James and Julie Petrakis, the Chefs and owners of The Ravenous Pig and the new Cask & Larder restaurant, released their new cookbook The Ravenous Pig: Seasons of Florida. To celebrate, they hosted a cookbook release party at their Ravenous Pig restaurant in Winter Park, FL. The event featured hors d’oeuvres from recipes in the [...]

The 2012 Epcot Food & Wine Festival is kicking off to a great start this year with new dishes, marketplaces, and a few twists to some favorite dishes. I attended the opening weekend and I was excited to try what was new. There were a few changes to some of the marketplace locations from the [...]

Taste of the Nation Orlando 2012 took place last Saturday, August 25th at the Orlando World Center Marriott. It was my first time attending this culinary & fundraising event, with 100% of ticket sales supporting Share Our Strength’s efforts to end childhood hunger. The evening was full of delectable bites from 37 restaurants from around [...]

The combination of chocolate and bacon just keeps getting better for Central Florida. On Saturday, September 1st, Peterbrooke Chocolatier of Winter Park is teaming up with the C&S Brisket Bus food truck to create a special “Chocolate-Covered Bacon”. Using Peterbrooke’s chocolate and C&S Brisket Bus’ hand crafted bacon, the collaboration is to celebrate International Bacon [...]

Whole Foods Market in Phillips Crossing hosted it’s “Fill The Grill Challenge” for 3 weeks in July. The challenge featured chefs from four local food trucks in the Orlando area, where they had a $20 budget, with 20 minutes to shop and then 20 minutes to cook. The chefs chose their own ingredients and were [...]

The summer heat is here and it is time for a Cook-Off series. Food truck cuisine is one of the hottest trends around the country and it has been elevated with many classically trained chefs creating culinary masterpieces in their mobile kitchens. Watch four Orlando food truck chefs battle it out in the “Fill the [...]

The Bacon Off in Orlando, FL is coming up this Sunday, June 17, 2012 from 12-4pm. The two food trucks, Big Wheel Truck and the C&S Brisket Bus, are busy perfecting their house cured and house smoked bacon, and will be going head to head for guests to choose the best bacon. The event requires [...]

Recently I was in New York City for one week, attending a conference, a food and music festival, and just roaming around discovering food. My previous blog post was about Food Revolution Day, the world wide celebration about standing up for real food and the event going on in Central Florida. Since I was out [...]

It’s an exciting time in food, with the focus of eating real food from local farms and farmers’ markets. Celebrate Food Revolution Day Orlando this Saturday, May 19th, at the Winter Park Urban Farm. People from around the world will participate in events in their own cities, as part of the Jamie Oliver Foundation’s launch [...]

The TECHmunch food blogger conference rolled into in Tampa, FL last month. This was my first time attending a TECHmunch event and I was excited to see this conference taking place in a nearby city. What made this conference different was that I was asked to speak at one of the segments. Jeff Houck, Food [...]

It’s coming to Orlando, the battle of the BACON! Two Orlando Food Trucks will cure and smoke their best bacon yet, putting their own recipes on the line, to compete in Bacon Off. It’s Big Wheel Truck vs. C&S Brisket Bus! Experience it LIVE on Sunday, June 17, 2012 (Father’s Day)! See flyer and details [...]

Last week, I was announcing a bake sale that I was participating in with fellow food bloggers. The Central Florida Food Blogger Bake Sale was the fundraising event to donate proceeds to the Share Our Strength organization – an organization trying to end childhood hunger in the U.S. The bake sale was a success and [...]