Flavor City Teams up with a Chicago Icon

I am very excited to announce that Flavor City has teamed up with Allen Brothers to create new cooking and educational videos. As a long time fan/customer of Allen Brothers, I can say this is the best prime beef I have ever tasted and the same meat served at top steakhouses all over the country. I have been shooting footage with the master butchers, in the aging rooms(dry aging is a fascinating process), and even with the president of the company. You will learn so much about what exactly prime meat is, and the aging process, just like I did.

The first video is up on www.allenbrothers.com, and we are finishing the second one now.

Please let me know if you have any special requests or questions.

City Farms Dinner w/ Barefoot Wine

The other night, I had the opportunity to attend a very unquie wine dinner at City Farm Chicago. An urban farm in the Gold Coast. I had driven by this place many times, but to walk through the farm and see all the incredible produce they are growing there was fascinating. We then had a four course meal with ingredients picked from the far that morning, right in the middle of the farm at a long community table, it doesn't get much more farm to table that that!

Barefoot wines was sponsoring the event, and has honored Chicago's own, Ken Dunn, for his urban farm and resource center work. The food was fantastic, and the ambiance was unbeatable.

Poutine, Maple Syrup, and Great People, I Love Montreal!

The week in Montreal is coming to an end and its fair to say this city has really impressed me. It has all the charm of old Europe w/o leaving America, insanely good food, clean, and people so friendly it's almost scary..what's there not to like!?!?

The culinary scene here is off the chart, and the seafood does not get much better than what they have here. The best examples of this was at Chuck Hughes 2 restaurants, Garde Manger & La Bremner. Of course, when in Montreal I had to seek out some top notch poutine.

Old Quebec city was one of the most authentic old towns I have been to, and is like taking a trip back in time!

More to come soon, we shoot lots of good footage here for an ep. Of FlavCity.

Putting on the finishing touches & off to Montreal

We shot the last scene for the latest FlavCity the other day. A bunch of my friends came over for the big party scene of the grilling prime meat episode. Needless to say everyone left happy and with a belly full of good eats. We are editing the ep. now, and it should be out in the next couple weeks.

We are off to Montreal tomorrow to shoot another FlavCity! It will be nice to get back to traveling after doing a couple of Chicago episodes. The food scene there is supposed to be fabulous. We'll also do a day trip to Quebec city.

If you have any recommendations let me know! Au Revior!

 

New Episode Alert! Backyard BBQ

We started shooting a new episode of FlavCity last week. We are continuing the Allen Brothers series with a Prime Backyard BBQ featuring wet & dry aged meat. You're going to learn all about the aging process from someone who has a little more experience than I do, and my friends are coming over to see which method of aging tickles their taste buds the most.

The horrible weather lately has delayed our shooting, which has pissed of my hungry friends the most, but we will wrap shooting ASAP, and get this video out for your viewing pleasure. If you have any requests for the next episode let me know!