House and Home

White House Kitchen Affected by Sequestration

The federal government's budget cuts are being felt everywhere these days -- including in the White House kitchen.In an interview with reporters, the White House's assistant chef and senior policy adviser for the healthy food initiative, Sam Kass, announced that he was being furloughed, according to ... More >>

The Garden of Eatin: Free Vegetable Gardening Classes at the Yellow Green Market

You probably already know, but it's Slow Foods week, a celebration of all things locally grown. While we love the idea of eating at farm-to-table restaurants and buying from local producers, you couldn't get much closer than your own backyard. No, we mean literally. Karin Fields -- a.k.a. the Edib ... More >>

Farm-Your-Backyard: Vegetable Growing

Everything Orchids A Shady Affair Plant Sale

The Edible Gardening Gal Talks Suspicious Neighbors and Rookie Mistakes

In her former life -- before she became The Edible Gardening Gal and an urban garden guru -- Karin Fields was a professional singer. The career left her with a lot of free-time during the daylight hours and that's when she got hooked on gardening. The passion was so deep that she dropped the singing ... 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 >>

Build a Better Block and They Will Come

Earth Day in South Florida: Food and Drink Activities for Tree Huggers

Earth Day is Sunday, and according to Groupon, the planet will be celebrating its 400th birthday. After contemplating that failure in math and/or marketing humor, consider using this weekend to get out into the community and learn about ways to make an impact locally and globally, particularly when ... More >>

Skip the Doc; Bomb Some Seeds

Pride, Envy, and Other Sins in the Community Garden

​On a recent weekday afternoon, I crouched in a modified yoga squat, neck and chin thrust forward as I inspected the sparse leaves on the only remaining tomato plant in my plot at the Boca Raton Community Garden. I'd started with five plants at the beginning of the garden's inaugural planting seas ... More >>

Roaches Found at Three Broward Restaurants

​Last week, three local Broward restaurants were issued emergency closure orders by the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation during routine inspections.  All three restaurants were found to have roaches.  On March 5, 2012 Joe's Coffee Shop, located at 2 NE 3rd Str ... More >>

Boynton Beach Police Follow Trail of Weed Crumbs to "Bubba" and 39 Other Pot Plants

Boynton Beach PoliceA few of the pot plants allegedly belonging to amateur horticulturist Jesse Duncans.​If you happen to have 40 pot plants growing in your apartment, you're probably going to get caught if you leave a trail of cannabis crumbs inside your place for the cops to follow.According to ... More >>

Interiors... Designed

Federal Court Upholds Florida's Bizarre Interior Designer Licensing Law

​An interior designer is not a medical doctor. An interior designer is not a lawyer, or a pharmacist, or a school teacher, or someone who transports hazardous chemicals that could kill large swaths of society.Interior designers help you decide which colors look good in a bedroom or office and wher ... More >>

Two Restaurants Closed Over Roaches, Possible Food Contamination

​We hear it everywhere - from the news, cooking shows and our mother - don't let raw chicken and meat play with your vegetables and for God's sake WASH YOUR HANDS! These food prep rules are so basic, any five year old who's ever helped mom in the kitchen knows them. Unfortunately for two loc ... More >>

Crepemaker Closed Over Roach Infestation

​It's a fact of living in Florida: Roaches are everywhere. But none of us really wants to know about it. Especially not when it comes to where we eat. Well, last week, roaches struck a little closer to home -- at the Coconut Creek Promenade, to be exact. Chain restaurant Crepemaker, located b ... More >>

Health Inspectors Crack Down on Unlicensed Restaurants

​Better check yourself before you wreck yourself, eateries. Inspectors seem to be cracking down more and more on what they deem unlicensed activity, which could be as simple as not properly displaying licenses to serving food without one at all. Two local digs were shut down last week for that rea ... More >>

Health Inspectors Fry KFC for Sewage Leaks

​Health inspectors have been busy little bees over the past month, tracking down kitchen nightmares like Gordon Ramsay on a coke binge. Their latest haul: a KFC location in Oakland Park that found itself in deep water -- literally. Want to check out restaurant records for yourself? Search the Flor ... More >>

Three Party-Planning Tips I Learned From Drag Queens

Twat LaRouge ​Throwing a party can be, for some people, a real drag. They create for themselves a whirl of faux stress, brought on by popping open a can of Pringles and procuring a five-pound bag of ice from 7-Eleven. Whew, exhausting! But it is the guests who suffer most. We've all been invi ... More >>

Health Inspectors Nail Three Broward Eateries This Week

​As a food blog, we're supposed to be an appetizing read. But there's nothing appetizing about the three Broward eateries shut down over the past week by the Florida Department of Business and Regulation. Health Inspectors deemed the following three restaurants so unsafe for consumers that th ... More >>

Health Inspectors Shut Down 15 Fort Lauderdale/Miami Restaurants

​How would you like to eat at a restaurant where the kitchen is crawling with rodents and bugs, where the walk-ins are filthy, and the line hasn't been cleaned in months? Not to scare you, but it happens, and more often than you think. Florida inspectors have been hitting the motherlode of filthy ... More >>

A Street With a View

Lauderdale Bedbug Lawyer Says Tourists Should Check Registry

Cimex Lectularius, coming soon to an Airport Hilton near you.​The Airport Hilton, Palm Beach. The Marriott Key Largo. The Clevelander Miami Beach. The Ocean Manor Resort Fort Lauderdale. The Embassy Suites in Boca. These are only a few of the South Florida hotels and guest houses riddled with bedb ... More >>

2009 Restaurant Roll Call - Openings

​We all know 2009 was sort of a strange year for restaurants. On one hand, there were dozens of significant openings, places that really added to our overall scene. On the other, there was more attrition than a super-long game of Risk. Here's a comprehensive run down, from A to Z of what opened in ... More >>

Bova Cucina Hosts Thanksgiving for "Underprivileged" -- Do Rothstein Investors Qualify?

After you pay $57 million to get access to funds awarded in a phony court judgment, like Ed Morse did, you're liable to worry about whether you can round up the money to pay for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner -- you know, with the caviar, the Kobe steak, and the cast of celebrity guests. It's the ... More >>

Florida Interior Designers Free at Last

flickr.com Interior design by any other name... Free at last. Free at last. An injunction gives sunshine state interior designers the freedom to advertise their services with controversial, explosive words like..."interior design". That's right, yesterday Federal District Judge Robe ... More >>

Post: No Holiday Party Or Raises for $65,000-plus employees

In what might be called a progressive move, the Palm Beach Post is giving employees at the company who make $65,000 and less a 2 percent raise this year. Those making more than that are out of luck; they'll see no increase. Also on the chopping block: Holiday parties, which will get no funding this ... More >>

Top Chefs Throw Pity Party, Dec. 8th

Sandy Skoglund, "The Cocktail Party" Got 100 people coming for a holiday shindig? Stupidest idea you EVER had, right? Believe it, we've been there. But four of Palm Beach's top chefs are taking pity this season and throwing a bash at Cafe Boulud that might help prevent us from totally screwing up ... More >>

Palm Beach Bargain Basements

The New Traditional Labor Day Menu

Would You Mind Pollinating Me?

Inglés Just Got Here

Spanish roots go deep

Cleaning House

The Caldwell catches a play hot off its premiere in New York — and nails it

Paper Tigers

Viva Piñata is adorable -- and misleading.

Best Pet Store

Wild Cargo Pets & Supplies

Best Charity

Chief Sitting Bull Organic Garden

Best Place to Buy Beer

Case & Keg Beer World

Best Rusty Anchors

Culpepper & Co.

It's Unbelievable

Wet Dreams of the Garden Variety

Events for March 6-12, 2003

Best Homemade Pasta

Arturo's Ristorante

Best Men's Clothing

Twickenham Custom Clothiers

Dirty Work

A tale of prison gardeners is this summer's sweetest feel-good comedy

Painting and Parking

A father and son paint the town not just red but green, blue, and more

Mango Madness

The Second Annual Northwood Hills Mango Festival

Best Rich and Famous House Tour

Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club

Chintz Rules!

Ernest Appraisals

Blinded by the Light

Guess Who's Serving Dinner