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Miami Heat Decides It's Had Enough of the Bulls, Proceeds to Destroy Them

The Chicago Bulls, fresh off having their their asses blown off in Friday's game three, decided to go the ole "HEAD GAMES" route before last night's game four. The Bulls turned the tables on the narrative of this series -- that they can't score, so therefore they need to nail option B, which is to ... More >>

The Florida Snow Factory Serves Up Fresh-Shaved Ice and Gluten-Free Frozen Yogurt

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Since the Snow factory opened three months ago in the Harbor Shops plaza in Fort Lauderdale, we South Floridians can get snow anytime we want -- even in the middle of summer. And it won't mess up the roads or muck our yards in brown and yellow piles for weeks o ... More >>

Five Best Neighborhoods for Trick-or-Treating in Broward and Fort Lauderdale

Halloween used to be about spending time perfecting your costume, carving pumpkins with your family, and...wait, who am I kidding? Halloween has always, and will always be all about the candy. Come Halloween night, does your neighborhood look like it was wiped out by the zombie apocalypse  ... More >>

Trick-or-Treaters Invade Rich Neighborhoods: Brilliant Kids or Appalling Trend?

For 364 days of the year, Harrison Street in Hollywood is almost eerily quiet, the lone trophy wife jogging down the Royal Palm-lined streets, the occasional Mercedes zooming toward the beach. But Halloween night, this street is crawling. With seven-year-olds.  Somehow, word got out: this is where ... More >>

British Newspaper The Telegraph Mocks American Food; We Fight Back

The British newspaper The Telegraph has a slideshow up today mocking the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, California. The slideshow is titled "Only In America".As you can probably guess, it features image after image of deep-fried American specialties such as deep fried Oreos, deep-fried Snickers, ... More >>

Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream "Nachos"

Baskin-Robbins is introducing a new way to eat ice cream that may just blow your mind. Forget carrying your ice cream around inside the waffle cone, making it all soggy and mushy by the end. Ever had one of those things leak out the bottom all over your new pants while stuck watching your little bro ... More >>

Homeless Guy Gets 180 Days in Jail for Stealing $2 Worth of Candy

Better get a candy lineup ready. Delvis Rodriguez-Ramos, a 21-year-old homeless man, was sentenced to 180 days in jail for stealing a Twix and a Snickers from an Ocala, Florida, store. The total price for both candies: $2. We're not sure which is the bigger outrage here: the punishment, or the ... More >>

A1A Marathon and Half Marathon: Taste Testing The Swag Bag

​The A1A Marathon and Half Marathon is this Sunday, February 19.  A marathon is much more than an endurance run. There's an entire weekend of activity surrounding the race, including the pre-race carbo-load pasta dinner, the post-race brunch with beer (must replenish carbs), race strategies ( ... More >>

Gluten-Intolerant? Five Beer-Pong-Worthy, Gluten-Free Options

​When making dinner plans with friends, I usually ask something along the lines of, "What type of food are you in the mood to eat?" Recently, after two botched outings with friends, I've realized that the first thing I should ask is, "Are you gluten-intolerant?"Last month, I met with a friend at P ... More >>

The Five Best Halloween Candies

​Back before coffee, Starbuck's addictions, and Redbull-infused cocktails, sugar was the only way to get high. Halloween was always the best holiday of the year because you would spend hours talking to strangers and collecting pillowcases full of candy. The sugar high was a child's most sought ... More >>

Things to Do for Food Day That Don't Suck

​Though I thought it was Food Day every day, today is different in that it's been christened as a time to recognize the declining quality of the American diet by addressing issues involving food and hunger, sustainability, farm worker conditions, and healthy eating. National Food Day was ... More >>

Cheesecake Factory to Open in Pembroke Pines

Cheesecake FactoryPembroke Pines residents - this cheesecake is coming for you!​The Cheesecake Factory, the chain with the five-hundred-page menu best known for its vast cheesecake selection including Chocolate Tuxedo Cheesecake and Snickers Bar Chunks and Cheesecake, is opening a Pembroke Pines l ... More >>

Renaissance Festival Food -- Huzzah!

divemasterking2000Old-fashioned root beer -- is it fit for a king?​This weekend is your last chance to visit this year's Florida Renaissance Festival in Deerfield Beach. There you can practice chess or archery, watch jousts with live horses, listen to live music, witness artisan glass blowing, be ... More >>

Smart for Life Cookie Diet: Does It Work?

Those are Smart for Life's oatmeal raisin cookies​A cookie diet sounds delicious. Like everyone else, I imagined some gooey chocolate chip cookies, maybe some macadamia nut.The reality was much more spongy - although not bad.After writing about Smart for Life's new gluten-free cookie diet and lear ... More >>

Five-Course Rogue Beer Dinner at Rack's Downtown Eatery

​Southern-fried quail, maple braised pork belly, and chocolate stout whipped cream, each paired with Rogue Ale? Sounds like the food-nerd express is headed to Beersville. Actually, it's Rack's Downtown Eatery and Tavern. The gastro haven is hosting a five-course beer dinner on November 16 that ... More >>

Gluten-Free Halloween Candy

Reese's are safe for Celiacs!As we've written in previous posts, people who can't eat gluten (AKA celiacs) are forced to carefully read every label to make sure to avoid gluten -- which seems to be in just about everything.Reading labels can make it difficult for gluten-free children come candy time ... More >>

Verbal Nosh With Chef Allen Susser, Taste Gastropub, Delray Beach

Chef Allen Susser, one of the original Miami Mango Gang of chefs, so named because of their commitment to using Florida foods, opens in Delray Beach tomorrow with Taste. It's a gastropub, and we chatted with him about this new venture -- far from Aventura's more formal sitdown, Chef Allen's, he's ru ... More >>

Deep-Fried Oreos Are the Chocolate Bomb

​Ever bite into a deep-fried Oreo? A favorite treat of fairs and carnivals from Texas to Tequesta, these battered and fried versions of the classic cookie are stellar. They're coated in funnel cake batter and fried so that the batter forms a balloon-like crust. The chocolate part of the cookie mel ... More >>

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