Jay Eats Worldwide

April is National Food Month I thought I'd share some  of my food favorites from the last year... I only picked a few, otherwise this list would  take months to complete. See What Jay Eats... Fried Salad Leoda's Kitchen and Pie Shop Lahaina, Maui Brussels Sprout leaves, burnt orange vinaigrette, celery leaves, mixed hydroponic greens, radish, and local mint. Created by Chef Sheldon Simeon  of Star Noodle Top Chef Seattle He also oversees the menu for Leoda's Bacon SPAM Musubi Iyasume Musubi Honolulu, Hawaii SPAM Musubi can be found all over the place in Hawaii.  There are a few that include eggs, but when I found one with bacon too,  I knew it  was a winner!  Tuna Sashimi SUGARfish Studio City, California Tuna and green onions with Chef Nozawa's ponzu sauce Chef Kazunori Nozawa might have retired, but I still can have his famous sushi menu.  Applewood S...

During my trip to O'ahu for the Hawai'i Food and Wine Festival , I was fortunate to be invited to dinner by Chef George Mavrothalassitis and his wife Donna to their restaurant, Chef Mavro .   Chef Mavro is one of the 12 chefs that got together in 1991, worked with local food producers, changed the food landscape, and called it  Hawaii Regional Cuisine .  Other notable chefs in this group include:  Roy Yamaguchi, Alan Wong, Bev Gannon, Peter Merriman, Mark Ellman, just to name a few. Wine Spectator calls him, "One of the most important eleven French chefs working in America."  He's also received a James Beard Foundation award and his restaurant earned the Five Diamond rating from AAA in 2009.  In October 2012, they were listed on Gayot's " Top 10 Seafood Restaurants in the U.S. " See What Jay Eats... Photo by Chef Mavro Restaurant Upon arriving, I was greeted warmly by Donna Jung, chef's wife. My friend, Rebecca Pang, ...