Pan Con Podcast

We’ve mentioned on the podcast that Mike was invited to travel to Napa to speak and demo his food at the Worlds of Flavor International Conference & Festival at the Culinary Institute of America. In this episode that we recorded in an awkward new set up in Mike’s house, Mike recaps his experience with the conference along with some of the meals he had and people he met while in California — including a bucket-list dinner at chef Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry. We also talk about the impact of the news that the Michelin Guide will be coming to Miami, Tampa and Orlando.

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Carlos Escanilla is a psychologist and a musician; we delve into both mental health and music — along with his and Mike Beltran’s experiences with weight loss — in this episode of Pan Con Podcast. Along the way, the podcast is crashed by past guest John Falco, whose restaurants and brewery also serve as a frequent venue for Carlos’ gigs. In the Patreon-only extended cut, Carlos answers lightning round questions about food and we learn about some of his preferences and his unusual Wendy’s hamburger habits.

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Tattoo artist Jessica Suárez — better known as Pooka, a nickname whose origin she explains in this interview — has some of her work on our host, Mike Beltrán, including a pine cone that Mike admits he got for the sake of getting in Pooka’s good graces and a mamey hanging from a branch on his arm. In this episode, Pooka talks about her creative process and what it’s been like for her to strike out on her own — she just opened Great Oak Tattoo — and create a tattoo shop culture that reflects her own style. She and Mike also talk about how they train others in their skills, and past guest Dave Arvelo’s t-shirt ideas.

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This episode was recorded Sept. 22, 2021 at Maxwell Bros. Clothing Co. in front of a live audience, whose members were also enjoying a special menu born out of a collaboration among the teams at Maxwell Bros., Crybaby Creamery (both owned by John Falco’s Firepit Hospitality) and Ariete (which is, of course, our host Michael Beltrán’s flagship restaurant). This absolute shit show of a podcast is a conversation with chef Michael Beltrán, restaurateur John Falco, and printmaking artist Peter Santa-Maria. The three discuss everything from Chik-Fil-A to art to the camaraderie of the food and beverage industry. Along the way, we raffled some barware for charity (thanks to Steelite International) and John Falco launched some t-shirts into the crowd with his homemade cannon. Rapper and past guest Mario Obregón was also on hand to read poetry about some of the night's dinner menu, from the nochebuena pizza to a beer float.

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Mike Beltrán first saw Robby Ramos in New York, where the actor was playing a chef in an early iteration of Amparo, the play written and directed by past guests Vanessa García and Vicky Collado. Now, Robby is a member of the cast of Heels, a Starz drama about professional wrestlers, where he plays Diego Cottonmouth. He also hosts his own podcast called Dropping Character. In this episode of Pan Con Podcast, Robby and Mike discuss their respective evolutions as creatives, the distinction between art and craft, the role that Cuban heritage and the politics of exile play in each of their professional lives, and the adjustments necessary to make physical health a priority alongside professional development.

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Health issues in his family led José Manuel Perrone to ditch a job at a major tech company and look for a way to put his career in service of combating disease and giving people the tools they need to lead healthier lives. Eventually, that motivation inspired Cura Market, the company he cofounded as a way to give people more control of their nutrition and the quality of their food. For now, Cura gives creators a way to simplify the process of bringing their food products to market. For instance, Cura produces two sauces in partnership with chef Norman Van Aken, another past guest of this podcast. But José has a bigger, broader vision for what Cura might look like in the future. In this episode, Mike Beltrán digs into the Cura model with José and the two discuss José’s broader goals for his work in health.

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Louie Estrada left Miami for New York knowing that he wanted to make his mark by starting a business of his own. After years picking up experience working in restaurants, bars and clubs, he planted his flag in a tiny corner of Brooklyn. From the roughly 150-square-foot kitchen at My Cuban Spot, Louie’s been cranking out Cuban classics the city’s Cubans were sorely missing at a level of quality that’s earned him a following even in lechón-saturated South Florida. Louie joined Mike at Ariete to record this conversation about his food, his career, and his plans to bring My Cuban Spot back home with him to Miami. Also, in the Patreon-only extended cut of this episode, Louie lays out his preferences on pastelitos, coffee, doughnuts and more.

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Miami native chef Giorgio Rapicavoli (known for Eating House and, most recently, Luca Osteria) has been a James Beard Award semifinalist, a Chopped winner, and a perennial favorite of Miami diners. In this episode, Giorgio joins Mike Beltran to talk about the maturation of his cooking, moving beyond “stoner food,” their mutual admiration for the precision and consistency of restaurants like Hillstone, and his plans for the revival of Eating House. Also, in the Patreon-only extended cut, Giorgio reveals the weird (and yet delicious-sounding) way he consumes pastelitos at Cuban bakeries.

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We recorded this episode of Pan Con Podcast at Chug’s Diner shortly before its Sept. 8 reopening. In this conversation at a booth in the Chug’s dining room, Mike Beltrán talks about the restaurant’s new space, team and menu, along with some of the challenges he faced in designing a restaurant from scratch for the first time. Also, the new Suicide Squad movie was pretty good, Mike did a thing with Ludacris, and Pan Con Podcast’s next live episode dinner is right round the corner.

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Pan Con Podcast recorded an episode with a live audience for the first time ever, and we brought in a special guest for the occasion. Chef Norman Van Aken was one of Mike’s early interviewees. He’s also Mike’s longtime culinary mentor and the author of at least one cookbook that changed the course of Mike’s career in food. This episode was recorded at Ariete in front of an audience of other past guests and friends of Pan Con Podcast — Larry Carrino, Josh Pascual, John Falco, Matt Kuscher, Carolina Quijano, Nidal Barake, Terence Reilly, Otto Othman, Nedal Ahmad, Derek Kaplan, and David Verjano. During the interview, our audience enjoyed a six-course meal bookended by cocktails and cigars, all made possible by this event’s brand partners: Courvoisier, S.Pellegrino, Acqua Panna, D’Artagnan and Aganorsa Leaf. Mike and Norman discussed the state of the restaurant business after a year and a half of COVID turbulence, the challenges of adapting to a young workforce with new attitudes about the industry, and Norman’s lasting impact on South Florida cuisine. This episode was recorded July 14, 2021, and we were paid a visit from another past guest, Cuban activist Rosa María Payá, who addressed our guests on the explosion of protests that had begun in Cuba just days earlier on July 11.

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