Quick and easy recipes with a lot of taste are important to us, but we also love being "weekend chefs" perfecting a more detailed dish. We love traveling and tasting the foods of different cultures, and reinterpreting them through our own recipes. You will find Mediterranean, Dominican, and many other ethnically diverse recipes here, as well as plenty of "American" recipes too.
But our favorite thing to do is re-create dishes and drinks from the different restaurants we discover. You will always find us sitting at the bar at a new restaurant. That's where you get to both sample the food, and also watch the bartenders make drinks. There is always a new cocktail we discover and then ask the bartenders a lot of questions.
Spoonabilities is our little part of the internet where we get to share new recipes with you along with ingredients' health benefits, interesting facts, appetizing photographs, and any delicious small-batch gourmet products we love. Best of all, we get to taste everything we create! We hope you enjoy all the "spoon-abilities" too.
A Little Spoonabilities History
Soon after we met in 2004, we realized that we both love to travel, go and explore different restaurants, and discover new flavor combinations. During European trip to visit Carlos's sister and family, we spent hours at the farmer’s markets, cafés, and restaurants in Barcelona, Paris, and Rome.
One day in Bruges, Belgium, after buying some meat, cheese, bread, and mustard all at four different tiny shops, we sat on a park bench and started to talk about how wonderful it would be to travel around the world, buy the gourmet products we fell in love with, and share our discoveries and experiences with other people. That spark of an idea is how Spoonabilities was born.
Interviews with Spoonabilities
We are on a podcast! As part of the "Making Things Matters" series, we had real and raw conversation with Lyle Smith, talking about our humble beginnings, our love story (with food and each other) and all about our business Spoonabilities. Look for "The Story Forge" podcast on Spotify, or listen to the episode on The Story Forge website.
If you want to learn more about us, VoyageMIA Magazine interviewed us for a feature in their Downtown & Brickell’s Rising Stars section, CanvasRebel interviewed Carlos, and you can find other interviews on our media mentions page. We try to keep that page up to date.
The Transition to Food & Product Photography
After almost 10 years of selling gourmet products, we phased out our e-commerce shop in 2023. Our prime focus and passion is now on both food and product photography, as well as creating and upgrading the recipes here onsite. So if you see recipes still mentioning different product ingredients "in our shop," that's why. We'll still share with you some of the products we love and where to get them, but every recipe may not be fully updated yet.
Carlos is a professional food photographer who shot all the photos you find here at Spoonabilities.com. His passion is delighting our clients with mouthwatering lifestyle and product photos. If you would like to work with us, get in touch so we can learn more about your project.
Hope that wasn't too much information :)
We welcome all your questions, and look forward to hearing from you.
Warm Regards,
Carlos
Meet Carlos
Hi. I'm Carlos, originally from the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, which has the most flavorful dishes. My mother, grandmother, sister, and other women in my life, made some delicious meals like sancocho (stew/soup), arroz con leche (sweet rice), and of course a lot of dishes with rice and beans in every possible way that you can imagine. I unfortunately, never learned how to cook until I came to the United States.
When I first came to the USA, I ate a lot of frozen food until I started watching all the cooking programs on TV, and began to cook for myself. At this same time, I met Geoffrey and had a very willing “guinea pig” to test all my cooking skills on. I’m told that (almost) all of my creations are delicious…and not only by Geoffrey
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