A new online site called the NuVal Nutritional Scoring System gives you the skinny on your favorite fatty snacks, using an easy 1 to 100 scoring system to rate those Pringles and the YoCrunch cookies and cream Oreo yogurt you’ve been stuffing your face with lately. It’s all done with…
Obama is speaking in Cairo, even quoting verses from the Qur’an, glad-handing Arab leaders, and no doubt settling down for intimate talks with King Abdullah II over a pot of Turkish coffee and some sticky pastries loaded with pistachios. And here’s Hillary Clinton, touring the Middle East wearing a headscarf…
Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can’t get enough. Here are some highlights other food blogs, this time with a focus on recipe-focused blogs:Looking for something to bring to the upcoming Fourth of July party? Try this recipe…
“You should sell that.” People always said that to Lori Saitz about the cookies she baked from an old family recipe. Unlike most of us, the 43-year-old former marketing and PR pro in West Palm Beach actually did. Six years ago she quit her day job at a local radio…
If you’ve made the rounds of all the local barbecue joints and decided you’d rather eat dirt than one more rack of dry, smokeless ribs, desiccated chicken or tough, taste-free brisket, well, for two days at least, you’re in luck. No, it’s not a dirt cook-off. It’s Grillin’ in the…
Fish has become the food issue of the decade, as contentious and controversial as farm-raised chicken or foie gras was in the ’90s. The doomsayers claim world fisheries are collapsing; environmentalists wring their hands over the damage done to both the Earth and local economies by shrimp and salmon farms;…
El Autentico Sabor de la Comida Dominicana,” reads the menu at this Pompano Beach hole-in-the-wall. And it’s authentic Dominican Republic fare, all right. Homemade specials at Latin Conga! change daily, but once they run out, forget your craving for fried chicken chunks or seafood soup. It pays to show up…
I’m hoping that whole “you can’t judge a book by the cover” thing pans out in this situation, because if it doesn’t, I’ll certainly be sick. As I type, there is a bright-orange package sitting on my desk with a clear window running down the middle. The package has been…
The latest episode of The Office doesn’t star Steve Carell but David Manero. Let me explain. There are actually two Offices: one a TV show that reveals Life In a Cubicle as the mind-numbing, soul-sucking vampire it really is. The other is a coming restaurant from one of South Florida’s…
Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can’t get enough. Here are some highlights other food blogs, this time with a focus on dessert blogs:It’s hard to tell what’s more delicious on Cannelle et Vanille: the recipes or the…
Ambrosia Some folks have been crowing about Ambrosia’s pizza for 30 years, as long as the restaurant has been in business — so the huge “Best Pizza!” sign on the door reminds anybody within squinting distance. Not much has changed at Ambrosia in all that time, least of all the…
“It might have some kind of fish in it, but I’m not sure.” Those were the first words out of the boss’ grinning mouth as he handed me a shrink-wrapped styrofoam plate. I’m not exactly an adventurous eater. For instance, I don’t eat things that swim. I’ve always said when…
In response to last week’s article comparing the dining scenes in Florida and New Orleans – and in particular, the relative lack of fresh, local seafood at affordable restaurants – Clean Plate Charlie received a comment pointing us in the direction of FL-seafood.com, a website created by the “Bureau of…
“What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?” ~Lin YutangBonus vocab word: “Globesity.” Coined by the World Health Organization…
The well-heeled boomers who live in the swank Mizner mansions behind the new Joy Noodles & Rice are already steering their Benzes and Beemers into Joy’s cramped parking lot for carry-out cartons of Thai noodle soups and Philippine egg rolls; and they probably don’t demand a whole lot in the…
I just ran across a whole website devoted to great meals to seduce somebody with, seductionmeals.com. And whaddaya know, there’s a recipe for oyster po’ boy sliders right on the first page (po’ boys are also known as “the peacemaker,” a factoid I’d never heard before. But makes sense, right?…
Hollywood’s oldest Turkish restaurant, Istanbul, has been in this same dinky location for 19 years, a small room that opens to ocean breezes and classic views of kids flying kites on the beach. And they haven’t changed a thing from the plastic chairs to a menu of kebabs and Turkish…
My recent trip to New Orleans was largely predicated on two things: 1) that I had never before been to the Crescent City, and it was high time I got there, and 2) it’s known as one of the best food cities in the country. Sure, you could argue that…
via Cook To Bang… mmmm PoonchiladasAlthough Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can’t get enough. Here are some highlights other food blogs, this time with a focus on less-local blogs:Serious Eats is a… well a serious food blog. Professional…
Picking right back up from yesterday’s post on my weeklong eating adventure in New Orleans, I’m going to talk a little bit about sammiches, a foodstuff that’s well-respected and well-represented in the Crescent City. While some cities can claim to have contributed one sandwich to the national culinary landscape –…
Here’s what I get for being a snarky little bitch. I get to eat my words, one at a time, sandwiched between rounds of buttery brioche and a layer of juicy Kobe beef, washed down with a designer “Las Olas” martini made of gin, agave, and elderflower liqueur. This all…
Pissed off at Publix? Think you just can’t choke down one more slice of gummy, supermarket-nuked bread? Le Petit Pain in Lantana, run by Gaelle and Thomas Tcherniavsky, a gorgeous, elegant young Parisian couple, turns out a French baguette ($2.25 for a long, thin loaf) unrivaled in all details: a…
