Between her Latin-fused Food Network show Viva Daisy! and book signings, Daisy Martinez is a busy woman.Just two weeks after graduating from the French Culinary Institute, she landed a gig with PBS’ Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen as a prep-kitchen chef.A meeting with Rachael Ray and a cruise ship invitation later and…
Regardless of whether a burger is from a fast food place or a gastropub, they inspire fierce loyalty and love. Indeed, some folks dedicate their lives to the pursuit of the perfect burger. Just ask The Burger Beast, whose third annual Burgie Awards are coming up this Saturday. In the…
Is your family still reeling from memories of Thanksgiving-dinner failures past? Flying solo for Thanksgiving 2011? Or maybe you just hate the idea of having to clean up a table of turkey shrapnel and spilled wine? If spending Thursday, November 24, in the kitchen isn’t in your cards, there are…
This past weekend, we round up some links to help out home cooks with Thanksgiving menu planning and wine selection. Now we’re reminding you of the simple solution: Just add bacon. Behold: some ideas for how to make any dish better — from appetizers to sides to the big bird…
The Grace Jamaican Jerk festival at Markham Park in Sunrise brought what had to be tens of thousands of jerk fans together for an entire day of good eating and soulful music.After navigating a snaking line of cars that seemed to go on forever, the lines to enter the festival…
Forget the drunk fest that the New Times Beerfest used to be, with the longest lines at the light beers that have a faint flavor of something brewed. This year, the crowds seemed to seek out the craft beers, with the longest lines for Brooklyn, Shiner, and Shipyard. And that…
“This is my life,” said Dave Crumbaker of Smitty’s Old Fashioned Butcher Shop in Oakland Park. It’s where he’s worked seven days a week, even when it’s closed on Mondays, for the past 30 years. On a recent afternoon, a handful of people browse among the pork bellies, crown roasts,…
The Simpsons’ episode The Food Wife aired last night, bringing the jaundiced cartoon family into the food blog world.When Marge, Lisa and Bart start their Three Mouthkeeters blog, they immediately turn into food snobs, taking Anthony Bourdain, Mario Batali, and Gordon Ramsay (to name a few) along for the ride.The…
A few hours after nursing our hangovers, we’re just now venturing out to watch football, grab grease, and maybe go see some music after last night’s bender. Some favorite beers from the fest were the Brooklyn Saison and the Shipyard Blue Fin Stout, a write-in candidate that won me over…
Called the 9-9-9, “Only a drink based on a catchphrase will suffice for a candidate so vaguely unsettling and unsettlingly vague that he appeals primarily to voters otherwise inclined toward the negative space on the ballot,” writes Good’s mixologist/writer Ken Walczak, who named the cocktail after Cain’s taxation plan. “It’s sweet…
Why don’t they just change the name of this show to Humiliation in Bikinis? We admit that we sometimes watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s usually on a rainy hungover Saturday when there’s a marathon of an entire season. We’re not proud of this behavior, but admitting a problem is…
his weekend is a good one to pin down your Thanksgiving cooking plans.Today’s post is geared for hosts and home cooks: what recipe you’ll use for the bird, what sides you’ll feature, whether you’ll bake bread, what wine goes with the meal. Read on for some lifeline links and don’t…
Kate Gosselin, mom to eight children (nine, if you count the big baby she divorced), is rocking some hair extensions and a new gig as a coupon blogger.The reality star alum, who’s Jon and Kate Plus 8 (Kate Plus 8 after the divorce) kept us glued to the edge of…
We’re a day away from New Times Beerfest, tomorrow from 7 to 11 p.m. in Esplanade Park, with a portion of the proceeds to benefit the Humane Society of Broward County. Sister Hazel provides tunes and Moe’s Southwest Grill as well as JC Wahoo’s join a slew of local restaurants…
Situated steps away from the sand, SAIA at the B Ocean Hotel is the sophisticated sushi spot you’ve probably never been to. Opened less than a year ago, it’s taken some time to convince Fort Lauderdale’s socialites that the old Holiday Inn building has been redesigned with a sushi restaurant…
OK, we had to get that jerk-off pun out of the way. But seriously, if you like your meat hot and spicy, then you want to head over to Markham Park in Sunrise for the 10th annual Jamaican Jerk Festival, sponsored by Grace (which, by the way, makes a pretty…
Smashburger, the burger chain that smashes your meat before grilling it to order and finishing it with your choice of a plethora of toppings, is opening its first South Florida location, in Coral Springs.The fast-casual restaurant opens Tuesday, November 15. A special reception the day before will feature food blogger/hamburger…
“Hello, bonsoir,” said the manager as he breezed through the dining room of the East End Brasserie last night. His mix of English and French would seem appropriate for the 2-week-old restaurant. The menu is somewhat French, a bit English, and, overall, pretty impressive. Impressive is applicable here, at the…
This being Florida, drug news seems to make headlines more often than elsewhere. And the trend will likely increase as South Florida will become an even more dominant hub for drug traffic. This week The Washington Post reports that old drug smuggling routes between our state and the Caribbean are…
Tundra on Las Olas had its soft opening last Sunday, the ice-themed restaurant conceived by David Berman and Alex Podolny. The centerpiece of dining is a 15-course tasting menu for $59, which includes kobe beef meatballs, ceviche, potato black crusted grouper, and butter poached lobster. And yes, that is an…
Sonic Beach opens today in Beach Place, bringing new life to the somewhat tired outdoor dining and shopping center on Fort Lauderdale’s A1A. The restaurant/entertainment complex will take up almost 6,000 sq. feet of space on the second floor of Beach Place and although that means no drive-through service will…
Nothing much stands between the cornucopia of stout, ale, and lager selections at the New Times Original Beerfest and you but a few hours. Roughly 48-ish or so hours, to be exact, but still. In case it wasn’t obvious, the Clean Plate Charlie crew is pretty fond of our beer-y…
