Real Rio: Rio Brazil Café
Regional fare of whatever country I think is the main fuel of most food enthusiasts. How food changes via the climate, the terrain, the beliefs, etc. never fails to endlessly fascinate me. Oh, how great it feels to discover a sub-cuisine within a wider known cuisine that caters to your edible whims!My personal whims happen to be those of the tropical persuasion, EXOTIC, I guess is the more accepted food adjective. Bold, rich, pungent, intense! Things with coconut, fish byproducts, obscure vegetables, exclusive fruits, rare fats…for some reason the food from humid places by the sea. Again, this proved true with the exciting food of the Rio De Janeiro region of Brazil. Th

The FoodBuzz Festival: Day 1 Pit Stop (Titas Pupuseria)
It seemed like forever ago I was scrambling around to scan in my signature and email it over to them before the deadline but it was time!The Foodbuzz festival! Meaning...FOODBLOGGER ROAD TRIP! It was to be Mattatouille, The Kung Food Panda and I, squeezed into the Food GPS mobile--an Acura

Part Time Food GPS: Rivera's Honey Tasting
(Taken from Food GPS Website)Curious I was when I was first asked to cover this event, I felt cloyed after having finished! A four course tasting menu sponsored by the National Honey Board took place at the super hip and happening Rivera Restaurant yesterday. Each dish celebrated—yup, you guessed it—honey and its various uses and effects on food. Only three restaurants around the U.S are chosen for this event every year, this year the chosen theme was Latino cuisine and what better representation in L.A. than Chef John Cedlar’s New Mexican fangled contemporary approach.

The Rise of L.A. Food Trucks: A Walking Gastro Tour with Javier Cabral
Big, Bad Trucks...Still don't know how I came up with that title but YES that is my name and that will be the tour I will be guiding at this upcoming Downtown Los Angeles Artwalk A guerilla revolution in the Los Angeles food scene has been slowly taking place in the streets and driveways of our brick and mortar habituated restaurant culture: Concept Food Trucks (Mobile Cuisine). Taco truc

Extra! Extra! Glutster Mentioned in The New Yorker Magazine
Yup! READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE (only Summary, full article only in print)It's crazy how it happened really.It all started at the Jonathan Gold's Zocalo Cocktail Party Fundraiser that I couldn't even afford to go to.Apparently, someone had brought me up in a conversation the lovely Dana Goodyear was engaged in...and that was that.The next day we had lunch at Battambang and were talking just how much the Gold meister has influenced a