Episode 186 - Luke Zahm

The Cripescast Podcast

Charlie Berens

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

For Chef Luke Zahm, food is more than just fuel. Rather, it’s about community, history, and tradition. As host of PBS’s Emmy award-winning show, Wisconsin Foodie, and owner of The Driftless Cafe in Viroqua, Wisconsin, Luke is all about celebrating the Midwest through cooking. In this episode of the Cripescast, he and Charlie discuss their favorite things about Midwestern culture and the easiest way to impress guests with your cooking. They also talk about their humble beginnings as fast food workers, Charlie a pretzel roller at Auntie Anne’s, and Luke as a sandwich artist for Subway Sandwiches. The conversation even takes a saucy turn when they each share some of the wildest DMs they’ve received from fans.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey folks I'm Charlie Behrens and welcome to the Cripes cast the podcast where we talk to people for and or from the Midwest and we are powered by Everlight Solar.
0:08.9	Here's today's episode.
0:10.0	Hey everybody, how we doing?
0:15.0	As you can see, I am in some hotel room.
0:18.0	I'm actually in Lafourte, or no, where am I?
0:20.4	I just said Lafarge.
0:21.5	My guest is from Lafarge originally. Luke's um, he is the host of the PBS show Wisconsin
0:28.4	Foodie. He owns the Driftless Cafe Award winning chef, um, Driftless Cafe by Award-winning chef.
0:33.4	Driftless Cafe, by the way, in Barocco.
0:35.2	It's got this farm-to-table philosophy, which is super cool.
0:39.0	Luke is a friend of mine, and it was just great talking with them about food, about where food comes from,
0:45.0	about the environmental impact, about building community and kind of
0:50.0	getting your food locally, what that means, how that builds up communities how it's you know good for a whole host of things and also we just rift on a bunch of other stuff
1:00.1	Luke was at the Joey song benefit that I did last weekend. I do that every year with
1:06.4	Michael Gammall was on the podcast on Bunch Vigg
1:12.2	another Veroquua guy.
1:14.4	So anyway, Luke was there.
1:17.2	We hung out in the hotel of the AC Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:23.2	And now I'm in to bring a full circle
1:26.2	to my first mistake.
1:27.7	I am not in Lafarge.
1:28.9	I'm in Fargo.
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