About
Over the years, I have been told that my love of food would qualify me to write restaurant reviews. Finally, I am writing about good food!
Plain and simple, my name is Ben Starling, I was raised in Immokalee, Florida and blessed with a family that cooked in the good times, in the bad times, and all the times in between. Being Southern Baptist, we did not drink, but we did eat!
My mother is one of the finest cooks on the face of the earth. She can taste something at a restaurant and come home and produce it. Some people play the piano by ear, my mother cooks by tongue (or rather taste)! No recipes, no need to labor measuring and certainly no need to rely on anything frozen.
I suppose this site is dedicated to my Mom because she loves good food and taught me the importance of taking pride in my cooking.
A special thanks to my friend Rick Latona for making this site possible. Rick and I met on a flight to Las Vegas a number of years ago, and since that time have recommended restaurants to one another and compared the best foods from around the United States. Rick and I both travel extensively for work and are blessed with the ability to eat in a wide variety of places serving delectable foods. Truth be told, we also trade dieting tips too. However, Rick does a much better at losing weight than I do.
If you have a favorite family recipe, fun food story or suggestion, please e-mail me at ben@benstarling.com
Please note, this site will contain misspellings, grammatical errors, down home humor and heartwarming stories.
