Subject: Pisco

• Fat Geese for Fat Cats

  March 9, 2006

• Christine's and New Times Hosts Artisan Brands Pairing Tonight

  Tonight, New Times and Christine's Restaurant  are presenting a complimentary tasting and pairing for Artisan Brands, a distributor of small batch, artisan spirits that's just moved into South Florida. Christine's chefs  Bill Bruening and Tom Repetti will be throwing down a spread of passed hors d'oeuvres that with flavors complimentary to the exotic blends. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. and is completely free!Some of the liquors on hand: Montesierpe Pisco, a small batch, typical Peruv

  December 18, 2008

• Bali Hai Preview with Chefs Oscar del Rivero and Sean Brasel

  Jackie Sayet Chef Oscar del Rivero of Jaguar mixing his Peruano ceviche. This Sunday, April 5, will mark the 15th annual Bali Ha'i event, an outdoor soiree of culinary delights from restaurants around Miami to celebrate the Kampong. On Thursday, I set out to get advance tastes of one fish dish and one meat dish, from two talented and charming chefs, Oscar del Rivero of Jaguar and Sean Brasel of Meat Market who will appear at Bali Hai. A quick drive down Main Highway, and I met Mexican-b

  April 3, 2009

• Miami's Dining Scene Goes Big League

  December 25, 2008

• Under Pressure?

  December 11, 2008

• Three Jacks Walk into a Bar ...

  And the resulting Irish rock act winds up heading to Peru to benefit earthquake victims.

  July 31, 2008

• Post-Post Depression Syndrome

  October 19, 2006

• Three Jacks Save The World, Starting With Pisco, Peru

  image via myspace.com/thethreejacksonlineJacks Plus Barb & The Breffnis, Dancers on the "Angels With A Mission" Tour of Peru The Three Jacks are an amazing Irish/Celtic/Folk/Rock band, a Dade County Dropkick Murphy's with better musicians. Their singer/guitar player Henk Milne recently met New Times publisher Kevin Thornburg at Churchill's and then sent him an email detailing the band's continued quest to save the earthquake ravaged lands of Pisco, Peru. The email got forwarded to me, ostens

  May 11, 2009

• Booze Hound: Jaguar Ceviche Spoon Bar and LatAm Grill

  Elyse Wanshel Where the party happens. Typical Groveites (or Grovinians? Grovitines?) wears shorts and flip flops. They always seem to be walking a dog, clutching a plastic cup, and most likely drive a Mini Cooper. Their typical night's itinerary usually includes pigging out on fish tacos at Sandbar, purchasing JOB rolling papers at Yucky's, and eventually puking in the alleyway in front Barracuda's. And although, there're lots of us poor, hard-working saps living west of the causeway wh

  May 21, 2009

• Does Miami Ceviche Keep Mosquitoes From Biting? Try The Rocoto

  image via lacofradia.com Clouds of screaming devil birds rise from their birth-swamps and descend on the flesh of the city to feast on the blood of our people. Mosquitoes suck.I came up with the totally unfounded idea that a good ceviche from Miami will keep them from biting. I started calling Peruvian joints out of our extensive restaurant database to see if there was any truth to the matter. Several places that shall go unnamed simply hung up on me. However, the dude who answered the phone at

  June 11, 2009

• FatKingBulla Brings the Bulla to the Van Dyke, This Saturday

  ​From the land of the pisco sour comes a new, and even more intoxicating Peruvian export--FatKingBulla. Okay, perhaps that's a bit of a bold statement. Pisco sours are some strong stuff. Just ask my ex-neighbor about that morning I woke up on his lawn cradling his garden gnome (nothing happened Gene...I swear). But the fact remains, FatKingBulla are responsible for some serious Latin-funk-rock grooves.Comprised of "Bulla," Martino Succetti and "Mr. Vicius", the group has been hard at work prom

  September 10, 2009

• FatKingBulla Brings the Bulla

  September 10, 2009

• Mike Torrey, Machu Picchu Photog, Talks Food in Peru

  via Mike TorreyGet high in the Andes.​Mike Torrey is a San Diego based architectural photographer with a new book out called "Stone Offerings: Machu Picchu's Terraces of Enlightenment."Mike will be in town for the Miami International Book Fair and will be on a panel with a National Geographic photographer and a pilgrimage organizer on Saturday, November 14, at 11:30 a.m. in room 7128 (building 7, first floor).Short Order took the opportunity to ask Mike about his food experiences in Peru while

  November 10, 2009

• Ingrid Hoffmann Gets the 10 Questions

  Ingrid Hoffman​Now here's a chef who knows the meaning of caliente. For those of you who may not recognize this hometown girl (which rock have you been living under, huh?), she's the host of Food Network's Simply Delicioso, as well as Galavision/Univision's hit series, Delicioso, and she's authored cookbooks of the same names. Or perhaps you recently spotted her premiering a new, vivid kitchen products collection with a Latin twist, Simply Delicioso by Ingrid Hoffmann, during HSN Cooks.But Hof

  November 10, 2009