Dallas radio personality Jim White, who co-founded the Savor Dallas food festival in addition to Restaurant Week, died on June 4.
His spouse Vicki Briley-White confirmed that White handed away whereas in hospice care, after the couple discovered he had most cancers simply 4 months earlier than.
White was a longtime radio personality, serving as a news anchor and speak present host for 1080 KRLD for a decade from 1995-2004. He was most likely Dallas’ unique foodie in his capability as host of “The KRLD Restaurant Show with Jim White,” a two-hour reside talk-show that includes well-known cooks, cookbook authors, winemakers, and restaurateurs from all over the world, incomes a James Beard Foundation nomination for “Best Radio Show on Food.”
While at KRLD, he co-founded KRLD Restaurant Week, the annual fundraiser for the North Texas Food Bank.
From 1995-1997, he was morning and afternoon news anchor, and was honored by the Associated Press for “Best Newscast in Texas.” His silver-tongued voice turned a signature for KRLD, and earned him many requests for voice-over and emcee gigs.
He was forward of his time in his enthusiasm for the food and beverage scene, producing and internet hosting movies that includes well-known cooks, winemakers, and wine and food locations, lengthy earlier than social media made such protection widespread.
Inspired by food festivals they’d seen in different cities, and using Briley-White’s expertise as chair of annual wine public sale occasion Côtes du Coeur, the couple based Savor Dallas in 2005, trailblazing the concept of a foodie festival in Dallas and drawing crowds of greater than 4,000 individuals.
White recalled in 2013 that the occasion received a giant bump when it helped debut Stella Artois Beer within the Dallas-Fort Worth market by serving the beer ice chilly on faucet in a chalice, which attendees may take house without spending a dime.
The festival was ultimately acquired by the Dallas Morning News in 2014, and its remaining yr was 2018.
Always abreast of recent media, he subsequently based Wining & Dining with Jim White, a web site and podcast enterprise the place he interviewed high cooks and figures within the wine and spirits world.
White was nonetheless a pupil on the University of Texas at Arlington when he was recruited to work on the then-new Dallas TV station Channel 39. He additionally labored weekends with radio legend Ron Chapman, serving to launch his broadcast profession earlier than he was capable of graduate from faculty.
In addition to Dallas, he had radio expertise at news and speak stations in Chicago and San Francisco, serving as reporter, climate anchor,and host), in satellite tv for pc radio, and as an actor and voice-actor in commercials, company spokesperson, and movie.