Savour the flavour
Friday, October 28 2011
Are your tastebuds ready? Come and taste the many flavours offered by this years premiere culinary event this weekend at the Taste T&T International Culinary Festival.
The highly anticipated event will take place at the Hasely Crawford Stadium and Jean Pierre Complex tomorrow from noon to 8 pm and on Sunday from 11 am to 8 pm at the same venues.
Local, regional and international chefs will be on hand to demonstrate their techniques and guests will have the opportunity to sample some delicious cuisine.
Among the highlights of this years festival will be the participation of internationally renowned celebrity chef, Jose Garces, who local fans of the Food Network would know from the Iron Chef series. As one of the stars of Iron Chef America, this thirty-seven-year-old has made a name for himself internationally.
This is Chef Garces first trip to Trinidad and Tobago. Im excited to explore anything and everything. I hope to come across a great food stand or restaurant, a bustling marketplace where I can discover great, native ingredients and, of course, meet the local people and learn about their culture. For everything I hope to take away from the trip, I also hope to leave a bit of what were about at Garces Restaurant Group.
Garces Restaurant Group (GRG) is a community of restaurants that are owned and operated by Chef Jose Garces. They see themselves as a family of proud passionate professionals who collaborate to tell a story, one plate at a time.
Born and raised in Chicago, Garces Ecuadoran background makes it easy for him to combine
different cultures in his cuisine. With skills mastered in Spain and New York City, this culinary genius trained under the father of Nuevo Latino cuisine, Douglas Rodriguez.
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Garces had been a challenger on Iron Chef America, defeating Iron Chef Bobby Flay in a 2008 episode. He also competed in the second season of The Next Iron Chef and was selected the sixth Iron Chef after defeating opponent chef, Jehangir Mehta,
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Halloween is a time for parties, dressing up and having fun with a bit of harmless—but scary—make-believe.
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Students Teaching Against Racism in Society, an Ohio University student group, have created a poster campaign to highlight the racial stereotyping all too common in Halloween party dress.
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