I’ve seen this in two separate markets this week. At one, an elderly Filipino couple stopped me to oooh and ahhh over the plant in my cart. They told me they grew it back home and loved it. So here’s your 2 billion dollar question: WTF IS IT??? Here’s the…
Last Wednesday, I checked out the new weekly reggae party, Summer Outbreak, situated way-the-F-out west at the Seminole truck stop off U.S. Hwy 27. I’ve got a preview of the event in this week’s Night & Day section, detailing a little bit about its formation at the hands of Harry…
above: Shar-Pei en brochette Recipes: Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers The New Yorker News: Wis. woman accused of placing dead rat in restaurant food, demanding $500,000 in hush money Associated Press Disguised Dad Clobbered Trying to Rob Daughter’s Restaurant KTLA.com McDonald’s robber is finalist in jingle contest — for McDonald’s Sun Sentinel…
CENTRAL FLORIDA: More Citrus Growers Make the Switch to Organic From Florida Trend: Matt McLean, founder and chief executive of Uncle Matt’s Fresh, the organic-produce side of Uncle Matt’s Organic citrus-juice business in Lake County, said Wednesday the number of organic growers and the amount of acreage dedicated to organic…
We SoFloridians have got to make the best of our rainy, hurricane-whipped summers, so it makes sense that we’re suddenly all about barbecue. Even upscale restaurants like Johnny V in Lauderdale and Oakwood Grill in Palm Beach Gardens have jumped into the game, to say nothing of the old standbys…
If it’s one thing we Americans know how to do, it’s fry up a perfect burger. The French oughta take a page from the Brass Ring’s cookbook. So the New York Times food section today leads with this story: In Paris, American-style hamburgers are the new Homard a l’Americaine. “Celebrated…
Interior view of The Grill on the Alley. I received two press releases today regarding a pair of upcoming dining establishments. One announced that The Grill on the Alley, a Beverly Hills hangout for Hollywood’s movers and shakers since 1984, would be opening in Aventura this October. The ambiance promises…
Thanks to local advice and a couple of friendly posters on chowhound, I’ve found my Guatemalan restaurant — and practically right in my own back yard. El Chapin in Palm Springs has fabulous tamales, homemade tortillas, and meat-heavy breakfasts. Review next week. –Gail Shepherd…
There’s a backstory to the bodacious berry full of nefariousness and intrigue.
[above, Pam RuBert’s quilt, “Banana Split Pose.” See more here.] Argghh, I can’t believe I’m going to miss this! And on my birthday! I leave for NYC Saturday morning — will somebody PLEEEEEEASE pick me up some banana trees???? Gail Shepherd Tropical Fruit Tree Sale / South Florida Fairgrounds (West…
Proud Mary. Well, looks like you all know what both Gail and I did this weekend. Come Monday, each of us had separate ideas for Bloody Mary posts, completely independent of each other. I’d say something about great minds thinking alike, but I think drunk minds might be a more…
At one Palm Beach restaurant, that dirty martini might be REALLY dirty I’m about to lose one of my best sources for insider restaurant dish — a friend of mine is retiring, at least temporarily, from her job as a server to get married. But she’s stored up enough tales…
In case you want to venture over to La-La land, here’s a shortlist of summer specials.
Photo courtesy of Benihana. News broke this weekend that Rocky Aoki, founder of the Benihana chain of restaurants — headquartered in Miami — died Thursday night at the age of 69. According to a family spokesperson, the cause of death was pneumonia; but Aoki had also suffered from cirrhosis, diabetes,…
Used to be that you couldn’t name ten worthwhile restaurants at which to dine in Coconut Grove. Still can’t, but we’re getting closer. When Ideas Restaurant opened two years ago it gave the food-deprived neighborhood its’ first fine upscale establishment since the nineties. The recently opened George’s In The Grove…
[Ed. note 7/15/08. This recipe, I found, leaves you with a brew too thick to drink as a cocktail. But it makes a fabulous cold soup — a Bloody Mary inflected gazpacho, thanks to the horseradish and Worcestershire. Just add a shot of vodka to each bowl before you serve…
http://www.iacp.com/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=501 Week two of Short Order is just about in the books, and what a week at that. We’ve been posting our arses off around New Times, probably because we’re just so pent up. This Short Order thing you see here was a long time coming, you see — an…
You say tomato, I say “Show me the Money” From The Economist: “After one embarrassment on top of another”…. [ed note: like being caught SPYING on Florida Student/Farmworker activists in Fort Lauderdale] “Burger King backed down last month and reached a ground-breaking agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, representing…
The modern age of pretzel making began in 1935 when the Reading Pretzel Machinery Company invented an automatic pretzel-twisting machine. It was hailed as the greatest thing since sliced bread, and sliced bread hadn’t even been invented yet. The modern age of Miami pretzel-eating began just this month at the…
Evidently last week’s entry in Short Order’s weekly contest, WTF Is It?!?, — was child’s play for our MENSA-class readers. Half the world, it seems, knows what to do with a bitter gourd, while we’d been using them as foot massagers. This week we’ve got TWO summertime edibles and the…
Today, the saga of the Shrimp Bandit has come to a close. When we last left you, we were hot on the trail of the elusive thief, ready to snare him in our nets like so many fisherman before. But this morning, the trail went cold. Our contacts hit dead…
As if it wasn’t enough that you couldn’t screw up soufflés in your own kitchen without the fear of celeb-chef Gordon Ramsay’s disembodied head floating in and calling you a f’in C, French video game publisher Ubisoft announced today that it plans to release Hell’s Kitchen™: The Video Game for…
