Jun 17, 2026 · 56 min · 10 segments
Matt sets up camp at the annual Chef Culinary Conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, sitting down with presenters and staff to unpack what it takes to execute an event of this scale…
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Maggie ReitzelGuest
Michel NischanGuest
Matt BrittHost
Bob BakerGuest
Kirby DoriusHost
Jonathan PoirotHost
My name is Matt Britt and Jamie is not here today, but I am joined by returning champion co-host previous podcast guest, Kirby Dorius.

And we are live at the UMass Chef's Culinary Conference, which happens every year, right around this time, early June.

And we are about to go into a grand banquet, and there's a cocktail reception, but we set up this little impromptu podcast to speak to people that are attending the conference and that help execute the conference that present at the conference basically just why this matters and how it's a cool intersection of so many different people so our first guest and this was not necessarily a request as much as it was a demand

she i mean Maggie Reitzel, who is a head cook here at, I almost said Johnson and Wales, but at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

My name is Matt Britt and Jamie is not here today, but I am joined by returning champion co-host previous podcast guest, Kirby Dorius.

And we are live at the UMass Chef's Culinary Conference, which happens every year, right around this time, early June.

And we are about to go into a grand banquet, and there's a cocktail reception, but we set up this little impromptu podcast to speak to people that are attending the conference and that help execute the conference that present at the conference basically just why this matters and how it's a cool intersection of so many different people so our first guest and this was not necessarily a request as much as it was a demand

she i mean Maggie Reitzel, who is a head cook here at, I almost said Johnson and Wales, but at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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