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A chef, a wood-fired oven & using food to create change
FoodCrush
English - October 30, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 50.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsFood Arts Society & Culture Places & Travel food milwaukee dining beverage onmilwaukee foodcrush restaurant food porn culinary lori fredrich Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Everyone loves pizza. But sometimes a concept comes along that changes everything.
Few know that better than Dana Spandet, a chef whose drive to create delicious pizza and give diners a new experience during the pandemic, became a conduit for the creation of Flour Girl & Flame, a mobile, wood-fired pizza operation that not only serves exceptional pizza, but supports small local Black-, LGBTQ- and woman-owned businesses in the process.
On this week’s podcast, we sat down with Spandet to talk about her career – which has included work with The Bartolotta Restaurants, the Milwaukee School of Engineering and Tall Guy and a Grill – the challenges she has faced on her culinary journey and the values that form the foundations of her business. Listen in for the inspiring story of how a wood-fired pizza oven not only changed the trajectory for a catering operation during the pandemic, but provided her with an opportunity to create community and change through pizza.