Alice Waters

Tortuga Music Festival and Marine Conservation: Where to Find Sustainable Seafood in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

Starting tomorrow Tortuga Music Festival  will be taking over Fort Lauderdale. Artists ranging from Grace Potter, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite, and G. Love and Special Sauce to Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Avett Brothers, and Kenny Chesney will be playing right smack dab on the beach. Aside ... More >>

Locavore Index 2013: How Does Florida Stack Up?

Since the Alice Waters and Chez Panisse came into the scene in Berkeley in the 1960's, there has been a huge movement to localize our food systems. Obviously, some areas caught on a bit quicker than others. Some areas do make it easier. Iowa, for example, is pretty much one big farm. Right? As the ... More >>

Florida Needs to Learn a Few Things About Local Food Systems, California Can Help

Jay McCobb, a.k.a. "Farmer Jay," is a Delray-based sustainable farmer who will be contributing columns about local food, his pig Pearl, and whatever strikes his fancy. Find more of Jay -- and get your hands on some of his delicious eats -- by visiting myfarmerjay.com. Florida is in the top ten for ... More >>

Hot Farmer Alert: Meet Farmer Jay

As I exit my car, I can see him approaching from the distance. A tall, strapping man wearing jeans, a button-down shirt, and a wide-brimmed farmer's hat walks up to greet me. If he does not fit the bill for tall, dark and handsome, I don't know who does. Not exactly the image one would conjure when ... More >>

California Pizza Kitchen Will Unveil Revamp In Florida

Chief executive of California Pizza Kitchen G. J. Hart told attendees at a California restaurant conference that the chain will open only one new U.S. restaurant-- a prototype-- this year. And the location happens to be in Florida, reports Nation's Restaurant News. No word yet as to which city.The p ... More >>

Did Fusion Ever Die? Norman Van Aken Talks Shop

Fusion has been on the brain. Following our review on Florida's sushi-Thai, Sara Dickerman addresses the up-down of our relationship with fusion in Slate last week in Fusion Reaction: How America fell in love, then out of love, then in love all over again with Asian influenced cuisine. She wrot ... More >>

Burritos: They're Not for Women

​I don't remember where I had my first Chipotle burrito, and that's the point. I was too busy eating it. I do remember the careful ritual: peeling off rounds of foil, a quick visual examination followed by a dash of Tabasco. The first expectant bite, then another, then another. Setting the burrito ... More >>

Pat the Foodie and Other Kids' Books for Adults

​Pat the Foodie is making its way around the internet, a parody of Pat the Bunny in the same vein as Go the F**k to Sleep. Like its inspiration, readers can touch things, though it's along the lines of scratchy beards and chicken feathers. Daily Dish from the LA Times cites one of the pages: "'Jud ... More >>

In Palm Beach County, White Tablecloth Dining Will Never Die

Shrimp at La Sirena​Last week, we gathered the top ten Zagat entries for Broward. This week, we're doing the same for Palm Beach, where the price point is $20 higher on average. There are more lobster and steak houses in the top ten than in Broward, although a couple of funky places seed the list. ... More >>

DIG in Delray Beach: Ambitious Food, Weird Space

Locavores Gear Up for Growing Season

cuculinary.com​I'm missing the end-of-summer bounty here in South Florida. Where are heirloom tomatoes? Where are the stone fruits? What about local squash? And the resounding answer I've heard in response is that everything's backward here. "September through May 

Bourdain Hits Bookstores, Coral Gables

​Ever read Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential? It's a really great book, an exciting and sometimes disgusting glimpse into the seedy underworld of the professional chef. It was through Kitchen Confidential that everyone learned why fish on Mondays is a bad idea, why you should never trust a s ... More >>

Be Your Own Taqueria

Photo by Bill CitaraAll hail the humble taco, a perfect marriage of starch, protein, fruit, vegetable, and appetite, a triumph of down-home Mexican gastronomy, a thing of rare culinary beauty.  Of course, that's a taco made with fresh, quality ingredients by someone who knows and loves authenti ... More >>

She Brings Home the Bacon

The celeb chef has checked out, but Erika Di Battista's Sunfish Grill is still in the swim.

The Flavor Bible

Kick the Bottle

As the containers and costs mount, in South Florida and beyond, plastic is played out

New American Nostalgic

11 Maple's not perfect, but it's thoroughly ours

East Is Eden

My love affair with Nick Morfogen

Eat My Meat

Most Uruguayans chomp down that stuff grilling on the parrilla — and little else.

Can I Get Potatoes With That?

Max's Grille leaves no spud unpummeled