Connect with Chef Josie Smith-Malave

Chef Josie is a classically trained bohemian chef, global adventurist, TV and radio personality, entrepreneur, former women’s pro football player, social activist and lifestyle ambassador. Hialeah raised and New York trained, she spent a decade rockin’ the New York City food scene, working under renowned chefs Wylie Dufresne, Jean-Georges Vongrichten, Caroline Fidanza, and Walter Hinds, to name a few. Not to mention, she was featured on Top Chef Season 2. Chef Josie is also a culinary adventurer who has traveled the globe piercing the veins of each place she visits, trading stories, drinking the water, seeking the sounds, tasting the culture, admitting each new place transforms her. Chef Josie connects with people through her genuine smile, good food, and infectious laugh. She continues to connect with people through her genuine smile, good food and infectious laugh.

In 2016, she launched her own place, Bubbles n’ Pearls in Wilton Manors, with partner (and now wife) Marcy Miller in which they have triumphed with the effervescent joy of good vibes, good food and good libations. The feat and flavors are more impressive considering that Chef Josie works from a kitchen the size of a closet with no gas burner or proper grill, just two flat-top electric griddles, two convection ovens and a sous-vide cooker.