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Spent my Friday evening at Ayesha D’Mello’s house, learning how to make “Butter Chicken and the Works” with a group of seven other people.  I’ve tasted her amazing cooking before (when Brad Bryan and I filmed her Video Bite), so I’d been looking forward to her Indian dinner all week. We spent about two hours [...]

In this Video Bite, Ayesha D’Mello, of Ayesha’s Kitchen, quickly prepares winter squash (in this case, butternut) with coconut sauce.  You can prepare this recipe with any kind of winter squash, including the kabocha and calabaza types, which believe it or not, are in season here this time of year.  Special thanks to Brad Bryan [...]

Miami Dish loves a limoncello. We may have to send our John diRocco to The Tides Hotel to see if he approves of this unorthodox use of the yellow elixir. Chef Pietro Rota, of Tides’ restaurant La Marea, makes his own stash, which he uses for the genius invention of limoncello popsicles. The popsicles garnish [...]

Last year’s Battle of the Chefs between Cindy Hutson and Jesse Souza Last year’s Battle of the Chefs was novel and entertaining. Advice: You might want to hit one of those Miami Spice preview restaurants afterwards, because all of that fine cuisine made me hungry, and the crudités available to audience members just didn’t cut [...]

(Above photo courtesy of Shing Wang.) The ice cream mania at Miami Dish continues! Here are some of the ways I plan to indulge in the coming weeks. Shing Wang Vegetarian, Icee and Tea House Ok, so it’s not specifically ice cream but it is cool and refreshing. I was so excited to learn about [...]

FIU Hospitality School is a local, somewhat hidden, gem. The school is largely responsible for the South Beach Food & Wine Festival and is a highly regarded hospitality school. The hospitality students hone their craft at a working on-campus restaurant which is open to the public weekly throughout the academic year. They take turns working [...]

Miami Dish talks about music for a minute This Saturday, Ingrid Hoffmann prepares some Cuban classic dishes in an homage to Calle Ocho on her show Simply Delicioso. Miami band, Locos por Juana, are her special guests. Locos por Juana did an amazing reinterpretation of Hector Lavoe/Willie Colon’s “Calle Luna, Calle Sol.” I loved it, [...]

This is the first of a new Miami Dish column, which I’ve been chomping at the bit to start since the first days of the blog. “Man on the Street” brings you the dish on tasty, low budget lunch options from the men and women who work hard for the money. Back away from the [...]

In college, I felt intimidated and unmoved by the theoryheads at school.  As I used to say: Macaroni and cheese or Foucault? Which one is of greater benefit to the world? You can guess which one I chose.  The 7th Annual South Florida Environmental Ethics Conference sounds philosophical and lofty, but there’s nothing more practical than the food we eat and the soil [...]

Paula of mango and lime wrote in the Sun Post today about an upcoming Slow Food Miami stone crab picnic. It looks like Slow Food Miami is gathering momentum. There will be another event on February 24. The Sunday dinner at Fratelli Lyon will commemorate that first slow food meal. In 1986, Carlo Petrini led [...]