Neil Saavedra

And it's just a place for her to celebrate those things that come all together in food.

You know, what we eat and celebrate with, what we, you know, even at a point of mourning, you know, food is a big deal.

Wedding food is a big deal.

All these things come together around something we celebrate.

So we kind of shut off the loud noise of the news and the heaviness of the news and just come together and talk about things that we dig, and that's food.

One of the kindest compliments I can receive is one of the kindest compliments I can give.

And the term is a Renaissance man, but it's not just a man, it's a person.

And often it goes to having a plethora of interests.

But to me, it's beyond that.

It's about living life to the fullest, being curious, poking around, asking questions, learning new things.

And boy, from doing a little research on Nick Greenberg, my next guest,

He falls into that category in a big old way.

He's a versatile bassist.

He's a composer, author, performed at a mess of different musical gigs and occasions, Broadway shows, even has done some polka.

I have a feeling we're not going to have enough time to talk about all this, but he's also been somebody who was a former chocolatier.

He, a winemaker, award-winning home brewer, lives in Cincinnati with his wife and his golden retriever.

You got to love that.

And it has a new book that's a novel, but ties into one of the most curious stories

ingredients known to man uh welcome nick greenberg uh talking about his new book buried treasure uh unearths the cutthroat culinary world of rare truffles how are you great how you doing neil i'm quite well what a cv you have um uh why why truffles in your new book uh it's a novel correct

It is, yes.