Nuts and Edible Seeds

Happy Food Allergy Awareness Week

You're Too Single! Eat, Eat!

Heavenly Hash

The Straight Dope

Once in a Blue Moon

Sheesh Kebab

Best Desserts

Rhythm Café

Best Thing to Come from Albania Since John Belushi

Tony's Pasta & Pizza

Best French Restaurant

Bistro Provence

Best Bagels

Bagel Palace

Best Ice Cream

Key West Crossing

"Yes Pecan" - Ben & Jerry's Launches Obama Ice Cream

Business-hippies Ben & Jerry know ice cream cross-branding is a powerful way to push a message and make people smile. Hell, their corporate language refers to the CEO as "chief euphoria officer." With that in mind, they've chosen January as a month of change wherein their famous butter pecan f ... More >>

Girl Scout Cookies Hit Streets, Scared of Salmonella?

Cookie junkies across the nation simultaneously erupted in joy and floundered in despair when '09 Girl Scout cookie shipments hit the streets and salmonella peanut butter reports hit the airwaves. But don't despair, according to MSN Health & Fitness:"The drum roll for recalls of peanut butter p ... More >>

The Zutons

Cookie junkies across the nation simultaneously erupted in joy and floundered in despair when '09 Girl Scout cookie shipments hit the streets and salmonella peanut butter reports hit the airwaves. But don't despair, according to MSN Health & Fitness:"The drum roll for recalls of peanut butter p ... More >>

More Peanut Recalls: That health bar could kill you

A hail of darts to the Peanut Corporation of America, who it now turns out KNOWINGLY shipped products that had tested positive for salmonella. The worst of it is, so many of these peanut-infested foods went to schools and nursing homes -- they couldn't have done a better job targeting at-risk popula ... More >>

Cooking Like a Rock Star

No need for nostalgia at Giovanni Rocchio's Valentino's

From Israel, With Love

Who put the cranberries in my falafel?

Yes, We Have Guacamole

But try the puff pastry too at El Chamol

Scale the Heights

But try the puff pastry too at El Chamol

To the Max

Gone fishin' with 3030's Chef Dean, and a revisit to Café Maxx

Heaven's Kitchen

At Lola's, chef Michael Wagner has your back

Cuckoo for Coconuts

Lauderdale-by-the-Sea may lose its soul over a political firefight.

Riot Grrrrrill

Chef Rino Balzano likes to play with fire

The Bargain Bhaji

Eat more, pay less at Taj and Little India

Sweet Paya

Eat more, pay less at Taj and Little India

The Mideast Moves West

Eat more, pay less at Taj and Little India

The Painted House

Eat more, pay less at Taj and Little India

Fun with Fruit

The Tropical Fruit Festival sweetens the weekend

Coho Rising

When Coho Grill irons out a few rough spots,there’s no telling how good it can get

Dropping the Bombay

Taste of Bombay could scar a budding gastronome for life

A Pregnant Opinion

Kyoto Sushi and Sake Lounge

Foodstuff

Terrace Oceanside

Sweetly Hybrid

Eddie Hills and Sushi Thai

Al-Salam Brings Mideast to Plantation

Eddie Hills and Sushi Thai

Lantana Town Manager Mike Bornstein: Coconuts for the Homeless?

Coconuts: A new plan for feeding the homeless​Lantana Town Manager Mike Bornstein says he got a pretty good laugh when he found out the hundreds of coconuts he'd mailed to Postmaster General John E. Potter had been given away to homeless shelters.  "We were imagining the cafeteria at the shel ... More >>

Dish Deconstructed: Pumpkin Spice Soup

John LinnWarm, spicy pumpkin soup is a winter time treat.​ Now that we're enjoying one of our rare cold fronts, you may as well make the most of it by making some wintery, homemade soup. This pumpkin spice soup takes canned pumpkin puree and turns it into an easy, cheap, and tasty meal that will w ... More >>

Dish Deconstructed: Fesenjan

John LinnFesenjan with long grain rice.​I first wrote about the Persian dish fensenjan in a review for the now defunct Darius Palace in Fort Lauderdale. The slow-stewed walnut and pomegranate dish that Darius served reminded me of a version I used to enjoy at a childhood friend's house. After an a ... More >>

Italian Oven Café's Artichoke-Lemon Pesto

​I miss Italian Oven Café.  For a quick, inexpensive, Italianesque lunch in a contemporary, cleanly designed room, this now-long gone eatery in West Palm's CityPlace did it better than just about anybody. What did it in apparently had nothing to do with the food but with a much-delayed openi ... More >>

Casa Maya Grill in Deerfield Beach Is an Original

​I miss Italian Oven Café.  For a quick, inexpensive, Italianesque lunch in a contemporary, cleanly designed room, this now-long gone eatery in West Palm's CityPlace did it better than just about anybody. What did it in apparently had nothing to do with the food but with a much-delayed openi ... More >>

DIY Chocolate

flickr user: notfrancois​Nowadays you can design your own pizza, customize your own hamburger, build your own ice cream cone, and create your own pasta from a selection of noodles, sauces, and proteins. Wouldn't it be great if you could do the same with chocolate?  Uh, well, yes.  And, i ... More >>

Beer-Food Pairing Dinner at Racks

​They're not letting any hops grow under their feet at the new Racks Downtown Eatery Tavern in Mizner Park.  Come Tuesday, August 3, the sleek modern American bistro will offer its first beer-food pairing dinner, with top toque Matthew Danaher dishing five courses to go along with a quartet ... More >>

Pumpkin Pecan Pancakes Make Halloween Morning a Treat

​I'm all about breakfast, the most important meal of the day. It's especially fun when you make something seasonal and themed, like these pumpkin and pecan pancakes. They'd fit right in with the fall theme anytime from now until Christmas, but who doesn't think about pumpkins, especially around Ha ... More >>

I'm Eating What?! Halva, Food of the Gods

Photo by Riki AltmanThis isn't nearly as tough as granite.​We mistakenly thought everyone knew about halva, the sesame-based treat found in nearly every deli and Middle Eastern market. But when one of our friends spotted this plastic container in our pantry and exclaimed, "What the heck is that?" ... More >>

Chef to Chef: Q&A With Raoul Valle, Owner of Green Wave Cafe

Photo provided by Green Wave Cafe Over the past few years, there has been a heightened focus on food and where it comes from. Books like Fast Food Nation and Kitchen Confidential have been huge popular hits. If you're having nightmares about where your food comes from and how it's been proce ... More >>

Sesame-Crusted Tuna Steaks: A Recipe by Geoffrey Zakarian

Laine Doss Geoffrey Zakarian and wife Margaret​Last night Geoffrey Zakarian represented New York restaurant The National at The South Beach Wine & Food Festival's Burger Bash. Geoffrey will also appear at the sold out The Best Thing I Ever Ate. Clean Plate Charlie recently intervi ... More >>

Coconut Curried Snapper, A Recipe From Chef Charles Coe

Catch, Clean Cook Coconut Snapper​Chef Charles Coe is the star of the new television series Catch, Clean Cook. Set in the Caribbean, Chef Charles and takes viewers to different exotic locales where he and his crew make a wonderful meal using only the freshest local ingredients. Clean Plat ... More >>

Vegan Cupcake Recipe: Leaving the Nest Almond / Caramel / Chocolate Cupcakes

​Earlier this month, while some high school seniors were ditching classes to catch up on lost episodes of 16 and Pregnant (it's too addictive to avoid), one impressive Nova High School senior took pen to paper and later spatula to bowl to craft the perfect sticky sweet sendoff as she leaves her fa ... More >>

Pan Fried Red Snapper With Roasted Almonds: A Recipe From Chef Mike Of Coco Asian Bistro & Bar

Coco Asian Bistro​Recently we featured an interview with Chef Mike Ponluang, owner of Coco Asian Bistro in Fort Lauderdale. If you missed it, you can read it here and here. We're now sharing Chef Mike's recipe for pan seared red snapper with roasted almonds. Enjoy.

Q &A with Raw Foods Chef Christopher Slawson of Christopher's Kitchen

Photo provided by Christopher's Kitchen Chef Christopher Slawson Raw food has been dubbed as a revolution, a movement, a diet, a trend. But Chef Christopher Slawson is so dedicated to eating raw foods -- or as he calls them, "living foods" -- that he has opened a raw foods eatery, Christophe ... More >>

State Senator's Bill Would Make It a Crime to Pick Up Someone Else's Pecans (Yes, Really)

werenuts.comJailbait.​If State Sen. Bill Montford has it his way, you can be thrown in jail for picking up pecans.Unfortunately, we're serious.Senate Bill 1708, which would make it a second-degree misdemeanor to pick up pecans from the ground or to "cause" pecans to fall from a tree you don't own, ... More >>