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October 28, 2024 16 mins
Lee Schrager stops by to discuss the New York Food and Wine Festival!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Every year when it's time for our vacation, we know
that New York City Winding Food Festival is coming to town. Yes,
Lee Schreeger is the mastermind behind, of course New York
City Wine and Food Festival, and of course South Beach
Wine and Food Festival, Miami Beach Beach South. Hey, Lee,
Lee Schreger's here, and you're looking marvelous. All right. We're
trying to stay as positive as possible because when you

(00:22):
walk in, you turn into like the wicked witch of
the of the the West.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I must say that I woke up this morning. I
live a few blocks from here. I walked over. I
was so excited that my favorite bakery Mama was going
to be because I knew they were sending over food.
I asked him to send over one of their great spreads.
I picked everything I got here. It looked like a
bunch of raccoons had been here.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
The only thing unscathed was a vegan cake, and only
because it was cellophane wrapped.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
And this is the laziest crew.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
They didn't want to take off of that.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Would you like this chocolate chip cooking?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I mean they created that ten here Confetti Cookie Anniversary
I'm like, I cannot wait to have it.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
It was so good. May I tell you how delicious
that cookie? You may not, wow, you absolutely may not.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
This is, first of all, as if it's not the
most pathetic green room.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
There's not even a water in this place. I mean,
really it is. I mean, does Taylor Swift sit in
that same room? Yes? She does.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Do you have water for her? Absolutely? Okay, I mean
there was no water. Then I came here thirty minutes.
I have been here thirty minutes. There was not a
cookie left. There was not a chocolate your cooking. I'm
not taking a secondhand cookie.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's wrapped up. By the way, that confetti cookie was
life changing. You can't get home to Sheldon, but.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Mamont went out of their way. They didn't even know
who the show was. I said, you know, my dear
friends Elvis, who is that? I said, they didn't know you,
And I said, I think it's good for you. I said,
I think it's good, not that they need your help.
Clearly they don't know who you are, and they've survived
about you. I said, but you know, send over some
things to the Elvis Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Maybe they'll talk about it.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
If the food is good, so they know who you
were all the food did you even?

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Did you thank them? You like a little bit? And
then I just say I love we had Andymer who's
like the most positive human being of all time, makes
everyone laugh.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
And then here comes Leete I don't know the worst
I don't know, in the room at eight o'clock in
the morning, talking about you know, what would your father
say to So this is not going to be good.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Following him with Danielle. You know what, Lee, it's always
a pleasure to have you here. Nice to be here too.
By the way, when I when I show up in
the green room, they have water for me, I'm sure
they do.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
No, really, I have to say, as if I didn't
think the view green room was tired enough, this really
puts a new low.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Go to Rachel Ray's green room, she Darcruierie. Oh no,
Rachel Ray has the best green Remember, I mean the
chefs bring out all sorts of things. He had to
have a point though. We probably should have something in there.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Get a sponsored you have a coffee card over there, Delongey.
Thank you, there's no warn there's no coffee, Delongey. I
want to tell you if you think you're getting anything
out of that coffee card shoved into a corner.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Are they giving you money?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Give that money to the South Beach in New York City,
winding food belt.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
We're going to promote the hell out of it.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
There is no then, not Even if I was you,
I would insist at every host come, every guest gets
a cup of delongey coffee. No, it's sitting in the
corner with old.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Well like uh Bedel. To be honest, please, Andy Grammer
had some, he didn't. We didn't serve you. And because
you're not a guest, you're understand family, You're not a guest.
You're not a guest. First of all, we'll start treating
you like a guest if that's really what you want.
He's more like a critic. I'm not here for no,
I need a coffee. Can we talk about your stupid

(03:54):
wine and food custom pot?

Speaker 2 (03:55):
And I also I want to tell you that I
went to Has anyone been to Vodor? Yes? Yes, yeah,
I was there last night absolutely. And I went the
other night to the Corner Store. How was Corner Store?
Haven't been yet?

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Fantastic? Yeah? Worth the hype really really worth them go
to take him to Alma. What's Alma? You have no idea.
It's like going to you know.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
It.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
You just go to someone's house and eat. It's that
type of Italian. It's Italian food. It's not like red
sauce Italian well a little bit. It's more Napoleon. But
it's out in the middle of nowhere, and it's out
it's near my farm. It's not in the middle now.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
I wouldn't go there. I mean, I've never been invited
to the farm, so.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
I'm not going this. Why would ever invite this to
the farm. I've never invited your stupid house in the Hampton.
You have Bobby Flaying there. Make him a pang you
when you're at my house in the Hampton. You wake
up in this coffee and there are flagels from Goldbergs
from them. Because you don't pay for a thing, Bread

(04:58):
Bakery sends you free stuff all the time. You don't
pay for anything. Sorry, Oh my god, leave Sorry, I
just used the brown word today. Oh my god. Are
we going to get filtered? Or I pushed them up? Okay, hey, okay,
let's just can we bring this back to neutral because
we're not We're not We're accomplishing nothing understood. You're just

(05:18):
over here, just bitching and moving. I know I'm not
going to be invited back, of course. Okay, I'm just
gonna I find this is like playing a sports I
feel like them.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
But I do want to say, when you come to
my house, it's a little different than showing up at
the Elvis Da Rancher. Okay, water when you get out
of your car, Oh no, they kiss me, they make love.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
To me, Go on my way. Let's let's talk about
why you're here. Do you have a question.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
I just want to know because you name dropped the
corner store earlier, Taylor Swift went there and now no
one could get it. How do we find out the
regular people about a restaurant before the celebrities get there
and no one can get it? How do you find
out where's the intel coming?

Speaker 1 (05:59):
I I didn't know about I don't even know how
I heard about it.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
But how do people find out about it before?

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Well, if they wanted people like you in here, they
would invite you.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
On fire. You're the only cat that hasn't hissed. By
the way, of course, Lee lives in beautiful Miami. In Miami,
who was it that just said Miami is the food
capital of the United I just saw that, absolutely, and
I cannot disagree of streat And you're eating out, you're
eating some of those restaurants. You get right in, I

(06:33):
get right you didn't because it's one of the few
advantages of doing what I do on talk shows like this,
And you got if they only knew you, they would
invite you. But Lee Schweger, we got to talk about
the New York City Winding Food Festival, because in all sincerity,
this is not only an incredible, incredible more than a
weekend of food and information and learning and hobnobbing with chefs,

(06:57):
but it's raising money. It is raising money in this year,
we are raising money for God's Love.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
We deliver an amazing charity that delivers nutritionally balanced meals
to tens of thousands of people each week throughout the
five boroughs. It's I love the work that God's loved
long before we went to them as our charity party.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Remember when God's Love we delivered, it was just a
little hole in the wall. Now they've got a huge,
huge plant in the village. We're actually going up there
to cook or down there to cook. I can't wait. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
I don't think you're cooking. I think you're plating up food.
What I think you know, they put the food out
there and you package it. I don't think you're cooking.
All right, well, you know you're going to do it
what everyone else does. You're not special your package up food.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
I'm going to take care of that. You think you're
getting speed treated specially, I'll fix that. When did you
become a mean grandmother? The weather in Miami has made
me cruel, you know, I can I get that?

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah. Anyway, So the New York City Winding Food Festival
is it's back, all star lineup of events and chefs.
It just if someone's never experienced it, tell them what
they need to come and experience this year.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well, first of all, we've moved to Brooklyn. It's our
first time in seventeen years. Actually, we started in Brooklyn
seventeen years ago with one event, the Burger Bash that
it was in Dumbo, the Tobacco Factory. It was a
really great setting. But we outgrew it in two years
and we are back in Brooklyn. And I've wanted to
make the move out of Manhattan to Brooklyn because I

(08:29):
wanted everything to be in one campus so you didn't
have to move around from our signature daytime and nighttime
events to one campus. And we found this location that's accessible,
easily accessible. We'll have water taxis going from downtown Brooklyn,
downtown Manhattan to Brooklyn and I have renamed it the
Brooklyn Riviera. You should, yes, you know in Brooklyn talk

(08:51):
about a food scene. Brooklyn's food is it's the time.
I mean some of the best restaurants right under Miami.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
And you have something with Doctor Dray and Snoop, don't you.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Our opening night party is hosted by Doctor Doctor Dre
and Snoop. We have a party hosted by Lake Lively.
We have a party hosted by fifty cent. We have
a party hosted by Neil Patrick Harris and David Burker.
I know your drag Alter ego is going to be there,
which one page turner.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Oh you mean Clementia Burns isn't showing up this year.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
We have a great Taco event. You know that great website.
Meet Cutes New York. Oh absolutely, yeah, they're great. They're great.
Uh do you know them? Yeah, So they go up
to people on the street and they say, hey, excuse me,
can you tell me how you met? No?

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Are you a couple?

Speaker 2 (09:35):
And they are going to host our taco event alone
along with our own Sanche love them.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yes, I think there's a really cute old couple on
the other day lot.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
But they always do and they have all type of couples.
I mean, I love it, and I do you have
the VIP girls there?

Speaker 1 (09:49):
No? I do not have the VIP girls. You don't
know you have to you know, restaurants don't like them.
They do well, I tell you right now. VIP girls
there are friends of us? Yeah, uh well, Mario Carbone.
They said awful things about Carbone. Then we had him
on the show, and we had them on, and then
now they're doing events with him. They're all the best friends.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Are they? I like them and I follow them. I
thought there were like two Jewish Jaffy girls and I
just heard out, just heard it. Not even Jewish.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
I mean nothing. I don't mean that as it's you.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
I really thought they were two obnoxious Long Island Jewish
girls from Roslin and then like.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Two gentile girl.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
You know, we don't have even Sultan Roslin and Jews
from Long Island. What else we You know, we have
a Taco and Tequila. We have Alex Carney Shelley doing
an Italian event. We have Michael Simon doing a steak
and whiskey event.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Well, you got a dance party with Bobby.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
We have a triple threat. Bobby Flight is back at
the New York City Wine and Food Festival after a hiatus.
He boycotted you guys, we didn't boycott. I don't like
to say that he loves me.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
I don't think so. Yes, of course he is coming
back because he has has a book out that week.
Bobby loves Bobby's on next week? Is he right? All right?

Speaker 2 (11:10):
But he's doing his triple threat dance party with DJ
Tokyo Rose. Hey.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
When I think of dancing, I think of Bobby. He
loves to dance.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Our closing party is hosted by JJ Johnson with Rev
Rub perform, Rev Run performing and does.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Cardi B Listen to your show? Absolutely? Cardi, Hello, this
is Lee Shrigger. I've been trying to reach you. I
know you have this new whip cream product out there
called whip Shots.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Do you know about it? No, no one even here
knows about it. Even more reason, Cardi B I'm trying
to reach you about coming on to our closing party.
I understand you live in Brooklyn on Sunday the twentieth,
to do a quick number or two or three or
but one number would be fine at our closing party.
It's a hip hop party. Rev Run's performing, and we'll

(11:55):
do a whip with that.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
A message to Cardi or just Cardi by just come
out and shoot your criminal and we can do it
from the stage.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
We'll shoot it well like a whip cream after party.
I promise you, I think she would. So I don't
know how to I don't know how to reach you
Cardi B. But if you are listening, call Elvis and
he'll connect.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
You with all. Right, there you go. The call is
out there. If anything comes from this bad interview, it's
going to be Cardi B.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Bad.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
If you Cardi B coming to the White the New
York City White offuse in fantastic. I think it's bad you.
How dare you? One of my favorite one of the
many things I love about New York City One fin
Food festival is this milling around in people watching watching
people taste something and watching their eyes roll back in
their head and understanding that you know this. This city

(12:41):
is just so vibrant as far as the food culture goes.
And to get out there and see all the superstars
not only from around the country but from our city
coming together with their food. Who is that incredible couple
from uptown that does the fried chicken? Oh, it's the
best friend Charles Gabriel. Yes, yes, but that's not a well,
you know, I see double.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Charles and Gabriel. It's Charles Gabriel. Just f y I
Charles Gabriel and Harlem as Charles Panfried. That's right here exactly.
It's the best. But it's funny you thought it was
Charles and Gabriel. It's Charles. Never said that. Well, you
said the couple.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
I think his wife was there and they were very sweet.
I love it.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
He's so negative, but he's doing such wonderful things for people.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
I love to marry this text. Don't take this the
wrong way, but having everyone on the show get roasted
so thoroughly is a refreshing change of pace.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Love you guys like I love ye. Right when we're outside,
was like, oh my gosh, you look beautiful. I love
your hair. I said, thanks, it's half fake. I know,
can I tell you? I mean literally, I'm not blind.
I mean Helen call Loo could tell that, you know.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
I mean, I'm only concerned that your boyfriend's gonna wake
up and there's a piece of a hair and he's
gonna think it's a rat, you know. God. So you know,
Anna Navarro is my best friend and I cannot travel
with her anymore because when you travel with Anna, everything
goes off, you know, because the hair clips. Oh yeah, yeah,
so it's so annoying they have to touch I mean

(14:15):
I would I would die before I let someone put
their hands through my hair. But that's what they do
at the airport when you have clips.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, yeah, I don't travel with it. Yeah. So you
heard you heard talking about all the celebrities who were
showing up, and so you need to show up to
and you know what, I can be honest, I couldn't
care less about these celebrities. I love the food and
I love to me The stars of the show are
the people who are serving the food and the fact
that this money goes to God's love.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
We deliver and don't forget. The Burger Bash is back,
the event that put us.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
I saw that map and it says, you have these
celebrity judges. I haven't heard of any of these people.
I'm so sorry. I haven't heard of any of them.
I don't know your previous guest on the show, Andy Grammer,
who I know. You're an old white Jewish guy from Miami.
You don't know anyone? Did you say old? Yes? Oh
my god, you are mean. Oh you are sat there

(15:06):
and like Mount Etna, spewing hatred all of me and
I and I'm just playing with you. Oh my god.
Oh You're cruel that they have emotional whiplash from today's show.
We had Andy Grammer on. Everyone was crying. Now Lee's
here and they're dying loud. I have to say. It
was eight o'clock in the morning, and I thought he
was depressing. I mean, his music was pretty, but depressing

(15:27):
it all. He's the least depressing person I want to know.
He's talking about sending signs from heaven. That's not depressing.
I thought it was very depressive. You know what, maybe
one day someone will send you a sign from heaven.
Me dead, my god, you are mean. No, no, no,
they'll send you a sign from heaven. But you're only
hears from people from hades. I didn't say you were dad.

(15:50):
That's not what I said. You'll receive a sign from heaven.
Are we allowed to talk about last night the debate?

Speaker 2 (15:56):
No? No, we can't say okay, I don't want to
talk about No. No, I'd had no interest in it anyway.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Why would you bring up I was curious, all right.
I was just told by our producer, we have to
take a break. No, you have to get me off
the air. Where is Sam? No, No you stay kicking
me off. No, you can stay all you can stay
all day.
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