With the biggest sports game in America now over with, us ladies have exactly six days until the biggest commercialized holiday of the year. And what’s the best way to a man’s heart? Well football is over, so his stomach, of course. Women are simple. We are materialistic. Give us…
A couple weeks ago, I asked readers if they had any suggestions on what to do with some dried, Mexican chiles I had purchased at a local grocery store. I bought a bag of cascabel chiles and a bag of ancho chiles, and was looking to make something fun with…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
Patty Canedo is a pastry chef at a famed, private country club on Palm Beach and writes weekly about her kitchen exploits.The time clock beeps, taking my finger prints and snapping me out of a daze. “9:55 a.m.” I quicken my pace up the stairs. I walk past the empty…
Nothing kicks a taco from good to great like fresh, hand-made tortillas. Good luck finding those in our moonscape of Mexican cuisine. So, food-obsessed taco addict that I am, I did the next-best thing: fill my suitcase with packages of hand-made corn tortillas at Trader Joe’s (if you didn’t know,…
• Medic! Delray’s new Heart Stoppers Café may be on life support with the filing of a federal lawsuit alleging the local temple to caloric and cholesterolic consumption illegally swiped its unhealthy medical theme from an Arizona eatery called the Heart Attack Grill. Heart Stoppers’ owners don’t see it that…
This week on the blog:Our new columnist, Patty Canedo, dishes on cooking with liquid nitrogen.We hold a queso blanco party in the office and detail the fun. A whole new week of 100 Favorite dishes rolls out with Peruvian-style pollo from La Granja. The Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival was last…
Last month, chain Domino’s Pizza launched a ballsy new ad campaign that completely fessed up to serving near-inedible crap product. In addition to publicly taking it on the rear, Domino’s also asserted it had a new, better formula with which to win back the hearts of you, the consumer. The…
For years, the Funky Buddha Lounge in Boca Raton has been a destination for beer drinkers looking to sample something crafty while getting down on a hookah. But tonight, the Lounge is officially launching the newest facet of its operation: homebrew. That’s right, the Funky Buddha will now be brewing…
For weeks we’ve been serving up Super Bowl insanity every few days. From awesome restaurants to check out to how easy it is for lazy people to throw a Super Bowl shindig. But we have yet to showcase the best deal for Sunday’s main event: free food. Whispers around South…
Idris brand Fiery Ginger Beer, an import from England seems to question your manhood. “Try me if you dare!!” it boasts on the label. The top of the “Y” in Fiery curls into a devil’s tail. And with the painted flames bursting from behind the letters, it seems clear this…
“What about Meat Cupcakes?””The what now? Are you making reference to that insipid Michael Jackson song from the Grammys?””No, no – I just had a vision of meat cupcakes and thought you’d like to make them for your column.”I’d been wondering about what I should do for this week’s Meatist…
One of the first questions someone will typically ask about an unfamiliar wine is, What is the vintage? Though some vintages are certainly better than others, it’s not quite as important a question as it once was, as modern growing and winemaking practices have enabled vintners to smooth out Mother…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Clean Plate Charlie will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it’s all about the love of the brew. If you…
Maybe you only know of Rocco DiSpirito because you’ve seen him battling Jeffrey Chodorow on the NBC reality show The Restaurant, spinning around the floor on Dancing With the Stars, helping hefties on Biggest Loser, or taking toques to the table on Top Chef, but before he emerged into our…
A chicken cutlet, pounded to a perfect quarter-inch thickness, coated in breadcrumbs, and baked until a luscious, crisp coating forms on the surface will set you back just $5.95. That same breaded slice of love topped with two over-easy eggs, crisp at the edges, a few salty anchovy filets, and…
Football, babes, booze and food. . . are we talking Guy Heaven or what? Best of all, you don’t have to die to get to Il Bacio’s Ultimate Celebrity Super Bowl Party. All you have to do is show up at the Delray hotspot at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb…
Seeing a group of Floridians try to keep warm in a cold wave is like watching the pope perform a bris: We have absolutely no idea what to do with ourselves in such conditions. All those pained expressions, the shivering, the wardrobe problems — it’s God’s cruel joke on a…
Thirty years of deep-frying wings in one building builds a lot of history (and plaque in a lot of arteries). Even so, Roosters packed up the poultry operation in May 2008, moving from the dark, wood-paneled confines of its longtime Southgate Boulevard location to a shiny new space just a…
• Nothing says “I love you” like a bowl of ramen… at least according to Ramen Girl, the 2008 comedy starring the late Brittany Murphy. (Not to be confused with this ramen girl.) Imagine Lost in Translation, The Karate Kid, and Chocolat combined. Murphy plays an American gal in Tokyo,…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
