Guy Fieri finds three local joints doing scratch cooking their way. In Boise, Idaho, a family restaurant doing this trifecta: brick oven pizza, remarkable salads and roasted chicken; in Cleveland, a coffee shop turned restaurant where the bread's from scratch, the corned beef is house-brined and veggies are grown out back; and in Chicago, a barbecue joint doing Memphis style dry rub for everything from brisket to beef tips and ribs.
Tyler Florence fills a mouthwatering party platter with balsamic-topped roasted vegetables, an array of meats and cheeses and ricotta with mint and honeyed pine nuts.
Ali Maffucci is the founder of the culinary brand Inspiralized, the ultimate resource for cooking creatively, healthfully and deliciously with the spiralizer, the kitchen tool that turns vegetables and fruits into noodles. Recently, she expanded her recipe content to include other inventive ways to transform vegetables, continually inspiring people to love and to eat more vegetables. In June of 2013, Ali quit her corporate job to pursue Inspiralized, starting first with her blog, Inspiralized.com. Since then, Maffucci has been referred to as a “digitally savvy millennial entrepreneur”, as well as the creator of a “spiral empire” by Food & Wine. Maffucci has authored New York Times best-selling cookbooks (Inspiralized and Inspiralize Everything) and her latest cookbook, Inspiralized and Beyond is following suit. Maffucci launched her branded spiralizer called the Inspiralizer and continues to provide daily free recipes on her food blog and through her iOS mobile app. She currently lives in Jersey City, NJ with her husband, Lu, her son, Luca and her daughter, Roma.