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August Events, Google+ live cooking show (Updated)

August 8, 2012 By Eleanor Hoh 9 Comments

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Wok Star Eleanor Hoh debuts her new cooking show LIVE on Google Plus

Learning How To Cook Like A Wok Star

Wednesday, August 15th

Join her 6:30pm(ET), 5:30pm(CT), 3:30pm(PT)

Hosted by award winning Pepe Calderin Design showroom

FREE!

I’ll be adding my video promo once it’s uploaded, so check back!

It’s always been my dream to connect with you. Here’s a chance for Wok Stars and wannabes all over the world to join in!
I will demystify wok cooking by showing you how to make easy, one dish dinners in under 30 minutes, using a few ingredients and only 4 seasonings!
Here’s the scoop:
Catch the show on Larry Fournillier’s G+ profile page OR on Hangoutnetworks.com
7 lucky folks can ‘hangout’, ask questions and interact LIVE on webcam with myself and Larry. How cool is that?
1. Sign up NOW for a Google account!
2. Add Eleanor Hoh & Larry Fournillier to a circle.
3. If you want to be in the ‘hangout’, email me at wokstar at eleanorhoh dot com
4. On Wed. Aug.15 @6:30pm ET or at your appropriate time zone (see flyer above), visit Larry’s Google + profile page to view the live stream OR visit www.hangoutnetworks.com
I’ll be cooking in the beautiful showroom of Pepe Calderin Design who hosts my regular cooking classes in Miami, Florida! Here’s a peek…
Chef Larry Fournillier is a private chef living in Trinidad and producer of Learning how to cook series on Google+. Thrilled he’s invited me to be on his show. He has over 500,000 followers on Google+, so must be doing it right. Go check his About page for the full bio and MANY upcoming cooking shows!

Remember, Wednesday August 15, join me and let’s create ‘wok-magic’ wherever you are!

Thanks to Pepe Calderin Design showroom for hosting my first live cooking show!!!

First Annual Artisan Food Fest

Coral Gables Museum

Saturday, August 11: 11-5pm

FREE

Visit Coral Gables Museum Events for full details. I have personally tasted 5 of the artisanal foods: Copperpots, Freakin’ Flamingo’s Renee is my friend and makes delish jams, BBQ sauces etc., Proper Sausages (had their lamb sausages, they’re the real deal), And The Crackerman’s chili sauce hits the spot, Novae Gourmet’s Jerky is a crispy treat to sprinkle over salads or just as a protein hit. Look forward to sample the rest! Hope to see you there. I won’t be giving any demos as some think, just enjoying for a change!
On Saturday, August 11 South Florida’s finest artisan food vendors will come together for a one-day Artisan Food Fest at the Coral Gables Museum. Admission is free and the event is held in conjunction with Family Day on Aragon, held the second Saturday of each month at the Museum. The Artisan Food Fest will run from 11:00am – 5:00pm and will include cooking demos, tastings, raffles and more! Vendors will sell handcrafted items from granola to jams to sustainably grown greens to sausages and everything in between! The Fest promises to be a veritable foodie heaven. Parents and adults can participate in the Fest while kids are enjoying arts and crafts and more at the Museum.
Confirmed to date: Copperpots, Freakin’ Flamingo, Cao Chocolates, The Cheesecake Gallery, Novae Gourmet, The Spiced Nut Factory, Proper Sausages, The Crackerman, Laurie’s Pantry Granola, Mr. Green Dean, Om Nom Nom Cookies, Herbal Passion Alchemy, Bottega la Dolce Vita, Pasta Amore, The Empanada Lady and Pickle Delicious.

TONIGHT, Aug.11 go and support The Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation at Bacchanalia, a food and wine festival at Wynwood art walk with live music! Details here.

Tropical Fruit Meets Tropical Fish – South Florida’s Finest
If you’ve not been to Chef Julie Frans’ Seasonal Supper, you really need to. The last Seasonal Supper I went to was sensational! My photos didn’t turn out that great cause it was dark.
This Thursday’s theme is Tropical Fruit Meets Tropical Fish – South Florida’s Finest. Check out the mouth-watering menu, Chef Julie likes to incorporate Asian flavors into many of her dishes, so I’m eager to taste. I can’t wait to experience another intimate supper at Essensia. Met some old and new friends! For reservations, call 305-908-5490. The menu looks a bit small right? Sorry, menu sounds like a winner.
P.S. I can’t wait to see their organic garden which only started last year.
P.P.S. I wrote about Chef Julie for a British magazine, VIVA which got published this past February, here’s the online version! Food shots were taken by my good friend, Brenda Benoit Dudley whose photography I admire so much. So vibrant and jumps out at you.

July Events (Updated)

July 11, 2012 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

Keep visiting for more updates for July!

Shelley Belly’s Underground Supper Club!

Wow, wow, wow! This ‘underground supper club’ my husband and I went to is exactly how we like to ‘experience’ a dinner. Small and intimate so you get to know your fellow diners in beautiful surroundings and get pampered in the highest order. Sneak peek to highlights of this extraordinary and delicious dinner. Anytime it includes my favorite piggy dish is a plus – a slab of pork belly which rhymes with Shelley Belly, the name of your host!

Here’s her blog for more on her Underground Supper Club. Next will be Saturday, July 21st. shelleybellyunderground@yahoo.com for full details and let her know Wok Star sent you! Don’t delay, it’s a first come, first served basis and you need a password to get access when you arrive which I nearly forgot, what fun!

The District Factory

2nd Saturdays Gallery Walk – Miami Design Distri

Designers and Artists

POP SHOP

7-10pm

3900 NE 1st ave, Miami, FL

Join the Mash-up at The District Factory, an evening of shopping with 30 emerging designers and artists, film feature, live DJ, beauty bar and specialty cocktails. Pop up vietnamese restaurant, Phuc Yea! (see miami.com’s article by Lesley Abravanal) will be serving up some of their tasty treats just for this night, so don’t miss it. Sad I’m missing this but some very dear friends are celebrating their 35th anniversary, wow!

Don’t forget to visit Wynwood Art Walk, always fun to pop in and out of all the galleries and bump into your friends as well as meet new ones! Not sure if the Food Trucks are still there but there’s always eats somewhere.

20th Annual Mango Festival

Tropical Fairchild Gardens

Sat. July 14 & Sun. July 15

9:30am-4:30pm

A festival to celebrate, collect, curate, teach and learn about the mango. View the world’s largest display of mangos, attend lectures, see cooking demonstrations centered around yup, you know what. I see our friend, Chef Jeremiah of that shiny airstream food truck, the Gastropod is making green mango prawn salad, umm, sorry I’m missing this! I was invited to give a cooking demo but I’m just not able to feed 75 from my little wok.
There’s mango bites sampling, tasting & flavor evaluations, buy over 100 varieties of mangos, kid stuff to do. Enjoy mango heaven. One of my favorites are the small ones from Asia, they’re so sweet and juicy. Get full details here.

Soul of Miami’s 4th anniversary

Monday, July 16, 2012, 7:30-9:30pm

The Stage Miami

170 NE 38th Street

Miami, FL 33137

Free

rsvp required: https://rsvp.soulofmiami.org

Local Author Night

The Bookstore in the Grove

Thursday, July 19

7-9pm

3399 Virginia Street

Coconut Grove, FL 33133

I love supporting authors who brave self-publishing and have the discipline to do it! This new and exciting literary event promotes talented local authors and gives them a platform to share their work and interact with the community.
This event will be emceed by my new friend & Wok Star, Pamela Lear who I met at an Underground Dinner mentioned above! A showcase of 6 local self-published authors who’ll share their stories with a moderated Q & A session. It’s an intimate space offering drinks and bites.
If you’re an author and interested to present your book at future events, get details here.

Wasabi Fashion Kult interviews Wok Star!
I’m so honored to be interviewed by Pamela Wasabi who calls herself a Fashion Aficionado/puzzle solver. She is the creator of Wasabi Fashion Kult, a magazine documenting how the underground culture is expressing itself through fashion, music and art. She’s done so much in her young life, wonder if she sleeps! Go check out my interview here!

March Events (Updated)

March 17, 2012 By Eleanor Hoh 4 Comments

Wok Star interview on ChatChow.tv

Jumping for joy, my interview on Chat Chow TV is UP! Chat Chow TV already garnered 5 awards since they launched April 2011. So excited because I absolutely adore what they are doing. As they say, “a mouth-watering video podcast where we go behind the scenes with the chefs, owners and mixologists of the celebrated food industry.
Wait, PLUS you get a chance to win two (2) FREE tickets valued at $130 to this coming Tuesday, March 20 Wok Star cooking class! This class is already SOLD OUT.
Visit their site, watch my interview and say “Why YOU want to master the wok!” We pick the winner tomorrow, Sunday evening, so don’t delay.

Common Threads and Legal Art Fundraiser
Thursday, March 29
Hot off the presses – Common Threads and LegalArt are teaming up for a first of its kind pairing event on Thursday, March 29. There will be delicious food, amazing art, great cocktails, and lots of music. Is there anything else one could ask for? Didn’t think so. (right out of the mouth of Olee Fowler, a Common Threads board member).
I love this organization and what they do, find out more details here and to get your advanced tix $25, at door $40.
Visit Common Threads if you’re interested to get involved, to donate or to buy your ticket.
Or visit Legal Art to find out what they’re about!
I was very honored to be invited to teach a class at a participating Common Threads school, so enjoyed it and think the kids did too!
Some chefs and I also gave cooking demos at a Kids Eat Miami fundraiser on Jungle Island.

The Grind, Miami Burger Battle
Saturday, March 31
$10 discount with code, check out Digest Miami site. Digest Miami will also be filming this battle.
A 30 burger showdown from 954 and 305 restaurants will battle for the coveted Golden Grinder award and title!
With live music, artists painting live, and YOU and judges get to vote for the best burger. All washed down with free drinks from sponsors.
Also, 2 ‘Best Backyard Burger” winners from an online home grillers competition will battle LIVE that evening.
Local celebrity judges include of course, Burger Beast, the king of all burgers, Ch.7 news anchor, Belkys Nerey and Chef Norman Van Aiken of Tuyo located at Miami Culinary Institute.
Here’s a great video which tells you EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW! See you there.

Chow Down Surfside closing and pop up restaurant by Gastropod, Chef Jeremiah opening!
Read all about it here. I do think turning Chow Down Grill into Josh’s Deli is a perfect fit for Surfside. I know the demographic and I think it will be a HUGE success. It’s funny how we take things for granted. When we know we can’t have something, we want it and want it NOW! I always say, when one door closes, another opens.

I look forward to Chef Jeremiah of Gastropod doing a pop restaurant for a couple of weeks before they turn into a Deli. I first met him at a Cobaya (an underground supper club).
From the mouth of Chef Jason, residing chef at Chow Down Grill Surfside, the last day will be March 28, so run and get your last fix of some of my many favs there: housemade creamy tofu, smoked duck, chopped salad, chicken dumplings, Coca Cola Pork Ribs, oh, Angus Beef. Any bread pudding is yummy. I think I’ve tried everything on their menu from the look of this!
Just remember, you can still get same menu at their South Beach location.

Asian Festival

March 3 & 4, 2012 from 10am to 6pm
Location: Fruit & Spice Park
Admission: $10
For more details, visit WAT or Asian Culture Festival
Extract from their site.
Celebrating its 22nd exotic year, South Florida’s Annual Asian Culture Festival will feature a tantalizing selection of foods from many Asian countries including Thailand, China, Japan, the Philippines, Laos, Bangladesh, Korea, Iran and Vietnam. A variety of handicrafts, exotic plants and Asian produce will also be offered to the public, as well as educational displays featuring the countries, people and cultures of Asia.
At 12:00 pm each day, a reenactment of a Traditional Thai Wedding will take place – with a colorful wedding parade, dowry counting ceremony, engagement ceremony, paying respect ceremony and water pouring ceremony.
On the performing stage, a variety of ethnic Asian shows will be featured, from dances to the exciting Taiko drums, and martial arts…..

Bayfront Popup Park

Feb. 28 – March 4
10am-6:30pm
FREE
Schedule here
Across from Bayfront Park in downtown Miami
Parking lot between Flagler and NE 1st street converted to grass covered park with moveable seating, music, art, comedy & activities.
Food trucks throughout entire event

Taste of Pinecrest

Sat. March 3 – 10-5pm
FREE admission
Pinecrest Gardens
11000 SW 57th Ave
Details here
Featuring food from local restaurants, entertainment, kids activities, healthy cooking demonstrations, juried art show, free bicycle parking.

Farmer’s Markets all over!

Visit my Resource page for list of Farmer’s Markets, tips.
There’s nothing more exciting than seeing, smelling fresh produce!
Don’t forget to check in at Freakin’ Flamingo for Renee’s homecrafted jams in South Miami Market! I love them.

Here are some yummy produce TeenasPrideCSA gave me when I was giving a cooking presentation at the Coconut Grove Art Festival recently. I made some delicious dishes which I’ll post up soon, so check back. You can go on a farm tour, I’ve yet to do it.