We’re not sure why, but simple food has turned into a conduit for angels and demons to communicate with mere mortals. People have seen Jesus in cakes, sandwiches, potato salads, and other earthly delights. Jesus isn’t the only spiritual being to appear in your meal — there have been accounts…
For 364 days of the year, Harrison Street in Hollywood is almost eerily quiet, the lone trophy wife jogging down the Royal Palm-lined streets, the occasional Mercedes zooming toward the beach. But Halloween night, this street is crawling. With seven-year-olds. Somehow, word got out: this is where the candy is. …
A South Florida man died after participating in a live roach-eating contest held at Ben Siegel Reptile Store in Deerfield Beach. The Bugs for Balls competition, held on October 5, used live insects domestically raised for reptile food. The contestants who consumed the most bugs won ball pythons.According to Yahoo,…
Of course, you think you’re the perfect restaurant patron. You try to be polite. You tip according to set standards. What else is there to ask for?Well, we’ve got news for you: There’s a good chance you are still getting on your server’s last nerve. We spoke to one server…
The British newspaper The Telegraph has a slideshow up today mocking the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, California. The slideshow is titled “Only In America”.As you can probably guess, it features image after image of deep-fried American specialties such as deep fried Oreos, deep-fried Snickers, deep-fried Kool-Aid balls, and…
The Portland Tribune recently wrote about a program in Portland public schools called “courageous conversations”, where educators attend training sessions and meetings designed to understand their own ‘white privilege’ so that they can “change their teaching practices to boost minority students’ performance”.The assumption that educators in the public school system…
Carrying everything from cheap dorm rugs and lamps in animal prints and neon colors to books on how to play beer pong, it’s no secret that Urban Outfitters caters to teens and college students.Recently, the shop, which has come under fire in the past for selling T-shirts that have been…
It seems the royal family is a little miffed over Prince Harry’s Las Vegas escapades. The youngest child of Prince Charles and the much-beloved Princess Diana was up to a little mischief in Las Vegas when TMZ posted pictures of his highness butt naked after playing a rousing (and revealing)…
Mike Huckabee has called for fans of “free speech” to celebrate today, August 1, as Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day. As the Fox News pundit, Southern Baptist minister, and politician said on his website and Facebook page: “Let’s affirm a business that operates on Christian principles and whose executives are willing to…
Chick-fil-A, the company best-known for fried-chicken sandwiches, petitioning cows, and Christian values, has been in the news lately. First, Dan Cathy, son of S. Truett Cathy (who founded the company), was quoted as saying, “We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit…
Food writers (and the food obsessed) tend to get exasperated with food trends more quickly than the general public. After logging hours tasting, salivating over, and deconstructing the happenings in the culinary world, it’s only logical that this segment of the population (and its brethren) would be the first to…
Summer — if one were to go by the calendar — hasn’t yet arrived, though you’d be hard-pressed to find someone in South Florida who hasn’t yet felt its effects. The realities of the season already are making themselves known in my plot at the Boca Raton Community Garden, which…
A couple of years back, I put four white supremacists in prison. They had made the mistake of going into the Slater Slums of Huntington Beach, California, the city’s traditional barrio, to kill a random Mexican. They got as far as stabbing a man before the Slater Slums smackdown began:…
Chef Sara Ventiera is on a three-week trip to the Bahamas, manning the kitchen on a 91-foot yacht. She will file regular updates from the waters about what it’s like to work on a yacht, from pretrip provisioning to seaplane produce delivery. Click here for previous reports. This week was…
Who would mess with a beloved South Florida institution like Jaxson’s Ice Cream Parlor Restaurant? That’s the mystery today as the crew at the storied Dania Beach fixture work with local police to determine the whereabouts of the Jaxson’s truck, which was stolen just before 1 a.m. today from the…
Chef Sara Ventiera is on a three-week trip to the Bahamas, manning the kitchen on a 91-foot yacht. She will file regular updates from the waters about what it’s like to work on a yacht, from pretrip provisioning to seaplane produce delivery. Click here for previous reports.It’s 8 o’clock Thursday…
Chef Sara Ventiera is on a three-week trip to the Bahamas, manning the kitchen on a 91-foot yacht. She will file regular updates from the waters about what it’s like to work on a yacht, from pretrip provisioning to seaplane produce delivery. Click here for previous reports.”What would you like…
Vegetarians in all forms — ovo-lacto, vegan, etc. — are subject to an impressive array of misconceptions and lies about the meatless lifestyle. Sometimes, the evidence of misunderstanding is overt, like the person we encounter at a cocktail party whose eyes bug when they spot a plate free of sliders…
Chef Sara Ventiera is on a three-week trip to the Bahamas, manning the kitchen on a 91-foot yacht. She will file regular updates from the waters about what it’s like to work on a yacht, from pretrip provisioning to seaplane produce delivery. Click here for previous reports.The radio crackles to…
Chef Sara Ventiera is on a three-week trip to the Bahamas, manning the kitchen on a 91-foot yacht. She will file regular updates from the waters about what it’s like to work on a yacht, from pretrip provisioning to seaplane produce delivery. Click here for previous reports.”Can you seat them…
Chef Sara Ventiera is on a three-week trip to the Bahamas, manning the kitchen on a 91-foot yacht. She will file regular updates from the waters about what it’s like to work on a yacht, from pretrip provisioning to seaplane produce delivery. Click here for previous reports.”It’s not your turn…
Chef Sara Ventiera is on a three-week trip to the Bahamas, manning the kitchen on a 91-foot yacht. She will file regular updates from the waters about what it’s like to work on a yacht, from pretrip provisioning to seaplane produce delivery. Click here for previous reports.”Let’s get up and…
