cookbook Author chef Michael Bennett releases America’s first Medibbean Cookbook: Interview with a Mango.

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Miami-based cookbook Author releases America’s first Medibbean Cookbook: Interview with a Mango.

February 1st, 2017 ~ Miami, Florida   |  The Professional Image, Inc. announces that Chef Michael Bennett’s latest Medibbean cookbook: Interview with a Mango (ISBN: 978-1-5323-3069-8) is a cookbook that features a new Medibbean cookery ideal. Medibbean recipes pair Caribbean food (like… a Mango) with Mediterranean cooking techniques. Chef Michael says, “You will be better with the healthy living choices that this Medibbean cookbook will teach you.  

Since Chef Michael Bennett returned to Miami - from a four-year journey through the Caribbean – Chef Michael started promoting Miami menus featuring Caribbean cookery. 

He first developed Miami’s “Caribb-ican” recipes - that filled his previous two healthy cooking books - with recipes featuring gluten-free, tropical cookery of American food.  Now he is again working with Caribbean food in an All-Natural, Mediterranean way. Medibbean!

       Since Chef Michael Bennett always wanted to revisit the console of utilizing only the best locally-harvested ingredients; to procreate a matchless and dynamic dining choice, this past year Chef Michael Bennett has been concentrating on developing an extensive healthy Medibbean cookery style mirroring the “Spa-Cuisine” cooking trend of the 1990’s.  

In the Chef’s Words:

As Chef we pride ourselves in knowing the source of all our fresh harvests

only striving to purchase from local Miami artisan growers.

 ….. a dialogue with the Chef Michael Bennett

• You have been developing healthy recipes for the past decade….Why?

Chef Michael Bennett tells a story, “Actually more than 20 years but, I have been concentrating on healthier basis of cooking in most every menu I have used for the past decade.”

• Chef Michael Bennett developed a new Medibbean cookery ideal, one of community and belonging; that strives for fresh and healthy dining decisions. This new Medibbean cookery trend provides healthy sustenance as it is entertaining for your taste buds. 

• Chef Michael was asked, “20 plus years working as a South Florida chef, you left Miami to live in the Caribbean. After spending four years there, were you able to learn the secrets of tropically-inspired cookery?”  

• His response was telling about the future of this new Medibbean cooking style.  “I have had the greatest adventure any chef could have. Being able to go to live and work in the place where my favorite cookery style evolved. It compelled me to begin writing heart-healthy Caribbean food-inspired cookbooks for all the rest of America to enjoy.”

Other questions that Chef Michael Bennett answered in various interviews:

• Are you a third-generation Florida Restaurateur?

• “My entire family has all been in the restaurant business. My grandfather started the business so he could keep his family fed during the Depression. My Father, Uncle, Wife, both of my Brothers, and my two daughters all worked in the restaurant business.”

• You have been a long-time chef-member of the Rare Fruit Council International, the James Beard Foundation, and the American Culinary Federation (ACF). Why? 

• “I am a true believer in being a part of the fabric that makes up our culinary world. Being the regional South Florida restaurant reviewer for the James Bread Foundation enabled me to get into the back door of my peer’s kitchens; writing more than 300 South Florida restaurant reviews. Working as a newsletter publisher for the A.C.F. was a great way to get to know all my comrades around South Florida and informing these professional alliances about cooking in Miami led me to strive to tell other Americans about what it is like being a chef in South Florida.”

• You have taught and judged culinary peers throughout Florida.

• “It is this giving back to our community that makes me whole. It is something every chef should do.”

What it all comes down to…

Chef Michael Bennett endorses all of his culinary posts through his writing via local and International social media channels. This year, Chef Michael Bennett has released his fifth recipe book: Interview with a Mango, ISBN: 978-1-5323-3069-8 by honing his tropical-inspired, Mediterranean fusion cuisine cookery to be All-Natural and Gluten-Free to match his dedication to a lifelong heart-healthy cooking emphasis.

• All five of Chef Michael’s books are found online on the Amazon.com website as a downloadable version or old fashion printed cookbook.

• Interview with a Mango (ISBN: 978-1-5323-3069-8) is a 212-page |  four-color  |  100 + Medibbean recipe cookbook that has an emphasis on America’s newest healthy Fusion-Cuisine dining trend.  Medibbean recipes capture a distinctive and inventive new 2017 healthy tropical fusion-cookery heritage while keeping to a vigorously-vibrant taste profile. As with all Chef Michael’s cookbooks; the Professional Image, Inc. published this new cookbook exclusively with interactive internet-based QR codes that link electronically to websites that help explain unfamiliar terms to everyone. This book makes use of this highly specialized way of interactivity with the reader with the use of QR codes printed directly on the pages alongside the recipes that directly link your smartphone/device to the Internet so your interactive experience is as fun as it is informative.

The Professional Image, Inc. has published America’s first interactive QR code cookbook - where QR codes are inlaid directly into the pages of “A Gluten Free FLAVOR Quest” – ISBN: 978-1-4951-1761-9. This new technology enables the recipe reader the ability to directly connect to the Internet to see information about recipes and cooking techniques. 

Chef Bio:

Michael Bennett, born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida to first-generation Floridians, has spent most of his adult life in the food and hospitality industry. 

Chef Michael Bennett earned critical culinary kudos as the Executive chef for Left Bank and Bimini Boatyard restaurants in Fort Lauderdale. Under his auspices, he brought Left Bank - the 26-year culinary tour d’ force its first-ever “Best of” (Zagat Survey), “Four Stars” (AAA), and “Four Diamonds” (Mobil) to add to the 20-year era of three-star ratings.

He is affiliated with several culinary and food-related organizations. Chef Michael regularly lectures on Florida’s “Caribb-ican” Fusion cuisine. 

Chef Michael Bennett is a well-known, award-winning (Chef of the Year-1995) Florida chef whose clients are a Who’s Who of Media and Sports personalities. Some of his clientele is comprised of celebrities from the entertainment and sports industries including; Wilt Chamberlin, Roger Stubb, Oprah, Jayda and Will Smith, Patrick Stewart, Andy Rooney, Michael Caine, Daryl Hanna, George Hamilton, Walter Cronkie, Morgan Freeman, Elton John, Snoop Dog, Madonna, Trina, Beyonce and others…..

About The Professional Image, Inc.

The Professional Image, Inc. is America’s first QR code enable cookbook publisher. TPI was founded in 1991 as a “budding” Chef | Author PR services provider for chefs and soon-to-be authors. The Professional Image, Inc. was formed to help Chefs and Authors publish food-related articles and their books. TPI  provides Chefs | Authors with direct and personal access to quick, quality-orientated publications in trade paperback, custom leather-bound, and full four-color formats.