Apr
7
2010
Last night cocktails flowed like water at Edible Brooklyn’s Good Spirits event at the Bell House. As the quarterly magazine’s first event at this venue, they certainly got the goods right, unfortunately the place was packed by 7pm and many of the stands ran out of food and/or drink by 7:30. Lucky me, I got there early and indulged in the melty Duroc pork belly on polenta chips from Fette Sau and sipped their paired cocktail, The Gardiner, which had Hudson Corn whiskey, lime, and a rim of the restaurant’s special rub. › Continue reading
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Mar
30
2010
Get ready for the first ever Gourmet Latino Festival, which will hit restaurants and the Astor Center in June. As they transform the Astor Center in to “a corner of Latin America,” the three Latina women behind the festival; Karen Uribe, Claudia Castro, and Mariana Suarez are giddy. They have been planning and scheduling this event for two years, and, with the help of Centrico chef Aaron Sanchez and beverage expert Steve Olson, they are ready to go.
“We want to bring out the nuances throughout the different Latin cultures,” said Uribe last night during the festival preview. “We really want to make it a cultural thing, not just about the food.”
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1 comment | tags: aaron sanchez, centrico, gourmet latino festival, industria argentina, institute of culinary education, latin american food new york, linnea covington, maximo tejada, mayahuel, nyc festival, palo santo, phil ward, reyuela
Last night cocktails flowed like water at Edible Brooklyn’s Good Spirits event at the Bell House. As the quarterly magazine’s first event at this venue, they certainly got the goods right, unfortunately the place was packed by 7pm and many of the stands ran out of food and/or drink by 7:30. Lucky me, I got there early and indulged in the melty Duroc pork belly on polenta chips from Fette Sau and sipped their paired cocktail, The Gardiner, which had Hudson Corn whiskey, lime, and a rim of the restaurant’s special rub. › Continue reading