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2012 South Beach Wine and Food Festival Video and Photos – Plus A Belvedere Lemon Raspberry Caprioska Cocktail Recipe

2012 South Beach Wine and Food Festival Video and Photos – Plus A Belvedere Lemon Raspberry Caprioska Cocktail Recipe

For this year’s South Beach Wine and Food Festival, I had time for one great event and I chose the event called “The Q” hosted by Emeril Lagasse and Guy Fieri. Last year this was the “Bubble Q” but they could just name it “delicious” […]

Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival 2011

Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival 2011

Where to begin?   “Mmmm.”   Let’s start with that.   Four days of delicious food, wine, champagne, sunshine and all of my favorite Food Network cooking superstars at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival.   Giada, Bobby, Rachael, Emeril, Guy.   OMG! Some […]

Best Tasting Chocolate Protein Shake Ever – Gaspari MyoFusion Milk Chocolate

Best Tasting Chocolate Protein Shake Ever – Gaspari MyoFusion Milk Chocolate

I’ve been drinking one or two protein shakes a day and for years now I have only been able to drink vanilla because the flavor of all the chocolate protein I have tried has been horrible and hard on my stomach.  This all changed when I […]

Eataly Market by Mario Batali in New York City

Eataly Market by Mario Batali in New York City

“A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see.” Pictured: Mario Batali – Quote: Famous British author Samuel Johnson Can’t make it to Italy this year? No […]

How Many Diet and Fitness Secrets Can We Learn from the Ultra Fit?  (Just One – There ARE No Secrets!)

How Many Diet and Fitness Secrets Can We Learn from the Ultra Fit? (Just One – There ARE No Secrets!)

Recently, I ran into my good friend, Ava Cowan, at a fitness competition here in South Florida.  Ava is a five-time overall figure champion.  Overall!  That means that when she wins, she not only wins within her age and height group, she beats everyone competing […]

Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution? – Take the Cooking with Sugar Food Challenge

Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution? – Take the Cooking with Sugar Food Challenge

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is trying to win the hearts of a West Virginia City by getting them to eat healthy foods. His new show “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” documents his efforts to change eating habits in a community the network calls the nation’s unhealthiest […]

Do You Know What NBA Basketball Players Want?  I do.  Home-Cooked Food.

Do You Know What NBA Basketball Players Want? I do. Home-Cooked Food.

This weekend, I journeyed from balmy Palm Beach, FL to icy Atlantic City NJ for a girls’ weekend and had the unexpected pleasure of sitting next to NBA Basketball Player, Mark Blount.   [Secret:  I had no idea who he was.]    I only knew […]