About Traveling Foodie a.k.a DrFoodie

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Upcoming Reviews and Articles



Life has been extremely busy, but I have not ceased enjoying and documenting amazing eats and drinks.  

Over the next few days, the following articles will be published for your enjoyment:


  • Interview, Distillery Tour, and Blind Tasting with Head Distiller of Privateer Rum, Maggie Campbell
Maggie Campbell, Head Distiller at Privateer Rum


  • A New "Featured Tipples (Cocktails) of the Month"
Tenzin, smoking dried rosemary and cedar wood for my cocktail!
@Trade Restaurant with Tenzin (Bartender Extraordinnaire with Summer Williams (Professor/Teacher of Theatre), Erika Harper (Fashionista/Fine Arts Student), Dr. Markeya K. Williams (Me/DrFoodie), Maggie Campbell (Head Distiller, Privateer Rum), Nick Wilson (Harvard Gov't School Graduate/Food&Cocktail Writer LA and Boston), Peter (Distilling Master in Training, Privateer Rum)
  • Audubon Boston with Bartenders Tyler Wang and Devon Burroughs, Owner Joshua Childs, and Chef Suzi Maitland (interview coming soon)
 
 
  • 2014 Movers & Shakers Cocktail and Food Pairing Competition (I was invited to judge this year after writing about it for two!)

  • Wink & Nod/Whisk Bites and Sips (Special Edition Bourbons & V.E.G 30 year old Chartreuse with Curtis Mcmillan)
Curtis Mcmillan and me.  If you want to learn about whisk(e)y, this is your dude!  @Wink & Nod South End

  • Japanese Whisky- A Tasting Review
 
@Thirst Boston (The new brilliant Cocktail & SpiritsWeekend full of fun and learning): Alyssa Mikiko DiPasquale (Sake specialist @ O Ya and beyond) and Nick Korn (Cocktail and Bartending guru of Silvertone's plus)
  • Blue Dragon- Recent Bites and Sips (with John Drew)

  • New England Food Show 2014
 
 
  • Memorial Day Weekend at Trade, Silvertone, & Marina Bay (Siros) with Sean the Bartender
Memorial Day Sips at Marina Bay
Dr. Andrew Rausch, Professor/Theater Director Summer Williams, Dr. Markeya Williams enjoying a bottle of bubbly (Veuve Cliquot) at Silvertone's Downtown Crossing

...and much more!

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Succulent Sundays (Savvor Restaurant & Lounge): A Weekly Celebration of My Favorite Personal Food Photography

Executive Chef: Carey Dobies
Leather District, Boston, MA

My Full Review and Interview with Chef Carey 
Yaka Mein:  lo mein noodles, oxtail, tasso ham, 5:10 egg, bean sprouts, green onion, Old Bay seasoning, slurping patrons!
Giant prawns and creamy grits.  The heads were filled with whipped liver mouse and roasted leeks.  SO GOOD!

Bay scallop crudo served in a scallop shell with green papaya, pickled mango, and shaved celery stalk and greens



 

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Succulent Sundays (Steel & Rye): A Weekly Celebration of My Favorite Personal Food Photography

Chef/Co-Owner Chris Parsons
Lower Mills/Milton, MA

Buccatini with lobster, braised pork belly, delicata squash, spinach
Salmon filet was served over Tuscan kale with Sparrow Arc Farm heirloom turnips, seckel pears, lady apple, and mostarda


Spinach fettuccine with wild boar Bolognese, shaved Pecorino, and olive oil-poached tomato