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Rice Tips Straight From The Expert's Mouth

Michael Colameco is the ultimate foodie. With an extensive restaurant background, a current radio show on WOR Radio 710 AM and a television show on food his insider tips on rice are well studied.

Recently, Debbie Jaramillo, Riviana Foods Test Kitchen Manager, had the pleasure of chatting with him at the WOR 710 radio studio in New York City on the world's most popular food, rice. As host of the popular "Food Talk" call-in radio show that airs on WOR Radio in New York City from 11am-12 noon Monday through Friday, Michael interviewed Debbie and together they explored what you might not know about rice.

Want cooking tips, recipe ideas and important nutritional facts on Rice?
Listen to the conversations shared between Debbie and Michael by clicking on the titles below.

Michael Colameco's Biography:
Michael graduated from The Culinary Institute of America and went to work as a line cook at "Four Season's Restaurant" under Chef Seppi Rengli in 1981. Throughout the 1980s, he was Sous Chef at "Maurice Restaurant," Restaurant Chef at "Cellar in the Sky"/"Windows on The World," Exec. Sous Chef/Night Chef at "Tavern on The Green" and Executive Chef at "The Ritz Carlton" on Central Park South in NYC. Michael was most recently the Chef Owner of the "Globe Restaurant" in Cape May, NJ.

While working as a cook/chef in New York, each of Michael's summer vacations were organized around touring France, Italy, Switzerland, and England dining at countless restaurants featuring regional cuisines. Those dining experiences and twenty-plus years spent in restaurant kitchens, have helped develop his well-trained palate. His Import Brokerage business has him traveling throughout Europe and Morocco, where aside from eating very well at every occasion, he tours, consults, inspects, and leads customers (including Pizza Hut, Sysco, and US Foodservice) through inspections of the docks, farms, markets, and Food Production Processing Facilities. Michael currently resides in coastal New Jersey with wife Heijung Park-Colameco, and their two sons.

 



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