The 3rd annual Boca Raton Wine and Food Festival 2012

Well lets just say it is becoming a common event lots of foods, lots of spirits, Lots of friends bonding over 3 days of feasting...........

I was assigned to shoot everything, taste every sample of food that was served from over 2 hundred Chefs and restaurants. To wash these dishes down I was ask to sample wines, ( many of them) Rums ( too many to count) Beers ( only a few) and then there was the desserts....... Cookies, cakes, coconut brittle, and way too many snacks that I cant even begin to list.......

The mood from Friday night all day Saturday and ending today Sunday I cant even begin to tell you how full I still am..... I will list some of the restaurants below. Then there was the liquor companies, the wines companies and of course all the rest which are too many to list.... But I will throw a short list together for all you foodies........

Here is a partial list from the 3rd Annual Boca Raton Wine & Food Festival on November 9th, 10th and 11th, 2012~ Truluck's ~ Sorrisi at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek~ NYY Steak at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek~The Hungry Cuban~ The Whale Bar and Fish House~ Moran's Catering ~Biergarten ~Sheila G Brownie Brittle~ Oceans 234~ Mythos Greek Taverna ~Apron's Cooking School ~ Rocco's Tacos ~NaKava ~Bistro Ten Zero One ~Marriott Palm Beach~ JByrd's Muddy Waters~Bonefish Grill ~WrapOlé ~Delish Catering ~Fit Foodz Café ~Dapur Asian Tapas and Lounge ~Blue Martini ~The Office Restaurant ~Potions in Motion~Vic & Angelo's~ Grand Enocteca ~A Cup a Cake~,Red's Backwoods BBQ~Organo Gold~Abe and Louie's~ SoLita Italian Restaurant and Parlor Lounge ~Estia Greek Taverna and Bar~Fusionarie Japanese Asian Signature~Candy's Cake Pops~The English Tap and Beer Garden~Caruso Ristorante~Meyer's Latin Bistro~Gimmie a Kimmie~SALT 7~Lemongrass Asian Bistro,Lemongrass Asian Bistro,Super Dave's Diner ,Rebel House,Nature's Way Cafe ,El Tamarindo Cafe ,Olive Oil of The World,Pearsons Cakes~Bella Mondo Lasagna Deli,Hoffman's Chocolate~Latinos Restaurante~4th Generation Market~Irie Spice~Chef's Choice Caterers~Carrabba's Italian Grill ~The “Original” Wonder Griddle~Crepes by the Sea ~The Funky Biscuit~Chef Alan Bergman Catering ~Good 2 Go Bars~Yakitori Sake House~Sweet Salty and Salsa Sisters~Legal Sea Foods~Mario’s Catalina Restaurant~Eat The Truth~Ethos Greek Bistro~Organic Takeover~Ritas Pitas~Holy Smokes American Bistro~Island Fusion~Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Miami~Pero Family Farms~Florida Fresh Meat Company~El Tamarindo Cafe~Fuku~Max's Harvest just to name a few!

Next time now I need to sleep and prepare of Art Basil..........

But Before I go I must say Thank you to Russell at the Boca Raton Wine and Food Festival and his team of superstars that rolled out the red carpet and gave me anything and everything I needed.... Way to go guys...

My next project: This is going to be my first Miami ~ Culinary Art Basil Miami 2012 Event! ~

My next project: This is going to be my first Miami Event! ~ Producing the first of its kind: Culinary Art Basil Miami 2012

http://artbasil.org/

Welcome to ArtBasil.org! You are invited to participate in a media driven, by-invitation-only, hallmark gathering that celebrates the global influence in South Florida Culinary Arts and Fashion. stay tune for more information.....

Take a look at site! Let me know what you think.....

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino - Hollywood; FL; Seminole Hard Rock's Wine & Food Festival;

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino - Hollywood; FL; Seminole Hard Rock's Wine & Food Festival;

Working, while sampling every wine, dozens of vodkas, sucking down a plethora of water! Eating some of best finger foods the Floridian coast has seen. Local chefs and chef's from around the USA where hustling, running around still preparing meals for 15000 or more attendees that ponied up a $100 per ticket / per/ person to enter the pit of foods, to taste what was in the air, what could be smelled from 4 miles away to kick back and relax on a 75 degree cloudless blue sky, paradise in paradise a perfect day, a kind of day that Florida has 360 days a year...

Arriving only minutes before the gate had opened where over 2500 people were alreadu waiting to enter waiting for the gates to open. Waiting to eat, waiting drink, waiting to dance and have the chance to meet some of the stars of this show.........

The air was filled with the familiar smell of your common back yard BBQ, but this was different this was gourmet this was BBQ masters on steroids this was spiced islands this was southern style, this was latin american style this was Philly style this was a day that should have been extended for a week...:)

Drinking eating and meeting the talented chefs, the staff at the ; Seminole Hard Rock

http://www.thewineandfoodfestival.com; Sunday; November 4th; 2012-

Chef Creole; Jason Gronlund: Executive Chef; Senior Director Of Culinary R&D; Seminole Hard Rock Hotels and Casinos in Tampa and Hollywood; Fla.; Executive Chef Chris Wong from NewPort Beachside hotel and resort; Celebrity Chef Steve Martorano

Other chefs and restaurants that knocked us dead were:

Kitchen 305; Brooklyn Italian Ice; Shula's Steak House; TATU; Mya Handmade Cigars; Allied Kitchen and Bath: Brooklyn Italian Ice Company; J.Lohr Vineyards and Wines:Estefan Enterprises Inc.: Amn Distributors:The Alexander Hotel Miami Beach; The Mad Platter Catering:Icelandic Glacial Water: Then there was NBC 6 reporter Roxanne Vargas; who held the reins and drove the crowd to want more, more wine more food more dancing more cigars more more and more..........

Because it was for a cause a great cause it was for both The Memorial Foundation and Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital Foundation......

My first blog in 6 months and this is Crazy!

"The answer is NO. I don't work for opportunists, publishers, magazines, newspapers, charities corporations, or the infamous "start-ups" for no pay, bylines or "exposure". If you have no budget, don't knock on my door with promises barters, kick-backs, or better, paid work later - if only I can help you now. I am a professional and expect to be treated like one. In short, I DON'T WORK FOR FREE. If FREE matters more than GOOD, ask someone else…" NOW IT'S TIME TO CATCH UP AND POST UP ALL THE WORK FROM THE PAST 6 MONTHS...

From the docks of Miami to plates on the high seas...

Aboard the Oceania Cruise Line: Working with some of the most talented chefs / knives wielding (men and women)linguist !


It all begins at dawn on the docks of the Port of Miami! Hundreds of shipping containers get unloaded from ships, then load onto trucks and finally taken to a huge warehouse for inspection only to be unloaded and loaded to be trucked back to the docks to be loaded onto and into over sized refrigerators and freezers aboard the Oceania Cruise ship.







Who's waiting for the foods to be delivered and itemized is this team of amazing chefs that included Master Chef Eric Barale Culinary Director, Chef De Cuisine Jean Marc Tetu at Jacques, Executive Chef Christophe Belin, Chef Pastry Jose Da Costa Silva, Chef Sompong Sae Jew Chef De Cuisine at Red Ginger.



From all the work of all the persons involved here are some of the results:





Chefs thank you... Thank all of you aboard, on the dock, in the kitchens, in the restaurants thank you for making this shoot one of the best ever!


The Apolla Group Miami; The Apollo Group; www.theapollogroup.com; Oceania Cruises; Luxury Cruise Line; www.oceaniacruises.com; Chef De Cuisine Jean Marc Tetu at Jacques; Chef Christophe Belin; Oceania Cruises; Executive Chef Christophe Belin Oceania Cruises; Chef Chef Jose Da Costa Silva Pastry; Chef Jose Da Costa Silva Pastry Chef; Oceania Cruises; Chef Sompong Sae Jew Chef De Cuisine at Red Ginger Oceania Cruises; Chef Jacques Pépin; Jacques; Red Ginger; Toscana; Maitres Cuisiniers de France; Master Chef Eric Barale Culinary Director; Chef Eric Barale; Culinary Director at Apollo Ship Chandlers; Gourmet Foods; Gourmet Desserts; Gourmet foods on Cruise Lines; Cruising; Caviar; Sushi

We Love Colors....... We Love Miami...... We love Life!

Life without color is well just not the same, we need the vibrant colors to pop or stand out..... Here on Miami Beach there is always so much color...



Working with We Love Colors it is always a fun filled day. Never boring and never the same............







Steady70 photography & We Love Colors: Photoshoot South Beach; Pamela Wasabi Stylist; www.Wasabifashionkult.com; www.welovecolors.com;

Driving down a mountain and into the belly of the madness created by Young the Giant opening for INCUBUS!

Ahhh just how life works, well at least that is how life works for me.. From the preachers in the mountains to madness in Miami............











After all these years I still would not change a thing!





Steady 70 2011 Steve Levine photographer, Incubus, Bayfront Park, miami, Klipsch Amphitheatre ,UniMedia,livenation.com, Brandon Boyd; singer; Mike Einziger; guitar; Ben Kenney; bass; Chris Kilmore; turntables; keyboards; Jose Pasillas