Criteria is simple:A great chef who made his or her mark in Miami and
then moved on. David Bouley doesn't qualify, as he wasn't actually
doing the cooking at Evolution. Carmen Gonzalez of the departed
Carmen's might make my top ten, but I don't think of her as being in
quite in the same league as these others, who are listed in loose
chronological order -- starting with the first to leave.
Kerry Simon: Miami's star chef in the early to mid-nineties when he
helmed Starfish, then Max's, and fina
Farm Sanctuary
National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business
Bureaus earlier this week recommended that D'Artagnan Inc. discontinue
certain advertising claims regarding its Artisan foie gras --
specifically that "the liver is not diseased, simply enlarged", and
that the animals are hand-raised "under the strictest of animal care
standards." NAD's inquiry found that the former claim had not been
adequately substantiated, and that the latter is not only inconsistent
wi
From YOLO's Facebook pageThe tasty-yet-crazy-messy meatballs on YOLO's sliders took second.A few days have passed since YOLO's Moonlight, Meatballs, and Martinis event last Thursday, and I'm still blown away by the judging results. It wasn't who won -- Noodles Panini took first, followed by YOLO at second, and Mancini's at third.But what I couldn't believe: Johnny V's didn't even place.I say this knowing that we panned Johnny V's most recent opening, Smith & Jones. Still, those meatballs
