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Chef Stephanie Izard and I at Girl and the Goat Two weeks ago,while on vacation in my home town of Chicago, i was lucky enough to get a table at Girl and the Goat, restaurant of Top Chef season four winner Stephanie Izard. Stephanie was nominated by The James Beard Foundation for Best New Restaurant of 2011 and was named Best New Chef of 2011 by Food & Wine. Its no wonder she has received so

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Growing up i used to love to wake up to the smell of Cafe Bustelo that my mother brewed every morning!! Though i didnt drink it back then, its aroma had a way of energizing me and reminding me of home and all things comforting! As an adult, i bought the coffee maker that could do the same with the help of an alarm on it that would start brewing coffee at just the right time in the morning! It was

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At Wildflower Bread Co. in Sedona,Arizona in 2010 Im back! Life,laziness and lack of inspiration has had me quiet for awhile, but i dont want to give up on something i started. My heart was heavy and unhappy but despite all, delicious food adventures has kept me smiling and made the last year and a half a memorable time! I want to talk about it. Thanks for your patience and understanding!

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At 23 years old, i hesitantly and regrettably got a tattoo of a pixie.Its not a tramp stamp but it is on my body for eternity!! There was no magical or honorable reason why i picked this particular tattoo, other than i thought a pixie would be cute. Forever it will be on my body and forever i will have to explain to people what it is and the stupid reason i got it!!I thought about what i

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I had a craving this weekend for this spicy Korean noodle dish that i absolutely love,love, love!!I bought Sunchang gochujang or this red pepper paste in K-town, but i had no idea how to go about using it. I looked all over the internet for the correct way to prepare it and i stumbled upon these hilarious Korean girls who have way too much fun blogging about cooking Korean food at CRAZY KOREAN

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A new yummy fat trap just opened up in my neighborhood this week!! I'm a little concerned because it's across the street from my gym. "Dam" i thought, i just started to workout with a personal trainer, to you know "get a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model body"!! Ugh!!! Anyway, as annoyed as i was, i realized that there had to be a good side to this situation. And as a true foodie i decided to

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OMG!!!I just stumbled upon this amazing food and fashion blog!!What this girl does with fashion and photography is truly innovative and inspiring but what she does with food is down right exciting and sexy!! She comes up with the most refreshing and brilliant ideas!! Im jealous that she is so talented and a genius in her creativity, but i am also encouraged by her to seriously take up

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On January 31st, 2010 i went to Brooklyn to support my good friend, great chef and avid food competitor Andrew in a taco making competition he was participating in. The competition was called The Brooklyn Taco Experiment, an event created by a pair of cookoff obsessed foodies Theo Peck and Nick Suarez. It was an event where cooks of various levels of expertise came to show off what they each

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Whenever im on vacation or on a road trip either here in the states or overseas, i always make it a habit of doing my research and finding the best of whatever the country or town has to offer. Im not saying that im high maintenance or need five star cuisine,hotel or high end brand name stores. I research the places that the locals have made a buzz about or that travelers before me have

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Did you know that The Nintendo gaming system Wii has cooking games now? Apparently these games, like Cooking Mama allow gamers the oppurtunity to practice cooking or at least the act of cooking without turning on a real stove or going to the grocery store to buy the ingredients. Players can learn how to make World cuisines of all types, from curry and naan to ratatouille or sushi. Using the

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OMG!!!I just discovered this great website called Zinio.com that lets you check out back issues of most of your favorite magazines for free. Its kind of what you do when you're in the grocery line waiting to pay.You grab a magazine and try to read the whole content  before its your turn to pay up or leave it on the wrong shelf. Zinio has various publications on there website that you can

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Remember when you were a little kid and you finished your bowl of Fruity Pebbles cereal or your Coco Puffs and had only sweetened cereal flavored milk leftover? Remember how slurping that colorful milk often was the best part of the meal? Now as adults we toss the bowl in the sink once were done and spill out the good stuff right down the drain. Why? Well the genuis people at Momofuku take us

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Food makes me happy when im feeling shitty. I guess it does for most people, hence the obesity epidemic in America. Found a new yummy treat in L.A. that helped me get over some recent sadness when my dad was ill. Can't find the dam product anywhere in New York City. If anybody stumbles upon it let me know. They are called GladCorn A-maizing corn snacks. They are the yummiest thing ever!!Very

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This past weekend was The COOK.EAT.DRINK. LIVE  2009 food/charity event at The Tunnel/La.Venue in Chelsea. For the entire weekend ACTION AGAINST HUNGER worked together with COOK.EAT.DRINK.LIVE to bring a gourmet food and wine event where Zagat-rated restuarants,New York City's finest chefs and high end gourmet spirits and food sampling come together in one place. Foodies, food industry folk and

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The 12th Annual Chocolate Show of New York had its opening day October 30th, 2009 and i was excited that i would be volunteering for the show. My goal was to see how a show like this is run and to be surrounded by chocolate and chocolatiers in whatever way possible.Once i arrived i realized to my dismay that they had way too many volunteers and not enough to do. I was given a station at the

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Yeah!!!Im so excited, i just stumbled upon  a fairly new Japanese gourmet curry restaurant called Curry-Ya!!Anybody that knows me, knows that i love me some curry!!I especially love Japanese curry and first discovered it in Los Angeles, California at an awesome place called Hurry Curry of Tokyo. Hurry Curry is known for its special curry that contains a blend of 21 spices. They make this amazing

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So i was grocery shopping a few months ago and was trying to keep my selections whole grain, healthy and low calorie (very hard to do when you have an appettite of a 300 lb lumberjack). I was looking for a healthy crunchy snack alternative to my usual Peppridge Farm cookies and salty corn chips and stumbled upon these yummy Almondina cookies. What sold me was the claim on the wrapping that

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A week before my birthday i was treated to a suprise dinner at hotspot Megu in Tribeca. Megu is a high-end, fine dining restaurant that mixes traditional and modern Japanese into everything from it decor to its cooking.It prides itself in serving the freshest and highest quality kobe beef,sushi and sashimi. The dining experience was a delight and amazing to say the least and  not to mention

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This May i had the amazing pleasure of visiting the Scandinavian country of Norway. Norway a country known for its amazing mountains and Vikings more than for its cuisine was an experience never to be forgotten. During my stay in Norway i had the oppurtunity to not only experience the big city life of Norway in Oslo but also the small countryside in northern Norway. My travels took me to the

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