2010 South Beach (SoBe) Food and Wine


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In our room ... love it! Here is how to drink your wine SoBe style. Two glasses...one wine and one Perrier and limes. Hotel Gansevoort Rooftop Pool overlooking the Ocean. Rooftop Just arrived at the Rooftop Pool. The Room numbers are framed and lit in the hallway. Thursday Nite:  Took a picture in the mirror by the elevator as we head out to Rachel Ray's Burger Bash. Outside the tent on the beach ... literally. Okay not a clear pix ... but check out the heat lamps!  LOVE it ... Me and Bobby Flay... sorry it is fuzzy had my camera on the wrong setting ... Me and Chef Tim Love  ... who IS he looking at! Me and Chef Daniel Boulud. Me and Guy Fieri ... he is TOO much fun!  My camera battery went bye bye ..so this is with my iPhone ... Me and Sunny Anderson ... she is a doll.  Talked to her about Diabetic foods.  One of her recipes was the first one I changed to be diabetic friendly. Check out Vic's SoBe hairdo !!! 820 Ocean Drive ... Larios Cuban restaurant for lunch.   Owned by Gloria Estefan. Vic lovin' his Mojito at Larios with a sugar stick. Night #2 - Friday:  yep I am taking pictures in a mirror outside the elevator on our floor again!  Silly me! For BubbleQ  everything was white ... even the heat lamps ... I love the design ... only in SoBe... Our FAVORITE Chef in New Orleans - John Besh of Restaurant August.  If there was a vote he had the best entre' at BubbleQ.   I polled others with AMEX at breakfast and they all agreed!   Tyler and Savannah gave me his new cookbook MY NEW ORLEANS for Christmas.  Really wonderful. John Besh - Po'Boy Sandwich.  Every element of this dish tantelized your tastebuds.  And I am NOT a Po'Boy fan. Me and my hubby!  What a wonderful gift he gave me ... he has giggled at me all day.  He thinks my level of excitement needs to be kicked up a notch.  I am like jumping up and down over meeting chefs... ok.. that is cool!  LOL Ok .. .Guy Fieri came to BubbleQ too and I didn't acost him ... just snapped a picture and moved on!  Lucky him!  LOL HANDS DOWN. ... the best dessert ... 72% chocolate, FIVE ways, in a single dish.   UNBELIEVEABLE! Champagne anyone?   Girl hanging from ceiling/chandelier and serving champagne from the bottles hanging from the fixture. John Gray - Great new chef on my radar.  Has several restaurants throughout the Mexican Caribbean.   John Greys Kitchen, John Grays Place, La Suegra, John Greys Downtown and The Den. John Grey from Cancun ... FABULOUS Duck with Sweet Potatoes.  My new favorite Chef.  I don't like sweet potoatoes ... but I ate these. Chef Todd English ... Check out the cool hairdo on my hubby!   Doing it the SoBe way!  less mafioso!  LOL Saturday morning - Private breakfast with Emeril.  This man is amazing.  He went to every table and talked to every person and took as many pictures as you wanted.  He had something to say to everyone.  No wonder he is so endearing. Ok ... TOP CHEF fan favorite ... Fabio Viviani ...  he really was smiling in the other pix we took ... but I just had to kiss him! so this one wins the fb post . If I see him tomorrow I will make him smile!  LOL Our Drink for the night was: Spank Me Gimlet!!!   YummO as Rachel would say ... I now have the recipe!  which shall be featured soon at Lake Santa Fe .... Host Mike Chiarello for our dinner with AMEX.   Food and Wine was FABULOUS! and guess who showed up as unepected guest ... Sandra Lee and her sister Kimber.... Sunday Morning:  Me and Lydia Bastianich at private breakfast and book signing. Culinary Demo with Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto.  He fileted a 90 pound Blue Fin Tuna flown in from Hawaii.   AMAZING. Culinary Demo with Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto.  He fileted a 90 pound Blue Fin Tuna flown in from Hawaii.   AMAZING. Morimoto with the Blue Fin Tuna. The view from the mirror. Duff ... the ACE of Cakes watching Morimoto. Morimoto again ... The different parts...some for sushi some for braising. Me and Morimoto Paula Deen was late for her Demo so who walks in ... Bobby Flay.   He is going to host a Taco and Tequila Party at the New York Food and Wine Festival in October. Paula Deen and hubby Michael. Paula with hubby Michael, her personal assistant Brian and Chef Robert Irvine of Dinner Impossible.  Trust me ... there was no Culinary Demo ... it was a party! Eric Rupert of Le Bernardin in NYC and Anthony Bourdin of TV show No Reservations.  Very Fun demo! Answering questions after Eric obviously won the cookoff. Me and Duff ... The Ace of Cakes! Guy Fieri Culinary Demo ... need I say ... it was the ultimate closing demo!   We sat in the front row! Making a cocktail in his drink machine!  CRAZY! Other Chef's joining him... Morimoto adding his touch. Guy and Marc Summers of Unwrapped about to have a whipped cream duel... Whipped Cream everywhere! Sunday Nite:  About to head out ... our pix in the mirror before we head to Guy Fieri Moon over Miami Party on the beach. Me and Robert Irvine.  (Dinner Immpossible) Ok... this isn't a great photo ... because the lights were in the background .... so here I am with Anne Burrell. The Host with the Most  ... As promised ... a better pix of Guy and me!  Woohoo!Photos 1 – 59 out of 59 | Back to Albums
Description: Pinch Me! I am having so much fun!
Location: South Beach, Florida

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