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Food is the New Rock Episode 3: Mac McCaughan

Most people know Mac McCaughan as the guitarist from Superchunk, or as one of the co-founders of Merge Records, home to Arcade Fire, Spoon, She & Him, Neutral Milk Hotel, M Ward and more.  But did you also know that he is married to a James Beard award winning chef, and one of the guys from Arcade Fire says her restaurant is the reason the band signed to Merge?  

He tells us all about it (and more) in Episode 3 of the podcast, now available for download on iTunes or Soundcloud

Best Southeast Chef Winner Thanks Superchunk Singer From the James Beard Award Stage


Photo courtesy of Daniel Krieger for Eater

Chef Andrea Reusing of Chapel Hill’s Lantern Restaurant was named the Best Chef of the Southeast Monday night at the James Beard Foundation’s annual awards gala.

Reusing, 42, is only the third chef in North Carolina to win a James Beard award. From the stage Monday, she thanked her husband, Mac McCaughan, a singer and guitarist in the rock band Superchunk and co-founder of Merge Records, based in Chapel Hill.