Homaro Cantu - in The Media

In The Media

Cantu has been mentioned in over 1000 articles in 37 different countries due to his unconventional approach to food, including 7 cover stories from large print publications such as the LA Times, Fast Company and Gourmet Magazine to smaller publications in remote areas of the world.

• Mr. Cantu's design firm has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, as well as some other national media, such as USA Today. Among his dozens of patents pending is a food replicator which Chef Cantu envisions will eradicate world hunger.
• In 2009 Chef Cantu filmed his new television show titled Future Food with his co-host and pastry Chef of Moto Restaurant Ben Roche. Together the two take on challenges of today's food issues and use their state-of-the-art laboratory to solve these problems.
• In 2009 he was on an episode of Dinner Impossible alongside actor Neil Patrick Harris. The show played up to Cantu's style of cooking.
• In 2007 and 2008 Chef Cantu was a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
• In a 2006 episode of Iron Chef America, Cantu defeated Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto in a battle with beets as the theme ingredient. The high technology Cantu used to create his dishes included a laser to caramelize edible packaging material, as well as liquid nitrogen to create beet "balloons."
• Cantu was featured on a November 27, 2011 episode of CNN's The Next List.