…a little story about a Foodie!
Chef and Author Michael Bennett: Circa 2010-2024
Born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. to first generation Floridians.
His professional life has been totally in the food and hospitality industry.
Authored Nine books since 2009:
- In the land of Misfits, Pirates and Cooks - 2009 / 2011
- Underneath a Cloudless Sky - 2010
- Culture of Cuisine - 2012.
- Natural Recipes that will change your life - April, 2013
- Natural Know-How cookbook - September, 2013
- Gluten Free Caribbean Recipes - June, 2013
- All Natural SURF Cuisine - May, 2014
- a Gluten Free FLAVOR Quest - July 2014
- Interview with a Mango, Medi-bbean Cuisine - 2017
- Health Choices - October 2021
- Disillusioned Malaise - April 2025
*** Ghost writer for other Restaurants and Chefs -- Two books.
Foodbratz - announces that Chef Michael Bennett will release the fifth healthy cooking book in 11 years. Chef Bennett's latest cookbook provides more than 90 easy-to-prepare recipes, along with chapters of practical advice focused on a Cancer patient's food needs that will help them cope and delay Cancer’s grasp by using this practical recipe advice as this has helped his wife (Vicki) beat Cancer's clench.
This book is the first edition of what has become our most important healthy cookery reflection for chef Michael Bennett, on his quest toward helpful Cancer-related recipes. Chef Bennett has chapters of expanded educational content based on daily experience working with a wife who was diagnosed with Cancer.
Each chapter's recipes focus specifically on the food and recipe his wife enjoyed during her Cancer treatments. While they are geared toward a person who is fighting Cancer, others will enjoy functional recipes like these:
Mango and Brussel Sprout salad
Avalanche of Kale and Quinoa
Cauliflower, Buffalo style
Roasted Beet-Mango relish
Pineapple Kimchi
Asian braised Salmon
Vegan Chili
Gluten-free Meatloaf
10-hour Pork
Interview with a Mango...
Enjoy a bit of time in the Caribbean . . . vicariously reading these words.
-- Chef Michael Bennett is an extremely enthusiastic and articulate culinary expert on the food and cooking trends of the Caribbean. Take a tour of his latest cookbooks by sailing away with this chef and his new cookbook of "Medi-bbean" cuisine.
Chef Michael Bennett attended three years of college and then transferred to the Culinary Institute of America to pursue his true passion.
After leaving the CIA, for most of the next 11 years, Michael's life revolved around intense periods of kitchen management followed by months of O.J.T. under the tutelage from Miami's most well known chefs.
During this time he sought out the most exotic and chic dining environments. Michael was fortunate enough to have catered to nearly all of South Florida's well known clientele. Some of Michael's past clientele comprises of celebrities from the entertainment and sport industries including; Wilt Chamberlin, Roger Stubb, Oprah, Jayda and Will Smith, Michael Caine, Daryl Hanna, George Hamilton, Walter Cronkie, Morgan Freeman, Elton John, Snoop Dog, Madonna, Trina, Beyonce and others.....
Michael's first premiere chef posts was the Left Bank restaurant, a 26 year 4-star culinary landmark. They recruited Michael to be its Executive Chef in 1999. The restaurant saw critical acclaim under chef Michael's watch, earning rave reviews and accolades from the local and national media. The restaurant received a it's first Four Star AAA award, Mobil award in 2001 and Wine Spectator's Grand Award of Excellence, also in 2002.
In 2006, Michael exodus his family 1600 miles away to the Caribbean, re-positioning himself in the West Indies to broaden his subsist vibe for the food he loves. After years of investigating the region's culinary attributes, he has returned to his home in the tropical climes of South Florida to pen multiple Caribbean cookbooks. As the author of the "Flavor Quest", which starts his journey of creating four Caribbean themed recipe books through this years of tropical cookery edification. The second book project is a culinary-story book named; "Underneath a Cloudless Sky", a South Florida cookbook that is filled with authentic stories of how South Florida's tropical gastronomy became a legend.
Chef Michael Bennett's status and culinary posts have been highlighted in publications that include; the New York Times, Ocean Drive magazine, Cooking Light magazine, Travel and Leisure magazine, National Culinary Review (cover feature), Zagat Review ("best of"), as well as many other local newspaper features. He has appeared on television cooking segments including The Today Show-South Florida, among others. Miami New Times magazine featured Michael as one of South Florida's pivotal figures in the Florida's exotic tropical food chefs.This is how Chef Michael Bennett showed his chops
These and other recipes are here and in the books that FoodBratz has published.
Words of a chef:
I am writing these books as a tool to help me align my lifelong feelings of futility. As many people do at this stage in their lives, I have recently been reflecting on my youth. I have always felt young, even though as a Baby Boomer, my age has become an issue for me in the role of a youthful person’s job. This of course has led me to think about my past. I generally felt great about my past, yet things happening around me were telling a different story. I always lived in a world of creation, one that revolves around forcing yourself to endure hardship, and hone your passions as you innovate. This is the world of being a chef.
Outside the walls of my culinary haunt, the world didn’t determine much in my life. I usually call the shots for myself and sometimes as many as 150 other people that surround me. It came to the point I didn’t want to be the one whose decisions affected so many people’s lives in every way every day. My mind wandered to what I might specifically do in place of this employment position. I have found there has not been anything but writing to quell my need to be artistic. So this led me to write books. I have six printed books, two ghost-written books, and many e-books.
Chef Michael Bennett’s latest book
His latest book is here direct from the publisher: https://shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params=fgQvtiJ11HC3JpbB34dm0vnObdpNjsBPXq3DrdE8IBa
A little more about this book:
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