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A Quick Visit to New York

By on 5 August, 2013 in Food General And Travel

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As I’m sure many of you already know by now, I recently went to New York to go see my brother Nick. Lucky for me he had a plethora of wonderful things planned, all of them food related of course. I was actually quite surprised with how much we actually fit in while I was there. I only stayed for about 4 days and we managed to go to over 14 different places combined in both manhattan and Brooklyn. The first day we made quick trips to several places including probably one of the coolest butcher shops ever by the name of The Meat Hook.

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Chinatown, New York

By on 31 July, 2013 in Food General And Travel

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So this might be a slight shocker to some people but I had no idea that there were other chinatowns. This whole time I thought there was only one in California. I know, how befuddling. I should know thing like this seeing as I used to go there as a kid all the time when I lived in California. My brother and I decided to explore Chinatown while I was in New York, and I guess you could say we had some fairly interesting findings.

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Momofuku Ssäm Bar

By on 25 July, 2013 in Food General And Travel

Momofuku Ssam Bar visit with Slim PalateI’m a fan of many chefs across the world such as Gordon Ramsay, Paul Bocuse and as a more related one David Chang. Despite the fact that I have all of these influences and chefs that I look up to I had not ever dined at one of their restaurants. I finally got my first chance while I was in New York  I was able to visit one of David Chang’s many Momofuku restaurants.

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Cozumel

By on 1 July, 2013 in Food General And Travel

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As far as it comes to eating clean in Mexico it can be a little bit difficult. Mostly because almost everything there is cooked in vegetable oil, which was contrary to my other thought that most things would be cooked in lard. The counters of most restaurants are littered with empty bottles of it and the supermarket there is stocked to the brim with quite literally a wall of it on the shelves. If it weren’t for that one factor it would be fairly easy to eat clean and control the food in a way to my liking.

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A Hidden Gem in Cozumel

By on 27 June, 2013 in Food General And Travel

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Cozumel is home to many nice little niche areas to eat with quality local fare handled with artisanal care but is slowly becoming commercialized with the onset of frequent tourism. With the commercialization of restaurants popping up you might get fooled into going into a restaurant that looks authentic but really isn’t and is just a part of an organization.

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Los Otates

By on 24 June, 2013 in Food General And Travel

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As I type this I’m currently in Cozumel with ambient light reflecting from the setting sun onto the bright blue water and into my condo living room. I’m have quite a wonderful time seeing all of the culture and tasting all of the wonderful food that Mexico has to offer. It just seems that there are so many places yet so little time to visit when it comes to food around here. So I’m doing my best to make it as impactful and delicious as possible while I’m here.

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Corner Table

By on 20 May, 2013 in Food General And Travel

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Before going to PaleoFX I met up with Bill and Hayley of Primal Palate to dine at Corner Table to get to know them better. At first I was incredibly skeptical and slightly scared to go because I hadn’t eaten out for a few years and wasn’t sure if I was ready for someone else to be handling my food just yet. So I did my research and found that that they not only serve grass fed meats but also serve all local produce and even have a Paleo menu. With my relief I decided to go and the event ended up being a lot of nerdy camera talk and politically correct real food speak, which I love but there was also one key point that I’ll never forget. The food, which was absolutely enchanting in both taste and presentation.

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Austin Texas and PaleoFX 2013 (Part 2)

By on 4 April, 2013 in Food General And Travel

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We met up at some really nice places including a place called Takoba which served an incredible braised pork shoulder that bursted with warm Mexican spices and fell apart to the touch of a fork. If only I could have taken some photos while I was there but I did a wonderful job dropping my camera directly on it’s lens. Luckily it was in front of everyone as well, so that was excellent. But besides that, another incredible place I visited which sadly did not serve sustainable meat to my knowledge was La Barbecue. Even though they Didn’t serve sustainable meat they still keep to a fairly good practice and have some of the greatest barbecue I have had in my life, definitely not something you want to pass up if you get the chance to stop by. But you didn’t think these were the only places I remembered did you?

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Austin Texas and PaleoFX 2013 (Part 1)

By on 1 April, 2013 in Food General And Travel

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There recently was a convention held known as PaleoFX for the year 2013. After being nudged by all of my new and wonderful friends I met throughout the blogging sphere to go, I grabbed some tickets and ran for Austin. My main thought when I left was that I was going to have a really hard time finding places that I wanted to eat that served food with real ingredients. Well I couldn’t have been farther from the truth because to my surprise, Austin Texas has an incredible foodie atmosphere that rumbles ones belly and fires up ones salivary glands. Luckily following up my arrival and surprise I also got to meet Ginger, Kelly of Spunky Coconut’s daughter, whom accompanied us on our food adventures.

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My Weight Loss Journey To Health and Beyond (Before and After Photos)

By on 10 January, 2013 in Food General And Travel

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I have fun and great news. I’m doing my very first guest post over at Paleo Parents today, so I am super excited for that. It will be about my weight loss journey and what I went through. Now I’m sure that most of you have already read my story. But I wanted to share a little more with you all of the side of my journey with weight loss. I made this post so that I could share my before after pictures with everyone on here. But I will be going more into my weight loss journey in a guest post over at Paleo Parents. Continue Reading →

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