Ten Famous Food Paintings

Starting with the emblematic still-life paintings of the Renaissance, artists have found ways to make food look mouthwatering on canvas. Reproductions of some of those old-school works are still found in fashionable restaurants, acting as visual cues to tease taste buds and get your tummy growling.After the jump, check out…

Bitter Harvest for Harvest Time Market

There will be no more harvests for Harvest Time Market, the star-crossed Lantana farmers’ market and u-pick stand that got hit with a passel of code violations and was forced to shut down after a difficult year in business.  Founded by four local agriculture vets, the market featured fruits and…

Check Out Our Brand New Best Of iPhone App

Hey, is that a Best Of app in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?Ok, that was lame. We know. As you may know we do an issue every summer called our “Best Of” issue where we work with you (the readers) to decide what the best…

Las Olas Farmer’s Market

The other farmer’s market (Riverwalk) can’t compare to Sundays at the chemist parking lot on 12th Avenue and Las Olas Boulevard. Typically frou-frou gourmet offerings aside, this feels like a small street festival more than a farmer’s market. Didn’t used to be you could find five kinds of fancy salt…

Top Chef Recap: The Last Supper

NBC Universal ​Last week Tiffany was sent home. Mike said Tiffany was great but the three top competitors are left.  Padma and Wolfgang Puck are here for the quickfire. Quickfire There are seven classic quickfires to choose from past seasons. The cheftestants will pick what quickfire to give each other…

Scuola Vecchia Schools Delray on Pizza

Old-school pizza, the way it’s been made in Naples, the birthplace of pizza, for hundreds of years is the focus of the new Scuola Vecchia Pizzeria e Vino (522 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach; 561-865-5923).  If you didn’t get that from the name (Scuola Vecchia is Italian for old school),…

Smokehouse Grill & Wingery: Good Intentions, Not-So-Good Barbecue

The road to barbecue is paved with good intentions. Unfortunately, the pavement is a little hinky. You’re cruising along — no problems; everything’s cool — then you hit a pothole that snaps your axle like a chicken bone and slams your jaws together like a Great White chomping a surfer…

Celebrate International Waffle Day on Friday, March 25

Waffles: the breakfast cake so nice, we get to celebrate it twice. Lightly fried sugar dough covered in various incarnations of sugar? This sort of start-of-the-day confection deserves to be honored at every opportunity, starting with International Waffle Day this Friday (not to be confused with National Waffle Day, which…

Interview With Chef and Top Chef Cheftestant Spike Mendelsohn – Part I

Spike Mendelsohn, the tall-hat-wearing, red-bearded contestant on Top Chef Season Four and Top Chef All-Stars, happens to own two fast-casual restaurants in D.C., We the Pizza and Good Stuff Eatery. Both restaurants buck the “fast food as junk food” concept and offer healthy farm-to-table cuisine in a casual setting. He…