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Food Culture & Politics (10 posts found)
Cocina al Minuto with Nitza Villapol: a Cooking Show {And a Drunken Chicken Story}
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(Highly seasoned oxtail with my homemade mojo)
UPDATE: NPR News (the Florida affiliate, WLRN) stumbled upon this post and called me up to interview my mother and me about Nitza Villapol's influnce on both our cooking -- and the drunken chi...
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Nutrilite Rocks Colors, a Twitter Fiesta & Rick Bayless’ Food Philosophy
(Ever so attentive Dr. Kip Johnson, Nutrilite medical staff and me talking familia and salud)
It's January 9, 2013, exactly one week and two days into the New Year and I'm feeling pretty good! I've not necessarily settled into the new season, but I feel my ...
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More Color, Balanced Diet & Cooking w/Rick Bayless & Nutrilite | Perfect Way to End 2012 & Bring in 2013
(morning dew via Instagram)
I've been on this serious Zumba and Pilates (with occasional yoga) kick for about 3 months now and just loving it! I feel amazing. While flying trapeze is my newest addiction and I'm in heaven when I'm 30 feet in the air doing a...
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Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry & GA’s Cooking Matters: Campaigns For Life
One of the more rewarding elements of my job other than eating really amazing food is working with organizations that have powerful messages and aspire to change the world. When I was in Atlanta full time, I volunteered as a chef for the GA Cooking Matters...
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How I Like To GROW…And Help Billions of Those in Need of Food
"Soon there will be nine billion of us on the planet. Our societies must grow to meet our needs, so we can put enough food on the table for everyone." -- OXFAM When it comes to food, access to healthy food and our global issue with poverty, I throw mys...
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{All Around Latin America} ‘Cuba Libre’ Reinvents Traditional Cuban Plates & Launches Paladares
Our {All Around Latin America} series continues this week with a different style story! Today we highlight and review a quasi-posh nouveau Cuban restaurant in the nation's capitol. As part of our 2-week Hispanic Heritage Month celebration, I found it fitti...
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National Truffle Fest. A Most Decadent 3 Days…Part I
But wait. I speak not of chocolate truffles. When I Tweeted and Facebook'd that I was attending the 3rd Annual National Truffle Festival in Asheville, N.C., this past March, I received an unbelieavable amount of jelly responses kindly suggesting I indulge i...
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Anthony Bourdain in Havana: The Truths He Missed
(Chickens mi tia hustled up for us to eat during our visit in 1999)
By now I'm sure you've been religiously watching the 7th season of the vastly popular Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. This season [promises to be] filled with lovely landscapes of many c...
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Pressure Cooking Safety Tips Revisited After South Florida Woman Loses Leg in Explosion Accident
Most of you know I swear by my twelve pressure cookers. Thanks to my mother, I've come to adore and use this old-school utensil for just about every meal that comes out of my kitchen and onto my table.
Growing up, mami and both of my abuelitas used them con...
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Family Traditions to Relish
This new generation of social media, instant gratification, “me, me me,” personas and pop culture and train wreck reality TV shows, has diminished the now vintage sense of family time at the dinner table. Long gone are the days of gathering after a stressful ...
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