People like me.
I travel a lot. I eat a lot. I cook a lot.
As the Talent Scout for Marvel Comics, my job takes me around the world. While I do thrive on the thrill of constant travel, being on the road and away from home for extended periods of time does take its toll. So when not meeting artists or reviewing portfolios, I keep my batteries charged by exploring the culinary culture and cuisine of whatever city or country I find myself in.
Photos of food. Videos of vineyards. Reviews of restaurants. Recipes for refreshments. This site is now my way of sharing my international epicurean adventures with you.
Enjoy!
(You can also follow me on Twitter at @cbcebulski and visit my comic book blog at www.chesterfest.blogspot.com)
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A Quick Stop in Reggio Emilia, Italy for Lunch
Took a plane to a train to another train to a car and then walked to Bar Del Carbone!
Their culatta from Parma…
So close you can taste it, eh?
Housemade tagliatelle with porcini mushrooms and cultello…
A trip of tortelli; radicchio, artichoke and spinach…
And of course, an espresso and limoncello to help aid in digestion…
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Bypassed Bologna and flew directly to Milan instead for this trip, which unfortunately meant I was unable to make my yearly pilgrimage to Tamburini for my beloved tortelli…
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My Birthday Dinner 2012
Ever since New York Comic Con moved from February to October, I’ve started celebrating my birthday in a much quieter way… with a small family dinner at my favorite NYC restaurant, KYOYA. Chef Sono has become a good friend, and when February 17th rolls around each year, he pulls out the big guns to help me mark the occasion. My 2012 celebration last week was no exception!
We started with a small sampler of four amuse bouche: grilled chicken meat and cartilage balls; a “fruit” salad; shrimp mousse wrapped in bread crust then fried; and grilled fish, but I forget which kind…
Cauliflower soup…
What the staff says is the largest sashimi platter Sono-san has ever prepared…
His masterpiece from another angle…
Close-ups…
Abalone with a sauce made from its liver…
Bafun uni from Portland, Maine on top; Santa Barbara uni on the bottom…
The damage done…
Our sashimi was accompanied by Kokuryu sake…
Next up was an uni and yuba tofu dish with nori and wasabi…
Deep fried baby aji…
Washington oysters two ways…
A thin slice of konyaku topped with myoga and a new fermented soy sauce Sono-san had just received…
Kyoya’s famous freshly cut salad…
Alaskan sweet shrimp stewed in a sauce of their own shells…
Grilled baby blowfish with daiko oroshi sauce…
Mixed radishes as a palate cleanser…
Sono-san continued to experiment with his new soy sauce, this time with pear…
Then with a piece of raw kanpachi, I believe…
The soy sauce we were happily test subjects of…
Next came two clay pots, starting with hamachi over rice…
Then salmon…
The salmon clay pot also came with “toppings” of salmon roe and nori…
A savory salmon “sundae”…
Sono-san and the Kyoya staff got me an orange caramel cake from Panya…
As well as prepared two of my favorite desserts; hojicha ice cream…
And the most ethereal yuzu sorbet to close it all out…
Huge thanks to Sono-san, Ayano-san, Makoto, Yu-kun, Mori-san, everyone at Kyoya, Ami, Mana, and of course Mutsumi and Keiko, for making this such a special evening that will not be soon forgotten!
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This image has been sitting on my desktop for so long and I open it almost every day to remind me of one of the best meals I had last year. So, so simple… it was a quick starter they just dropped on the counter with our beers… but I keep going back to this pic, and memory, of deep fried konbu seaweed…
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“Autobots, Eat Out”?!
I’ve started hosting “Comics and Food” panels & dinners at various comic cons, and from the looks of this pic, it seems the organizers of the Transformers Cybertron Convention in Singapore are getting in on the food fun as well. And at my favorite hawker center, the Old Airport Road Food Centre, no less!
See more on Optimus Prime and Bumblebee’s visit to Singapore over on Red Dot Diva.
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