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Robert Irvine Looking for Chefs For New Food Network Show

Robert Irvine, the brawny host of Restaurant Impossible, is casting for a new cooking competition show -- and he's looking for south Florida chefs. Irvine is searching for sous chefs, budding restaurateurs, and executive chefs that are ready to take it to the next level for his new yet-to-be-titled ... More >>

How to Make Your Own Alcoholic Ice Pops

With summer comes the longing for everything sweet, cold, slushy, icy and -- well, let's admit it -- infused with alcohol too. We at Clean Plate Charlie love all those things -- there's just one thing. We're so over rum runners, pina coladas, and daiquiris. Leave those to the amateur spring breakers ... More >>

Clean Plate Charlie Pranked The New York Times!

Every year, when April Fool's Day rolls around, Clean Plate Charlie is faced with the same dilemma: Do we write a prank blog post? The answer, of course, is yes.The best April Fool's posts are the ones that could possibly be true as you read. Then, a few nuggets of information that are so outrag ... More >>

The Great Food Truck Race is Casting for Season Four

Attention south Florida food truckers -- or wannabes. If you dreamed of taking a truck coast to coast in a non-stop frenzy of challenges -- all for the chance to win $50,000, then you'll want to try out for season four of Food Network's The Great Food Truck Race, hosted by Tyler Florence.Though the ... More >>

Five Best Restaurants on Clematis Street in West Palm Beach

West Palm Beach has never been known for its dining scene, but several new restaurants have helped to make the Clematis St. strip a new downtown destination for South Florida foodies. These days there's a little bit of everything, from sports bars and Mexican at Rocco's Tacos, to Cuban-style eats at ... More >>

SoBEWFF 2013: Food, Booze, and Celebs Take Over South Beach

For four glorious days every year, Miami Beach is taken over by a cadre of chefs, celebrities, and fans of food and wine in an indoor-outdoor hootenanny known as the South Beach Wine & Food Festival.For those looking to hobnob with the likes of Robert Irvine, Geoffrey Zakarian, and Sunny Anderso ... More >>

"Chopped, the Tease Me Tequila Cocktail Contest" Hits Palm Beach Gardens

Chopped has inspired a lot of copycats, but when that emulation leads to a tequila-based competition, who really cares about whose idea it was? At long last, Palm Beach County will get a boozed-up "culinary" showdown when Cantina Laredo Modern Mexican in Palm Beach Gardens hosts the "Chopped, the ... More >>

Your Year-Round Guide to South Florida's Best Food Events

For more on South Florida's food scene, check out New Times' Taste guide, hitting newsstands Thursday, February 21. Sure, the South Beach Wine and Food Festival might be lighting up Miami-Dade this month -- but when it comes to the tricounty area, Broward and Palm Beach have way more street cred wh ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Festival: Five Reasons To Schlep to Miami

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival comes to Miami Beach in one week and if you didn't get your tickets, better hop to it. The festival, which turns the white sand of South Beach red with vino, may be expensive and a bit of a drive, but if you're into food, wine, and chefs-turned-celebrities it ... More >>

Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival 2012 Offers Food Truck: Impossible Tickets

The Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival is this weekend, bringing celebrity chefs, amazing dinners, and lots of fine vino to south Florida. On the roster of events, which includes multiple parties, celebrities grilling at Burgers by the Beach, and a Grand Tasting, is the Golf Digest Celebrity Chef G ... More >>

Paladar Latin Kitchen & Rum Bar: Opening Tonight at Gulfstream Park

If there is anything Florida has down pat, it's Latin food and rum. With our demographics, that most certainly makes sense. This week brings south Florida's newest Latin-inspired restaurant: Paladar Latin Kitchen & Rum Bar.See Also:- Food Network Kitchen Opens at Fort Lauderdale International Ai ... More >>

Food Network Kitchen Opens at Fort Lauderdale International Airport

The Presidential election is behind us for now, so we can turn our television sets back to what really matters.24-hour-a-day non-stop food porn, courtesy of Food Network. If you're like me, you live and breathe these guilty pleasures disguised as television. Now you can eat it too, with the Fort Lau ... More >>

Sandra Lee Dresses Up As Everyone For Halloween (Video)

It's Halloween and if you don't have a costume picked out yet you're in trouble. You can either head out to the local party store and see if there are any pirate costumes left or we suppose you can always staple some old newspaper to yourself, not shower and go as some day-old fish (ewww).Read Also: ... More >>

Hop Won in Davie: Mom and 19-Year Old Son Take Over Chinese Restaurant, Have A Blast

There's not much to do in western Davie off Griffin Road near I-75, a stone's throw from the farmland of the Southwest Ranches. So Gigi Stetler, who for the last 26 years had owned and managed Broward RV, decided to buy the failing Hop Won restaurant with the idea to transform it into a trendy loung ... More >>

Fuku in West Palm Beach: "Angry Lobster" and a Food Network Star

  It used to be that you couldn't find a descent Asian-themed restaurant anywhere near downtown West Palm Beach. That was until about six months ago, when several Asian-themed establishments showed up. Among them Fuku (pronounced foo-koo), a bold new lounge-like pan-Asian concept that opened t ... More >>

Five South Florida Food-Related Events This Weekend: Copacabana Grand Opening Party and More

Ahhh, shoulder season. That slightly awkward, but not entirely unenjoyable, point in the year when the air is starting to feel less like the inside of someone's mouth and the local dining scene is gearing up for an explosion in business. This weekend, bid adieu to a summertime favorite and/or welc ... More >>

Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival 2012: LeCirque, Food Trucks, Celebrity Chefs

The Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival is still months away, but after a conversation with event organizer, David Sabin, we're looking forward to the day tickets go on sale.The festival, scheduled for December 7 to 11, is already attracting quite a list of celebrity chefs scheduled to appear at the ... More >>

For National Doughnut Day: Five Celebrity Dougnhuts (And Two Deals)

Today, June 1, is the celebrated national doughnut day.  While you may think that it's one of those recently made up holidays by some National Doughnut Council, the holiday was actually started in 1938 by the Salvation Army to honor the women who served doughnuts to U.S. soldiers during World W ... More >>

Pompano and Deerfield: The Locals' Food Mecca

​We're in the thick of the Food Town Throwdown, in which West Palm Beach/Lake Worth is killing Western Broward and Delray Beach clobbers Fort Lauderdale. Want to weigh in for the results? Be sure to vote for your favorite neighborhoods. I can't help but root for underdogs. Though it's already nixe ... More >>

Five Holiday Cocktail Recipes to Boost Your Spirit

Bad Santa respects your drink choices.​​Drinking on Christmas is encouraged, because when you're inebriated, Mom is a little more tolerable, Grandma's sexist rants are adorable, and your brother's constant cursing is almost endearing.No one wants to endure those awkward family dinners while sobe ... More >>

Paula Deen & Sandra Lee: A Turdrunken Thanksgiving

​Thanksgiving is fast approaching and if you haven't made plans, take a page from the Food Network cookbook's two booziest ladies and have a good old fashioned Southern Thanksgiving - complete with lots of booze and an easy to make turducken. After a meal of turducken washed down with a half dozen ... More >>

Trend Alert: You Want Fries on That?

​Are French fries the next add-to-everything item? Just as eggs have become the latest haute garnish on burgers, fried rice, pizza, you name it, it seems French fries are making an appearance as a topping rather than a side. Here are five things I've seen recently that signal an oncoming trend.&nb ... More >>

Anne Burrell at Williams-Sonoma in Palm Beach Gardens on Tuesday, October 18

Courtesy photoDoes cooking like a rock star involve throwing the microwave off a balcony when you're done? Guess you'll have to read it to find out.​No one would accuse Anne Burrell, star of Food Network shows like Secrets of a Restaurant Chef and Worst Cooks in America, of being a shrinking viole ... More >>

Alton Brown Writes a Fanifesto: His Guidelines For Fans

Food NetworkAlton Brown will not sing Happy Birthday on tape - is he tone deaf?​Alton Brown of Good Eats and various other Food Network shows, has written a Fanifesto on his blog, Altonbrown.com and it's a sometimes comical look into what happens when average citizens turn into celebrities (which ... More >>

Miami Casting Call: Abysmal Cooks Wanted for Bobby Flay Food Network Show

​Attention Bobby Flay fans. Primp for your chance to interview with the man himself along with Food Network host Anne Burrell for the network's open casting call for the third season of "Worst Cooks in America."What's required of you?

Paula Deen To Anthony Bourdain: Get a Life

Don't mess with a southern lady.​Anthony Bourdain very bluntly tells anyone who will listen exactly what he thinks of Food Network celebrities like Paula Deen, Rachael Ray, and Sandra Lee. In an interview in TV Guide, Bourdain called Southern Belle and butter aficionado Paula Deen "the most danger ... More >>

Martorano Launches Video Cooking Series

​Cook, restaurateur, cookbook author, businessman, buddy to the stars. . . now Steve Martorano has one more title to add to his resume: cooking teacher.  In a series of nine videos entitled Yo Cuz: The Italian-American Cook, Martorano mixes a bit of Oprah-esque self-esteem building with his p ... More >>

Help Talia's Tuscan Table in Boca Raton Become Guy Fieri's Next Drive-by on his Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

Talia's Tuscan Table owner, Chef Andy Bennardo, behind the bar at Baba's Shrimp Shack​How does Guy Fieri choose the restaurants he features on his Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?If it's anything like his upcoming prospect, Boca Raton restaurant Talia's Tuscan Table, it's got a ... More >>

Guy Fieri Approved: Try the Winning Rib Recipe from the Food Network Star Fourth of July Episode

The Food NetworkFood Network Star's Fourth of July Episode winner Susie Jimenez cooked spicy pork ribs​Food Network Star finalists put on quite a show Sunday night for Season Seven's Fourth of July special-episode featuring "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives," host, Guy Fieri. The show's 10 remaini ... More >>

Food Network's Extreme Chef: Like Top Chef With Snakes (Video)

Food Network Extreme Chef: Like Top Chef, but with poisonous snakes!​Although we love Top Chef here at Clean Plate Charlie, sometimes we can't help wondering if maybe the show would be a little bit better if the cheftestants had to, say, catch their own poisonous water moccasin and cook it ... More >>

Five Worst Sandra Lee Recipe Fails (Video)

Food Network Sandra Lee - the devil in a pink cardigan.​Sandra Lee, host of Food Network's Semi-Homemade Cooking, proves that you neither have to be a chef nor interesting to have a cooking show on television. Though Anthony Bourdain has called her the "frightening hell spawn of Kathie Lee ... More >>

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Interview with Australian Celebrity Chef and Author Pete Evans, Part One

Pete Evans - set to invade America ​Pete Evans is a major celebrity chef in Australia, but if you don't know his name yet don't worry...you will because Pete is poised to take over the U.S. His first American book, My Grill, has just been released (at over 200 pages, this is the ultima ... More >>

Zach Bell vs. Dean Max at Taste of the Nation

Zach Bell​Palm Beach County's first annual Share Our Strength Taste of the Nation benefit, to be held Wednesday, April 13, in West Palm's Kravis Center, will feature a cooking competition between two of NoSoFla's (that's North South Florida to you) hottest chefs.  Zach Bell of Café Boulud an ... More >>

Interview with Chef Emeril Lagasse, Part II

Laine Doss Chef Emeril at his Miami restaurant​Yesterday, we shared Part I of our interview with legendary chef Emeril Lagasse. If you missed it, here it is. We now present Part II of our interview.  Clean Plate Charlie: Where did Bam! come from? Emeril Lagasse: Bam! came from the sec ... More >>

Interview with Chef and Top Chef Cheftestant Spike Mendelsohn- Part II

Laine Doss Spike Mendelsohn as The Hamburgler​Yesterday, we presented Part I of our interview with Top Chef's Spike Mendelsohn. If you missed it, you can view it here. We continue with our interview. Clean Plate Charlie: Do you have any plans for expanding Good Stuff Eatery outside of DC? ... More >>

Interview With Emeril's Miami Beach Chef, Tim Doolittle, Part I

Rob Camarena​Tim Doolittle is the chef de cuisine at Emeril's Miami Beach. Hailing from Kansas City, Chef Doolittle has worked in the industry since he was 18. His resume includes Wolfgang Puck and some of Kansas City's best American restaurants. Most recently, he specialized ... More >>

Guy Fieri's $200,000 Lamborghini Stolen

​ Laine Doss Awww...and he even had a shirt to match the car....​Guy Fieri, the crazy-coiffed host of Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives had his yellow and black Lamborghini stolen from a San Francisco car dealership today.

Guess Where We're Eating!?

Dori Zinn​What once served as a northerner's staple, utensil-free lunch has migrated south. With three locations in Broward County, this Italian eatery has been serving transplants and locals for more than a decade.

South Beach Wine & Food Festival's Grand Tasting Village: Bring on the Celebrity Chefs

All photos by Laine Doss Anthony Bourdain brought the wheel of death.​Once a year, South Beach turns into the ultimate playground for adults. Filled with shows, food, and fun, it's basically Disney World for grownups. At the Grand Tasting Village, guests are given a Waterford Crystal glass ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Festival's Burger Bash: A Meaty Good Time

All photos by Laine Doss The Burger Bash tent​Burger Bash, hosted by Rachael Ray, is one of the most popular events at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. One of the first events to be sold out, the 2011 Burger Bash featured 26 chefs presenting their best burgers. Last evening's Bur ... More >>

Food Celebs Spotted at Scarpetta for Food Network Magazine Event

All photos by Laine Doss Food Network chefs Melissa D'Arabian, Scott Conant, Anne Burrell, Sunny Anderson with Food Network Magazine Editor-in-Chief Maile Carpenter​Prosecco and wine flowed at Scarpetta last evening as Food Network Magazine kicked off The South Beach Wine & Food Festiv ... More >>

Q&A With Jeremy Hanlon of My Fresh Chef

OK, his story starts out simple enough -- Jeremy Hanlon was a finance major in college, then landed a Wall Street job after graduating. However, less than a year into his job, Hanlon knew cubicle life wasn't for him. He ditched it to cook. He went from watching the Food Network to appearing on it. H ... More >>

Chef, Author and Radio Host Linda Gassenheimer: Interview, Part II

  Laine Doss Linda Gassenheimer​We're continuing our interview with chef, author and radio personality, Linda Gassenheimer. Part I of the interview can be found here. Clean Plate Charlie: A lot of recipes are difficult to follow. Not yours. What's your secret to making a recipe easy f ... More >>

Rosario's in Boca Raton: Garlic Bread Featured on Food Network's Best Thing I Ever Ate

​You might not think a dish as elementary as garlic bread would be featured on one of the Food Network's most popular shows. But, like Alex Guarnaschelli, if you've tasted the garlic bread at Rosario's Ristorante in Boca Raton, it doesn't seem odd at all.  As a regular on "The Best Thing I Ev ... More >>

Happy Holidays With Delicioso's Ingrid Hoffmann

​There are few breaks in the house of Chef Ingrid Hoffmann. If she's not recording one of her shows, she's making appearances on others. When that stops, she has meetings to discuss her cookware, books, the future of her mobile application, and a spices line. This Friday, she gets one of those f ... 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 >>

The List: 13 Things Foodies Should Be Thankful For

​Thursday, November 25, is, of course, Thanksgiving Day. It's a day for Americans from coast to coast to gather family and friends and, in the spirit of the holiday, watch interminable football games between two pathetic teams of losers who couldn't beat their own grandmother with a tire iron. Tha ... More >>

South Park Riffs on Food Network with "Creme Fraiche"

South Park's rendition of Food Network star Guy Fieri. ​I used to never miss an episode of the Comedy Central show South Park. It's skewering of pop-culture fads and personalities is unmatched, even if it often devolves into shock-value programming in the process. But last night's episode, titled ... More >>

Thank God It's Over, but 2009 Does End With the Promise of Better Things to Come