Red Carpet Flashback – TV Host Kara Birkenstock at the 6th Annual TASTE AWARDS

TV Host Kara Birkenstock on the Red Carpet at the 6th Annual TASTE AWARDS in Hollywood. Kara is a Host of MYX-TV’s “Eat Your Words” series.

Mingle Media TV’s Red Carpet Report host Brogyn Gage was invited to come out to the 6th Annual TASTE AWARDS in Hollywood including screening excerpts from award winners and honorees at the venue’s the Egyptian Theatre.

The TASTE AWARDS celebrate the year’s best in food, fashion and lifestyle programs on television, in film, online and on radio.

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Ayesha Curry International Smoke Pop-Up at Michael Mina’s Test Kitchen

Ayesha Curry, food lover, cookbook author and wife of the Golden State Warrior’s Steph Currey, and superstar chef Michael Mina are launching a pop-up restaurant, named International Smoke.

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Reservations at http://minatestkitchen.com/

For more about Popup Restaurants, visit www.popuprestaurants.com

Top Tips for Safe Summer Grilling from Firedisc Grills Chef Ambassador

Tips for the Summer’s Grilling Season, from Firedisc Grills:

Spring has arrived and summer BBQ’s are kicking off throughout the country. Many of us have heard the horror stories about the risks of food borne illness when grilling.

Here are a few tips to keep friends and family safe when serving up summer BBQ meals in the coming months.

Food Safety:
Tip #1 – Raw Meat: Make sure to never leave raw anything out at room temperature for too long; the FDA recommends a 2-hour exposure limit.

Tip #2 – Meat Thermometer: We know you’re a grill pro but it doesn’t hurt to keep a meat thermometer on-hand just to be safe when you’re unsure or to satisfy Aunt Jane.

Tip #3 – Meat Plate: Make sure Grandpa or Uncle Bob do not accidentally serve any cooked food on the plate that once held raw meat or raw poultry.

Tip #4 – Clean Hands: If you’ve touched raw meat, keep some antibacterial handy wipes on-hand if you can’t make it to the sink to wash your hands before handling your cooking utensils, or anything else for that matter, to avoid food borne illness due to cross contamination.

Grill Safety:
Tip #1 – Cook outdoors: Never cook on your grill indoors! No matter what the weather is doing outside.

Tip #3 – Grill Perimeter: For kids safety at the party, set up a 3’ safe zone around your grill.

Tip #4 – Propane: Check your propane cylinder and hose for any leaks, especially if it has been hibernating all winter. A solution of water and soap can be used to show any leaks as bubbles will form.

Tips Compiled by Chef, Conor Moran:
Who better to think out of the box and craft a new benchmark of quality for the BBQ industry than renowned Chef, Conor Moran. Chef Conor’s culinary influences are as diverse as his family roots and choice of adopted home towns across the globe. Born and raised in Houston, TX with Irish and Italian family roots, Chef Conor has honed his culinary palate while living in the far reaches of Cairo, Egypt and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Moran, having worked in a multitude of restaurants from the young age of fifteen, has learned to create delicacies in just about any kitchen type, from Houston’s upscale Lomonte’s Italian restaurant to streamside using a Firedisc®. His experiences leveraging all levels of cooking apparatus set the stage for development of the Chef-Tested/Chef-Approved® protocol for FireDisc grills..

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Red Carpet Flashback: Stef Seifer & Stuart Brazell at the 5th Annual TASTE AWARDS

Stef Seifer & Stuart Brazell on the Red Carpet at the 5th Annual TASTE AWARDS in Hollywood.

Mingle Media TV’s Red Carpet Report host Laura Siri were invited to come out to the “Showbiz” themed 5th Annual TASTE AWARDS in Hollywood including screening excerpts from award winners and honorees at the venue’s the Egyptian Theatre.

The TASTE AWARDS celebrate the year’s best in food, fashion and lifestyle programs on television, in film, online and on radio.

Food TV Celeb Alton Brown & PopSci on Tour

Food Network Superstar and TASTE HALL OF FAME‘s Alton Brown has a new tour, and part of it is based on food and science.

Alton Brown’s first food hack (he prefers the term “hacking” over “inventing”) took place during season one of his Food Network show Good Eats, when he made a fish smoker out of a cardboard box. Naturally, since then he can count the staff of Popular Science Magazine a part of his large and loyal fan base.

He invited PopSci to his secret workshop, where they made carbonated chocolate ice cream in 10 seconds, used lights to cook a pizza in three minutes, and answered a few questions about his favorite hacks, affirming that everyone’s home has a lab (the kitchen!), and why it’s a good idea to take apart the lawnmower.

Mega Bake
If you’ve ever played with an EZ-Bake Oven, you’re familiar with the concept of cooking with the heat produced by a light. Alton’s Mega Bake takes the concept to a whole new level, using 54 one-thousand-watt lights to get the oven to over 600 degrees.

Brown used it on the Edible Inevitable tour to make pizzas in under three minutes, and showed us how he does it.

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Cookbook: Chef Nathan Lyon’s Great Food Starts Fresh

Chef Nathan Lyon, also known as “A Lyon in the Kitchen” on FitTV, and on PBS, shows his latest green cookbook, Great Food Starts Fresh.