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Stubborn Seed – Miami Beach, FL
I think my lack of dining out has really caught up to me, because as you can probably tell I've been eating at a lot of really great...
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the_maestro
- Dec 20, 2020
- 9 min
"A chimp in a suit" – two half-dinners in Miami Beach
One of my favorite idioms is the old "lipstick on a pig" line. It's perhaps put best, however, in one of my very favorite tunes from the...
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the_maestro
- Dec 19, 2020
- 8 min
Peumayén – Santiago, Chile
Yep, Chile! Here I am (or rather, there I was)! Many on social media were surprised to see that I had managed to get out of the country,...
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the_maestro
- Dec 16, 2020
- 5 min
Macchialina – Miami Beach, FL
This year has been so bizarre and devoid of culinary wonders (at least those wonders external to the home) that I completely forgot that...
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the_maestro
- Dec 12, 2020
- 7 min
La Mar – Miami, FL
I wound up in Miami far earlier than I expected thanks to California's new shutdown, which sidelined a week-long trip I had planned to...
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the_maestro
- Dec 11, 2020
- 6 min
Desert Bistro – Moab, UT
I gave myself a fairly open itinerary in Utah so I could sort of go where the wind blew me, as it were, originally planning to rent a...
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the_maestro
- Dec 5, 2020
- 6 min
Thanksgiving for one at Franck's – Salt Lake City, UT
Hello to both of my loyal readers. It has been a bit of time! I am afraid to report I have been a bad chef lately, and since there's not...
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the_maestro
- Sep 1, 2020
- 5 min
The Maestro moves to Charlotte
Well kids, what can I say? Life is crazy, and my dearth of posts this past month was due in part to my grand adventure in Alaska, yes,...
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the_maestro
- Jun 25, 2020
- 9 min
Cabra – Chicago, IL
The fam and I have done our best to be exceptionally conscious of and careful with our behavior during this tough period in our shared...
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the_maestro
- Jun 11, 2020
- 5 min
#tbt: The Bachelor Farmer – Minneapolis, MN
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the restaurant industry permanently. Many places, regardless of how successful, already operated on...
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the_maestro
- Jun 4, 2020
- 5 min
#tbt: Indigo – Houston, TX
I'd like to use this opportunity to express solidarity with the protestors speaking out against police brutality and institutional racism...
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the_maestro
- May 28, 2020
- 8 min
#tbt: A day in Lugano, Switzerland
I have been spending a lot of time longing for the days when we could freely travel and see wonderful new places, and was reminded of my...
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the_maestro
- Mar 25, 2020
- 5 min
Lunch at Le Bernardin – New York, NY
I have a few residual blog posts in the bag from February and early March before our culinary world shut down. Will intersperse these...
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the_maestro
- Mar 1, 2020
- 9 min
Sushi Noz – New York, NY
It made sense at the time for me to chill in the northeast for a while after my guest presentation before heading to San Antonio for the...
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the_maestro
- Feb 28, 2020
- 21 min
Blue Hill at Stone Barns – Tarrytown, NY
It’s difficult for me to remember exactly when my culinary curiosity was piqued. When I was a younger kid, dinner regularly consisted of...
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the_maestro
- Jan 31, 2020
- 3 min
Presenting The Maestro's 2019 Big Drunk Gay Awards
Well folks, we have entered a new year, and even though I am one month late on the new year, it was just over one year ago that I created...
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the_maestro
- Jan 19, 2020
- 9 min
Christmas surprises and Christmas drinks
Well folks, the Christmas season is joyful indeed. I successfully executed two gigantic surprises this past season in pursuit of joy for...
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the_maestro
- Dec 27, 2019
- 8 min
Mako – Chicago, IL
I need sushi like I need oxygen. And, my friends, how oxygen-deprived I have been! I pulled a "Steve" and made the decision to wait until...
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the_maestro
- Dec 20, 2019
- 11 min
Utah triple-header – HSL, Pago, and a Champagne yurt
Hard to believe this is my first post about my home town! I like to think that I know the food scene in Salt Lake better than anywhere...
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the_maestro
- Dec 17, 2019
- 7 min
Boka – Chicago, IL
Purely philosophically, I get tired of neoliberal capitalist enterprises appropriating the things that I care about most. But from a...
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