After a much needed holiday, I’m back in Business.
Last week I started  the 2010 Pan-Latino cooking series at IQliving and at the LCBO.
Happy to report the two first classes were sold out.
It’s great to see how much interest on Latin cuisine has grown no just in Toronto, but all over Canada as well.
It has been [...]

This year’s event was all about ‘world cuisine’ using local and
organic products.
It was an honor for me and my crew, to have been invited to the
picnic, thanks to the event organizers decision to recognize cultural and
ethnic groups from around the world that make Toronto home.
Connecting the global palate using foods grown locally is a great
opportunity [...]

I team up with Eduardo Lee and Marc Lukacs, owners of Arepa Cafe to do a chacapa testing at St. Andrew’s Farmers Market to promote the opening of the restaurant that will be located at 490 Queen Street West.

With Eduardo Lee
Cachapas, which are made with fresh corn, salt, pepper, butter and top up with queso [...]

Nothing is sweeter than realizing a dream, and another one is coming right up. Thanks to the visionary Mary Luz Mejia and her partner Mario Stojanac of Sizzling Communications, an evening of Latino cuisine is set to blow your mind.
We all decided to call it OLA, which stands for Of Latin America. And in that [...]

“Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favorable comparison with the products of Nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life”.
Thomas Alva Edison
Love to you all.
Celebrating [...]

The launch of this year’s award ceremonies for the Ten Most Influential Hispanic Canadians kicked off last week at the Toronto Stock Exchange. The awards are the brainchild of Mauricio Ospina, champion of our Latino businesses and entrepreneurs, creator of the online magazine Hispanic Business

With Ospina: champion of Latino accomplishment in Canada
It’s time to [...]

Chayote was a major part of what I decided to serve at Feast of Fields this year. It’s a relatively unknown vegetable if you’re not Latino, Caribbean or an adventurous explorer of world foods.
Finding organic chayote was a challenge, but luckily Whole Foods had some that was naturally grown, which means it wont be long [...]

When I got a call back in April to participate in a CBC TV show test the nation , I had no idea I would be on a sound stage with celebrity guests; Jully Black. Kari Matchett, Mitsou, Ed Robertson, Emanuel Sandhu and Tommy Chong and our host Wendy Mesley and Brent Bambury. Which will [...]

Growing up in Venezuela to a Colombian mother, I had the best of both cultures. We spent a lot of time in Colombia with my grandparents, and the one thing common to the cuisines of both countries, and at the heart of both cultures, is the arepa, the arepa our daily bread.
To call it [...]

Join me on July 29 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, at the Summerhill LCBO for the “Sabor de California” festival.

I am going to celebrate with a class to showcase the Mexican influences on the regional flavours of California cuisine.
Our foodie-road trip and what we’re making…..
First stop: Gilroy, the garlic capital of the world and the [...]