Cooking with Stilo: New Jersey Native’s YouTube Series is a ‘Kitchen Hit’

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ – When the pandemic shutdown generation of The Right now Display, Katie Stilo, a culinary producer and food stylist for the NBC sequence, established out to adapt to a new ‘normal.’ In an energy to retain active, Stilo turned her mom and dad South Plainfield, NJ kitchen area into a Television set studio and, over the months that adopted released a social media platform and on line cooking show even though also publishing a collaborative cookbook.

“I delight in being fast paced and specially making the most of expressing my creative imagination by food, so when I out of the blue experienced an unforeseen quantity of downtime I took it as a optimistic opportunity to explore a passion project I would not otherwise have been capable to,” stated Stilo. 

In March, Stilo (Stilo (@katie.stilo) and fellow culinary producer/foods stylist Anthony Contrino (@anthonyissaucy) of Staten Island launched ‘Food ADKTs TV’ (@foodstuff_adkts), an Instagram web page created to provide culinary professionals – and novice cooks – alongside one another, virtually. The site, at first recognized as the @the_quarantine_collective, currently has around 5,300 followers and, in the past 10 months, has featured hundreds of recipes from in excess of 80 contributors in the course of the environment.

“Commencing the Quarantine Collective permitted me to keep occupied when growing my network of culinary colleagues and learning along the way. A lifetime purpose of mine was generally to have a cookbook and despite the fact that ours is electronic, it truly is still astounding to see what a handful of near good friends with a enthusiasm can place together in just a handful of months time,” stated Stilo, incorporating, “The mixed endeavours of all of our skill sets proved to be a worthwhile energy as were capable to channel that vitality for a great induce.”

The achievements of the social media system led Stilo and Contrino to expand their effort and hard work with the launch of a electronic collaborative cookbook. Aptly titled ‘The_Quarantine­_Collective,’ the e-ebook capabilities a lot more than 4 dozen recipes from cooks across the globe together with ‘tips, methods, and tools’ to ‘empower home cooks.’ All proceeds from electronic downloads, obtainable at www.thequarantinecollective.org, reward the James Beard Foundation’s Open for Excellent, a marketing campaign supporting the recover and rebuilding of an independent restaurant industry to day, more than $5,500 and counting has been raised.

In addition, in October, Stilo and Contrino joined alongside one another with fellow culinary producer/meals stylist Tina DeGraff (@the_saltgypsy) and chef Dawn Miller (@dinnerbydawn) to launch Kitchen Hits, an first YouTube series. It was at this time that @the_quarantine_collective was rebranded to ‘ADKT,’ with the social media web-site and YouTube channel’s name a enjoy on the word ‘addicts’ showcasing all 4 of its founders initial initials.

“Pivoting our platform into Food ADKT’s Tv is just the starting of one more fascinating chapter in my personalized profession,” Stilo claimed. “Performing together with my proficient and passionate close friends is just the icing on best.”

Kitchen Hits airs on Food ADKT Television set (https://bit.ly/3qKybwp), and, each individual thirty day period, the foursome of cooking specialists set out to emphasize a distinct food items item and/or ingredient with a emphasis on recommendations and methods to make the perfect dish. The ‘hits’ in the world-wide-web series identify, claimed Stilo, stands for ‘highlighting elements and techniques’ to help residence cooks make the best dish and really feel extra at ease in the kitchen.

To day, Kitchen area Hits has focused on cabbage, apples, and, most recently, hen cutlets. In her latest episode, Stilo focuses what has been a ‘staple in her home’ and provides methods for breading cutlets and shallow frying. 

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“This recipe was a staple in my domestic growing up for a few explanations: They’re super fast to make, require really handful of ingredients, and they are scrumptious. There would normally be a full plate in our fridge. You can eat them chilly – which I even now typically do, use them in a sandwich, set them in a salad or switch them into rooster parm simply,” Stilo reported, telling TAPinto that she was ‘so content to see so several people liked this recipe’ as significantly as she does. “My close friends have known as me the ‘cutlet queen’ and I am pleased to have acquired these a prized nickname. “

A new episode of Kitchen area Hits will start March 2 and the emphasis will be pancakes. Stilo will educate the system and importance of leaveners these types of as baking soda and powder. “I’ve labored hard to make the fantastic pancake recipe and I assume I’ve nailed it. And by get the job done difficult I mean I have had to consume a whole lot of pancakes” 

To test out previous and upcoming episodes of Kitchen area Hits, subscribe to ‘Food ADTK TV’ on YouTube or visit https://little bit.ly/3qKybwp. 

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