Cool Blue Ask an American what he thinks of the Turkish people or Turkish food and, if all goes well, you'll get a blank stare. What we don't know about...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: May 08, 2008
Immovable Feast It's a recent Monday night on Clematis Street, and the only restaurants doing much business after 9 are Cabana, Pizza Girls, and Pistache French...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: May 01, 2008
Very Like a Whale There's a little amusement you can indulge in at the Whale Raw Bar and Fish House in Parkland while you're waiting for your basket o' steamers....
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: April 24, 2008
Cold Sake, Warm Heart We've evolved to protect ourselves from dangerous food. We have a genetic predisposition to find spoiled vittles repellent, and we must "acquire...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: April 17, 2008
Marriage is Like Mushrooms If you're like Amy Winehouse, Rod Stewart, and Tony Bennett, you got married for the first or third time in May or June. That means your...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: April 10, 2008
Kerala Killer Coral Springs isn't exactly inundated with ethnic dining options — if the suburban west Broward community of young families and Fort...
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By John Linn
Published: April 10, 2008
Chopsticks Say: Ka-ching! Here's a restaurant with volume set to "max," 14,000 square feet of surround-sound at the Fort Lauderdale Grande's new China Grill. From design...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: April 03, 2008
Yes, We Have Guacamole Read anything about Mexican mole (pronounced MOLE-ay), a sauce so contrarian few have been able to define it, and you'll probably run across at...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: March 27, 2008
Your Questions Answered What's your favorite food?
Whatever I'm eating at the moment. Whatever I just ate. Whatever I might eat tomorrow. Right now, faced with a...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: March 20, 2008
Clematis Lays Golden Egg The week they opened in downtown West Palm Beach, the staff at Forté di Asprinio (225 Clematis St., West Palm Beach; 561-833-3330) were...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: March 20, 2008
Not Your Average Jo I don't want to go all maudlin here, but what the hell happened to diners? Maybe they do exist still, like endangered pachyderms retreating ever...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: March 13, 2008
King Fisher These days, it's not just a question of where to find fresh produce, meat, and fish. It has to be organic. Local. Ethical. One market might have...
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By John Linn
Published: March 13, 2008
Havana Is Open Castro resigns! I'm not old enough to remember a Cuba without El Caballo in the presidential compound, but in solidarity with those who are, we...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: February 28, 2008
Thinking Outside the Noodle Box People don't want to cross the bridge to get here," says Peter Wong. He's talking about the little concrete blip that arches over the...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: February 21, 2008
Tet à Tet I got to know Japanese food intimately at Yoko, a long, thin strip of a restaurant lined with pleather-covered booths, smoked mirrors, and a...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: February 07, 2008
Enlightened Eating You'd have to have steel cojones, or some mixture of naiveté and optimism, to name your first restaurant Nirvana. You'd be setting the bar...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: October 04, 2007
Livin' la Lima Loca I've probably given about 30 seconds' thought to Peruvian food in the past ten years. The culinary wonders of the Andes were totally off my...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: September 27, 2007
Jaws Eats Claws To hear our waiter tell it, there's no fish shortage in South Florida. You just drop your baited line or your net full of little pylon oysters...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: September 20, 2007
Heaven's Kitchen Watching Gordon Ramsey is making me violent. The three-Michelin-starred Scottish chef of the Fox reality show Hell's Kitchen is the...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: September 13, 2007
Pass the Bread, Casanova Ladies, watch your backs. Three-quarters of the single adult American male population is suddenly out there perfecting the magic art of...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: September 06, 2007
Mexi-Can't You really have to wonder about Palm Beach Gardens — what the heck is going on up there? The city is attracting investment just as though...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: August 30, 2007
Hot Damn! I knew there was something different about the jerk chicken served at Betty's Place (5601 Pembroke Rd., Hollywood, 954-226-3340), but I wasn't...
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By John Linn
Published: August 30, 2007
All Greek to Me Most of us will put up with a lot so long as we're well entertained. And reasonably fed. Just give us our bread and circuses — and "Mitt...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: August 23, 2007
Don't Thai Me Down, Babe You think it's all fun and games being a food critic, dontcha?
"Oooooh, you're so luuucky," perfect strangers purr when they hear what I do. "I...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: August 16, 2007
Animal Dreams Kevin McCarthy is sautéing chocolate-coated scallops. It sounds as if one of our favorite chefs has wandered into some gustatory la-la...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: August 09, 2007