Steve White is a folk artist in Albuquerque, New Mexico who works out of a studio called The Folk Farm. Like all artists, White has a favorite medium. Is it oil on canvas? Clay? Nope! It’s Pez.Pez. As in those plastic candy containers that resemble bunnies, Snoopy, or Batman. White transforms…
In the not -too-distant past, evening farmers’ markets were nonexistent in Palm Beach County. That was until Farmer Jay McCobb and Ellenville Garden Center teamed up to invent the Moonlit Farmers’ Market in Boca Raton once a week. Now Palm Beach County hosts two others: one newly opened at Florida…
See also: New Times Pairings: Wines You’ll Be Swirling and Sipping on Thursday Night and New Times Pairings: An Event for Beer Geeks and Novices Alike Alright, slackers and/or procrastinators. If you’ve been putting off purchasing tickets to the fifth annual New Times Pairings — which goes down tonight at…
In the past few years, Vietnamese cuisine has exploded on the contemporary food scene, thanks in large part to a filling and fun-to-eat dish called pho — beef broth and noodle soup that’s considered the national dish of Vietnam. A flawless pho (commonly pronounced fuh) is achieved through the lengthy…
Breakfast, some experts say, is the most important meal of the day. Yet in our fast-paced lives, cooking up a hearty breakfast before hitting rush hour traffic… It just doesn’t happen. When pressed for time, the egg sandwich is the answer. It’s packed with flavor and protein and keeps those…
South Florida’s favorite serial killer with a heart of gold, Dexter, returns to Showtime on September 30 at 9 p.m., and Steak 954 is making a special dish in his honor. Even more surprising, it’s a dessert. The Dexter dessert ($9) starts with a crème brûlée cheesecake topped with seasonal…
Even with the Food Network offering meal plans and tutorials 24/7, not everyone feels at ease in the kitchen. Some of us have nightmares about hosting a dinner party, trying to look composed in front of guests while managing rambunctious children and messy eaters (ahem, Grampa). Wah! We need Giada…
See also: Fifth Annual New Times Pairings: Who’s New to the Lineup This Year and Five Reasons You Should Go On Tuesday, Clean Plate Charlie showed a little love for the craft beer to be offered at Thursday’s fifth-annual New Times Pairings. The beer camp makes a very compelling case,…
Baskin-Robbins is introducing a new way to eat ice cream that may just blow your mind. Forget carrying your ice cream around inside the waffle cone, making it all soggy and mushy by the end. Ever had one of those things leak out the bottom all over your new pants…
This week’s restaurant review is about Pho Vi, a Vietnamese restaurant that opened in March in downtown Hollywood. In the past few years, Vietnamese cuisine has exploded on the contemporary food scene, thanks in large part to a filling and fun-to-eat dish called pho — beef broth and noodle soup…
What do you call an accident that leaves 40,000 pounds of bacon just sitting on the side of a highway? If you said “massive fail,” you’d be correct.That’s what happened in Peoria, Illinois, when a Wenger Trucking Co. semi overturned, spilling its precious porcine cargo all over the median. According…
There’s only one thought that comes to mind when we watch Hell’s Kitchen, the combination cooking show/fraternity hazing hosted by foul-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay on Fox television — “Is it worth it?”For local chef Robyn Almodovar, the answer is yes. The Le Cordon Bleu graduate’s food truck, Palate Party, continues…
The old-fashioned milkman is back, but like every recycled trend, he’s been updated. No longer is he merely a milkman but a delivery dude. The Delray Delivery Dudes provide what in more provincial times might have been delivery service but is now called “concierge service.”And while back in the day…
When President Barack Obama was campaigning in Florida this weekend, he stopped at Big Apple Pizza and Pasta in Fort Pierce. This detour was meant to be one of those typical campaign visits where the president, in a bid for reelection, visits local merchants, shakes hands, and has a nosh…
Candy corn, adored only by compulsive sugar junkies and dentists looking to finance a new boat, has been cross-bred with everyone’s favorite sugar-drenched cookie; the Oreo. Nabisco will debut the limited edition Candy Corn Oreo on Monday, selling it exclusively in Target stores for the 2012 fall season. Foodbeast got…
In response to customer and server feedback, Stephane’s American & French Cuisine in Boca Raton is dropping its unpopular mandatory service charge policy. The system as it stands automatically adds 15 percent to the check for parties of up to four people; groups of five or more pay 18 percent…
The top five reasons you should attend the fifth annual New Times Pairings event were spelled out earlier today and, naturally, food ranked right up there, second only to sweet, sweet alcohol. Since Pairings is an opportunity for local food lovers to sample new and new-to-them cuisine from some of…
The fifth annual New Times Pairings event is right around the corner. On September 13 from 7 to 10 p.m. the Broward County Convention Center will host this evening of good food and good wine. If you’ve been procrastinating about your ticket buying we’ve got some reasons why you should…
Season is gearing up, which means lots of change-ups and debuts in the Fort Lauderdale/Boca Raton/Delray Beach dining scenes. This week’s news includes an opening date for a mega-hyped, large-scale project as well as a few changes in smaller operations around town. Click here for news about upcoming restaurant projects…
Just as the preparation cart for my liquid nitrogen caipirinha pulled up to the table at the 3-month-old Bazaar by José Andrés on Collins Avenue in Miami, I spotted three tacos nestled in compartments of a chrome serving platter. They were folded in what seemed like some sort of rice…
Something so heinous and insidious happened to conservative ranter Glenn Beck over the course of the Labor Day weekend, that he has been forced to not only boycott the company behind the incident…he is sharing it with the world, lest others be treated in this fashion.You see, what was intended…
From Miami Spice to Tastemakers (Delray Beach and Boca Raton incarnations) to New Times’ very own Pairings event coming up on September 13, foodcentric events are certainly nothing new to South Florida. After all, what is a social event without food, so why not center the whole thing around food…
