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Mark Schatzker: The Dorito Effect; The Surprising Truth about Food and Flavor Mangoes have dazzled palates across the globe for centuries with their aroma, taste, texture, and seemingly endless shapes, sizes, and colors. In Miami alone there are over 250 varieties. Miami-based writer, critic, poet and educator Jen Karetnick is the award-winning author of nine books, including three this year alone: the recently published book Mango and two volumes Prayer of Confession and Brie Season about to be released.
Jen’s nickname, Mango Mama, could not be more appropriate! Jen lives on the last acre of a historic mango plantation with her husband, two children; three dogs; four cats; and fourteen mango trees! By the time July comes around, Jen uses mangoes in the most unexpected ways, in just about everything, cocktails, smoothies, savory and sweet dishes.
Along with her own recipes which she has developed over the years, the book Mango features recipes from a group of Jen’s buddies who happen to be Miami's most celebrated chefs.
From smoothies to cocktails, from mango blintzes to jerked grouper with mango-fig chutney, and mangozpacho (mango-infused gazpacho)--this book is the ultimate book on Mango. It is delightfully written, based on serious research and highlights all those chefs and mixologists who are striving to use our local products in their cuisines.
Click here for Jen’s recipe for frozen mango sangría, or “Mangría,”
For decades we've watched obesity go from crisis to chronic disease affecting one third of America’s population. First, we assumed it was fat that was the problem, then it was carbs, then it was sugar, now it's gluten. But what if it isn't really any of the above? What if the culprit is so elusive that nobody thinks of even denouncing it? According to Mark Schatzker, Americans add nearly 600 million pounds of flavorings to food each year, everything from syrups to spices and sauces for humans and palatants for animal feed which could be fueling America’s and the world’s obesity epidemic. This new book is taking a bite out of the food industry. In "The Dorito Effect--The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor,” award-winning Canadian journalist Mark Schatzker argues that the food industry has expertly learned to manipulate flavor to make their products irresistible, while fruits, vegetables and meat have all become incrementally less delicious. “We’re all after deliciousness but we’re misdirecting our palates. Everything is getting blander and simultaneously more seasoned. Everything is becoming like a Dorito.”
With in-depth historical and scientific research, The Dorito Effect casts the food crisis in a new light, weaving an enthralling tale of how we got to this point and where we are headed. Based on serious research backed by an extensive knowledge of history, chemistry and genetic engineering, the book reads like a thriller. It is an eye opener to anyone priding himself on being an independent human being.
From more information log on the book and author, log on to www.markschatzker.com
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David Downie, A Passion for Paris, Romanticism and Romance in the City of Light
David Downie’s Passion for Paris is matched by insatiable curiosity, encyclopedic knowledge of French history and literature, love for the arcane and as importantly, a good pair of legs. His new book “A Passion for Paris.” Romanticism and Romance in the City of Light ” comes on the heels of the best-selling book Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James. David Downie is a multilingual Paris-based American nonfiction author, crime novelist and a travel, food and arts journalist whose work has been published in national and international media. A native San Franciscan who moved to Paris in the mid-1980s he now shares his time between France and Italy, and his life with his wife, photographer Alison Harris. They both own and operate the Paris, Paris tours a tour guide and custom walking company of Paris, Burgundy, Rome and the Italian Riviera../../index-php/radio/._nbsp.css; David grew up in San Francisco in the 70’s. His love of Paris and French culture was sparked during the no less fascinating social and sexual revolution going on in California at the time../../index-php/radio/._nbsp.css; Listen as his explain why and how did 19th century photographer and bohemian character Felix Nadar influenced his life. In the superbly written “A Passion for Paris,” history becomes alive as statues of kings and courtesans, writers, musicians and painters stare down on their successors in love and war. Mr. Downie attempt to define what makes Paris romantic and he focuses on the Romantic period in Arts and Literature to establish that it is the people who lived in its curving cobbled streets and met at its sidewalk cafes and leafy squares, who talked and wrote about it, like Balzac and Flaubert, that make Paris romantic.
Balzac, Gauthier, Hugo, Baudelaire and other litterati lived and loved roaming the streets of Ile de la Cité. Did they all know each other, swapping wives and lovers? They all ended at the Père Lachaise, the repository of the greats. Listen as David Downie takes us to the alleys and through the tombs of those who are eternally alive through their works. He often says that changes must occur for the same to continue, here referring to the way he describes the “terrorist cell” of young revolutionaries under the reign of Charles X and the Battle of Hernani. How different was it then than it is today?
After reading A Passion for Paris, you will never stroll in the Luxembourg gardens in the same way. All the statues will come alive, from that of the beloved cursed poet Baudelaire and the painter Delacroix to the writer George Sand, the cross-dressing feminist and her lovers, the poet Alfred de Musset and Chopin, among others, and the sarabande of characters from Murger’s La Bohème heading to Café Momus, whose book “Scenes from Bohemian Life” directly inspired the famous Puccini opera La Bohème.
For more information on the book and the walking tours log on to www.parisparistours.com , www.davidddownie.com and www.alisonharris.com
Mangoes have dazzled palates across the globe for centuries with their aroma, taste, texture, and seemingly endless shapes, sizes, and colors. In Miami alone there are over 250 varieties. Miami-based writer, critic, poet and educator Jen Karetnick is the award-winning author of nine books, including three this year alone: the recently published book Mango and two volumes Prayer of Confession and Brie Season about to be released.
Jen’s nickname, Mango Mama, could not be more appropriate! Jen lives on the last acre of a historic mango plantation with her husband, two children; three dogs; four cats; and fourteen mango trees! By the time July comes around, Jen uses mangoes in the most unexpected ways, in just about everything, cocktails, smoothies, savory and sweet dishes.
Along with her own recipes which she has developed over the years, the book Mango features recipes from a group of Jen’s buddies who happen to be Miami's most celebrated chefs.
From smoothies to cocktails, from mango blintzes to jerked grouper with mango-fig chutney, and mangozpacho (mango-infused gazpacho)--this book is the ultimate book on Mango. It is delightfully written, based on serious research and highlights all those chefs and mixologists who are striving to use our local products in their cuisines.
Click here for Jen’s recipe for frozen mango sangría, or “Mangría,”
Elizabeth Minchilli knows Rome backwards and forwards. A blogger; the creator of the Eat Rome, Eat Florence, and Eat Venice apps; and a prolific author of books on Italian architecture, design, and food, she has melded her passion for food and for Rome into a charming guidebook, her seventh book: Eating Rome: Living the Good Life in the Eternal City. In Eating Rome Elizabeth Minchilli takes readers to favorite food haunts for daily dining, shopping, and cooking in Rome, seasoned with childhood anecdotes about the city where she now raises her own family. When in Rome, do as the Romans do, they say, and Eating Rome is full of insights about where and how Romans eat, where and how they shop, artisan food producers, a bit of food history, and a sprinkling of superlative Roman recipes against the Medieval and Roman background of the oldest open air market in Rome, Campo dei Fiori, the Jewish Ghetto, The Piazza Testaccio market and its typical slaughter houses, the gelato parlors and more. American travelers find there is a different way of eating in Rome. Listen as Elizabeth Minchilli talks about the ‘etiquette’ of ordering coffee, a gelato cone and trying to buy dog food, that is if you travel with your four-legged partner.
If you are planning a trip to Italy this summer Eating Rome is the book that you will want to read. And while you are travelling, Elizabeth will guide you with her aps Eating Rome, Eating Florence, Eating Venice, and Eating Italy . Listen as Elizabeth Minchilli talks about Rome the Eternal City and its food
Click here for a recipe from her book: Sausage, Onion and Goat Cheese Pasta
Mangoes have dazzled palates across the globe for centuries with their aroma, taste, texture, and seemingly endless shapes, sizes, and colors. In Miami alone there are over 250 varieties. Miami-based writer, critic, poet and educator Jen Karetnick is the award-winning author of nine books, including three this year alone: the recently published book Mango and two volumes Prayer of Confession and Brie Season about to be released.
Jen’s nickname, Mango Mama, could not be more appropriate! Jen lives on the last acre of a historic mango plantation with her husband, two children; three dogs; four cats; and fourteen mango trees! By the time July comes around, Jen uses mangoes in the most unexpected ways, in just about everything, cocktails, smoothies, savory and sweet dishes.
Along with her own recipes which she has developed over the years, the book Mango features recipes from a group of Jen’s buddies who happen to be Miami's most celebrated chefs.
From smoothies to cocktails, from mango blintzes to jerked grouper with mango-fig chutney, and mangozpacho (mango-infused gazpacho)--this book is the ultimate book on Mango. It is delightfully written, based on serious research and highlights all those chefs and mixologists who are striving to use our local products in their cuisines.
Click here for Jen’s recipe for frozen mango sangría, or “Mangría,”
Just when we thought there was little more to discover in terms of wines and new wine regions in Spain, enters Cariñena from Aragón, Spain. While it is one of the oldest protected growing areas in Europe, and the second oldest in Spain since the DO or Denomination of Origin was created in 1932 , it remained promotionally and operationally shy, selling most of their production to better known, more media-oriented appellations, until recently../../index-php/radio/._nbsp.css; The 1990s was a period of rapid development as small producers joined forces to become cooperatives, striving to adapt the robust wines to a more modern palate. As a result, exports have quadrupled since 1995 and it is now poised to burst unto the world markets with jazzy labels and consumer friendly flavors. Lyn Farmer, wine director of the iconic wine event Veritage and a renowned wine writer has just returned from Cariñena to tell us all about this old and new wine region located in the historic province of Aragón, North East of Spain, South of the Pyrennées, in the transitional area between the Iberian System and the Ebro Valley../../index-php/radio/._nbsp.css; Cariñena vineyards – viticulture has been practiced there since 50 BC - are located between Madrid and Barcelona, about 50 km southwest of Zaragoza, on a plateau known as the Campo de Cariñena. 
The image that Cariñena projects today, with its system of coops, is that of “the next great grape, Garnacha from Cariñena.” The region is the source of the French Carignan grape, which is also grown in Italy, California and several other New World regions. Listen as Lyn Farmer explains the difference between Cariñena and Garnacha or Grenache and why “Cariñena is the most intriguing combination of old-fashioned and traditional with the rabidly modern.” Lyn Farmer walks us through a tasting of young and aged wines, Garnacha varietals and blends vinified in the region, and conjures the image of the red, arid soils swept by hot winds and frozen in cold nights that produce the next iconic wine on America’s tables../../index-php/radio/._nbsp.css; Listen as Lyn Farmer talks about the wines of Carinena, Aragon, Spain
Uvaggio's owner Craig DeWald and sommelier Heath Porter set up for the Carinena Wine Tasting and Seminar, in Coral Gables
When Chef Cindy Hutson opened Norma's on the Beach on Lincoln Road in 1994, it was a hit. Her debut with her lifetime partner, Delius Shirley, was just the beginning of a long and successful career that shaped her life and changed South Florida's culinary landscape. She went on to open the award-winning Ortanique on the Mile, in Coral Gables and has expanded her reach to the Caymans, the Bahamas, and, soon, to Downtown Miami, in the new Southeast Financial Center where the new restaurant Zest will serve "cuisine from the sun." Together with Delius, Cindy has just published a cookbook entitled From the Tip of My Tongue. With more than 75 recipes and over 100 photographs. Listen as Cindy talks about her cuisine, her life decisions and her joy of cooking
They say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Lidia Batianiach, celebrity chef, TV host, author and restaurateur, is going a step further: For her, the way to a better world is through the kitchen. Lidia just received a Food For Life award at the Freedom Tower in Miami, in conjunction with the pre-launch of the Expo Milano 2015, the world’s biggest event on Food and Nutrition held at the Miami Culinary Institute at Miami Dade College. This year’s Expo theme: “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life” was reflected in forums and seminars where world-renowned experts explored the role of food in health, culture and the modern lifestyle. Lidia Bastianich, along with Paolo Cuccia Publisher of Gambero Rosso, Mitchell Davis of the James Beard Foundation and Dorothy Cann Hamilton, CEO of the International Culinary Center and President of the USA Pavillion at Expo Milano 2015, were on the panel discussing bridging new and old world cuisines. . Over her 40-year career in the kitchen, Lidia championed the Italian way of cooking and good of living as the chef/owner of six acclaimed restaurants, four in New York City, one in Kansas and one in Pittsburg../../index-php/radio/._nbsp.css;
Everyone who meets chef Michelle Bernstein falls in love with this bright, bubbly Miami native with the prize-winning smile. She has elevated the bar of Miami’s food scene and its national reputation, winning awards like the James Beard award for Best Chef of the South 2008, helping improve childhood nutrition with Common Threads, a foundation that teaches low-income children good nutrition and cooking skills and now working with the Clinton Health Matters initiative. Michelle Bernstein is one of the busiest chefs in Florida, with her successful and soon-to-be-reopened restaurant Michy's, the café Crumb & Parchment and Seagrape in the Thompson Hotel. She is also the author of Cuisine a Latina; a guest judge on Bravo's Top Chef and mother to toddler Zachary, in addition to her TV show Check Please! and many charitable activities. I have followed her meteoric career since she was a very young, very brilliant and very serious chef at a remote restaurant in Miami and never cease to be amazed at how much is going on at once in her daily life../../index-php/radio/._nbsp.css;
Mangoes have dazzled palates across the globe for centuries with their aroma, taste, texture, and seemingly endless shapes, sizes, and colors. In Miami alone there are over 250 varieties. Miami-based writer, critic, poet and educator Jen Karetnick is the award-winning author of nine books, including three this year alone: the recently published book Mango and two volumes Prayer of Confession and Brie Season about to be released.
Jen’s nickname, Mango Mama, could not be more appropriate! Jen lives on the last acre of a historic mango plantation with her husband, two children; three dogs; four cats; and fourteen mango trees! By the time July comes around, Jen uses mangoes in the most unexpected ways, in just about everything, cocktails, smoothies, savory and sweet dishes.
Along with her own recipes which she has developed over the years, the book Mango features recipes from a group of Jen’s buddies who happen to be Miami's most celebrated chefs.
From smoothies to cocktails, from mango blintzes to jerked grouper with mango-fig chutney, and mangozpacho (mango-infused gazpacho)--this book is the ultimate book on Mango. It is delightfully written, based on serious research and highlights all those chefs and mixologists who are striving to use our local products in their cuisines.
Click here for Jen’s recipe for frozen mango sangría, or “Mangría,”
Have a waiter shave some truffles over your pasta and the price goes up astronomically. And the truffles we are referring to aren’t the kind you buy at Godiva. We are talking about a fungus grown on the roots of trees where soil and weather conditions are ideal. Since the times of the Greeks and Romans these fungi have been used in Europe as delicacies, as aphrodisiacs, and as medicines. They are among the most expensive of the world's natural foods, often commanding as much as $1500 per pound for Black truffles from Périgord – the most prized truffle in France–, and the legendary white truffles from Alba in Piedmont, Italy. But, as Betty Hutton would have said in Annie Get Your Gun (back in 1950): “anything you can do, we can do better.” And Susan Rice Alexander, CEO/President of Black Diamond French Truffles, Inc and Susan Rice Truffle Products has set to prove it by developing one of the largest commercial truffle orchard in America focusing on the Black Diamond French Périgord Truffle../../index-php/radio/._nbsp.css;
Mangoes have dazzled palates across the globe for centuries with their aroma, taste, texture, and seemingly endless shapes, sizes, and colors. In Miami alone there are over 250 varieties. Miami-based writer, critic, poet and educator Jen Karetnick is the award-winning author of nine books, including three this year alone: the recently published book Mango and two volumes Prayer of Confession and Brie Season about to be released.
Jen’s nickname, Mango Mama, could not be more appropriate! Jen lives on the last acre of a historic mango plantation with her husband, two children; three dogs; four cats; and fourteen mango trees! By the time July comes around, Jen uses mangoes in the most unexpected ways, in just about everything, cocktails, smoothies, savory and sweet dishes.
Along with her own recipes which she has developed over the years, the book Mango features recipes from a group of Jen’s buddies who happen to be Miami's most celebrated chefs.
From smoothies to cocktails, from mango blintzes to jerked grouper with mango-fig chutney, and mangozpacho (mango-infused gazpacho)--this book is the ultimate book on Mango. It is delightfully written, based on serious research and highlights all those chefs and mixologists who are striving to use our local products in their cuisines.
Click here for Jen’s recipe for frozen mango sangría, or “Mangría,”
The Marchesi Fumanelli family have been cultivating grapes and producing prestigious wines since 1470, in the heart of the most classical Valpolicella, on a hilltop eight miles North West of Verona surrounded by vineyards, cherry and cypress trees. But it is really since 1998, that they have become competitive in the modern wine arena. With 78 acres of estate grown fruit within the walls of their ancient property, Fulmanelli combines traditional and modern techniques to produce the classical Valpolicella wines, keeping faithful to their terroir../../index-php/radio/._nbsp.css; Armando Pirola Fumanelli, the scion of a long line of Marchesi, is in Miami to launch his new association with Pasternak Imports../../index-php/radio/._nbsp.css; Fumanelli is one of the region’s largest family owned wineries, and also the most historic . The name Valpolicella means in Latin and Greek “Valley of Many Cellars.” Listen as Marchese Fumanelli talks about his ancient cellars and the vestiges of Roman ruins found on his historic property. At a luncheon we tasted several of his delicious wines, all made with native grapes, according to the very strict regulations imposed by the Valpolicella association../../index-php/radio/._nbsp.css; Listen as he talks about Amarone, the appasimento – drying of the grapes – methods.
Marchesi Fumanelli wines tasted: Terso Bianco Veneto 2009 IGT 50% Garganega; 50% Trebbiano 5 Photos: Simone Diament, SFG
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Food & Wine Talk Radio GELATO WORLD TOUR, RIMINI 2014, ITALY
Achile Sassoli, Director of Gelato World Tour
and Gelato Artisans:
James Coleridge, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Abdelrahman Al Teneji, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Matthew Lee, Austin, Texas
Ahmed Abdullatif, Kingdom of Bahrain
Stefano Versace, Miami, Florida
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