Category Archives: Food Philanthropy

[VIDEO] Garden Harvest Pizza Lunch at Phillis Wheatley Elementary School

Posted on December 2, 2011 | Leave a comment

It’s that time of year! We are ready for the first edible school garden harvest at Phillis Wheatley Elementary in Overtown, Michael’s adopted school for Chefs Move to Schools and the Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ Chef Partnership.  I dropped by a couple of weeks ago to visit with cafeteria manager Ms. Theresa, assistant principal Yolanda Ellis, and science team leader/garden project coordinator Tracie Faigenblat (all pictured here in the cafeteria office!)  I had a couple margherita and meatball pizzas from Harry’s Pizzeria in tow to show how tasty greens can be as a topping, and we hatched a plan for their next pizza day in the cafeteria. On December 9, we will meet the fifth graders at the garden to gather some kale and bok choy, and then Manny Sulbaran, our chef de cuisine at Harry’s will work with the cafeteria staff to demonstrate how make a green and great-tasting topping.  The whole school will be able to try it for lunch. See the status of the garden in this quick pre-harvest video here, and our fingers are crossed that they will like it!  If the ratatouille was any indication, we’re feeling positive!

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What’s Cooking: Our End-of-Year Events

Posted on November 11, 2011 | Leave a comment

FriendsWithYou got crafty in our bathroom last month. Now they're opening up a can in the main dining room, just in time for Art Basel.

It’s time to freshen up our events page, and let you know where for the rest of the year you can find our food and talent when they’re not at our restaurants.  And then things really get interesting in 2012, in the Caymans and Miami.  Can we say food festival madness?  Here’s our race to the 2011 finish, below.

DASH’s Taste of Design Fundraiser (Friday, November 11):  Harry’s Pizzeria does its first off-site event tonight in the neighborhood at the Moore Building, and since no one’s got more balls than us, we will be serving Meatballs and Sauce! (Or as Hedy, Ellie, and I say… bawwwwls and sawwwce!) 7:00 p.m.,  4040 Northeast 2nd Ave, $100/person & $1000/table tickets for sale online.

Schwartzboom at Miami Book Fair International (Sunday, November 20):  It’s Michael’s first book fair event!  The chef/author will share his debut cookbook, MICHAEL’S GENUINE FOOD, in a session with Mary Zamore (The Scared Table) and Cheryl Tan (A Tiger in the Kitchen). They each will speak or read from their book for 15-20 minutes, followed by and audience Q & A and book signing. 3:00 p.m., The Pavilion, Free

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Posted in Chef Pops, Food Arts, Food Philanthropy, Harry's Pizzeria, In the Neighborhood, MGFD_MIA, Special Event, What's Cooking

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Babes in La La Land

Posted on November 9, 2011 | 3 Comments

Hedy's new handwriting font on display.

The stars were out this past weekend!  Answering the call of sweet duty, executive pastry chef Hedy Goldsmith and her sous Trew Sterling represented us in Los Angeles on Sunday for L.A. Loves Alex’s Lemonade Stand.  Alex’s, a national non-profit committed to finding a cure for all childhood cancers, has successfully created a culinary roadshow of sorts, traveling the country each year to fundraise by popping up events in select cities thanks to host chefs who embrace the cause.  Michael attended for the first time in Philly over the summer on the invitation of hometown friend Marc Vetri; Jonathan Waxman will bring it to New York for the first time in December with Lemon NYC.

Now you tell ME who is the movie star? Yeah @trewgenuine!

The La La land satellite is hosted by Suzanne Goin, and Hedy brought her A game to the table in a conundrum of candies — Smoked Hazelnut, Bourbon & Bacon Brittle, Curried Cashew Brittle, & Thai Peanut Brittle, as well as blocks of Roasted White Chocolate & Smoked Bittersweet Chocolate, supplied by our west coast cacao cronies at TCHO. Satisfying us for a moment, pictures of her spread are here, courtesy Heidi Ladell (both the images and the art direction that would make Sandra Lee weep tablescape tears of joy.)  But we wanted more. We had questions! What’s the juice from Hollywood?  Last night the answers arrived in our inbox:

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