Portland Press Herald. October 2019
“NEW GLOUCESTER — Self-described “chicken people” Jesse and Mindy Bouchard opened Yolked Farm to Table Food Truck outside NU Brewery last summer with an egg in almost every dish.
There is a poached egg on poutine. A fried egg on the signature burger. Egg whites on the chicken fingers and egg yolks in the homemade ice cream in whatever-inspires-him flavors like basil, sweet corn or blueberry pancake, many ingredients raised or grown within 20 miles.
“We’re prepared to serve up to 200 people a day,” Jesse said. “Some nights are unbelievable. Portland’s restaurant scene is amazing, it really is, and it’s making national news. When Portland people start arriving, ‘We heard about this place, we had to come up here,’ that to me is success.”
Bouchard started cooking young, when he was just 14, at a Scarborough bed and breakfast.”
Z 105.5FM 96.9FM Radio Interview. October 2019
Russell Voss of NU Brewery and Jesse Bouchard of Yolked Food Truck stop in to talk about all the great (and eco-friendly) offerings at 437 Lewiston Road in New Gloucester. Russell covers Nu Brewery’s first few months in business, current tap list, and customer feedback. Jesse shares his culinary background, commitment to local farmers, and…ice cream! Listen to the interview -
207 Interview- News Center Maine. December 2019
NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine — As a teenager, Jesse Bouchard got to tag along with his big sister to her job at The Breakers Inn in Scarborough, a big bed-and-breakfast right on the coast. He thought while she worked, he’d hang out at the beach. That plan didn’t last very long.
Pretty soon, when they needed help in the kitchen -- they put him to work. Washing dishes, changing the occasional light bulb, and quickly – learning how to cook. "There was a woman that did baking there and she would tell me all about how to make a pie crust, how to make the perfect cookie, and she just wanted to teach me what she knew – I just listened. So I was working in a kitchen at a very young age and loved it couldn’t get enough of it," says Jesse.