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.We stepped out of…
I recently accepted an offer to judge a burger competition, as I do from time to time. Recently, our food critic, Melissa McCart, asked me a question about the deep, dark secret I usually keep from Clean Plate Charlie readers. “You’re a vegetarian,” she said. “How are you going 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.”We’re turning back to…
Chef Sara Ventiera is setting off 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.As soon I saw the “Norwegian Atlantic…
My first memory of a cell phone at the dinner table was a friend of my older brother’s, “Joe.” He always managed to drop by when my brother was otherwise occupied — cleaning fish guts off his hands after fishing, whatever — and Joe would have to kill time at…
Chef Sara Ventiera is setting off 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 pre-trip provisioning to seaplane produce delivery.It has happened to every South Floridian:…
“Wow, that’s pure, concentrated milk,” said my co-worker when I offered her a sip of raw milk. Like me, she’s a 2%-er, so any whole milk is going to be especially, well, milky: even when I poured cream off the top. It’s delicious, though. I want to cook with it,…
There’s a point in every person’s life when the age-old question rears its ugly head — “What’s for dinner?” This question may be posed by child, spouse, or roommate, but it always brings a shudder of dread — especially accompanied by the inherent whine of “not pasta/burgers/salad again!”The Sun-Sentinel reported…
The craptacularness of restaurant websites is a well-explored topic, including here on Clean Plate Charlie, where we’ve certainly voiced our displeasure with pervasive issues like impossible-to-find phone numbers, prices, and location info. Unfortunately, no matter how loudly food writers and frequent diners whine provide constructive criticism on the topic, little…
Tucked in the sixth floor of the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book at the Broward Main Library is a foodish exhibit of cookbooks, menus, artifacts, and recipes as part of the exhibit of “Bountiful Broward: Eating in South Florida, 1880s -1980s.” A week from today, on March 13 at…
One of the top three questions I get comes from chefs, line cooks, bartenders, and servers has to be, “Who’s hiring?” “We’re always looking for great help,” said manager Christie Ajakie, of G&B Oyster Bar, the subject of this week’s review. “Even if we’re fully staffed, if someone is a great…
The dinner at Yardbird was billed as “A Southern Revival,” an 1800s-themed event that cost $375 a head, or $475 for those who signed on for the Pappy Van Winkle bourbon flight presented by Julian Van Winkle III himself. Brock joined Top Chef alums Jeff McInnis and Kenny Gilbert for…
The world is apparently divided into two types of people — those who wanted to be astronauts when they grew up and everyone else. In case you think your dreams of being part of a rocket to Mars have been dashed by cuts in the space program (and your inability…
A blandly artsy loft-style apartment, perhaps in New York. Bicycle in the corner, posters on the wall. Perhaps a half-dozen young people sitting on couches, talking and laughing and eating what we shall soon discover are Hot Pocket Snackers. Some of the young people look conservative. Some look like hipsters…
I was wondering the other day when we crossed the line in indulging our dogs when I saw a pooch jacket section that rivaled the kids’ selection at Target. Pink, orange, brown, green, and blue jackets in an array of sizes, for those cold(ish) Florida days when a dog’s real…
There are about a gazillion different Shit (Fill in the Blanks) Girls Say videos. I love ’em all, especially Shit Miami Girls Say.Anything that pokes harmless fun at our neighbors south of the border (and by border, we mean the Miami-Dade/Broward county line), because it really applies to all of…
Champion eater Takero Kobayashi set a Guinness World Record on the Wendy Williams Show by successfully eating 14 Hostess Twinkies in one minute.Kobayashi downed the endangered treats while a studio audience and a Guinness official watched. In fact, the official had the… ummm… interesting task of checking Kobayashi’s mouth after…
Get ready for another season of Bizarre Foods, as host Andrew Zimmern eats his way through the entire wildlife encyclopedia. This year, Zimmern’s staying in the United States, giving us at home the opportunity to try strange foods in our own backyard.This morning, Zimmern visited the Today Show to share…
The Onion has penned many parodies of this state, including Florida Legalizes Taking Guns to Work; Florida State University to Phase Out Academic Operations by 2010; and ‘Ravaged’ Named Florida’s Official State Adjective. Though it reads like it, this stat is no parody. According to the Centers for Disease Control,…
Tastes like chicken!Making the rounds online and on the Face — again — is “poultry paste,” mass-produced chicken that even has a USDA-official name: mechanically separated poultry. If you’re a meat eater and you’ve ingested grocery-store hot dogs, frozen chicken patties — or if you had McNuggets prior to 2003…
When times are tough, people get creative with how to save a dollar or two. Looking for sales and using coupons are strategies that almost everyone uses to some extent when buying groceries (we especially love the little pop-up instant coupon machines at the supermarket).Some people, however, take couponing to…
The Transportation Security Administration has some complicated rules about bringing food on airplanes. For example, you can’t bring jam, but a pumpkin pie is okay.But what about a nice, precious cupcake? Surely that shouldn’t raise alarms.In a recent uproar dubbed “Cupcakegate,” the TSA stopped a traveler flying out of Las…
