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Slow Food Miami Snail of Approval Tasting Party at Eden Roc: A Night of Delicious Bites Under the Stars

April 9, 2025 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

If you love farm-to-table dining, community vibes, and supporting the Slow Food Movement food education, the Slow Food Miami Snail of Approval Tasting Party is one event to keep on your radar.

Hosted under the stars (and a bit of wind!) at the iconic Eden Roc Hotel in Miami Beach, the evening brought together a curated lineup of Miami’s most talented chefs, restaurants, artisans, and purveyors—all recognized for their Slow Food movement commitment to clean, fair, and local food. The event was hosted by Chef Hinson Lau, who recently joined Eden Roc Miami Beach as their new Complex Executive Chef.

Scroll down for extra photos from the night…

Complex Executive Chef & event host Hinson Lau, Eden Roc and Nobu.
Chef Allen Susser: Wild mushrooms

Guests roamed the poolside tasting stations, sampling everything from locally-sourced small bites to craft desserts and sips. It was a celebration of food that not only tastes good—but does good, too. Love this Slow Food Movement!

Supporting the Edible School Garden Program

Proceeds from the evening benefit the Edible School Garden Program, an initiative that teaches young students where real food comes from by getting them involved in growing it themselves. As someone who believes deeply in food education, I love seeing programs like this take root (literally!) in our local schools.

14 edible gardens planted!

Chef Chats & Behind-the-Scenes Moments

Throughout the night, I caught up with a few of the chefs to find out what drives their culinary creativity. Spoiler: I had no idea at the time, but I ended up chatting with the chef who took home the win that evening—glad I caught that moment on camera!

Watch the Reels & See More Moments

Check out my Instagram Reels here for behind-the-scenes chats and more foodie moments —you’ll want to bookmark this one if you’re planning to attend next year.

Check out my Instagram Reels here

Want to Get Involved?

Learn more about the mission and how to support future Slow Food movement events at Slow Food Miami.

Filed Under: blog, Foodie event, Slow Food, Support Local, sustainable Tagged With: farm to table, Miami chefs

Snail Award Party Updated

March 23, 2012 By Eleanor Hoh 5 Comments

Winner of last night’s Snail of Approval Award went to Chef Paula Dasilva, 1500 restaurant for her OUTSTANDING Crispy pork belly in a crispy wonton wrapper. The execution of this dish was truly sensational. I knew the minute I bit into it she’d be the winner!

Slow Food Miami’s 2012’s Snail of Approval Awards Party last night was held at the newly renovated Miami Beach Botanical Gardens in South Beach!   Fourteen Chefs using locally sourced quality ingredients competed for title Snail of Approval.  Judges included Lee Schrager, Bruce Seidel, Chef Art Smith and Victoria Pesce Elliott, with event ambassador, Chef Michael Schwartz.  There was a nice variety of dishes from an exotic Yucca Gator Croquetta to a simple Feta Cheese Mousse. As I’m not a chef or a foodie, I was worried I wasn’t going to meet anyone I knew there so was pleasantly surprised to see 2 guests who were both chefs and had attended my classes!
What a beautiful setting and perfect weather for this inaugural Awards Party to help raise funds for the Edible School Garden Program.  I’m all for encouraging kids at a young age to have a healthy, respectful attitude towards food.  That’s why getting to meet Chef Art Smith, founder of Common Threads was one of the highlights of this evening. I so enjoyed teaching a Common Threads class, their mission is similar to this Edible School Garden Program. Find out how you can get involved with Common Threads here. The other highlight was meeting Bruce Seidel, now with Electus.  He developed Food Network Star and Iron Chef America and is now heading up Youtube’s new food channel beginning July.  I’m working on a video of Bruce, so stay tuned.

Find out what the Slow Food movement is all about here and see how you can get involved or to attend future events.

Finally, here’s what everyone wants to see, the chefs and their dishes!  If you were there, tell us which dish you liked and why?


 
 
 
 
 
 

Filed Under: Miami Events, restaurants, Slow Food, sustainable Tagged With: 'farm to table', 'Slow Food', 1500 Degrees, Chef Paula Dasilva, Miami Event, Snail Award

April Events – Greener Miami and more…

April 27, 2009 By Eleanor Hoh 2 Comments

Monday, April 27 @ 8pm
FREE Monthly Arthouse Film Series (last Monday of every month)
The Standard Hotel
40 Island Ave, South Beach, FL 33139
305-673-1717
The Universe of Keith Haring directed by Christina Clausen

It’s always fun visiting this wonderful hotel & spa. You never know who you’ll meet. We went to a couple of Bingo nights when Jason Harler, their fun-loving GM would holler the numbers among other adhoc comments. Check out other cool events there, you can also see the beautiful Lido lounge where they hold these events.

I was unable to attend today but hope to in the future, sounds like another fun way to spend an evening and it’s FREE!

Sat. April 25 and 26th
Miami Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival
2 day admission $15 presale, $20 at gate
Miami Marine Stadium
3601 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149
305-636-0902

Yes, there are TWO Dragon Boat Festivals annually, one in October at Haulover Park and this one which used to be at Brickell but moved.


Sat. April 25: 10am-7pm
Miami Goin’ Green Earthday Event – FREE
Bayfront Park
From exchanging gently used clothing and plastic bottles to tons of activities. Eco Stage featuring Yoga and Eco-Friendly Fashion show to 3 R’s – Reduce, Re-Use, Recycle.

I went with 2 galpals, it was fun to see how innovative people got with “greening” their merchandize. We all bought something to support this event. I also brought 6 plastic water bottles to swap for a Clear2Go water bottle with a replaceable filter. It was good to see many had done the same, there was a HUGE see-through barrel so you could see all the bottles.

Oh, the reason why I am writing about this? I am an avid recycler, even down to rubber bands. I will blog about how I used to have a great compost system that worked so well, a cooking student’s daughter used my compost for a Science project and won!

Here’s a rundown of some of the “green” stuff that were unique and stood out for me.

Ekotik is a family owned business with designer mother, a daughter who studied fashion merchandizing and Peruvian dad, very handy. They have a retail store as well as online. They put on a fashion show which we unfotunately missed! My galpals both bought a piece from them. They had a wonderful range of organic clothing from adorable kid’s outfits to an incredible, convertible so you have 2 designs, silk, wrap around skirt/dress. I love things that are not only beautiful but functional and this skirt/dress fit the ticket. It’s very light and can be transformed into a multitude of different ways to wear it, perfect for traveling. My pal got this, and with her “model” figure, she looked stunning, well, she’d look goregous in a sack. Darn, forgot to bring camera to take pix!

My other pal got a cotton sleeveless with a lovely texture, great for “breathing” in the summer. Amazing thing was, the minute I saw this top, I recognized it as an outfit a model/actress friend wore to a Crawfish BBQ last weekend. I’ll mention in another post.

I bought a beautiful recycled “eco wallet” made with rolled newspaper that’s waterproof by Green Veranda. What I like about going to these events is you get to meet the owners/designers who came up with the idea. I love her tag line: Yesterday’s News Today’s Fashion. I would have loved the round handbag or the briefcase looking bag but was a bit more than I wanted to spend.

Ecoist, One-of-a-kind handbags made from recycled candy wrappers and other waste-bound materials. Handmade. Fair Trade.

Eclectica, salvaged furniture & accessories for the savvy decorator on a budget was a very interesting booth. Katrina had recycled old record sleeves into sketch books on a spiral, some with hilarious looking musicians, a throwback to as she says, “Mork and Mindy days.” Also had gift bows made out of cartoon newspaper. She also offers classes on home Eco-nomics in her south miami venue.

PIE studio, project import export, inc. was created by, Bannavis Andrew Sribyatta, a Miami based designer. His furniture is hand-crafted mostly from natural materials and designed to imitate nature. I sat in one of his liana chair, very comfortable. I love the names: wabi sabi, sushi daybed, yummy.

Green Planet Events, all with eco-friendly in mind, from organic and locally grown catered menu options to recycled fabric. They plan with sustainibility, style and within your budget, umm…they did have a beautiful table setting.

I loved these amazing waist belts for cyclers made out of inner tires but didn’t have that nasty smell to it and were quite light. Whoever designed them was very clever, I liked the simplicity and look of the designs. At the time, they didn’t have a company name but I’ve got their email and will track them down.

You cannot mention Green without mentioning Rebecca Carte
r, founder and editor of Greener Miami and co-founder of ecorazzi, “a celebrity blog that covers the latest in green gossip.” Somehow, I missed meeting her that day but hope she’ll come to a Wok Star class because my lightweight, cast iron wok is considered ‘green’.

Lastly, I want to add a new organization, ecochamber started by Tia Diaz-Balart (wife of US Representative, Mario Diaz-Balart). They are a Chamber of Commerce to help businesses “go green” as well as educating and supporting all “green” ideas. Think about joining this ecochamber and be a part of an organization that takes care of the world.

Join the Care2 forum on non-stick cookware, easy greening. I am amazed how many celebrity chefs use their non-stick pans on high heat! You’ll also read sad stories of owners with little birds that have died from toxic fumes released from these teflon pans, so beware.

Filed Under: dragon boat, earth day, eco friendly, green, sustainable

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