Culinary Arts

Roho Kitchen: Monthly Underground Supper Club and Weekly Cooking Classes

There are no secret passwords or special decoder rings required to get through the gate at the SIDEDOOR Supper Club, though reservations are required and typically in short supply. The monthly "underground wine dinner club" is part of the rebranding and revamping of Davie's Roho Kitchen, formerly ... More >>

Couples New Year's Cooking Class

Chef Wes Bonner Talks about High School Cooking Classes and This Weekend's Boca Wine & Food Festival

Unlike most chefs, Wes Bonner didn't grow up cooking with his parents, or experimenting in the kitchen at home. Instead, it was school -- not culinary school, but a high school cooking program -- that would help him develop a passion for cooking.Today, 28-year-old Bonner has done a lot over the cour ... More >>

Sur la Table Cooking School to Open in Mizner Park

Even with the Food Network offering meal plans and tutorials 24/7, not everyone feels at ease in the kitchen. Some of us have nightmares about hosting a dinner party, trying to look composed in front of guests while managing rambunctious children and messy eaters (ahem, Grampa). Wah! We need Giada ... More >>

Art Institute Offers Culinary Scholarship Competitions for Teens and Adults

​If you've always dreamed of going to culinary school (or know of a teen who spends more time in the kitchen than at the mall), the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale has two culinary scholarship competitions you should check out.The Art Institute's Best Teen Che ... More >>

Couples' Cooking Classes in Fort Lauderdale and Beyond -- Just In Time for Your Holiday Party

Campdarby via Flickr Creative Commons The couple that kneads together...​Want to make everyone else's holiday parties look like they were catered by Denny's? Sharpen your edge this holiday season by investing in a couples' cooking class. The Plantation and Boca Raton branches of Publix Apron's Coo ... More >>

Get Schooled by Steak 954's Chef de Cuisine!

Publix.comSteak 954 Chef de Cuisine-Jason Landon Smith.​Resist the urge to ask pressing questions about the 15-foot jellyfish tank or the current availability of West Coast oysters at Steak 954 and let the restaurant's chef de cuisine, Jason Landon Smith, do the talking. This Thursday, July 21, Sm ... More >>

Tomorrow: 2011 San Pellegrino Almost Famous Chef Competition

  flickr: Jules stonesoup​Tomorrow, eight of South Florida's most talented culinary students will compete for the regional title of Almost Famous Chef 2011. And it's not only the title that these contestants will be fighting for! The winner will be granted an all-expense-paid trip to t ... More >>

Mario Batali to Cook at Morikami Monday, December 13

​The critically acclaimed, James Beard award-winning chef Mario Batali -- known for his love of olive oil, Italian cooking and his animated TV personality -- is scheduled to perform a cooking demonstration at the Morkiami Museum and Japanese Gardens on Monday, December 13. Batali long ago gre ... More >>

Chef Jean-Pierre, Interview Part 1: "It Doesn't Take a Genius to Put Two Ingredients Together"

​I recently took a cooking class at Chef Jean-Pierre's cooking school in Fort Lauderdale. I knew J-P (full name: Jean-Piere Brehier) and I would get along famously when he walked in the room and announced, "The first thing we're going to do is dessert." (Mmm...Kahlua chocolate pudding!) During the ... More >>

Cake Decorating Classes: The "Wilton Method" Promises Fun With Icing!

Rachel from Cupcakes Take the Cake. ​Who hasn't ever been tempted to go to town on a cupcake with an icing gun? But who knew there was a "method" to the madness -- besides "Stick finger in frosting; lick; repeat"? Well, this is America, and any technique that can be commercialized and exploited wi ... More >>

Weirdos, Dicks and Iron Chefs

​Well, the Next Iron Chef is Jose Garces, proprietor of six restaurants in Philadelphia and Chicago and dubbed (insulted?) by some as "the Latin Emeril," who over the past weeks blew off nine other chefs from around the country and last night edged New York toque/pastry chef Jehangir Mehta to join ... More >>

Top Five South Beach Wine and Food Festival Events Worth Going To

Courtesy of Melissa Horn for New York Magazine​Tickets went on sale Monday for the 2010 South Beach Wine and Food Festival, that annual event that keeps getting bigger, bigger, bigger. This year, there are nearly three-dozen events to attend, from wine seminars to a tribute dinner for chef Daniel ... More >>

Food & Wine Gets In On the Reality Craze

You don't really want to be this Guy, do you?​I opened up my copy of this month's Food & Wine this weekend and balked at what I saw in editor Dana Cowin's opening letter. It appears the magazine is getting in on the reality craze. They're holding a contest called America's Home Cook Superstar; ... More >>

Weekend Blog Watch

via Whisk​Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can't get enough. Here are some highlights of other food blogs.The South Florida page of Dine Mag is packed with news of upcoming chef related events and plenty of reviews of eateries. Most ... 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 >>

The Daily Mouthful: On Chefs

"When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, 'Get the chefs! Get the chefs!'"                 -- Cal ... More >>

Culinary Convenience South Florida's Mobile Restaurant Supplier

I met Aaron J. Michaels in the back alley behind Pacific Time when his Culinary Convenience truck showed up, parked and invited the kitchen staff in to sample his wares. Culinary Convenience offers a truly mobile shopping experience. Let me reiterate, this guy has an uncramped, walk-in store built i ... More >>

Behind the Line at Chef Allen's

Chef Allen Susser of Chef Allen's restaurant is a culinary pioneer, a renowned restaurateur and a cool dude. I recently spent several hours in the kitchen of Chef Allen's restaurant in Aventura. I arrived at four, was provided with a chef jacket and promptly put to work. This was a kitchen where I' ... More >>

Lots More Thanksgiving Help

Of course, you could just hire a waitress and a scullery maid, but in this economy, who has the extra dough? If you're starting to melt down at the thought of serving 20 people on Thanksgiving from nothing but the hot plate and a microwave in your crappy apartment kitchen, help may be at hand. L ... More >>

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New Chef At Wish

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Another One Bites The Dust

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Honk If You Love Foie Gras

Duck and Cover

Gourmet fer the Poor

This chef really cooks for the people who need it

Cooking with Todd and Tony

Two are better than one. Really.

Daddy's Little Girl

Tony Sindaco's daughter says, "Wait Till Next Year"

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Roy Yamaguchi, Edgar Theisen, and Scott Olinsky

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Best Caesar Salad

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Best Fusion Restaurant

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