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…
When Kevin Gillespie hits Boca Raton for a Thursday-night cooking demo at Publix Apron’s Cooking School, celeb chef fanatics and Top Chef devotees will get a chance to rub tattooed shoulders (or forearms, as it were) with one of the finalists from the much-loved pressure-cooker TV show…
Smokehouse Grille & Wingery uses the same smokers as those seen on TLC’s BBQ Pitmasters, according to chef and cofounder Mark Uffer…
When Coulter and Kristy Lewis decided to start their own business making a new kind of microwave popcorn, they had no idea it would take just a few weeks to raise enough money to get their idea off the ground. Turns out, all they needed was a kickstart. With business plan and…
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…
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,…
Pepsi Co. may have forked out millions to make “Pepsi Max” the official beverage of the NFL, but T.G.I. Friday’s takes the cake for being the official NFL lockout food. Charlie, never one to scoff at a chance to nosh on some free fare, is delighted to announce the deal of…
This Wednesday, July 27, Fort Lauderdale’s Esplanade Park turns into a food truck festival as the Riverwalk Trust presents “Gourmet in the Park.” Sponsored by Crush Law and Stephen’s Distributing, the event will feature a dozen of the most famous food trucks on the South Florida scene. Trucks will serve…
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…
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?
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…
• A prime dinner for a subprime price is the deal at swanky supper club Prime Delray, where Sunday through Friday from 4 to 8 p.m., a pair of prime mates (or primates, for that matter) can snag a three-course meal for two for $75, including a bottle of wine…
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…
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…
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?…
Robyn Medlin Lindars, the local grill master and blogger/owner of Grillgrrl.com, is appearing on an episode of the Cooking Channel’s Foodography, hosted by Mo Rocca. You can catch Robyn on the Cooking Channel show this Sunday, July 24, at 11 p.m. and again at 3 a.m. (early Monday morning). We caught…
This weekend, be a part of one of the craziest noshing get-togethers in South Florida when more than 20 food trucks meet for the Miramar Food Truck Invasion Saturday. …
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…
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…
Fast food restaurant chains looking to add alcohol to the menu to boost sales keep coming to South Florida as a testing ground. First it was the Burger King Whopper Bars, which placed two of the chain’s six locations pairing beer and burgers in Florida. Now Sonic Drive-in is getting in on the…
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…
As ye sow, so shall ye reap, the Bible tells us. Of course, it also says, If thine eye offend thee, yank the motherfucker out, so it’s probably a good idea not to take this biblical stuff too literally. Still, when it comes to sowing and reaping and Dennis Max,…
