Florida Foodie

On this episode of Florida Foodie, we talk to Thomas Ward, Owner of Pig Floyd's Urban Barbakoa...a unique BBQ restaurant in Central Florida.

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On this week's Florida Foodie, Ginger and Joe Leigh of Zymarium Meadery share their love of Fermented Honey.

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Erica Asti, a Culinary Educator with Edible Education Experience, shares what Edible Educational Experience has to offer on the latest episode of Florida Foodie.

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On the latest Florida Foodie, Cathy and Robby Clay want you to get to know Central Florida’s farmers. The pair run the Farmacy, an online market that sells meat, produce and more — all of it coming from Central Florida’s farmers and growers.

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Chef Henry Moso talks with the Florida Foodie podcast team about his success and the growth of his business, Kabooki Sushi. He also shares what makes the ribs at Kabooki Sushi so good and his favorite dish.

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Suzannah Otis talks with Florida Foodie about her favorite vegan bites inside Disney’s parks and some of her recommendations around Orlando. She also shares her thoughts on the biggest innovations in plant-based food and why women are driving the push to eat less meat.

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On this episode of Florida Foodie, Chef Mike Collantes talks about what he is hoping to accomplish inside Orlando’s food scene. He also talks about Filipino American culture and food and how he hopes to bring it to more mainstream attention. 

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Desiree Noisette spoke with Florida Foodie about building her business and the challenges she has faced as a woman of color in the wine industry. She also reluctantly chooses her favorite wine from Mermosa’s line.

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Essential workers, which includes food-service employees, have continued to work every day throughout the pandemic. 

When the pandemic hit, Cristian Cardona said he started to see his coworker and his family start to struggle.

From there, Cardona got in contact with Fight for $15 Florida.

Cardona talks about the struggles his family has faced through the pandemic and why a $15 minimum wage may still not be good enough for workers.

Please follow our hosts on social media. You can find Candace Campos on Twitter and Facebook. Lisa Bell is also on Facebook and Twitter and you can check out her children’s books, “Norman the Watchful Gnome.”

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Scarfing down five 10 once burgers along with seven sides in less than an hour may sound like a good time or torture depending on your perspective, but for Randy Santel and Katina DeJarnett, it’s their job.

The couple call themselves “professional eaters.” They make a living from touring around the country and filming themselves devouring massive food challenges at restaurants along the way, then posting the results online.

“It was something that I was watching and so I figured that there might be a pretty big market for that,” DeJarnett said.

She was right. 

On YouTube alone, Santel, who also goes by “Atlas,” has 1.27 million subscribers. DeJarnett has about 234,000 on her “Katina Eats Kilos” channel.

Prior to their internet fame, both Santel and DeJarnett were bodybuilders.

“I got started in 2019 after doing a bodybuilding show in Spokane, Washington. Up until that show, I was on a hardcore diet obviously to get really lean for stage and I was hungry all the time. So, I was myself watching online, all these people eating food and stuff,” DeJarnett said. “And I was like, ‘Wow, I think I can eat that much. I’m so hungry all the time, I could put away that amount of food no problem.’”

DeJarnett tackled her first food challenge after that show.

“I just decided to grab like a cheap camcorder and take it with me to a food challenge which I had found on Randy’s website coincidentally, foodchallenges.com, ” she said. “Did my first food challenge. It was easy. It was no problem at all. I wanted dessert afterward. And so, I just kept grabbing my camera and going on to bigger and bigger food challenges and I’ve been hooked ever since.”

It was a similar story for Santel.

“I actually won a national body transformation contest in 2010,” Santel said. “With my buddy that helped me with everything, we celebrated the end of that diet and transformation by doing an 11 pound 28-inch pizza challenge in St. Louis, Missouri where we’re both from and we ended up winning. We got the $50 pizza for free and we got check for $500 cash.”

Santel has been tackling food challenges since then and is coming up on his 11th year of chowing down professionally.

The couple met through competitive eating when Santel messaged DeJarnett to join him for a challenge in Alaska.

“We just back to back to back did a bunch of food challenges and we were in the car for hours together in between those challenges,” DeJarnett said. “It was like an interesting first meeting experience.”

 On Florida Foodie, the couple shares their strategies for tackling a massive mound of food, the toughest food challenges to take on and what they have planned for the future. They also share some of their favorite Florida eats from around the state.

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