The Daily Mouthful: On Servers
“The real judges of your character aren’t your neighbors, your relatives, or even the people you play bridge with. The folks who really know you are waiters, waitresses, and clerks.” — attributed to Katherine Piper…
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Dear Insufferable Know-It-Alls:My husband and I agree that we’ll give up just about anything — new Wii games, Stella McCartney frocks, our children’s dental checkups — if we’re forced to cut back on our spending. But the one thing we’re stubbornly refusing to budge on is our once-a-week restaurant meal…
On Men, Codfish, Raw Oysters, and Other Musings
There’s a certain kind of man who never fails to impress me, a guy who does things (apart from the obvious) that I could never do. Vacationing in Cape Cod last week, I met one of them: the contractor who was renovating the upstairs loft in my sister’s new house…
The Daily Mouthful: On Cabbage
“Zee cabbage does not run away from zee corn-beef!” — Pepe Le Pew…
Al-Salam Brings Mideast to Plantation
Obama is speaking in Cairo, even quoting verses from the Qur’an, glad-handing Arab leaders, and no doubt settling down for intimate talks with King Abdullah II over a pot of Turkish coffee and some sticky pastries loaded with pistachios. And here’s Hillary Clinton, touring the Middle East wearing a headscarf…
Joy Noodles & Rice
The well-heeled boomers who live in the swank Mizner mansions behind the new Joy Noodles & Rice are already steering their Benzes and Beemers into Joy’s cramped parking lot for carry-out cartons of Thai noodle soups and Philippine egg rolls; and they probably don’t demand a whole lot in the…
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I’m Eating What?! Stuffed Cabbage in a Can
When I was a kid, I remember my mother packing lunches in a brown paper bag and throwing in a little note on my napkin throughout grade school. As I complained of embarrassment, the notes disappeared, as did the carefully prepared cream cheese and sliced green olive sandwiches. They were…
The Daily Mouthful: On — Ahem — Sausages
At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d’Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. “Will you accept a slice?” the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; “you see it has come from the right factory.” — “It is really very…
Slow Food at Lola’s: Mark Your Calendar
Slow Foods Glades to Coast, our local chapter of the global organization dedicated to spreading the word and supporting food grown in our own backyards, is planning yet another of its scrumptious dinners at Lola’s in Hollywood. If you haven’t attended these events, foodies, you are really missing the slow…
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Winter Weather Equals Braised Sausages and White Bean Puree
With all that rain the other day, it dipped down to what, mid-70s? That’s sweater weather in South Florida, and that meant breaking out a winter recipe. This is something of a take on the classic English bangers and mash, a dish that, if you eat it enough, will make…
Better Than Good Eats: Our List of the Best We’ve Eaten
The Food Network has a new show called The Best Thing I Ever Ate (9 and 9:30 p.m. tonight), and it features the usual roster of the network’s chefs and celebrity foodies running down the best things they’ve stuffed in their constantly yapping mouths. In the first show, “Totally Fried,”…
Cucina Verite: Babette’s Feast
You don’t get to the food until the end of Babette’s Feast, the 1987 Danish movie based on a short story by Isak Dinesen, but it’s worth waiting for the elaborate dinner scene that occupies the final third of the picture. I’d seen this movie years ago and long since…
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The Daily Mouthful: On Breakfast
“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.” — C.S. Lewis…
Street Party Marks O’Shea’s Milestone
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach, here’s a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe.The perfect Irish pubs have the same things in common: a solid draft beer selection from the motherland, the ability to…
Eats for Under $7: Hurricanes Boneless Wing Platter
Hurricane Grill and Wings won a Best Of award this year for best wings, so I just had to check it out. Luckily enough, I walked in to the Plantation location just after 2 p.m. and was handed a lunch-special menu. So long as you purchase a drink (fountain drink…
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Screw Jimmy Dean: Homemade Breakfast Sausage You’ll Flip Over
Saturday I was wandering around Publix looking for sundries for a Father’s Day brunch I was having at my place for my girlfriend’s father. He’s a real dad’s dad: He enjoys motorcycles, power tools, target shooting, good booze, and, of course, meat. So whatever brunch I put together had to…
NuVal System Separates the Good From the Bad
A new online site called the NuVal Nutritional Scoring System gives you the skinny on your favorite fatty snacks, using an easy 1 to 100 scoring system to rate those Pringles and the YoCrunch cookies and cream Oreo yogurt you’ve been stuffing your face with lately. It’s all done with…
The Mideast Lands in a Plantation Shopping Center
Obama is speaking in Cairo, even quoting verses from the Qur’an, glad-handing Arab leaders, and no doubt settling down for intimate talks with King Abdullah II over a pot of Turkish coffee and some sticky pastries loaded with pistachios. And here’s Hillary Clinton, touring the Middle East wearing a headscarf…
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Three Great Gifts for Your Foodie Father
As the axiom goes, if there’s a way to a man’s heart, it’s through food. If that man happens to be your father, chances are that pathway is paved with gold foil-wrapped chocolate bricks and snakes in and out of a lush wood, where streams of beer whisper promises and…
Weekend Blog Wrap: Recipe Edition
Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can’t get enough. Here are some highlights other food blogs, this time with a focus on recipe-focused blogs:Looking for something to bring to the upcoming Fourth of July party? Try this recipe…
Woman Behind Newly Famous Butter-Sugar Cookies Reveals Secrets
“You should sell that.” People always said that to Lori Saitz about the cookies she baked from an old family recipe. Unlike most of us, the 43-year-old former marketing and PR pro in West Palm Beach actually did. Six years ago she quit her day job at a local radio…
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The Endorsement: Toasted Corn
There’s really one true test for a snack food: Can you eat it while drinking beer? For that test, it needs to be salty, it needs to crunch, and it needs to be cheaper than the Schlitz that’s in your left hand. Toasted corn’s got all of that. And best…