San Diego was just like shooting right down the street from the ocean here. We got to go to San Diego and L.A., so that was pretty wild. I went to Houston for the first time, St. We’re going to Philadelphia, New Orleans, Austin, and we got to go to Lafayette. JC: We’re going back to Vancouver and Calgary and Halifax. What are some of the cities that you go to? The first two episodes are back-to-back, where you’re in Chicago and then Toronto. It was a lot of, ‘OK, what’s the show going to be? Do we like this? Do we not like this? We definitely don’t like this.’ I forgot what it was like to start a new show because it happened such a long time ago. We’re also travelling all across North America, so it opens up a different market for the show and for myself. Is that dish something you want to knock off your bucket list. If the restaurant makes a sandwich that is completely out of this world, that’s the thing we’re going to go for. It’s just like, ‘No, no, no, we’re going to do burgers.’ We’re really celebrating that food, or celebrating a lot of farm-to-table restaurants, and celebrating restaurants that are doing really unique and interesting dishes. Big Buck Throwdown at 10 yards These two bucks were getting after it This is the best time of year Heck with all the drama going on in politics and the world, we are out here doing what we love and loving every second of it Can’t wait to share this footage with you all on CarbonTV. On You Gotta Eat Here, we never talked about the idea of having a farm-to-table kind of place. But the restaurants are elevated a little bit. On You Gotta Heat Here, we were doing a lot of diner stuff and Mom and Pop shops. JC: The main thing is the style of restaurant that we’re hitting. What’s setting this apart from You Gotta Eat Here?
I don’t think it hit me until a good maybe month after.īig Food Bucket List is on Food Network. I could do with being home for a while.’ It had been five years of being on the road pretty steady. There was part of me that was like, ‘OK, I could do with a little break. It was hard because I loved shooting the show, and I had an amazing crew, and the production company was fantastic. John Catucci: You know what? It was mixed feelings. I just want to get your reaction to You Gotta Eat Here’s cancellation. Inviting you to tune in this Sunday, March 15th at 8:30AM to The Bucket List Radio Show® on Thomas Media’s Star 107.7 as we interview Jordan Utter, winner of our Air Choice One’s Atlanta bucket list experience.ET/PT—apart from his previous project? We asked Catucci.īefore we talk about Big Food Bucket List, let’s go back. The Bucket List Radio Show®, every Sunday 8:30-9AM on Thomas Medias Star 107.7. What sets Big Food Bucket List—bowing Friday with back-to-back episodes at 9 and 9:30 p.m. Big Food Bucket List, from the same production company as YGEH, finds Catucci gamely travelling around sampling food and interacting with the folks who make and taste them. This is 2019, and Catucci is back on Food Network Canada with a new series. It seemed like the series, with host John Catucci, could go on much, much longer.īut all is forgiven. Inspired, again, by Stor圜orps and The Great Thanksgiving Listen - we share it with you.In June 2017, Food Network Canada made it official: they had cancelled You Gotta Eat Here! after five seasons. The last time we went to Tennessee, Paul and I had a meeting with my parents, their priest and one of my brothers about funeral planning, my dog played with the dog my Dad got to keep him company when my mom dies, and I recorded a new conversation with my Mom. Her new goal is to celebrate Valentine's Day - and her wedding anniversary - in February of 2022. This past April, she turned 80 and my husband Paul and I helped my Dad have a covid-safe party for her. In early 2019, my Mom called to tell me that her cancer had returned, metastasized, and she’d try some treatments but not put herself through rounds of chemo and radiation again. They’re a little bit rude about how much nicer the weather is there than here in the Northeast. Since then - my parents relocated from Saranac Lake, New York in the Adirondack Mountains to LaFollette, Tennessee in the Cumberland Mountains. Two years later, I recorded an interview with her again - after she’d recovered from a heart attack and while she was undergoing treatment for a second recurrence of breast cancer. We recorded the interview on her 70th birthday in April 2011. Ten years ago, I interviewed my mom, Carolyn LaDuke, for an on-air Stor圜orps inspired celebration of Mother’s Day.