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Highlights from South Beach Wine and Food Festival 2022

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Excited to share my Highlights from South Beach Wine and Food Festival’s Grand Tasting Village, a fantastic fundraiser for FIU hospitality.

It’s a Fun way to explore new bites and possibly recreate or be inspired to create something similar at home. There were also cocktails and wines!
I’m lucky, I can’t really drink.

I was most impressed with Finless Foods in where Chef developed a “tuna like” looking and texture using Chinese Winter Melon! It was delicious and so refreshing! Currently, only available to food service not consumers yet, boohoohoo!

Proud of Mac Pub’s build out of beautiful Land Rover for Dos hombres. He’s a master at transforming vintage wrecks into beautiful beverage trucks. He’s also a Wok Star! More about him soon!

Happy to see local representation like Tabenero hot sauce, Karinat yoghurt and fruit covered chocolates!

Touching to hear Del Grosso’s, the daughter got choked up about her Dad, Uncle Fred developing the famous Del Grosso marinara sauce.

Goya Foods put out delicious, chunky tuna on a plantain crisp!

So fun hanging with @epicurean305 as always! Thanks Brustman Carrino PR.

I’ve included my vote for Yelp’s favorite bite, see if you agree?

Would love to hear which event you attended?

GrowFest Chefs Cook Off

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Redlands GrowFest held annually at Fruit & Spice Park encourages you to grow, can and preserve your produce and vegetables!  The most popular event there is the Chefs Cookoff and I was honored to be invited again this year to judge with Christine Najac, publisher, author, sommelier and food and wine blogger of South Florida Food and Wine, Farmer Grabiel Marewski of Paradise Farm and Tim from Fruit and Spice Park.
The Chefs did an outstanding job as there were a lot of distractions!  Judges asking questions, snapping photos, not forgetting Edible South Florida’s publisher, Gretchen Schmidt, Farmer Margie from Bee Heaven Farm and Fruit & Spice Director, Tim Stribling were describing tropical fruits, spices and produce to the audience the whole time.
Here are some behind the scenes I captured of the Chefs Cook off. Each chef was given a “secret ingredient” and a box of mystery ingredients and allowed to pick anything from the ingredients table. Winner announced below!
Bring your family to the next one and make it a day’s visit cause it’s a drive!  There are food booths or bring a picnic, lots of areas to lay out.

Redlands Produce
Redlands Produce chefs could use any of these.

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Chef Carolina’s starfruit in honey

GrowFest Chefs Cookoff
GrowFest Chefs Cookoff

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Chefs furiously prepping! I caught Chef Venoy’s adorable little girl sneaking a peek!

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Chefs cooking at their stoves in wind and rain!

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Kudos to all the Chefs for coming up with these delish surprises in an hour! We ended choosing two winners because it was so tough and they were: top left: Chef Loren Pulitzer of Simply Sharon’s mash yucca cake and middle right, Chef Venoy representing Slow Food Miami with his black eyed peas hash and perfect duck egg. Bottom right: Chef Carolina of The Whisk Cafe & Bakery’s rice pudding which had chilies, a little kick there and Chef Johnson Teh of LAN, Yugo & Burrito San’s interesting use of taro leaves. We didn’t realize the leaves made your tongue tingle, oops.

GrowFest Chefs Cook Off

By Leave a Comment

Redlands GrowFest held annually at Fruit & Spice Park encourages you to grow, can and preserve your produce and vegetables!  The most popular event there is the Chefs Cookoff and I was honored to be invited again this year to judge with Christine Najac, publisher, author, sommelier and food and wine blogger of South Florida Food and Wine, Farmer Grabiel Marewski of Paradise Farm and Tim from Fruit and Spice Park.
The Chefs did an outstanding job as there were a lot of distractions!  Judges asking questions, snapping photos, not forgetting Edible South Florida’s publisher, Gretchen Schmidt, Farmer Margie from Bee Heaven Farm and Fruit & Spice Director, Tim Stribling were describing tropical fruits, spices and produce to the audience the whole time.
Here are some behind the scenes I captured of the Chefs Cook off. Each chef was given a “secret ingredient” and a box of mystery ingredients and allowed to pick anything from the ingredients table. Winner announced below!
Bring your family to the next one and make it a day’s visit cause it’s a drive!  There are food booths or bring a picnic, lots of areas to lay out.

Redlands Produce
Redlands Produce chefs could use any of these.

img_0902
Chef Carolina’s starfruit in honey

GrowFest Chefs Cookoff
GrowFest Chefs Cookoff

img_0991
Chefs furiously prepping! I caught Chef Venoy’s adorable little girl sneaking a peek!

img_1054
Chefs cooking at their stoves in wind and rain!

img_1055
Kudos to all the Chefs for coming up with these delish surprises in an hour! We ended choosing two winners because it was so tough and they were: top left: Chef Loren Pulitzer of Simply Sharon’s mash yucca cake and middle right, Chef Venoy representing Slow Food Miami with his black eyed peas hash and perfect duck egg. Bottom right: Chef Carolina of The Whisk Cafe & Bakery’s rice pudding which had chilies, a little kick there and Chef Johnson Teh of LAN, Yugo & Burrito San’s interesting use of taro leaves. We didn’t realize the leaves made your tongue tingle, oops.