Chef Amy adds spice to popular Pepper Pod

HUDSON – Chef Amy Regalado was raised in the family restaurant business: literally.

“My crib was here in the office,” she said.

“Here” is the Pepper Pod Restaurant, an 86-year Hudson institution. The eatery has been at the same location – now just off Interstate 76 – for over 50 years, and Regalado’s parents, Beth and Dave Martin, have owned it since 1977.

She explained that her parents never had aspirations to go into the restaurant business.

“My father was a farm boy from North Dakota. Mother came down here to go to CU,” she said. “When they moved to Hudson, the restaurant…