Since it’s the weekend and we usually break out the booze around now, we thought we’d help out a New Timesian who has been gifted cookie dough flavored vodka from Pinnacle. The brand is the Baskin Robbins, nay, the Swisher Sweets of vodka, with these ridiculous flavors:Apple, Atomic Hots, Banana,…
The California Milk Processor Board, the people responsible for giving us those ad campaigns in which sexy, hot celebrities like Angelina Jolie, Taylor Swift, and Kermit the Frog (do frogs drink milk?) pose with milk mustaches, has done it again.This time, it’s going after milk alternatives made from soy, almonds,…
The biggest pain for gluten- and lactose-intolerant people is trying to find quick food. Imagine the scenario — you’re on your way home from work. Exhausted from a long day, you’re looking for something to just heat up. You head over to the frozen food section and figure the only…
Single people are reminded every day how vast the dating pool is and how difficult it can be to juggle choices. How to separate the wheat from the chaff? Base your dating life on a partner’s appetites. If you too are looking for an easy way to find someone ravenous…
“Do you have a menu?” I asked the guy behind the counter. “Nope. You create what you want from what we have here,” he said, pointing to the meats in the deli case. I drove all the way out here for a sandwich and a to-go menu and there isn’t…
Josef and Beth Shibanetz have opened their new location for Josef’s, the former Plantation restaurant. Josef’s Table at 5030 Champion Blvd. in Boca Raton opened in mid-December for dinner and will debut for lunch in early February.The new space seats 180, more than doubling the capacity. The bar area seats…
I’ve written here before that the one indispensable tool of any moneyless mammal is a rice cooker. I even provided a recipe for low-cost rice cooker deliciousness. But in my months of protracted broke-assness, I’ve come to realize that my previous comments were facile. The rice cooker is a machine…
Timberlake Plaza in Plantation offers neither woods nor a lake, though it does display a collection of small immigrant businesses. On one corner, Doris Italian Market displays biscotti and bags of homemade pasta, while further down, a new Chinese grocery called New York Mart readies to open, its wares explained…
Before the holidays, I focused on trying as many Cuban restaurants as I could north of Miami. I wanted to be literate in the area’s offerings, but I also wanted to get a sense of two things. The first is why we’re seeing a mini Cuban restaurant boom in the…
This nook tucked in a retro-shopping plaza that also houses Undergrounds Coffeehaus and Hi-Life Cafe is the kind of place to take your mother or aunt to for a light breakfast, lunch, or afternoon tea. Mismatched tables, window dressings, hardwood floors, and area rugs shape a space that feels like…
As you may know, Stephen Colbert has put Jon Stewart in charge of his Super PAC during Colbert’s current run for president of… something or other. Stewart, obviously taking the responsibility to heart, started his Daily Show monologue wearing a lovely crown from the Elizabeth Taylor estate (bought with Colbert…
Stop the presses! The queen of butter has announced on the Today Show that she has type 2 diabetes.In an exclusive interview with Al Roker, Deen confided that she knew about the diagnosis for three years but decided to keep the news “close to my chest.” Rumors have been swirling…
Why aren’t there more women executive chefs? Eater.com addressed the question with Dominique Crenn, the San Francisco chef who earned two Michelin stars at Luce and snagged Esquire’s 2008 Chef of the Year. She’s since moved on to Atelier Crenn, which she opened last year. “Unfortunately, there’s also not a…
From the owners of the Triton comes Newsworthy Cafe. This Spartan breakfast and lunch spot is created as a haven for journalists, created by the folks who write the newsletter for boat captains and crews. With all these hardcopies laying around, it’s the place to go for some newspaper nostalgia…
Marando Farms has expanded its general store to include a bakery and a juice bar. …
McSweeney’s reposts this Paula Deen classic. The website founded by David Eggers has hooked us with addictive lists and food mag Lucky Peach. It’s almost as good as, “It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers.”From Erin Hershey’s intro featuring Paula Deen on the stripper pole: “Now, does anybody here still think that nice girls…
Whether they’re seasoning a whole pig or smoking tasty pig parts over hickory, the folks at Mickey’s Bar in Pompano Beach have been hosting a monthly pig roast they’re calling Hillbilly Cookout. “We’ve been pulling in a younger crowd that’s different from our usual crew,” said manager Lisa Carter who’s…
Over the weekend, after making 8 p.m. dinner reservations at a restaurant, we found ourselves being ignored for an hour, having a waiter disappear for another half hour, and having our wine list taken away before we ordered wine. Not only that, but an order correction went uncorrected for another…
Balut is the unofficial national dish of the Philippines, and it’s disgusting. I know this because I’ve eaten it. Granted, my balut might have been indifferently cooked — the Japanese chef who made it remarked that he’d “never eat that thing in a billion years” — but balut’s an easy…
“This taco shop claims to be the best taco in town,” said a coworker when she gave me the heads up and Facebook link. It was lunch time, so I headed to a bleak stretch of State Road 84 to find it. Inevitably I got lost. So you won’t, look…
As I’ve mentioned, I swoon over pho. My colleague Lisa, who’s also from DC, joins me in craving good pho that’s not readily available in South Florida. Since it was her birthday, I thought I’d make some for a crowd. Over the past few days, I whipped up a more…
The South Florida Fair opens tomorrow, bringing with it two weeks of non-stop blue-ribboned animals, carnies hawking games of chance, and neon-colored rides.Yada…yada…who are we kidding? Do we really wait the entire year to watch a cow give birth (yes, there was a bovine birthing room last year)? Or do…
