Gather round boys and girls, because Clean Plate Charlie wants to share a little Christmas story — courtesy of Anthony Bourdain.We’re sure you’ve heard about Santa Claus and how he brings presents to all good little children. But we want to tell you about who visits naughty little children -…
To the neophyte cook, is there any object more suspect, more chock-full of dangers unknown, than a thick, raw chicken breast?An experienced chef doesn’t worry about chicken. But to me, on a particular evening last summer, as a neophyte cook fresh off my first rice cooker and utterly lacking in…
Fort Lauderdale is no slouch when it comes to street food, with plenty of options like The Whole Enchilada, My Market, Primanti’s, and of course, LaSpada’s. Yet when it comes to a sit-down midday meal that offers more than sandwich shop, the question remains: “Where should we go for lunch?”…
Charm City Burgers in Deerfield reopened this afternoon after a month long renovation. The kitchen hood replacement was the catalyst for the remodeling, the plans for which were designed by owners Mike Saperstein and Evan David. The duo took over Charm City Burgers in 2009 from an acquaintance who was…
As much as some cookbooks have become coffee-table decorations, I appreciate a book that inspires a cover-to-cover read or motivation to cook the hell out of it. Though I’m no Carol Blymire, who has worked her way through French Laundry and Alinea, my copies of Gourmet and The Lee Brothers…
Top Chef fans can meet season-five winner Hosea Rosenberg at tonight’s Sweet Dreams charity event to benefit Ronald McDonald House Charity in Fort Lauderdale at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek.This is the fifth-annual Sweet Dreams event, which features celebrity chefs, food, and holiday entertainment. The event runs today, December 8,…
Avril Lavigne is known for her bad little skater girl image more than her culinary skills. To be honest, we picture her getting a burger and shake at the local mall food court as a culinary adventure. It’s just something about her black eyeliner that doesn’t say “chef de cuisine”. …
This is exactly what I wanted,” said my coworker Lisa as she forked through butternut-squash tortelloni. At an outside table at SpoonFed, she mused on missing the brisk Cleveland fall, when squash is among the season’s pickings at farmers’ markets. She had ordered a dish that reminded her of home…
Want to make everyone else’s holiday parties look like they were catered by Denny’s? Sharpen your edge this holiday season by investing in a couples’ cooking class. The Plantation and Boca Raton branches of Publix Apron’s Cooking Schools offer “Couples Cooking: Entertaining” on the December class schedule with menus that…
This month, the Restaurant Opportunities Center United ranked nearly 200 national restaurants in an effort to alert consumers where they can go to patronize more socially conscious chains. The report is also a shout out to the growing numbers of workers in the hospitality industry. Restaurants are graded according to five…
Get Crafty: Craft booze is booming, according to Good Magazine, as a result of the recession: “The Second Great Depression has been just as effective as the first at driving Americans into the soothing arms of a strong drink. Only this time around, our options for getting tanked are a…
Here’s our conundrum for the day. When Clinton Kelly shows the cast of The Chew (and us) how to make handcrafted Christmas ornaments, we thought, “How clever — this is just like Martha Stewart.” Then we realized that chef Mario Batali was making ornaments alongside Clinton, Daphne Oz, and Carla…
If you’ve been searching for the perfect way to wrap your favorite foodie’s gift but the gingerbread men and candy canes just aren’t edgy enough, how about wrapping their gifts with a burger? Start-up company Gift Couture has come out with a wildly delicious and inventive way to wrap gifts…
Do you hear a chorus of angels singing “Hallelujah”? If so, it’s because Starbucks has announced that it will start selling wine and beer in select markets, according to the Seattle Times. According to the article, Starbucks has been serving beer and wine at a few Seattle locations. Starbucks got…
Best German Breads — Edelweiss Bakery For brown breads, strudel, pretzels, and Black Forest cake, this bakery might become your go-to, offering Gemächlichkeit with your baked goods…
Nigella Lawson loves salted caramel. In fact, the gorgeous cooking diva devotes practically an entire issue of Stylist to the warm, gooey treat. Which is fine by us, because any time Nigella wants to be photographed doused with caramel, we’re totally fine with that. Read Nigella’s love story to a…
Thankfully, there’s no shortage of pizza around here, since it’s among our favorite foods. Here’s a pie we polished off in record time, 12 inches across with blistered crust, ripened tomatoes, and charred green peppers. Think you know where we’re eating this week? What’s the giveaway? Let us know in…
It’s Sunday, and your kids are hungry. Before they head out for their Mozart appreciation class or their Actors Studio Improv workshop, make sure your little hipster has a good meal. Because breakfast is blah and lunch is lame, serve them Brunchables, the new meal-in-a-box from Oscar Meyer’s Brooklyn headquarters…
Here’s something that should be shown in every history class in junior high school — a video representing every war that America’s been in from WWII to present day… using food. In this video by Stefan Nadelman titled Food Fight (what else?), food represents various countries. Burgers, chicken nuggets, and…
Last week, we gathered the top ten Zagat entries for Broward. This week, we’re doing the same for Palm Beach, where the price point is $20 higher on average. There are more lobster and steak houses in the top ten than in Broward, although a couple of funky places seed…
In some ways, this is a relatively quiet week in terms of events, but with a few big names on the bill — the Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival and Steve Martorano’s battle of the meatball, to name a few — there’s still choices for food and booze hounds…
Today is the 78th anniversary of the end of Prohibition, that dark era from January 1919 to December 5, 1933 when teetotalers banned the sale of booze via the Eighteenth Amendment. The law was created in an effort to end drunkenness, mental illness, crime, and poverty, lobbied for by folks…
