RAINE MAGAZINE Volume 20 | Innovate

CULTURE
cooking with gold
Her hair is flaming red, and her gourmet dishes are
outlandishly creative and deviously delicious. And
now, award-winning celebrity Chef Adrianne Calvo
is bedazzling diners at her five-star Miami eatery with
appetizers, entrees and desserts glittering with 24-karat
gold.
Chef Adrianne takes pride in being a culinary
maverick, always on the lookout for outrageous and
unexpected colors, tastes and textures with which to
atssault her patrons’ palates, but her decision to use
gold in her recipes is based on more than a mere desire
to sprinkle a little eye candy onto her patrons’ plates.
“Gold has always been considered to be a
mineral with medical and healing properties,” Chef
Adrianne said. “It’s been used for centuries to calm
joint inflammation and arthritis, treat skin disorders, and
improve overall health and wellness, so it seemed like a
perfect ingredient to add to the mix.”
Chef Adrianne features gold-themed dishes
once every month during her restaurant’s “Dark Dining
Nights”, a two-hour event where patrons heighten their
senses by wearing blindfolds while enjoying a specially
prepared multi-course gourmet meal.
“We’ll gradually be incorporating gold into our
regular nightly specials so more of our diners can have
the gold experience without wearing blindfolds,” she
said. Chef Adrianne has incorporated gold in entrees,
such as steak tartare, desserts and pastas.
“We’ve even sprinkled it on kale, to make a
Super Green,” she said. “With gold as an ingredient, the
possibilities are endless.”
Photos courtesy of Chef Adrianne Calvo
ABOUT CHEF ADRIANNE
Filled with the love for food at a young age, Adrianne
focused her efforts on her one true aspiration, cooking.
At age 27, Adrianne has enjoyed an incredible number
of accolades during her remarkable journey in becoming
a nationally acclaimed chef. Coining the catch phrase
“Maximum Flavor”, Adrianne has managed to exceed
to the maximum degree. From graduating top of her
class at Johnson & WalesUniversity, to now owning
and operating her own restaurant, Chef Adrianne’s
Vineyard Restaurant and Wine Bar, Adrianne continues
to influence the culinary community as well as the way
people experience fine dining.
Most recently, Chef Adrianne’s restaurant
and wine bar was featured in the Miami New Times’
“Best of Miami”, Urbanspoon’s Miami “Top Rated
Restaurants” and “Most Popular”, and was listed as one
of “The Five Best Celebrity Chef Restaurants in Miami”
by Hopperblog.com.
Chef Adrianne is a frequently invited quest
on local Miami TV cooking-and food-programs andsegments,
and she can be seen regularly on Foodable
WebTV Network, on her own show “Food as a Lifestyle”.
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