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Educating Jack & MIlly in Kenya
06.11.13
With my "son" Jack in Kenya. With the help of friends, family and local businesses I'm putting Jack & Milly (his best friend and my "daughter") through college in Nairobi. They're finishing their third year now at Jomo Kenyatta University and Kenya Polytechnic University. If you can donate, even $5 to their educational fund, we will be so grateful.
Many thanks, from Jack, MIlly and me.
Donate easily at this link. And you can follow them on Facebook at Educating Jack & Milly.
Dining
Congrats to Tabu Grill! Best Poke Winner
06.10.13
At the 2nd annual I Love Poke Festival, a food festival and restaurant competition at Don the Beachcomber, 400 poke enthusiasts came out to celebrate the Hawaiian delicacy, lifestyle and culture with foods, live music and chefs completion for “Best Poke.” And the winners were…
Ist - Tabu Grill in Laguna Beach, Chef Rayne Frey “Best Poke” title.
He made two different versions, classic ahi poke with pickled red onions; and wakame, ahi poke with sesame seeds, in their house poke dressing.
2nd - Stadium Brewing Co. in Aliso Viejo, Chef Renato Sampaga
Three different versions were served: A European tribute with ahi tuna flavored with lemon - dill beurre blanc sauce on top of a puff pastry, topped with truffle mushrooms, micro-chervil, and finished with black tobiko.
Asian tribute with freshly chopped ahi-tuna with a spicy-sweet thai sauce on top of a friend won ton topped with peanuts, micro-cilantro, and finished with wasabi roe.
Latin tribute, ahi tuna flavored with a sweet-savory-citrus sake reduction on top of a deep fried wonton, topped with balsamic reduction, spicy habanero sauce, chopped seaweed salad and finished with tobiko sauce.
3rd - Hawaiian Style Poke in Las Vegas, Dennis Cornelius.
He created two different versions, wakame poke and spicy garlic poke with yellowfin tuna, yellow onions, white onions, purple onions, green onions, Hawaiian rock salt, special Inamona, sesame oil, spicy garlic sauce (Hawaiian chile pepper), Hawaiian limu, mixed with 7 different Japanese seaweeds.
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