ReMARKable Palate #247: Catching Up At the Fancy Food Show

This week, I head to the Annual Fancy Food Show, where thousands of food producers show their wares to buyers, chefs, journalists, and gourmands who can’t get enough. Next week, I”ll have a couple of interviews with NEW discoveries from the show, but this week, I catch up with people I’ve interviewed in the past, and see what’s new and how they’ve grown their business since the last time we spoke.

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Here’s the video from last year’s show where I interviewed Isela Hernandez of Kekua: Chef Mark’s Quick Bites

ReMARKable Palate #152: A Powerful Taste of Wales

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I continue my exploration around The NASFT Fancy Food Show on the 2nd day of the show. Sometimes you find yourself pulled in a certain direction without intending it, and today it seems my eye was drawn to many people featuring products from Latin America. In this first video, we see Chef Rick Bayless, who was one of the first guests on our video podcast when we started doing video. He’s debuting a new line of Mexican Gourmet skillet sauces at the show, and I speak with him while he serves up some tacos to hungry crowds. I then speak with Isela Hernandez of Kekua Mexican Drinking Chocolate, who whips up some chocolate like abuelita with her Molinillo!

As you know, we’ve been having a love affair with the Flavors of Chile here at Culinary Media Network. We couldn’t resist visiting our Chilean friends at their pavilion to see what was cooking. Chef Pilar Rodriguez spent the day whipping up a variety of dishes for the eager crowds who gathered, and she used all of the products from the various exhibitors. I then visited with Paulina Peñaloza of Chilean Gourmet, who showed me their new Quinoa Pop product, an air-puffed quinoa that’s ready to eat, which can be used in a breakfast cereal, mixed with yogurt, or as a creative topping on a number of dishes.

My last stop in my Latin American journey today was Peru. I spoke with Betsy Roger of the Culinary Collective, who are debuting a bunch of products from Peru this year. The one that most caught my eye is the Kañiwa flour, a high protein flour made form a native Peruvian plant.

As always I’ll have more videos to share as well as audio for my ReMARKable Palate Podcast, with more in depth interviews of some of the people and food stories that I find fascinating.

CMN Video: Flavors of Chile at Centrico

Chef Mark and Jennifer attend a luncheon at Chef Aaron Sanchez’ Centrico Restaurant made with products from Chile: Merken spice, carica, myrtlyberries, avocado oil, pisco, and more.

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ReMARKable Palate #181: It’s Skyline Time!

I visit Cincinnati’s famous Skyline Chili for the first time with my friend Cliff Ravenscraft from GSPN.tv. We talk about how this unique concoction of meat, chili, and spices like cocoa and cinnamon ends up over spaghetti and hot dogs, and covered with mounds of cheddar cheese.

Skyline Chili
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CMN Video: Fork in the Road – Tamales in Chimayo

Chef Mark stops in Chimayo for a visit to the Santuario de Chimayo, and some red chile tamales at Leona’s, some of the best in the state of New Mexico.

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ReMARKable Palate #155: The Oils of Chile

This week, we speak with Chef Pilar Rodriguez from Chile, who specializes in creating dishes to pair with the wines of Chile. She speaks with us about some special ingredients which are indigenous to this South American land, and how she incorporates them into her cooking. We then learn about the wonderful work being done in Chile to produce Avocado oil and olive oil, and how this South American land just may sneak up on the Mediterranean countries to become the preeminent producer of fine cooking oils in the world.

Theme Song: “Go Fish”, by Big Money Grip, from the Podsafe Music Network.

ReMARKable Palate is a production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com