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On this episode of GoalChat, host Debra Eckerling talks about Cooking Goals with chef Susan Feniger (Border Grill, "Too Hot Tamales"), Samantha Ferraro of Little Ferraro Kitchen, and CW Silverberg, host of Schmoozing & Cruising. The panel shared food memories, cooking tips, and so much more. Cooking Goals - Samantha: Find a new spice; take it home and try it - Susan: Go into an ethnic market and talk to the owners, get recommendations - CW: Learn how to utilize leftovers, it's often times better that the original meal - Susan: Make tacos. Learn how to make your own tortillas; then, make your own salsa. It's easy and delicious Final Thoughts - CW: Food is everything. Just enjoy it! - Samantha: Taste as you go, adjust as needed - Susan: Have you pantry full of things that last a long time, so you always have something on hand to cook Learn More About: Susan Feniger: BorderGrill.com Samantha Ferraro: LittleFerraroKitchen.com CW Silverberg: TrippingKosher.com Read the Full Recap and Get Links: https://TheDEBMethod.com/blog Follow Debra Eckerling: @TheDEBMethod on social media Check out Your Goal Guide: http://YourGoalGuideBook.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
GUEST: Emmy Award winning director Liz Lachman "Susan Feniger: Forked" is a verité documentary that chronicles the journey of award-winning celebrity chef Susan Feniger(Food Network/Master Chef) as she embarks on the venture of her first solo restaurant, STREET. The film captures her passionate struggle to bring global street food together under one roof in Los Angeles. Forked is headed to the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, and will be screened on January 20th at FOODLAB, to an invitation only event. Top celebrity chefs such as Bobby Flay, Wolfgang Puck and others are also featured in the documentary. Susan Feniger, an accomplished American chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, and media personality, is recognized for her roles in shows like "Too Hot Tamales" and "Tamales World Tour" on the Food Network, as well as appearances on "Iron Chef," "Top Chef Masters," and "Cooking with the Master Chefs."
Susan Feniger and Liz Lachman pop. I first encountered their mutual hurricane of wit at the Del Mar Wine + Food Festival. They were setting up their table to cook. It looked like a movie set. Lachman immediately cordoned me, made me one of her own. Both of them struck me as whip-smart, funny, alive. James Beard Award–winning chef Feniger and Emmy-winning filmmaker Lachman join us this week on Happy Half Hour, our podcast exploring the world and people of food. They talk life and art and their new documentary film, Susan Feniger: Forked. They're in San Diego tomorrow to screen Forked at the Coronado Island Film Festival. They'll watch it with the crowd of food and film people, do a Q&A, cook some food, share some food, shoot the shit. They've been married for a long while, so Forked is Lachman capturing Feniger's life and creative process on film as only a partner could. All Feniger's defenses are dropped. We get to see one of the country's top chefs with her quirks and impulses laid out, vulnerable, as she takes on the maddening process of concepting a restaurant, then bringing it to life from scratch and begging the city to approve everything in a sane amount of time. Feniger has been to the mountain in the chef world. In the '80s, she was invited by her friend (and eventual restaurant partner) Mary Sue Milliken to not-so-casually break the gender barrier in a very fancy Chicago restaurant (the chef had told Milliken he didn't hire women in the kitchen, period—she proved him wrong and brought Feniger along). The duo left to open their own restaurant in LA, Border Grill, which would become very famous and catnippy for food lovers. The duo—who bicker and play beautifully—were among the early stars of Food Network, making more than 400 episodes of their TV show, Too Hot Tamales. Feniger worked under Wolfgang Puck when he was merely a free-jazzing, mellow-cool Austrian chef making waves in LA. One day, when Border Grill's buzz in the city was just heating up, Julia Child walked in. She and Feniger became friends. And then, after a long and fruitful working relationship with Milliken, Feniger decided it was time to do her own thing. She embarked on the seemingly endless, intricate, frustrating-as-hell road to opening another LA restaurant, Street, with a different creative partner. This is what Forked documents. It straps us to Feniger's back as she grits and hustles to execute a new dream. And she burns the salmon. Dear god, she burns the salmon. Chefs like her occasionally burn salmon. Susan Feinger: Forked will screen at Nov. 10 at 10 a.m. at the Coronado Island Film Festival.
The sudden loss of our dear friend Bob Saget January 9, 2022, was not only a terrible loss for those of us who knew and loved him, but the entire scleroderma community. Motivated by the passing of his sister, Gay, at the age of 47 in 1994 from systemic sclerosis, Bob devoted the rest of his life to raising awareness of the disease and funding for scleroderma research. He was a long-time board member of the Scleroderma Research Foundation. Since Bob can no longer be a champion for this cause, we want to do what we can to keep his torch going.Guests:Kelly Rizzo is a dear friend, Bob Saget's wife, and a native Chicagoan who now also calls Los Angeles home who is the multi-media / rocker-chic personality behind Eat Travel Rock. Kelly is host of "Eat Travel Rock TV," the award-winning on-demand entertainment series where she goes behind the scenes and off the cuff with master chefs, rockstars, and other creative industry heavyweights, while traveling the world. In 2023, Kelly is celebrating ETR TV's 9th year running with a milestone of almost 100 episodes released. In 2021 Eat Travel Rock AND Kelly's Production company, Eat Travel Rock Productions, both won awards at the Taste Awards. You can also find her coast to coast as a food, travel & lifestyle expert, featured everywhere from The Today Show, GMA, The Kelly Clarkson Show, EXTRA, ABC, Bravo, VH1 and more.Susan Feniger is an Iconic culinarian, author, and entrepreneur who may be best known for her Modern Mexican concept, Border Grill restaurants, trucks, and catering; BBQ Mexicana and Pacha Mamas, fast casual eateries in Las Vegas; and Socalo, an all-day California canteen and Mexican pub in Santa Monica all created with her business partner Mary Sue Milliken. Susan has co-authored six cookbooks, starred on The Food Network's popular “Too Hot Tamales” and competed on Bravo's “Top Chef Masters.” In 2018, Feniger and Milliken were named the recipients of the Julia Child Award and honored with the Gold Award from the LA Times for culinary excellence and innovation in Southern California. Feniger is an active member of the community, and currently sits on the boards of the Scleroderma Research Foundation, Los Angeles LGBT Center, and L.A. Tourism & Convention Board; she also works closely with the Monterey Bay Aquarium as a member of the Blue Ribbon Task Force, a panel of culinary leaders committed to innovative outreach to promote sustainable seafood. Guests' Social Media:Scleroderma Research Foundation@srfcureKelly Rizzo @EatTravelRock Susan FenigerInstagram - @susanfenigerTwitter - @SusanFenigerSocalo's Instagram - @socalorestaurantLINKS:Srfcure.orgEattravelrock.comwww.citizensofsound.comwww.howcanihelppod.com CALL IN LINK: https://thedrlc.org/cancer/
Margie talks with longtime friend and iconic culinarian, author, and entrepreneur Susan Feniger, best known for her Modern Mexican, Border Grill restaurants, trucks, and catering; BBQ Mexicana and Pacha Mamas, fast casual eateries in Las Vegas; and Socalo, a California canteen and Mexican pub in Santa Monica all created with her business partner Mary Sue Milliken. Susan has co-authored six cookbooks, starred on The Food Network's popular “Too Hot Tamales” and competed on Bravo's “Top Chef Masters.” In 2018, Feniger and Milliken were the recipients of the Julia Child Award and honored with the Gold Award from the LA Times for culinary excellence and innovation in SoCal. Feniger is active in the community, and currently sits on the boards of the Scleroderma Research Foundation, Los Angeles LGBT Center, and L.A. Tourism & Convention Board; she also works closely with the Monterey Bay Aquarium as a member of the Blue Ribbon Task Force, a panel of culinary leaders committed to innovative outreach to promote sustainable seafood. As busy and accomplished as she is, Susan is equally generous, funny and plays a mean game of tennis [not to mention golf, skiing and pickleball!] Enjoy this spirited conversation with Margie and Susan!
Mary Sue Milliken is an American chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, and radio and TV personality with a focus on Latin cuisine in the United States.Milliken is a graduate of Chicago's Washburne Culinary & Hospitality Institute.After working together in Chicago and Paris, Milliken and her longtime collaborator, Susan Feniger, settled in Los Angeles where they founded the critically acclaimed City Cafe in 1981.[1] They eventually expanded to a larger space on La Brea Avenue, renaming the establishment CITY Restaurant. In 1985, they opened the Mexican restaurant Border Grill in the original City Cafe space, before moving it to Santa Monica in 1990. The restaurant later expanded to Pasadena (closed) and the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.[2] Broadening their culinary horizons, Milliken and her partner opened Ciudad in Los Angeles in 1998. The success of the three restaurants has often led Milliken and Feniger to be recognized for single-handedly changing Los Angeles' culinary landscape.Mary Sue Milliken with chef Fergus Henderson at a dinner at the US Embassy in London in 2019.In collaboration with Feniger and others, Milliken has published five cookbooks: City Cuisine (1989), Mesa Mexicana (1994), Cantina: The Best of Casual Mexican Cooking (1996), Cooking with Too Hot Tamales (1997) and Mexican Cooking for Dummies (1999/2002).Milliken is also a seasoned TV personality, starring with Feniger in 396 episodes of Too Hot Tamales and Tamales World Tour on the Food Network in the 1990s. Prior to the shows on the Food Network, in 1993 Milliken and Feniger appeared with Julia Child in her PBS series Cooking With Master Chefs.[5] Milliken also prepared with Feniger the food that was served in the 2001 movie, Tortilla Soup.Milliken and Feniger were a team of sixteen chefs on the Julia Child series, Cooking With Master Chefs in 1993.Most recently, Milliken appeared on the third season of Top Chef Masters that aired in 2011. She was the first runner up and won $40,000 for her charity, Share Our Strength.#MarySueMilliken #BorderGrill #rregardingherfood___________________________________________________ Food & Beverage Industry brought to life. F&B LIVE! is a national, industry influencing webcast featuring the leaders in the restaurant, hospitality, branded food and beverage and CPG industries, many of whom are Michael's "friends in the business." Featuring an informal and informative conversation where friends in the business share the latest intel, ideas and best practices for surviving these dynamic challenges we are facing and the future of our brands and businesses. The show is live and broadcast across 5 platforms and features an audience rich with industry influencers. Be sure to pick up your copy of: Food & Beverage Magazine's Guide to Restaurant Success https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119668964/... ____________________________________________________ *CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodBeverageMagazine*Follow Us on Facebook :https://www.facebook.com/FoodAndBeverageMagazine*Follow Us on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/fbmagazine/ *Follow Us on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/fb101comwww.fbmagazine.com#foodandbeverage#foodandbeveragemagazine#JamesBeardAward#foodie#restaurant#foodieinternational#foodiefest#foodandbeveragetrade#food
It's a story about "Reinvention." Mr. Restaurant, Will Knox has an intimate conversation with Culinary & Legendary Restaurateur, Chef Susan Feniger, and award-winning music composer, editor, film director, and writer Liz Lachman. They talk about the new film, Susan Feniger. FORKED...a Verite documentary film following award-winning celebrity Chef Susan Feniger on her first solo restaurant, her passionate struggle and quest to bring global street food under one roof in the form of a new LA restaurant: STREET. Shot by her longtime filmmaker partner, it's a story about starting over and about not IF one fails... but HOW. CHEF SUSAN FENIGER - SUSAN FENIGER is an American chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, radio, and TV personality. She is known for starring in the cooking show Too Hot Tamales and Tamales World Tour on the FOOD Network, Iron Chef, Top Chef Masters, Cooking with the Master Chefs, and more. A proud graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, for 40 years she has traveled the world bringing food from different cultures back to her several influential Los Angeles restaurants, Ciudad, Street, Border Grill, and Socalo, introducing Angelenos to authentic global dishes. She has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Restaurant Association and also the L.A. Times Jonathan Gold Award celebrating intelligence, innovation, culture, and environment. Most recently she was awarded the Julia Child Award honoring an individual who has made a profound and significant difference in the way America cooks, eats, and drinks, and was inducted into the permanent collection of the Food Exhibition at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. LIZ LACHMAN - WRITER & FILMMAKER Liz Lachman is an award-winning writer and director. Her screenplays have placed in the top percentages of the Nicholl Fellowships, Page Awards, and Final Draft Screenplay competitions. Her films have played at over 80 festivals around the world, garnering more than 30 awards. Chef Susan Feniger On Instagram @susanfeniger Liz Lachman https://www.lizlachman.com Chef Susan's Restaurants: https://www.socalo.com https://www.bordergrill.com
Now is the time to Lead With Your Brand New Year! As we start 2021, Jayzen is thrilled to announce the #LeadWithYourBrandChallenge! Each week for the next six weeks, Jayzen is breaking down the Lead With Your Brandtm system into five steps. This week’s episode provides an introduction to the system and each week following you’ll learn a new skill and will be able to download a free PDF at https://www.leadwithyourbrand.com to help you develop and refine your professional brand and achieve your next career breakthrough in 2021! Plus, hear from amazing leaders in entertainment, tech, media & more starting with this week’s guest award-winning chef and restaurateur, Susan Feniger. Susan has had a number of highly successful restaurants across southern California and in Las Vegas and authored six cookbooks over her forty-year career. You’ve seen her on Top Chef Masters and on Food Network’s “Too Hot Tamales.” Susan is a great example of someone who extends her personal brand through everything she does, how she dresses and how she runs her company. Guest Bio Iconic culinarian, author, and entrepreneur may be best known for her Modern Mexican concept, Border Grill restaurants, trucks, and catering, which she runs with her business partner of more than 35 years, Mary Sue Milliken. Now with locations in Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Downtown LA, LAX Airport, The Huntington Library, and Rose Bowl, Border Grill continues to serve street food-inspired regional Mexican cuisine with a commitment to sustainability and the best quality ingredients. In June 2018, Feniger and Milliken debuted BBQ Mexicana, a fast casual eatery with locations at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Las Vegas Ballpark, and most recently inside the new Allegiant Stadium. The chefs returned to Santa Monica with Socalo, an all-day California canteen and Mexican Pub, in December 2019. After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America in New York, she made a groundbreaking move in joining the nearly all-male kitchen at Chicago’s Le Perroquet, serendipitously meeting the only other woman in the kitchen—Mary Sue Milliken. After working for Wolfgang Puck at Ma Maison in L.A., Feniger went to the French Riviera to further hone her skills, and returned to open City Café with Milliken in 1981, forever changing L.A.’s culinary landscape by introducing eclectic dishes from around the world. That evolved into the larger CITY Restaurant in 1985—and the introduction of Border Grill as a simple spot for authentic home cooking and street foods of Mexico informed by the duo’s treks through the country. A James Beard Award that same year confirmed their impact on the nation’s cuisine. Feniger and Milliken brought their innovative approaches to The Food Network with nearly 400 episodes of the “Too Hot Tamales” and “Tamales World Tour” series. They also were the original co-hosts of the popular food-centric radio show, KCRW’s “Good Food,” in L.A. Susan has co-authored six cookbooks, including Susan Feniger’s Street Food and competed on Bravo’s “Top Chef Masters” in 2010. In 2018, Feniger and Milliken were named the recipients of the fourth annual Julia Child Award from The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts, marking the first women to be honored. The distinction complements additional accolades, including the Elizabeth Burns Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Restaurant Association in 2013; earned induction into Menu Masters Hall of Fame in 2014; and the 2018 Gold Award from the Los Angeles Times for culinary excellence and innovation in Southern California. Feniger is an active member of the community, and currently sits on the boards of the Scleroderma Research Foundation, L.A. LGBT Center, and L.A. Tourism & Conventions; works closely with Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, Share Our Strength, and Human Rights Campaign; and co-founded Chefs Collaborative. Links To learn more about Lead With Your Brand and the Career Breakthrough Mentoring program , please visit : https://www.leadwithyourbrand.com To book Jayzen for a speaking engagement or workshop at your company, visit : https://www.jayzenpatria.com Please connect on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayzenpatria To learn more about about Susan Feniger and her latest restaurant, Socalo, visit https://www.socalo.com/susan-feniger-bio/ To learn more about Susan and Jayzen’s work at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, visit https://lalgbtcenter.org
Chef Susan Feniger is an iconic American chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, and radio and TV personality. She is sitting down with Chef Rick Moonen to discuss her early career, starring in the cooking show Too Hot Tamales on the Food Network, her time on Master Chefs, trying different seafood, and opening several influential restaurants in Los Angeles.
Susan Feniger is known from over 300 episodes of the Food Network’s Too Hot Tamales along with her business and creative partner Mary Sue Miliken, and their restaurants Border Grill and Socalo in Los Angeles and Border Grill in Las Vegas. She is the co-author of six cookbooks and was recently honored by the Julia Child Foundation, and is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Museum. Her spouse, Liz Lachman, is an Emmy- and Golden Reel award-winning independent filmmaker whose latest short film, PIN-UP, is a psychological drama that has won 30 festival awards. Susan and Liz talk about their 25 years together, Midwestern accents, arepas, music, and the ways that success has or hasn’t changed them. Instagram: @susanfeniger Instagram: @lizlachman
Susan Feniger is a force to be reckoned with in the food world. Along with her business partner Mary Sue Milliken, Feniger has received countless awards (including the prestigious Julia Child Award and the Jonathan Gold Award), opened several legendary restaurants (including The Border Grill), co-hosted one of the first Food Network shows (Too Hot Tamales), appeared on Top Chef Masters, and authored countless cookbooks. I'm so thrilled to have her as my patient on today's Lunch Therapy and our-hour session covers her early years in Ohio, her mother's midwestern Jewish cooking, her living in a teepee that she sewed for herself in Vermont, meeting her first husband there, realizing she was gay, separating from him and then setting him up with her business partner (Mary Sue) who's still married to him today (!!!). We talk about working for Wolfgang Puck at Ma Maison (where she'd see Orson Welles on the regular), working for a closeted gay chef in Chicago, working at a Michelin three-star restaurant in La Napoule, France (where she learned a killer salad dressing), and how she began to gravitate to Indian food and Mexican food through her travels. We also cover her brand new restaurant, Socalo, where she works the line (sometimes fifteen hours a day) and still finds the time to do meaningful charity work (she's helped raise $48 million dollars for scleroderma research). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The Too Hot Tamales have a new Santa Monica restaurant called Socalo, where they're slinging chips, guacamole, and booze all day long and using griddled cheese for new menu items like vampiros and burritos. Avocados are the perfect food, sour cream is shit, salads aren't boring, wet burritos are a no bueno, and it all started not exactly 40 years ago with a trip to Mexico.
Steve sits down for a very personal interview with famous chefs and restaurateurs Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Millikan also known as "The Too Hot Tamales".
This week Richard and Jazmin are joined by culinary icons Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken co-chefs and owners of The Border Grill restaurants and stars of Food Network classic, “Too Hot Tamales.” Listen to Susan and Mary Sue speak about their early refusal to make solo appearances, the evolution of the culinary industry over the last 30+ years, the tradeoff between innovation and soulful cooking and even their recent Julia Child Award from the National Museum of American History. Remember to join us on instagram @Starving4pod!
In what might quietly be one of our best interviews, Mary Sue Milliken--one half (with biz partner Susan Feniger) of TV’s legendary “Too Hot Tamales"--and one of the major characters in Andrew’s book Chefs, Drugs, and Rock & Roll discusses cooking in LA; what a female-dominated industry might have looked like; her midwestern roots; and chefs and travel. Pull up a seat and listen in. Here's a thought: If you like what you hear, please tell your chef-fascinated friends, subscribe to Andrew Talks to Chefs (it's free) on iTunes or Stitcher, follow us on your favorite social media platforms @ChefPodcast, and/or rate or review us on Apple's podcast store. Thanks for listening! Andrew Talks to Chefs is powered by Simplecast
Chef, cookbook author and restaurateur Susan Feniger is best known for her restaurant Border Grill and her TV show Too Hot Tamales. But she is also a strong, empowered woman who supports numerous philanthropic causes near and dear to her heart. To read more about The Passionistas Project visit the Pop Culture Passionistas website.
Susan Feniger is a pillar of the Los Angeles dining scene. The chef opened her first restaurant in LA with culinary partner Mary Sue Milliken in 1981. Since then, Feniger has opened a number of restaurants both with Milliken and on her own, gaining national attention with the duo’s long-running Food Network show Too Hot Tamales along the way. In her conversation with Greg, Feniger discusses the secret to a 36-year chef partnership, her stint on Top Chef Masters, and what she loves about the LA restaurant community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices