Email Author Gail Shepherd

Awards

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 19, 2007

  "The Undersea World of Toby Joseph"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 26, 2007

  "Split Decision?"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 5, 2007

  "Dancing the Lobster Quadrille"

• 2007 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published October 26, 2006

  "Eat My Meat"

• 2007 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published February 16, 2006

  "Dead Fish Don't Swim"

• 2007 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published February 9, 2006

  "Triple Indemnity"

• 2006 - Association of Food Journalists Awards

  Restaurant Criticism

• 2006 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published October 13, 2005

  "Come Sail Away"

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2006 Stories by Gail Shepherd

• Conspicuous Consumption

  published December 28, 2006

  The P.R. was relentless. Paradiso, the Lake Worth restaurant owned by Chef Angelo Romano, was celebrating its tenth birthday all season long with... More >>

• To the N9Nzzzzzzzzz

  published December 21, 2006

  When restaurants fail, they don't always do it spectacularly. Sometimes it's just a slow, gloomy slide into mediocrity, and if you happen to be... More >>

• Your Fish Is My Command

  published December 14, 2006

  How you feel when you hear the words McCormick & Schmick's depends a lot on context. If you're engaged in a discussion with your broker... More >>

• Remembrance of Things Pasta

  published December 7, 2006

  You know the story. French author Marcel Proust is having tea one day. He dips a piece of cookie — a sugary, scalloped confection called a... More >>

• Late-Night Bites

  published November 30, 2006

  News is trickling back from the Big Apple: The City That Never Sleeps has developed narcolepsy. Friends report emerging from an evening meeting in... More >>

• Thanksgiving Feasts

  published November 23, 2006

  "Authentic Mexican? You'd be eating grubs rolled in a tortilla. Fried grasshoppers. Tripe." Eduardo Pria didn't think Norte Americanos... More >>

• The Television Hi-Life

  published November 9, 2006

  Once upon a time, I made a fool of myself on national TV. In the early '90s, I appeared as a guest on CNBC's tabloid talk show Real... More >>

• What Would Bruno Eat?

  published November 2, 2006

  I should have been researching schnitzel and strudel recipes, but I got sidetracked by YouTube video clips: Sasha Baron Cohen's fey-gay Austrian... More >>

• Eat My Meat

  published October 26, 2006

  A chic Miami Beach vixen, black-eyed and golden-skinned, maybe 20 years old and all of a hundred pounds, sits alone at El Rey Del Chivito. Menu in... More >>

• Everything's Coming Up Rosa

  published October 26, 2006

  I planted four pepper plants last weekend — serranos, poblanos, sweet reds, and pequins. But my Mexican next-door neighbor, Roberto, tells me... More >>

• Diner at Eight

  published October 26, 2006

  Completely against my better judgment, I've developed a grudging respect for Burt Rapoport. This is a guy I'd love to hate — he's got a... More >>

• Everything's Coming Up Rosa

  published October 19, 2006

  I planted four pepper plants last weekend — serranos, poblanos, sweet reds, and pequins. But my Mexican next-door neighbor, Roberto, tells me... More >>

• Pizz-Off, Manhattan!

  published October 12, 2006

  Boo-hoo-hoody-hoo-hoo. If I hear one more transplanted New Yorker whinging and sniveling about how there's no good pizza in South Florida,... More >>

• Grading Antipasti on a Curve

  published October 5, 2006

  I'm getting bitch-slapped all over the place lately. I've gotten a slew of letters in the past couple of weeks suggesting I need to find myself... More >>

• Japan a Go-Go

  published September 28, 2006

  Some people make it all look so easy. Whatever it is — dressing like a minx on a pitiful budget, whipping up a 30-minute layer cake... More >>

• Parlez-vous American?

  published September 21, 2006

  I'm hoping my intuition about Spontané proves right: We have here a manageably sized restaurant owned by a pair of creative young chefs who... More >>

• Unsolved Mysteries of the (Foodie) Universe

  published September 14, 2006

  Mystery Number One: With more than half a million Cubans living in South Florida, why is it almost impossible to find a cheap, decent dish of... More >>

• High Steaks

  published August 31, 2006

  I'm going to put my cards on the table: I'm not a big fan of steak houses. I have good friends who continuously scan the Internet for airfare... More >>

• Dali, Back to Your Drawing Board

  published August 24, 2006

  Jorge Luis Fernandez calls himself "The Dali of the Kitchen." The comparison makes sense, because Fernandez, the chef at La Barraca in... More >>

• Sunfish, Twofish

  published August 17, 2006

  It's 10 o'clock on opening night at the Sunfish Grill, and the bar is hip-deep in ladies of a certain age. They're gussied up in turquoise taffeta... More >>

• Hot or Not?

  published August 10, 2006

  "Handsome is as handsome does." Somebody's wise old grandmother said that. Not my grandma; she was too busy pounding back snifters of cognac... More >>

• Saki-to-Me

  published August 3, 2006

  The girl who serves us our sake is a Sexy Kitty. Her name is Tuesday, she weighs about 80 pounds, and she's one of a stable of "burlesque"... More >>

• Soul Kitchen

  published July 27, 2006

  50 lbs. cornmeal 10 lbs. bran (optional) 200 lbs. sugar 12 oz. yeast 200 gal. water In Eastern Tennessee, that... More >>

• Are You Lonesome Tonight?

  published July 20, 2006

  There's something human beings really hate to do all by ourselves. We don't like to dine alone. When we venture out to eat, let us have at least... More >>

• Some Like It Hot

  published July 6, 2006

  TGIMS! Or Thank God It's Mango Season. Some heavenly creature long ago peered down at us suffering fools as we slogged through the swamps,... More >>