Single serving pies, ready to go. And check out the nifty pie caddy! Recently I remembered how much I love pie. It happened at a tasting for Purple Pie Company, the cutest little independent pie company ever to come out of Miami. Alex Van Clief, the PPC’s Chief Officer of…
The Gods’ Messiah on Earth. We’re now a few weeks into an interesting NFL season, one in which the lowly Dolphins have already won a game! Their victory two weeks ago against New England was a celebration-worthy event, and will no doubt fuel the fires of many a tailgater heading…
Last week the food giant Unilever recalled Lipton Green Milk Tea brand from Taiwan stores because one of the ingredients was milk from China. On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that “according to Unilever Hong Kong Ltd, internal tests have found four batches of Lipton milk tea powder contaminated with…
A peripatetic friend of mine brought me this amazing, rumored-to-be edible item recently. The label clearly states that it is “Aphrodisiac,” which would be very exciting if I could bring myself to try even the tiniest bite of it. The package label does assure us of the snack’s healthful qualities:…
There’s some seriously saucy Sunday shenanigans coming our way in the form of the American Institute of Wine and Food’s Annual Rib Cook-off, scheduled for Sunday, October 12 at 4 p.m.. Local students from Florida Culinary, Johnson and Wales, The Art Institute of FTL, Cordon Bleu, and Florida International are…
The Hot Chef of some anonymous New Timer’s dreams. Miami has been doing pretty good for itself in the Bravo TV reality show arena lately, with Kendall-ite Dee Adames being crowned Shear Genius. Though we don’t have a horse in the Project Runway race this season (which is fine, considering…
There was the most famous sign in Miami rolling down Opa-locka Boulevard yesterday morning. “Joe’s Stone Crab,” it read in freshly painted Miami Hurricane green and orange. “It goes down every summer and gets put back up in the fall,” explains Mike Gonzalez, a manager at Joe’s on South Beach…
I never believed that bit about little girls being full of sugar and spice. My experience has been that little girls are mostly made up of piss and vinegar and that they don’t even begin to sweeten up until around age 20. Then they have a moderately “everything nice” decade…
Flirting for Foodies with the Gourmet Club I’m not usually one for singles events, particularly because I’m married, but these Singles Dinner and Dancing parties put on by the Gourmet Club look pretty damned posh. They’ve been holding them at the Addison, Cafe Maxx, and Pranzo — the next one…
Up top: The faux German chocolate covering, Bottom: Astley gets the drop on us again. It’s happened to all of us: You get an email from a coworker, click the link that says “Cutest video of cats dressed as humans ever!” then those hauntingly cheerful drums start up. You’ve been…
The simple art of boozing at The Field. God, we’re sick of martinis. September was a martini month. Maybe it was an instinctive reaction to the credit crisis; maybe some eternally blotto neuron in our brains forced us to drain our checking accounts while the draining was good, and re-invest…
Dinner and a murder mystery with Edna? On October 14, North One 10 Restaurant’s “Evening With Edna Buchanan” will pair the cool mystery novelist with a “crime fiction inspired” dinner provided by Dale and Dewey LoSasso and crew. The event will presumably provide the author with an intimate forum in…
Question: What yummy treat from a national ice cream chain contains this delectable list of ingredients? Ingredients: reduced fat milk, heath bar crunch ice cream (cream, nonfat milk, caramel ribbon (corn syrup, sweetened condensed whole milk (milk, sugar), water, high fructose corn syrup, butter (cream, salt), propylene glycol, sodium alginate,…
I’ve literally eaten nothing but pizza this week, so for lunch today I gotta have some green. I plan to make a fruit salad from the cornucopia pictured above, courtesy of one of my local roadside markets. You’ll of course recognize the watermelon, apples, and mangos, but wanna take a…
[photo courtesy buymiraclefruit.com] You want change you can believe in? This evening, Grass Restaurant and Lounge will host Changing the Flavor of Politics – a fundraiser that benefits the Miami-Dade Democratic Party. Witness your palette change before your eyes, or rather on your tongue. Upon entry, every person gets a…
Wine Warehouse Thursday Night Wine Tasting From 6:00 – 8:00PM Free Wine Warehouse of Fort Lauderdale invites you to a free wine tasting tonight to sample six new wines: * Villa Maria Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand, 2007 (a bottle retail for $14.99, on sale at the Warehouse for $11.99)…
At Miami New Times HQ, the newspaper’s editorial staff convened in a conference room to conduct some serious investigative journalism. For 400 years, the region of Bushmills in Ireland has been distilling Irish whiskey for the masses to enjoy. So to celebrate King James 1608 decree granting the company a…
Of all the foodist trends to come and go in recent years, the one I’m fervently hoping will survive the swings of fortune and fashion is the fancy cocktail. I’m happy to report that in the couple of decades since New York bartender and mad scientist Dale DeGroff first poked…
Murphy’s Law works after all: No sooner then we preach the benefits Florida’s clean tap water in this very publication, the hand of the Almighty descends from on high and dumps a bunch of industrial lubricant into Fort Lauderdale’s water supply. Now, residents and restaurateurs alike are scrambling to pick…
You could be he I figure I’m getting too fat, drunk, and impossibly snotty to hold this job much longer, so I hereby give readers a heads up. If you’re planning to try to oust me from my oystershell- and hamhock-encrusted throne as Food Critic at Broward-Palm Beach New Times,…
I recall years ago commenting that South Beach’s B.E.D. — the place where diners eat while reclining on mattresses — was as tacky a restaurant gimmick as one could come up with. So much for my commenting skills. Seems that the 100-seat Taipei restaurant Modern Toilet goes way beyond my…
We know that the South Beach Food & Wine Festival isn’t until next year — February 19 thru 22 to be exact — but tickets for the event go quicker than cake at fat camp. So be aware that tickets for all the Food & Wine events goes on sale…
