Source Weekly publisher Aaron Switzer and Food Editor Donna Britt have a lively conversation with CCI Chef/Educator Thor Erickson in this Bend Don’t Break podcast episode.

Winner of the 2013 International Association of Culinary Professionals Culinary Teacher of the Year award, Thor talks about his love of teaching, his trip to the White House, his television escapades on Little House on the Prairie and what his next culinary adventure is going to focus on – BBQ!

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LISTEN: Thor Erickson, Cascade Culinary Institute Chef/Educator 🎧

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
February 14, 2024

<h1>LISTEN: Thor Erickson, Cascade Culinary Institute Chef/Educator 🎧</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />February 14, 2024</p> <p> <span class="fdnDropCap">S</span>ource Weekly publisher Aaron Switzer and Food Editor Donna Britt have a lively conversation with CCI Chef/Educator Thor Erickson in this Bend Don't Break podcast episode. </p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full alignright alignright"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/bend_don_t_break_digital_021524.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/bend_don_t_break_digital_021524.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-55206" /></a></figure> <p> Winner of the 2013 International Association of Culinary Professionals Culinary Teacher of the Year award, Thor talks about his love of teaching, his trip to the White House, his television escapades on Little House on the Prairie and what his next culinary adventure is going to focus on - BBQ!</p> <p><b>Listen now</b>:&nbsp; </p> <div class="soundTags"> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> <div style="font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396" title="Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/bend-dont-break-thor-erickson-cascade-culinary-institute-chefeducator" title="Bend Don&apos;t Break: Thor Erickson, Cascade Culinary Institute, Chef/Educator" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Bend Don&#x27;t Break: Thor Erickson, Cascade Culinary Institute, Chef/Educator</a></div> </p></div> <p> </p> <div class="wp-block-group fdn-after-article-related"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Related Stories</h3> </p></div></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-thor-erickson-cascade-culinary-institute-chef-educator-20647199/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=55205&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-thor-erickson-cascade-culinary-institute-chef-educator-20647199/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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