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La Ventanita
by Miami Herald
La Ventanita is a weekly live video food podcast. Miami Herald food editor Carlos Frías, a two-time James Beard Award winner, and co-host Amy Reyes, editor of Miami.com, talk to interesting people in food about pop culture and all the things we love to eat. We focus on Miami and the people who make it special.
Episodes
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Banter Show: The Last Ventanita (maybe?)
Hola, loyal listeners of La Ventanita, Carlos here. This is bittersweet to write. After six amazing years at the Miami Herald, I’m leaving for a fantastic, unexpected opportunity. I’ll be the new host of Sundial, the daily mid-day show on WLRN 91.3 FM, our NPR station. My goal: to keep telling…
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Pedro Cao, Vicky Bakery turns 50
Vicky Bakery is synonymous with croquetas, pastelitos and Cuban bread in Miami. And Pedro’s father, Antonio Cao, founded the Vicky Bakery that we know today 50 years ago. Antonio was a baker in Cuba. When he immigrated, he bought a small bakery in east Hialeah, kept the name and turned it into...
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Stephen Sawitz, Joe's Stone Crab
The man behind Joe’s Stone Crab is actually a Stephen. Stephen Sawitz is the great-grandson of Joe Weiss, who founded the Miami Beach restaurant in 1913. Four generations of his family have steered it into icon status. Now it’s Stephen’s turn. He’s the latest steward of Joe’s Stone Crab. He tells...
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Antonio Bachour on Instagram desserts (plus La Planchita complete!)
Antonio Bachour’s beautiful desserts became famous before he did. Millions of followers on Instagram watch him make the glistening, colorful mirror-glazed desserts for which he has been named the best pastry chef in the world — twice! — at his Coral Gables shop. And Bachour (pronounced like a...
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Vanessa Garcia, Amparo Experience playwright, author, writer
Vanessa Garcia wrote the story of rum. Her play, the Amparo Experience, told the true tale of the Cuban family behind the real Havana Club Rum — and it became the hottest theater ticket in Miami, selling out show after show for six months. Vanessa manages to grab people’s attention with her…
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Banter Show (Angry vegans, NyQuil chicken, Miami food halls)
Angry vegan diners, Miami food halls and why the FDA had to tell people not to cook chicken in cough syrup required an all-banter episode of La Ventanita, the weekly Miami Herald food podcast. Co-host Amy Reyes, Miami.com’s editor, had barely asked our guest last week, Ani Meinhold. who were the...
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Ani Meinhold, Miami's first pop-up (plus The Bear, olive bread, pan pizza)
You can’t say the word “pop up” in Miami today without thinking of Ani Meinhold, who opened Miami’s first one 10 years ago. That pop-up was Phuc Yea!, a Vietnamese concept that came alive every night, when she and co-founder Cesar Zapata took over a downtown diner every night and rewrote the…
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Banter Show! (Why Larios matters, sourdough starter)
It's an all-banter show where Amy Reyes and Carlos Frías dig into all the juicy bits of food news to come out of the 305 in the last week. Among the topics: Who is Larios, what does he have to do with Emilio and Gloria Estefan, and why does it matter that they are cooking Cuban food again Does...
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Jeremy Ford, "Top Chef" wrestled Anthony Bourdain
Miami’s first and only “Top Chef” winner, Jeremy Ford, wrestled Anthony Bourdain. He wrestled with demons as a Miami chef. And he wrestles with raising three daughters. Ford has a Hollywood vibe, but he's a down-to-earth guy who gave up cooking for a stretch to look after his diabetic mother. It...
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Jeff Houck, Cuban sandwich expert, food writer
More than a year ago, Jeff Houck told us he was working on a book that would shock the world’s understanding of where the Cuban sandwich came from. You always hear Tampa vs Miami. But Jeff and the lead author on this book went beyond the debate. To write “The Cuban Sandwich: A History in Layers,”...
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Rane Roatta, Miami Fruit (Cuban sandwich debate, Miami Spice preview)
Rane Roatta’s Homestead farm, Miami Fruit, figured out early on that if they posted videos of the phallic-looking rare exotic fruit they grow, those videos would go viral. Imagine that — the internet likes phallic things! Rane and his partner Edelle Schlegel have been growing ultra-rare exotic...
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Randy Alonso, Fox's Lounge co-owner (plus RIP Howie Kleinberg, sandwich talk, Cuban-Italian food)
Randy Alonso took on a tough job recently — resurrecting South Miami's Fox’s Lounge. He and his business partner, Chris Hudnall, spent the last three years renovating the bar that had been open for 69 years in South Miami, Florida until it closed in 2015. Rather than build a new place and just…
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Netflix Street Food: USA director Mariano Carranza (plus fruit influencer banter)
Netflix recently launched a new season of their award-winning series, Street Food. The most recent season focuses on the street food in America and Mariano Carranza was the director of the Miami episode of Street Food: USA. Mariano is a native of Lima, {eru. But he really did his homework when he...
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Banter Show (Hanging out at Shoma Bazaar, Paradis Bread & Books bar)
We had very different dining/hangout experiences that we discussed on this episode of La Ventanita. We tried the high-end food hall in Doral, Shoma Bazaar, that wants to be a destination. Who is this food hall for, with $30 ramen, single-origin coffee roasted right at the food hall, and a clubby...
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José Mendín, Pubbelly chef, plus Google review scammers, Thomas Keller's new restaurant
Our guest today is José Mendín. What we love about José's Miami restaurants is that no two concepts are alike. He’s opened a gastrobup, a sushi chain, a Sunset Harbour Italian restaurant and a Puerto Rican spot that tied back to his Boricua roots. His gift is mixing and matching flavors from...
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Banter Show (Wood Tavern/Las Rosas close, Golden Rule fire, Burger Club)
Boy, do we have a lot of food news to catch up on this episode of La Ventanita. Wagons West is being sold. A fire destroyed the popular tiki hut at Golden Rule seafood market and restaurant, which has been open since 1943. And Wood Tavern and Las Rosas bar in Allapattah have both closed as the…
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La Ventanita/The Sporkful: a collab
La Ventanita is off this week. But we want to point you to a special Miami episode of another great food podcast: The Sporkful with Dan Pashman. The Sporkful aired an episode this week about La Ventanita co-host and Herald food editor Carlos Frías losing his father to gun violence. And how he…
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Chef Luciana Giangrandi, Boia De co-owner, Miami native
Luci Giangrandi is a Miami-raised kid whose star has risen. Specifically a Michelin star. She co-owns Boia De, a restaurant she opened with her co-chef and partner Alex Meyer in a strip mall in Little Haiti three years ago. They were named co-nominees for the James Beard Award for best chef in…
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Michael Schwartz, 15 years of Michael's Genuine, Michelin
Michael did one of the hardest things a restaurant owner could do: He established a restaurant that everybody loved, that won every award — and then he totally changed it. But Michael has done that for 25-plus years he’s been in Miami, always gone against the grain. Classic story of going into an...
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Banter Show (Michelin star predictions with Ryan Pfeffer of The Infatuation)
It’s an all-banter show. And to help us do that, we’ve invited a professional banter-er, Ryan Pfeffer, the main food reviewer for The Infatuation, the online restaurant guide that bought out the Zagat Guide. Ryan dines out for work more than anyone in Miami. He’s been to the fancy restaurants…
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Harry Coleman, Smoke & Dough BBQ and Empanada Harry's founder
Harry Coleman is making some of the best barbecue anywhere in South Florida at his Kendall – yes Kendall – restaurant Smoke & Dough. And he’s making some of the most unique empanadas at his restaurant next door, Empanada Harry’s. What makes both special is he tries to bring a multicultural…
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Banter Show (Taco Bell pizza, Swensen's replacement, gun violence)
Carlos opens the show with a brief comment on gun violence after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which took him back to the senseless shooting death of his own father, Fernando Frías, two years earlier. Somehow we segue into banter on the week's food news in Miami. Amy Reyes, the editor of...
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Sef Gonzalez, "Burger Beast" food blogger, Crackers restaurant owner
Sef is the original Miami food blogger. As Burger Beast, he’s been reviewing burgers and comfort food restaurants inside and outside of Miami since 2008. He’s become Miami’s advocate for the every-man diner. His Burger Beast Approved stickers adorn many of Miami-Dade County’s beloved institutions…
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Mitchell Kaplan, Books & Books founder, cafe owner
Mitchell Kaplan made Miami lit — well, literate. He founded Books & Books, an independent bookstore in Coral Gables that has become a major gathering place for Miami-area writers and has grown into a major brand with seven bookstores. And it just turned 40. The cafe at that Gables store is…
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Jenny Lorenzo, Cuban "Abuelita" actor, YouTube host
Jenny Lorenzo became “Miami famous” when the actor put on a gray wig, turned on her grandmother’s Cuban accent and became everyone’s Abuela in YouTube videos. Viral fame ensued. Lorenzo, born in Kendall, a graduate of the University of Miami’s theater and arts program, became an internet…
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Michael Beltran, Ariete/Chug's Diner chef, Miami apostle
Ask Michael Beltran about any topic, and he’ll have an opinion. The Little Havana born Cuban-American chef wears his Cubanness on his sleeve — literally, he has an arm sleeve of tattoos that includes art of a mamey and a Cuban coffee cafetera. He’s the owner of Ariete and Chug’s Diner in Coconut...
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Adrian Castro, founder Panolo pan con bistec, Miami Beer Week
Adrian Castro created a fantastic Little Havana steak sandwich pop-up Panolo’s. He goes by the nickname Manolo at the wrestling-themed Union craft beer in Miami, where he manages the bar and films hilarious videos for its social media where he plays a cubanaso like Manolo from "Scarface." During...
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Karla Hoyos, World Central Kitchen, Miami chef
Karla Hoyos has spent six weeks in Poland, on the border with Ukraine, cooking 12,000 meals a day for evacuees of the Russian invasion with chef José Andrés’ nonprofit World Central Kitchen. On the April 17 episode of La Ventanita, the Miami Herald food podcast, Hoyos, a Miami chef with two...
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Val Chang, Itamae chef and co-owner
Val Chang was just 6 when her father left her and her older brother in their grandmother’s care in Peru and came to find work in Miami as a sushi chef. When the Changs reunited in Miami nine years later, it was the start of a long journey together that led to all three being named James Beard…
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Matt Kuscher, owner Kush, Lokal, Stephen's restaurants
Even though he’s not from Miami, Matt "Kush" Kuscher has this ability to grab Miami culture out of the air and inject it into his restaurants and hidden bars. Matt built a secret entrance through a Bill & Ted phone booth at his burger restaurant into a hidden milkshake bar that’s decorated like…
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Zak Stern, Zak the Baker founder
Zak Stern started baking bread out of his parents south Dade garage and now he is a finalist for a prestigious James Beard Award for the outstanding bread he bakes at his all-kosher bakery in Wynwood, Zak the Baker. Miami Herald food editor Carlos Frías and co-host Amy Reyes talk to Zak about...
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Cindy "Lou" Kruse, cookie queen, master pastry chef
Cindy Kruse makes some of the most delicious cookies Miami has ever tested at her Cindy Lou’s Cookie shop in Little River. But these aren’t just any cookies — and Cindy isn’t just any baker. She’d been working for more than 25 years as a pastry chef at fine restaurants, making the kind of…
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Marc Hochman, radio host, food provocateur
Marc is more than just South Florida’s funniest, most-prominent local sports radio host. He’s a food provocateur. On his afternoon drivetime sports talk show with former Dolphin Channing Crowder, you hear all kinds of his food opinions. He declares ice cream cake the worst kind of cake. He…
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Pablo Zitzmann, dim sum master
Pablo Zitzmann started making dim sum out of his Kendall, Florida condo when he got laid off during the pandemic, and the Coral Gables restaurant he opened since, the eponymous Zitz Sum, has been named one of the best in the country by the James Beard Foundation. He talked about fusing Latin...
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Ryan Sentz, Funky Buddha Brewery founder
Ryan Sentz, founder of Funky Buddha Brewery, quit a job as a South Florida newspaper ad salesman to brew beer out of a strip mall brew pub. Funky Buddha eventually grew into the fastest-growing craft beer in Florida by making beer that tasted like food, from maple-bacon coffee to blueberry…
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"Chef Teach" Derrick Turton, House of Mac
Derrick Turton, known as Chef Teach, managed rappers and entertainers like Pitbull before giving up that life to create House of Mac, a legacy and business to leave his children. He talked to Miami Herald food editor Carlos Frías and co-host Amy Reyes about how his father's sudden passing made…
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Alex Lacamoire, "Hamilton" musical director
Alex Lacamoire, the Miami, FL raised musician who helped create the music to “Hamilton," "Dear Evan Hansen," "Vivo," "Tick, Tick...Boom!" talks to us about growing up in Miami, Hurricane Andrew memories, his terrible food take, what he cooks at home and how celebrity helped him land restaurant...
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La Ventanita: a Miami food podcast
La Ventanita is a weekly live video podcast. Miami Herald food editor Carlos Frías, a James Beard award winner, and co-host Amy Reyes, editor of Miami.com, talk to interesting people in food about pop culture and all the things we love to eat. We focus on Miami and the people who make it special....
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Pitbull: Mr. Worldwide wants the world to fall in love with his culture, music and food
Mr. Worldwide isn’t a chef. But Armando Christian Perez — known to the world as Pitbull — is a first time owner of a new South Beach restaurant. James Beard award winner, Carlos Frías, the Miami Herald food editor, talked to him about growing up in Miami. He blew our minds when he hacked a...
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Kiss, Marry, Kill with Ted Allen, Scott Conant, Robert Irvine, Nina Compton, Jeremy Ford, Michael Beltran
On this bonus episode of La Ventanita, we caught up with six great chefs as they came to Miami for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, the largest food festival in the world. James Beard award winner, Carlos Frías, the Miami Herald food editor, asked the chefs to play "Kiss, Marry, Kill" with...
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Daniel Boulud: How a dropout at 14 became one of the great French chefs
French chef Daniel Boulud, owner of more than 15 restaurants, discusses his recent fascination with Cuban food over Cuban coffee, pastelitos and croquetas. James Beard award winner Carlos Frías, the Miami Herald food editor, discusses the upbringing that shaped Boulud and how his own's son is...
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Thomas Keller: How growing up with a single mom, four brothers influenced his career
Chef Thomas Keller discussed how being the youngest of five brothers with a single mom influenced his life and helped him become one of America’s great chefs. James Beard award winner Carlos Frías, the Miami Herald food editor, discusses Keller's upbringing and his little known movie career over...
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Michelle Bernstein: ‘Girls like me weren’t supposed to be chefs'
Miami born chef Michelle Bernstein, winner of the James Beard award, discusses life as a woman chef years before the Me Too movement over Cuban coffee, pastelitos and croquetas. James Beard award winner Carlos Frías, the Miami Herald food editor, talks with Bernstein about how a 90-pound former...
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Marcus Samuelsson: An adoptive family and connection to Ethiopia shaped his career
Chef Marcus Samuelsson, who was adopted from Ethiopia by a Swedish family at age 3, discusses becoming a TV star over Cuban coffee, pastelitos and croquetas. James Beard award winner Carlos Frías, the Miami Herald food editor, interviews Samuelsson about the distinctive upbringing that shaped him...
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Norman Van Aken: A carney and field hand hitchhiked to chef stardom in Key West
Key West was a huge influence on chef Norman Van Aken, who became one of the great innovators in American cuisine. James Beard award winner Carlos Frías, the Miami Herald food editor, discusses how Van Aken hitchhiked from the Midwest, working odd job alongside immigrant day laborers, over Cuban...
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José Andrés: He sees immigration, job creation, wage equity in this one dish
Chef José Andrés, who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, sees the United States and all it represents in every bite of a pastelito or croqueta. James Beard award winner Carlos Frías, the Miami Herald food editor, discusses social issues…
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La Ventanita is a weekly live video food podcast. Miami Herald food editor Carlos Frías, a two-time James Beard Award winner, and co-host Amy Reyes, editor of Miami.com, talk to interesting people in food about pop culture and all the things we love to eat. We focus on Miami and the people who make it special.
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