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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

372: Mariel Wega

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

At the time of this interview, Mariel Wega was the Wine Director of a.kitchen + bar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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0:00.0

I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

0:05.1

I'm Levy Dalton.

0:06.1

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Mariel Wega of A Kitchener Bar, the Beverage Director in Philadelphia.

0:28.5

Hello, welcome to the show.

0:29.7

Thanks for having me, Levy.

0:30.8

Nice to have you here.

0:32.6

So you grew up in Rochester.

0:33.6

That's right, Rochester, New York.

0:37.3

But I moved to a suburb of Philadelphia when I was younger.

0:41.5

Kept this connection with Rochester.

0:43.6

My family's all still there.

0:45.5

And my aunt actually had a shop.

0:49.5

It was called the Dutch market.

0:50.9

That's sort of where I first got into food. And what was the Dutch market. That's sort of where I first got into food and what was the Dutch

0:54.8

market like? Really small mom and pop type of thing. She did everything. Tiny

1:00.7

little kitchen right off the cafe. I'm saying like 12 seats maybe the whole place.

1:05.0

It was adorable. It was cute, very quaint.

1:07.0

So people would come in and get their Dutch goods and get out or they could stay and have a snack.

1:15.0

Dutch foods like Hanukuk.

1:17.6

It's like a crepe with different toppings,

1:20.5

syrup, powder sugar, whatever you want. She taught me how to make that.

1:24.4

So, Saatchabrocha, which I think of like a hot pocket with meat. It's kind of just like a puff pastry

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