Today, my friend Chef Fabio Viviani, is featuring my burger recipe on his website and magazine. For those who keep up with this blog, I last saw Fabio in Miami during SOBEWFF where he taught me how to make gnocchi and we filmed an interview. In return I wrote a burger recipe for him, using [...]

During the South Beach Wine and Food Festival weekend, I had a chance to catch up with Chef Fabio Viviani and film another video interview with him. Fabio was in town giving a cooking demonstration for Bertolli Olive Oil for a group of media at Casa Tua, located in Miami Beach. Chef Fabio showed us [...]

Food, wine, and exotic cars. An exciting combination for the culinary evening and part of the Annual Celebration Exotic Car Festival. This year’s Food & Wine at Portofino was a new location to the yearly event. The move to an outdoors event turned out to be a beautiful scenery in the courtyard of the Loews [...]

One block south of Lincoln Road in Miami’s South Beach, there’s a restaurant focusing on Southern comfort food with a culinary touch. Southern style food has deep roots in history, but when you utilize a team of talented chefs who highlight seasonal ingredients, the food just turns into more creative plates for this old country [...]

Recently I had an opportunity to meet with Bravo’s Top Chef Fabio Viviani from Season 5. Chef Fabio was voted Fan Favorite during his season on the reality t.v. cooking show and was a top 4 finalist. The Chef has 2 restaurants in Southern California and a few cook books under his belt. To meet [...]

Bravo’s Top Chef Tour 2011 made a stop in Orlando, FL at the Lake Eola’s Farmers Market earlier this month. The tour stop included a head to head cooking battle between two contestants from the Top Chef TV show. Chef Kenny Gilbert of Season 7 and Chef Eli Kirshtein of Season 6 cooked with the [...]

The month of May was very busy with food events in Orlando, FL. Food Truck Bazaar 2, weekly Food Pods at Firestone Live and Lake Lilly, Food Truck Heaven, AMC Dine-in Theatre opening, more food trucks launching, restaurant openings… the list goes on. I definitely was out more attending events and eating a lot. Not [...]