Just when you thought it was safe to eat ice cream..We recently came upon a list of “eight ingredients you never want to see on your nutritional label” on menshealth.com. As we perused the usual suspects — sodium nitrates, food dyes, partially hydrogenated oil — we came across an additive…
Since the Alice Waters and Chez Panisse came into the scene in Berkeley in the 1960’s, there has been a huge movement to localize our food systems. Obviously, some areas caught on a bit quicker than others. Some areas do make it easier. Iowa, for example, is pretty much one…
What if just about everything you thought you knew about taking vitamins, minerals and supplements turned out to be bogus? What if it was all a scam? According to nutrition expert Dr. Brian Clement, director of West Palm Beach’s Hippocrates Health Institute, there can be dangers to supplementing your diet…
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. The famed Mayo Clinic says that eating breakfast could promote weight loss by jump-starting an adult’s metabolism.Eating breakfast is even more important for children. The Mayo Clinic says that children who eat breakfast are more likely to concentrate better, have better…
Farm-to-Table has become a major buzzword over the past few years. And we’re certainly not complaining about the trend. Aside from the benefits to the local economy, individual health, and environmental impact, local and organic foods taste better. Isn’t that what dining out is supposed to be about? Vincent Foti,…
When you crack open a cold one, or have it served to you in a frosted glass, you’re expecting to drink beer, right? But what about heavy metals? No we’re not talking about Iron Maiden, but arsenic. Arsenic, people! A recent report claims that high levels of arsenic has been…
U.S. Highway 27 marks the border between the Everglades and suburbia. The contrast is stark: On one side of the highway, a paved, subdivided, and strip-malled South Florida stretches all the way to the ocean; on the other, mangroves and squat emerald saw-grass marshes go as far as the eye…
The federal government’s budget cuts are being felt everywhere these days — including in the White House kitchen.In an interview with reporters, the White House’s assistant chef and senior policy adviser for the healthy food initiative, Sam Kass, announced that he was being furloughed, according to the Associated Press. Kass…
A lot of people have an intense fear of bees. Whether you were stung as a child or just traumatized from young Macaulay Culkin’s death in My Girl, the buzzing little insect has picked up a bad rep. And yet, the prolific pollinators are integral to our food supply. Without…
Release nights are always a crowd pleaser at the Funky Buddha Lounge & Brewery, Boca Raton’s current flagship brew lounge. Fifty to 60 people, packed three deep at the bar, managed to find enough room for themselves in anticipation of the beers to be tapped. You could feel the excitement…
Farmer Jay is a public relations dream for the local locavore movement — a smart, personable farmer who’s passionate about sharing tips on healthy eating.You would think that between running Farmer Jay Organics and writing for New Times, the man would just want to curl up with a good book…
There’s a huge Jamaican and West Indian population in the western part of Broward County. While immigration to South Florida is perpetual, it seemed as though the seeds of this community began arriving in the late 1970s. As we wandered around Sunrise and Weston, eating everything from slow-cooked oxtail to…
Are you the type of person that likes to do everything yourself? You change your car’s oil in the garage, do your taxes online, service your own pool — and even mow your lawn without a single complaint. Why? Because it’s getting done the right way, that’s why! Now, if…
Eating out tends to have negative effects on the size of your wallet. And while cooking at home tends to have positive impacts on your cash flow — and waistline — it can eat away at your free time. If you’re broke and too busy, lazy, or culinarily challenged to…
It’s less than a month away. On April 19, the Las Olas Wine and Food Festival will be taking over Fort Lauderdale’s most prestigious boulevard.The four-block festival will be bringing in wine, cocktails, and food galore. And just so you know, the festival has added a bunch of new restaurants…
The time has come, South Florida. New Times writers are busy choosing our picks for the best food, music, shops, services, and anything else that can be categorized for our annual blockbuster Best Of Broward-Palm Beach. But for all our hard work, there are some of you who think you…
The Tortuga Music Festival is hitting Fort Lauderdale beach this weekend. And with it comes an eclectic mix of performers, from country music stars like Kenny Chesney to modern hippies like Michael Franti & Spearhead and Ben Harper. So it should come as no surprise that concertgoers will include a…
Ah, happy hour. That wonderful time of day when one can drink copious amounts of alcohol for just a fraction of the usual bill. How could one be unhappy with that sort of deal? To make happy hour even happier, Delray Beach’s 75 Main has made some changes to its…
The sky had just begun to clear on Friday night, saving dozens from being soaked as they waited to be banded, wineglassed, and plated before taking on a wide field of food and drink inside Fort Lauderdale’s Museum of Discovery and Science. It was the museum’s 18th foodcentric fundraiser dubbed…
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Hopefully you made it to Beerfest over the weekend. If not, we’re sorry. If so, not to be a buzzkill, but chances are the peak of your week has passed. However, that’s not to say you can’t find some food- or drink-related fun. We have this week’s picks for the…
At 87 years of age, the former Prime Minister of Britain Margaret Thatcher passed away from a stroke today. Known as the “Iron Lady,” Thatcher is best-known for her staunch conservative ways — the female British counterpart to Reagan.Whether you agree with her political stance or not, being the first…
