Riverwalk Trust’s “Gourmet in the Park” Tonight

If you’re a fan of food trucks, head on down to Fort Lauderdale’s Esplanade Park for an evening of food, music, and fun on the river when Riverwalk Trust presents “Gourmet in the Park.” The fun starts this evening, July 27 at 5 p.m., when 15 of South Florida’s best…

Deck 84 Launches Lobster Miniseason Special

You catch ’em, they’ll cook ’em.   That’s the deal at Burt Rapoport’s Deck 84, where from tomorrow, the beginning of the annual waterborne madness known as lobster miniseason, until Sunday, July 31, you can bring in your freshly caught bug and have Deck’s kitchen prepare it for you in any…

South Florida’s Top Four Prix Fixe Picks for Summer

Before there were one-night pop-ups, followed food trucks, and celebrity-chef-preferred dives, the best way to get a taste of something unique and fleeting was a sampling of a restaurant’s creative favorites culled to create a tasting menu.In France, it’s referred to as a table d’hôte. In Japan, a teishoku. And,…

South Park’s Cheesy Poofs Coming to a Walmart Near You

South Park, food isn’t just funny. It’s also pretty gross. Like the recipe for Chef’s salty, chocolate balls…  Now, Comedy Central and Frito-Lay have teamed up to bring you something even better. To celebrate the show’s 15th season, look for the specialty release of Eric Cartman’s favorite, Cheeto-like snack. That’s right. Cheesy Poofs…

National Lasagna Day Is Thursday

Thick pasta layers drown in a pool of rich meat sauce

while creamy ricotta and feathery Parmesan mingle about.

Bubbly, gooey, chewy.

Burnt, crisp edges crunch as

herby tomato juices hope to run down chins amok… Mmhhh, lasagna.

Am I making you hungry yet?

Half Baked: Worst Dishes Ever part 2

Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach. She writes frequently about her kitchen exploits in this column, Half-Baked. A wide misconception about chefs is we eat very well. What the kitchen turns out every day for guests is a lot different from how we who work the line actually eat. Whether it’s because of…

Food Ark: Seeds We Need to Survive

We’re talking survivor. No, not the reality show! The real deal. This month, National Geographic examines the future food supply in a project called Food Ark. The article talks about the seeds the future depends on. The accompanying photo gallery includes Chinese farmers tossing millet in the air (the wind…

Food Blogger Catalogs Freshness

Mike Moskos has put an enormous amount of time and effort into his blog, which he describes as a compendium of “the best possible local sources for truly-fresh, nutrient-dense artisanal food, dairy, eggs, fish, meat, produce and provisions.”And comprehensive it is. Moskos has but one mission: to let locals know…

A Look Into Tomatoland

Author Barry Estabrook’s new book, Tomatoland, looks deep into the agricultural world that produces the country’s tomatoes. Where is he looking? Urrrrr, Florida. What does he find?…

McDonald’s Customer Throws Ice Cream Cake at Employee

A McDonald’s customer in Indiana was a little displeased by the state of her ice cream cake. And by a “little displeased” we mean that she went into a rage about the state of her melted cake, threw the dessert at an employee, and then slapped the employee in the…

Human-Based Gelatin Soon on the Menu?

Admittedly, I can’t even suck on a ringlet of my own hair without convincing myself I’m developing a case of trichophagia. So when word came this week that scientists working at a university in Beijing were developing a method to create “large quantities of human-derived gelatin” for eh, human consumption, I…

Top Chef Just Desserts Season Two Cast Revealed

Bravo Top Chef Just Desserts is back. ​The worst part of summer isn’t the oppressive heat and humidity; it’s living without Top Chef. So when we heard that Top Chef Just Desserts is coming back to Bravo on August 24, we rejoiced — just one more month of Top Chef-less…