What Happens When You Meet a Celebrity Chef
I was practically raised by a television set as a kid, sitting in front of a constantly blaring screen of images and noise for as long as both my parents worked and for as long as my daycare sitters...
View ArticleHow I Learned to Step Up My Spaghetti Game
As a fifth-grader with an enormous appetite for carbohydrates and Nickelodeon, you could often find me sitting in my parent’s pink leather recliner eating a bowl of delicious processed foods every day...
View ArticleAnatomy of Ramen: Ramen Noodles from Scratch
Cooking for another person is an act of love. It requires an amount of time and effort that I’m completely unwilling to put in if I were cooking for just myself. It’s not that I don’t personally...
View ArticleConsider the Lechón
I always knew where my pork sandwiches came from. I’d been staring at the lifeless eyes of a roasted whole pig on an annual basis since I was five years old. Eyes that didn’t mean anything but, “I’m...
View ArticleJoe’s Stone Crab Has Some Pretty Good Roasted Tomatoes
Joe’s Stone Crab is a South Florida culinary institution and one of the most iconic restaurants in the city. It’s a twenty-mile trip from the suburbs of West Miami, over the brightly lit MacArthur...
View ArticleSOBEWFF 2015: An Hour-by-Hour Journey Inside a Food Festival
9:00 AM It was early on a Saturday morning, much earlier than I would usually wake up on a weekend. But, this day was a special day. Waking up with only four hours of sleep, instead of the usual...
View ArticleEpisode 1: Rehearsal Curry (Curried Chicken & Cashews Recipe)
Hey, it’s a video! I visited my friend Debi J. at her house and we decided to make our friends a curry feast. We cooked. We filmed. We cried (well, Debi did) and we had one too many Stella Artois...
View ArticleWhere the Hell Have Chilaquiles Been All My Life?
I. Playa del Carmen, Mexico I arrive at Playa del Carmen six hours too early to check into my hotel. This is the overzealous way I like to start my vacations: I torture myself with the earliest flight...
View ArticleThe Grand Playa Del Carmen Taco Tour
“Let’s go somewhere. Anywhere. I don’t care. I need a vacation.” “Just like that? Pick a place, then,” replied the husband. And just like that, Playa Del Carmen in Mexico became the guideless,...
View ArticleHow to Make Chimichurri (Recipe)
Grilling is actually quite easy. My buddy and fellow Cafeteria Films collaborator, Nelson, teaches me just how easy it is to grill and make a version of chimichurri my mother would likely not be proud...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....