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Lindsay Autry of Sundy House is South Florida's Top Chef

Being a finalist on season nine of Bravo's Top Chef, may have brought Tastemaker number 9, Lindsay Autry into our living rooms, but the chef had been working on her culinary career long before that. The Johnson & Wales University graduate's career started as a kid in North Carolina, trying to figur ... More >>

25. Chrissy Benoit of the Little House Boynton Beach

New Times' Best Of Broward-Palm Beach 2013 issue arrives June 13. To celebrate, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up 30 of our favorite tastemakers -- restaurateurs, chefs, bartenders, and other foodies who make the South Florida food scene what it is. We'll start with number 30 and lead up to South Fl ... More >>

Voodka in Fort Lauderdale: Style Over Substance

Secrets From the Sysco Guy (Suck It, Food Snobs!)

Sysco. The name is reviled by many in the culinary industry. It conjures images of frozen chicken tenders, packaged salad dressings, and soggy potato skins. Not exactly the finer points of going out to eat. While you may think you know a Sysco product on sight, you might be surprised.Clean Plate Cha ... More >>

Cooking With Chongas: Hialeah's Finest Make Pulled Pork Wontons (Video)

Julia Child set the mold for cooking show hosts to be unconventional. So really, these two lovely ladies are just continuing that, umm, unique tradition.After the jump, learn to make pulled pork wontons - with guava.Juleisy: How do you spell guava?Karla: Gwa-va!We only hope that back hair doesn't en ... More >>

Ruth Bourdain Writes a Book

It seems like everyone and their mother has a book deal. Don't believe us?  Well, let's see...nearly every Real Housewife has one (even the ones who can't seem to be able to read on the show), Mr. Winkle the dog is a constant best seller, and now Ruth Bourdain has a book deal. And we didn't eve ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Julia Child! Celebrate Her 100th With the Julia Child Auto-Tune (Video)

Today marks what would have been the 100th birthday of venerable chef, TV personality, and all-around kick-ass woman Julia Child. No snark here: There's too much to admire about the Francophile gourmand, from her passion for life and excellent food to her prolific career and refusal to let rejection ... More >>

South Florida Dining Events This Week: Summer Hop Fest and More

Hoppy beers, spicy balls, and drink-slinging firefighters; all in all, not a bad week for dining and drinking in South Florida. After the jump, find a roundup of food and drink events -- including a lot of beer-oriented happenings -- in Broward and Palm Beach counties this week. 

Dining Inside Neiman Marcus at The Little Mermaid Bar (Spoiler Alert: There's No Caviar)

When thinking about Neiman Marcus, a few things come to mind -- tanorexic MILFs, elderly women dripping in diamonds, and that gorgeous, cherry-colored Marc Jacobs bag that I would sell my soul for. Recently, a friend suggested that I join her for a bite to eat at the famed department store's café, ... More >>

Hussein, Amin, Gaddafi Star in Nando's South African Chicken Commercial (Video)

​You know that game where you pick five people living or dead to have over for dinner? We'd love to break bread with Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Bourdain, Ernest Hemingway, Julia Child, and Abraham Lincoln. South African chicken restaurant Nando's thinks it would be awesome to have a nice holiday din ... More >>

Emeril Lagasse Sizzling Skillets: A Cookbook For Busy People

William Morrow/Harper CollinsEmeril's Sizzling Skillets - one pot recipes for busy or lazy people.​Emeril Lagasse and his signature "Bam!" was the likely catalyst that sparked the celebrity chef revolution.Lagasse changed the television cooking show from the video instructional manuals of Julia Ch ... More >>

Gaysha New World Sushi in Wilton Manors: Earnest Hospitality and Fresh, Late-Night Sushi

The Chew's Michael Symon Responds to Anthony Bourdain

Michael Symon just wants to cook for America​In an interview with Mercury News, Anthony Bourdain was asked what he thought about The Chew, the ABC foodcentric daytime talk show.Bourdain said, "(Heavy sigh) I'm really shaken. Honestly, I don't know what to believe anymore. Mario Batali is a better ... More >>

Five Sex Toys Brought to You By Williams Sonoma

Tacky toys made for getting off are downright depressing. For example, a lady can try and please herself with a corpse-like shaft or she can go for the cheery purple, pink, or blue equivalent that's about as hot as a Muppet's member. It's enough to make a girl want to give up.That's why I'm here to ... More >>

French Corner Bistro: Traditional French Fare in a Romantic Eight-Table Eatery

100 Favorite Dishes: No. 58 -- Dover Sole from French Corner Bistro & Rotisserie

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com. No. 58 Dover Sole from French Corner Bistro & Rotisserie

Chef Jamie DeRosa of Atlantic Ocean Club and Buddha Sky Bar: Interview, Part I

​Jamie DeRosa, a veteran of Wolfgang Puck Dining Group, Chef Allen's, and the Michelin-starred Fat Duck in England, is breaking onto the South Florida scene with a duo of new spots in Delray Beach, the Atlantic Ocean Club and Buddha Sky Bar. With experience in everything from gastropubs to molecul ... More >>

Chef Mark Militello Out at Trina in Fort Lauderdale

​News flash: renowned local chef Mark Militello is out at Trina, the chic restaurant inside the beachfront Atlantic Resort and Spa in Fort Lauderdale. Today, food and beverage manager Rochelle Burns confirmed his departure, saying,

Palm Beach Gardens Duck Killers Barely Rank Against History's Duck Murderers

These ducks will no longer be featured in Aflac commercials.​Blain and Robert Aymond, the middle-aged duck killers of Palm Beach Gardens, have taken their place in history.A judge on Tuesday declared the couple guilty of misdemeanor ducknapping after they hired a trapper last year to round up a ga ... More >>

Taste Gastropub: Mediocrity Reigns at Allen Susser's New Delray Beach Eatery

Cooking Channel's Original Programming Delivers For "Food People"

John LinnDarryl Robinson, host of Cooking Channel's new show Drink Up.​By now everyone's heard of the Cooking Channel. The new cable station launched two weeks ago with a focus on food programming for "food people" (so named because foodies don't like to be called foodies). It comes courtesy of th ... More >>

Danish Band Kashmir Shares Meaty Wisdom

Photo by Flickr user vulnerablechaosMeatballs: the way to her heart, says one Danish band member.​If you go backstage at Antone's, the legendary music venue in Austin, then head upstairs past whatever band is lingering on the first floor, look closely at the back wall of the small balcony and you' ... More >>

The Five Worst Olive Garden Dishes

Last year, it seemed every new restaurant had the same theme: moderately priced comfort food. This year? So far, it seems Italian is the new comfort food. Or maybe it's the return of the classic comfort food?But even as a whole new slew of Italian joints opens up, the nemesis of fine Italian dining ... More >>

A Quickie with Rocco DiSpirito

Photo by KritsadaRocco DiSpirito​Maybe you only know of Rocco DiSpirito because you've seen him battling Jeffrey Chodorow on the NBC reality show The Restaurant, spinning around the floor on Dancing With the Stars, helping hefties on Biggest Loser, or taking toques to the table on Top Chef, but be ... More >>

Behind the Line: An Interview with Four Seasons Executive Chef Darryl Moiles

Chef Darryl Moiles​When Darryl Moiles, now the executive chef at Four Seasons Palm Beach, was just a high school kid, he and his brother took over a racquetball club's steakhouse in Oxford, Massachusetts. Eventually he made his way to study at Johnson & Wales, then off to Four Seasons Boston f ... More >>

Art Ginsburg (a.k.a. Mr. Food) Gets Grilled

​'Twas the night before Christmas, and if you weren't at the house, you were probably at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek's Sweet Dreams event schmoozing with Art Ginsburg. Wait--you don't know who that is? Yeah, we bet you do. He started out as a butcher then a caterer with a flair for theatre, only ... More >>

New in Film for August 7, 2009

Summer of Salvation

The Terminator is back. Plus 39 other movies we can’t wait to see this season.

First Bites: What's Your Favorite Mom Dish?

Most of us have at least one or two "fond memories" (which may be code for: burned into the brain traumas) of Mother in the kitchen -- whether she was a gourmet cook or a baked-beans-in-a-can afficionado.  My own mom was no great whiz at the stove. We ate a lot of canned weenies and beanies dur ... More >>

Look Back in Hunger

Relax, have a glass of organic plonk: It's time to assess the year

All the Nasty Bits from an Evening with Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali

Elyse Wanshel Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain at the Miami Book Fair International Thursday night. Although former junkie/gutter chef, Anthony Bourdain claims that his life is “all rainbows and unicorns” ever since the birth of his baby daughter, many of his random comments during last night ... More >>

Event: Cooking with Les Dames d'Escoffier

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