with chefs, farmers, journalists and anyone else with a great Sacramento food story to tell. Hosted by Max Connor, an award winning journalist and podcaster as well a long time restaurant worker and dedicated home cook. Max will take you behind the scenes of some of Sacramento’s best restaurants, dive into how your food gets from ”farm to fork” and follow trends and interesting stories of how food connects us all. Everyone in Sacramento has great food stories to tell and this show is dedicated to sharing them.

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Episodes

Chef Brad Cecchi part 2

In part two of Chef Brad Cecchi we cover why he made the move back to Sacramento to open Canon, how they managed to survive the pandemic after being open only three years by helping start Family Meal Sacramento which became Great Plates delivery in California . Cecchi owns and is the executive chef of Canon in East Sac, which holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand award and is widely considered one of the best restaurants in Sacramento. Chef Cecchi also tells us about his toughest critic, his 4-year-old ...

Apr 28, 2022•43 min•Ep. 6

Chef Brad Cecchi Part 1

Brad Cecchi got his start in cooking by taking classes at American River College as a teenager, not because he loved cooking but because it seemed easy but he quickly found he had a knack for it. After placing second in a national cooking competition he found himself working in the kitchen at a five star resort in Colorado at age 18 and he never looked back. Today Cecchi co-owns and is the executive chef of Canon in East Sac, which holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand award and is widely considered one...

Apr 22, 2022•36 min•Ep. 5

Episode 4: The Better Meat Co.

Nestled along a levee, in the back of a large business park in West Sacramento is a company that is developing new technology and striving to mitigate the devastating effects of factory farming and provide a new protein source for a population set to hit 10 billion people over the next few decades. The Better Meat Co. is using a proprietary microflora organism to create fermentation and quickly grow a product that can be dried into a shelf stable, protein rich and non-allergenic product, which c...

Apr 15, 2022•43 min•Ep. 4

Episode 3: Lee Pflugrath says frozen yogurt isn’t dead

Lee Pflugrath always dreamed of owning his own restaurant. He worked in kitchens his entire life starting at age 14. He worked his way up to being an executive chef at a high end restaurant in Napa in the 90’s. So how did he end up owning a humble yogurt shop in Davis? It’s a long, funny story and Lee lays out all the details for us in today’s episode. We talk about what it was like to be a chef in the 90’s, the fickle business of owning a restaurant and what has happened to the frozen yogurt bo...

Apr 08, 2022•44 min•Ep. 3

Episode 2: All about coffee with local roaster Tamra Ruxin

Tamra Ruxin is a roaster for the local land park roastery Two Seeds Coffee . She knows her coffee and has the credentials to prove it. In fact, Tamra is a certified Q Arabica coffee grader, a certification that is held by only a few hundred people in the U.S. and it means she can taste a cup of coffee and tell you almost anything about it. We get into the difference between dark, medium and light roasts. How different brewing methods affect your cup of coffee, why you should always grind your be...

Apr 01, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Episode 1: Andy Bakes Bread

Andy Baranoff bakes bread and sells it on Instagram. He sells so much of it that he converted his laundry room into a cottage bakery, pumping out the smell of fresh bread into his South Land park neighborhood. Like so many people who end up as chefs or bakers, Andy Barnoff got his start by helping his grandmother in the kitchen make all sorts of Russian pastries and dishes with enriched dough. As a young adult Andy dreamed of being a professional cyclist but a trip to culinary school in San Fran...

Mar 25, 2022•42 min•Ep. 2

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Mar 16, 2022•4 min

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