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It's Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's

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An Easy Bake Oven for Everyone

Let's get serious. Even in 1950s, when the woman's place was supposedly in the kitchen, men still had a role in home cooking. Take summer barbecues for example. Manning the grill was a matter of pride. Men staked their reputations on everything from the way the charcoals were arranged and lit to the ... More >>

13 Year Old Girl Wants Easy Bake Ovens To Be Marketed To Boys

If you ask any chef working in an American kitchen today, you'll probably hear that the industry is male-dominated. Though there are a fair share of women behind the burners, the kitchen is physically demanding, sometimes dangerous, and usually off-color. There's no time for crying, feelings, or eve ... More >>

Beer and Dinner Pairing

Preppers Beware: Gas Can Manufacturers Warn of Shortage During 2012 Hurricane Season

Less than two weeks to hurricane season, amateur preppers: not so much time to study up on your Mormon theology or survival medicine before the ol' cones start showing up and the TV weathermen experience the only exciting time of their year. As you've surely learned from us by now, a central tenet o ... More >>

Free Cone Day Today at Ben & Jerry's Stores

​Free deep-fried onions and free (possibly pink-slime-laced) burgers won't necessarily appeal to every consumer, but it seems there's one national chain promotion with practically universal allure. Ben & Jerry's is celebrating "free cone day" today from noon to 8 p.m. at stores around the coun ... More >>

Free Americone Dream At Ben & Jerry's Today

​Ben & Jerry's is getting all indignant about campaign contributions by big businesses.  The Vermont-based ice cream maker, known for their pop-culture-referenced products (anyone for a Late Night Snack or some delicious Schweddy Balls?), is asking fans of their treats to sign a petition ... More >>

Brooklyn Water Bagel Company Comes to Hollywood: Free Bagels To First 100

Gregg Rory Holland via FacebookIt's all about the water..​The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Company is opening their doors in Hollywood this Wednesday.The company says the secret to their bagels is in their Brooklynized water. In case you're not sure what the heck that means, many people say the r ... More >>

Schakolad Offers Chocolate Classes for Kids

​Mamas shouldn't let their babies grow up to be cowboys, this is true. But chocolatiers?  That would be sweet.  If you have a budding chocolatier in your house, or you imagine you can control your little angel when he/she goes starts bouncing off the walls on a king-size sugar high, then ... More >>

Schakolad Chocolate Factory Field Trip Gives Kids a Chance to Dip Chocolates

Send your kids on a Willy Wonka-like adventure. ​Schakolad Chocolate Factory in Davie is giving kids 6 to 15 a chance to try their hand at dipping chocolates.The chocolatiers on staff, Dafne Reich and Adriana Schaked, who we assume have dealt with gooey kids before, will provide a 50-minute progra ... More >>

Free Ice Cream Cones Today at Ben & Jerry's

Free ice cream cones today at Ben & Jerry's​Ben & Jerry's is giving away free ice cream cones today from noon - 8:00 p.m.  No printout or coupon is required, you don't have to sign up for anything and you don't have to say a magic password - just walk in to any of their sc ... More >>

Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's: Tuesday, April 12th 2011

  Photo Courtesy of Google Images ​ Summer is fast approaching; Heck, some days it feels like it's already here. While it's still snowing in some states, we're already busy thinking of ways to battle the heat. Some people sumberge themselves in the pool until their skin prunes; ... More >>

Florida Cheesemakers: Hani's Organics and Winter Park Dairy

​John Paul Kline is a local chef and proprietor of John Paul Custom Cuisine in Delray Beach. He also leads the monthly food and wine events at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. Here, he shares his thoughts about two Florida cheesemakers he recently discovered. It was probably around 10,000 yea ... More >>

Sick of Salmonella? Chiquita's New Salad Wash Wards Off Bacteria

Now with less salmonella.​Seems like every few months, we're hearing about a salmonella or E. coli scare. Lettuce, tomatoes, eggs, and more are seemingly becoming gateways to pathogens in our food system.Leave it to food science to strike back. Chicago-based producer Chiquita announced Friday that ... More >>

SoFla’s Winter Wimbledon

Criminal Investigation Launched Against Another Hospital Commissioner

browardhealth.orgFernandez​Broward Health Commissioner Mike Fernandez is being investigated by the Broward State Attorney's Office for criminal corruption. The investigation was launched after Juice reported potential conflicts of interest between Fernandez's public office and his private work as ... More >>

Rape Victim Sees Doctor, Loses Health Insurance

flickr.comRape? Sounds like a pre-existing condition to insurance companies.​Christina Turner, a 45-year-old Fort Lauderdale woman, was downtown, letting men at the bar by her drinks. The next thing she remembers is waking up on a roadside with cuts and bruises that indicated she may have been rap ... More >>

Enjoy Your Coupon, Jaguar Killer

floridacrystalscoupon.com​Who doesn't love jaguars? The big cat. The slick car. The NFL team you always forget is in Florida. But in these vicious economic times, you must choose between your love of jaguars and your desire to save money on Florida Crystals sugar.Above, a freeze frame of the sugar ... More >>

But I Hardly Even Know ’Er

West Palm Condo Building Plagued by Chinese Drywall

So far, the problems with Chinese drywall in South Florida appear to have been confined to single-family homes. Sure, some entire developments, like Heron Bay in Parkland, might turn out to have been built with the defective drywall. But the reports of Chinese drywall in South Florida have so far be ... More >>

Construction Workers Admit They Installed a Stink Bomb with Chinese Drywall

The only way to hang Chinese drywall.It's something of a cliché by now to think of Florida developers as the bad guys. But as homeowners start blaming them for the defective Chinese drywall rotting their homes, it is literally the stench that has led them to contractors.Not the developer's stench, ... More >>

Boca Lawyer, Not Carl Bernstein, Broke Chinese Drywall Story

Suddenly, "made in China" doesn't have a good ring to it.In the Hollywood-produced movie about the Chinese drywall controversy, I'm guessing the story will be broken wide open by Zac Efron as ace reporter Carl Bernstein Jr. That would be supercool for me and all the other Efron fans. But in real lif ... More >>

A Port in Poland

Is Big Tobacco Using Healthy Start to Do Its Dirty Work?

Like many nonprofits that depend on government funding, the Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions is facing cuts. The organization that focuses on prenatal and infant health may have 22 percent trimmed from its 2009 budget.  Unlike other nonprofits, however, the organization has propo ... More >>

Got My First Xmas Card!

Hey, sorry for not keeping the pump primed on this thing. Deep into one of those cover stories we do. But I do want to share with you my holiday card (holy shiite, this year flew by, eh?). It's from my stock broker. Happy holidays, folks. [Also, on a related note, the SunSentinel proclaims tod ... More >>

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