{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsnacky-tunes.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Ff8e05210-f8e05210","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Episode 355: LA’s Top Two Food Festivals","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/f6d97d/f6d97dec-ef0d-4245-98d5-cc68d5f9eb21/b20a8bfd-0a96-4b99-909a-797fbfd58ee0/1529269427artwork.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/b20a8bfd-0a96-4b99-909a-797fbfd58ee0\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Episode 355: LA’s Top Two Food Festivals\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"We catch up with Nic Adler, the festival director behind two of Los Angeles’ top eating-and-drinking experiences: Eat Drink Vegan and Arroyo Seco Weekend. Eat Drink Vegan--originally called the Vegan Beer and Food Festival--was started by Nic, a vegan himself, in 2009. That first year was a gathering of 400 people in the parking lot of his very own The Roxy Theatre. This year’s crowd of 10,000+ surrounded the Rose Bowl, and there were more than 450 vendors in attendance. Now in its second year, Arroyo Seco Weekend combines great food--Burritos La Palma, Hatchet Hall and Freedman’s are among the restaurants participating--with great rock music. The 2018 headliners are Neil Young, Kings of Leon, Jack White and Robert Plant. We hit up our vault and revisit a musical guest from 2014: Psychic Twin. Erin Fein began writing and recording as Psychic Twin, and while recording by herself, doubling her vocals and singing melodies, she began to feel that she was in a way working with her twin. Psychic Twin gave us a live performance from their EP, Two Visions."}