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Colorado Foraging
Chef Driven, hosted by chef and restaurateur Frank Bonanno, is a travel and cooking show that showcases independent food and beverage artisans. Rooted in Colorado, where Bonanno owns and operates 10 concepts, Chef Driven showcases the people that power the restaurant scene: the chefs, farmers, ranchers, bakers, confectioners, brewers, cheesemakers and foragers that make restaurants possible.
Colorado Foraging
Chef Driven Episode 5 | 26m 45s | CC
Frank meets up with professional forager Wendy Petty, who takes him on a wild front range adventure on the hunt for wild porcini mushrooms. He then hits the mountains to tap into foraging with Shae Whitney of DRAM Apothecary, who has transformed an old town bakery into an herbal oasis stocked with handmade bitters, syrups and teas. Shae demonstrates the basics behind making homemade bitters.
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