Posted in Events, Food, Fundraising, Media on September 8th, 2009 Comments Off
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 [...]
Posted in Events, Fotos, Roots, Uncategorized on April 22nd, 2009 Comments Off
“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 [...]
Posted in Coming up, Events, Latino, Media on October 9th, 2008 Comments Off
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 [...]
Posted in Events, Food, Latino, News, Roots on September 18th, 2008 Comments Off
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 [...]
Posted in Events, Media, News on September 6th, 2008 Comments Off
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 [...]
Posted in Events, Food, News, Roots on August 4th, 2008 Comments Off
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 [...]
Posted in Coming up, Events, Latino, Learning to cook on July 22nd, 2008 Comments Off
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 [...]