VegWeek Kicks Off April 20: Take the Seven-Day VegPledge

A year consists of 52 weeks. That’s 52 Mondays (ugh), 52 Fridays (yays) and 52 Sundays (fundays). Given that meat makes its way into most of those weeks, Compassion Over Killing (COK) is asking people to forego animal products for just one of ’em. VegWeek is an annual tradition, designed…

PDQ: Donate a Kids’ Book, Get Free Food This Weekend

PDQ is known for serving sandwiches, salads, and hand-spun malts “pretty darn quick” , which in a busy world is a good thing , indeed. But what the chain is also known for is being generous and community minded. That’s why PDQ is a book drive to benefit the Boys…

Man Drives Car Into Amante’s Italian Cuisine in Deerfield Beach

A man drove his car into Amante’s Italian Cuisine located at 2068 NE Second St. in Deerfield Beach. earlier today, and the Broward New Times obtained a striking photo of the accident. The incident occurred about 12:06 p.m. today after a man apparently drove his car straight through the restaurant’s…

Max’s Social House in Delray Beach Delivers a New Wave of California Cuisine

Try visiting a new restaurant these days and you’ll be hard pressed to find a server who doesn’t deliver an opening soliloquy extolling the many virtues of the menu’s fare. There’s the heartwarming story of the sun-ripend, locally-grown tomatoes; the detailed description of the sugar-sweet seasonal, organic strawberries; the chef’s…

Car Drives Into Wine Watch, Thousands of Dollars of Wine Destroyed

Boutique wine store Wine Watch sustained damage to its tasting room when a driver crashed his Mercedes straight into the business. WSVN reports that the driver, an unnamed 28 year-old was taken to Broward Health Medical Center with serious but not life-threatening injuries, after Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue had to…

Farmer Jay Creates Indiegogo Campaign For TV Pilot, Grow Something

South Florida’s very own Farmer Jay — aka Jason McCobb — needs your help growing something: his Indiegogo campaign for a TV series he hopes will change the way people everywhere view food. McCobb gained most of his experience in Sonoma, California from Bob Cannard, a longtime farmer for Alice…

Taco Tuesday: $2 Tacos and $6 Margaritas at Tacocraft

When the weekend is over and Monday starts up the workweek grind, there’s not much that can get you amped about the next five days ahead. Unless, of course, you consider those two words guaranteed to bring a smile to anyone’s face: Taco Tuesday. Just the word “taco,” by itself,…

Arsenic in Trader Joe’s Wine?

California-based Trader Joe’s is much more than a grocery store to the hundreds of thousands of fanatical shoppers who swear by the company’s GMO-free policy, privately-labeled foods, and vacation-themed experience. The company, number nine on the Forbes 15 Best Companies to Work For list, is best known for value pricing…

Food Babe at Green Bar Kitchen This Friday

If you’ve never heard of the Food Babe, have you been living in an underground bunker (a la Kimmy Schmidt)? The blogger, whose real name is name Vani Hari, has hit the motherlode of internet fame by targeting industrialized food producers and calling them out on unrecognizable chemical additives. Hari…

Meatout 2015: Campaign Encourages Going Vegan for a Day

A soy latte and banana for breakfast, a bean burrito and salad for lunch, and you’ve already made it through most of the waking hours without a single animal product passing your lips. See how easy it can be? Vegan high-fives all around! Pledging to go vegan for a week,…

Food Network Star‘s Cristie Shoen Codd and Husband Murdered

Food Network Star contestant Cristie Shoen Codd and her husband were found murdered near their Leicester, North Carolina home this past Sunday.  According to the Asheville Citizen-Times, the Buncome County Sheriff’s department said the couple were reported missing by family members on Sunday and deputies were dispatched to their home…

Vegan St. Patrick’s Day Recipes for a Cruelty-Free Holiday

For many an Irish-American child growing up, there is a distinct memory of the week leading up to St. Patrick’s Day. The house filled with the scent of brine and cabbage. From my own memory banks, the foods and accompanying aromas were for a massive spread at my parents’ bar…

New Times Is Getting Some Work Done

If anyone understands beauty upkeep, it’s you, South Florida. Yes, New Times is getting a little nip and tuck and coming back to you very soon looking a bit more, um, refreshed. While we’re gone, there won’t be any new content on our site until midday Monday, March 16. (It…