It’s been nearly a week since I put that bitter melon in my mouth, and I swear I can still taste the damn thing once in a while. Either that or my taste buds are still having nightmares from which I fear they’ll never awake. Seeing that today I have…
I usually don’t pay much attention to anything at Publix. If there are two kinds of people in the world, the glassy-eyed ones that stumble about in grocery stores for hours, and the itchy ones who think five minutes is way too long to spend among shelves of Spaghetti-O’s, class…
We rolled into town like birds of prey and had to be rolled out like over-stuffed roasters. Three friends and myself spent last week devouring our way through the vibrant culinary city of New Orleans. And what a trip it was: we must have ravaged whole sea beds, made scarce…
As you may have heard, Elwood’s Dixie Bar-B-Q in Delray Beach, the long-running biker-bar/barbecue joint, where Elvis sightings were about as common as the tramp stamps on the shapely behinds of the female patrons — is closing. There are a lot of heartbroken funkabilly and hot sauce lovers wandering around…
A recent NPR story on regional foods during the Great Depression and the uncompleted WPA “America Eats” project reference Mark Kurlansky’s recently published Food of a Younger Land (“a marvelous goulash of gastronomical oddities and antiques”). Kurlansky has cataloged food-related slang by region, one of which is “New York Soda…
via Will Jog For Food 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: Summer is just around the corner, and that means unbearable heat. Sounds like a good time to…
Ever notice how restaurant menus are beginning to resemble a politician’s campaign speeches? Lots of buzzwords, catch phrases, empty platitudes — a steaming pile of verbal roughage signifying very little.”Insipid Farms baby greens, picked by virgins at the first breath of springtime, lovingly dressed with balsamic vinegar drawn from ancient…
I’m embarrassed to admit how much I love the silly Polynesian theme park known as Mai-Kai. Thank god they’re finally open again. Not that their oversized tiki cocktails and lobster pango-pango are anything to write home about (although the Mai-Kai’s daily happy hour in the bar, with half price food…
We’re all familiar with the four primary tastes we experience on our tongues: sweet, salty, bitter, and sour. Food scientists and restaurant critics desperate for novel terms have also added two more semi-tastes: astringent, and spicy. But a century ago the Japanese identified a fifth primary taste — “umami” –…
Few things satisfy my soul like a crispy, deep-fried Florida rock shrimp. The Florida rock shrimp story is one of those happy dramas that typifies good old American ingenuity. Here was a delicious little deep-sea animal that for hundreds of years had almost completely confounded our desire to eat it…
Two pretty, perky girls as cute as ’50s pinups, Michelle Parparian and Amanda Watkins, have transformed a 1920s Florida cottage into a vintage clothing store with a cupcakery in their tiny rear kitchen — a kitchen known to turn out a thousand cupcakes at a pop for local events. But…
If looks could kill, you’d call this thing the plague. It’s roughly the size of a cucumber, and covered with green bumps that make it look like the bastard child of a cucumber and a head of broccoli. My trembling hands pick it up and the cold outer layer feels…
“El Autentico Sabor de la Comida Dominicana,” reads the menu at this Pompano Beach hole-in-the-wall. And it’s authentic Dominican Republic fare, all right. Homemade specials at Latin Conga! change daily, but once they run out, forget your craving for fried chicken chunks or seafood soup. It pays to show up…
via Burger BeastAlthough 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:Let’s say you’ve already poured through Clean Plate Charlie, but still need more South Florida food blogging goodness. It’s impossible to…
I’ve been a wine drinker since grade school. I grew up with glasses of chilled Gallo Hearty Burgundy straight out of the fridge (we were each allowed a small glass with Sunday dinner), and by the time I had hit legal drinking age, I’d moved on to specialty California pinots…
Built on the site of the famous old ’40s outdoor burger bar called the Hut, the Top of the Point is located on the penthouse floor of Phillips Point, with 180-degree views of the Intracoastal and Palm Beach. It’s operated as an outpost of the Breakers Hotel. Just the same,…
An innocuous looking chocolate bar wrapped in silver foil and a paper Whole Foods bag sat on the table in front of me with a note reading “Try this for the food blog and don’t open the bag until you’ve tasted the chocolate.” I was confused as to how this…
Rita’s Water Ice is a Philadelphia landmark, selling a product that rivals the cheesesteak in its addictive qualities.The ingredients sound simple enough–ice, fresh fruit, sugar–but this is not your average snow cone. I’ve seen Philly natives travel miles to get their fix, craving the slushy, refreshing goodness the way normal…
You gotta give it up for Grease Burger Bar. . . the name tells you everything you need to know about this Clematis Street newbie.There’s a bar, a big one, about half a city block long — all dark, hulking wood lit by bare bulbs hanging from meathooks suspended from…
File this under: “Amazing things people do for no reason at all.” But I’m not sure I’d want to eat this pizza after he was done with it.Champion Dough Spinning @ Yahoo! Video…
This pretty matched set of cupcakes, one chocolate, one vanilla, and both with the most ethereal pink cream icing, comes from a place you wouldn’t ordinarily think to buy your baked goods. But after you’ve tried on many lucite bangles and pillbox hats, bought a ruby-colored patent leather handbag to…
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:Food photographer and critic Matthew Pace recently started his own food blog, loaded with recipes, reviews, and of course excellent photography.MenuPages of South…
