This week on Snacky Tunes DJ Never Forget talked to Kate Blumm of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The crew at the BBG are hosting a Chili Pepper Fiesta featuring bands from various "chili loving nations" and chili-packed food from a myriad of different cuisines. Plus Jose Gonzalez of Junip called from Scandinavia to talk about eating on the road and his spicy food heat-tolerance-level. This episode was sponsored by Whole Foods Market.

New York City’s Craft Beer Week is just around the corner, beginning Friday, September 24th and running through Sunday, October 3rd. To kickoff the annual series, Whole Foods Market Bowery is hosting a beer and food pairing event in their Beer Room. Oskar Blues is on tap and Chef Jacques Gautier of Park Slope’s Palo Santo is cooking up one of his South American delights to accompany. Food tasting goes from 5 to 7 and beer will continue til 9. With a Craft Beer Week passport get $3 off a 64 ounce growler fill. Meet Chef Gautier Friday, September 24th and enjoy some special tastes, on tap and from the kitchen.

Photo 1: chili peppers, Photo 2: José González

This week on Let's Eat In Cathy hosted Matt & Allison Robicelli, the married cupcake geniuses behind Robicelli's Cupcakes. Their mission was to take the high end buttercream frosting and cake baking techniques found in expensive wedding and "event" baking and bring them to the cupcake-eating masses. Robicelli's are widely considered to be THE BEST cupcakes in NYC and beyond, and one taste or even a glance at their incredibly varied and complex cupcake flavors will confirm this. This episode was sponsored by Whole Foods Market. New York City’s Craft Beer Week is just around the corner, beginning Friday, September 24th and running through Sunday, October 3rd. To kickoff the annual series, Whole Foods Market Bowery is hosting a beer and food pairing event in their Beer Room. Oskar Blues is on tap and Chef Jacques Gautier of Park Slope’s Palo Santo is cooking up one of his South American delights to accompany. Food tasting goes from 5 to 7 and beer will continue til 9. With a Craft Beer Week passport get $3 off a 64 ounce growler fill. Meet Chef Gautier Friday, September 24th and enjoy some special tastes, on tap and from the kitchen.

Photo: Cupcakes from Robicelli's Cupcake

This week on the business of The Business, Phil Colicchio is joined by friend and restauranteur Christian Pappanicholas, owner of Resto & The Cannibal. Christian explains why he left the commercial real estate business for the less lucrative restaurant business - all because of a passion he could not suppress. Find out how he took the idea of high end beer and meat and took it to the somewhat deserted micro-neighborhood near 29th St. and Park Ave in NYC. Get an insiders perspective on what it takes to develop ideas, open restaurants and find sustainable success with business. This program was sponsored by The International Culinary Center

"We definitely wanted to do smart food. We wanted to force the issue when it came to meat. We knew beer was very important - but I felt nobody was representing food and beer the way it should be." 09:00

"I remember buying beer that was $60 a case and thinking it was a lot of money, and that same case of beer costs $90 now. That was only 4 years ago!" 15:00

--Christian Pappanicholas of Resto/The Cannibal on "the business of The Business"