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2006 Stories by Pamela Robin Brandt

• Portentous Pork

  published December 21, 2006

  When the clock strikes twelve on New Year's Eve, the Cuban tradition is to eat twelve grapes to ensure good luck for each month of the new year.... More >>

• Hungry at the Wolf

  published December 7, 2006

  "Think about all the places we find propaganda right under our noses," reads a coffee mug for sale in the Wolfsonian design museum's Dynamo... More >>

• Unreal Food

  published November 30, 2006

  Totally trashing an eatery is generally neither fun nor fair. But one thing that does justify joyful decimation is when a restaurant undeniably... More >>

• Good Move

  published November 16, 2006

  Now that the performing arts center is finally operational, how soon will it be before the rest of the much-vaunted downtown Miami gentrification... More >>

• Doubly Bubbly

  published November 2, 2006

  "Write what you know" is probably the most common advice given to would-be scribes. And despite the initial impressiveness of menus that rival... More >>

• Where's the Fresh?

  published October 5, 2006

  Most locals know NE 167th/163rd Street as a shopping destination, not as a restaurant row. But the roughly three-mile strip between I-95 and... More >>

• Covert Corridor

  published September 28, 2006

  Ask any resident of a major city, from San Francisco to Lima, Peru — or even citizens of not-so-major cities like Portland, Oregon; or... More >>

• South of the Border, South Beach Style

  published September 14, 2006

  Restaurant reviewers find our prey many ways, most of them as unexciting as the way African big-game "hunters" find theirs — by using savvy... More >>

• Baking News

  published August 31, 2006

  It's a bit mind-blowing, when one is of an age that one rarely is offered anything but the least serious illegal drugs, to realize one's place of... More >>

• Fast Fish

  published August 17, 2006

  Northwest Seventeenth Avenue in Liberty City is not exactly a "restaurant row" tourist track. It's not even a volatile developing... More >>

• Glory Be to Bread

  published July 27, 2006

  WYSIWYG, in computer parlance, describes an interface that allows users to see an onscreen document as it will appear once it's printed rather... More >>

• Argentine Glory

  published July 13, 2006

  Argentina and asado (beef barbecue): synonymous? Not only in Miami but also everywhere in Argentina — with the exception of cosmopolitan... More >>

• From Wok to Weapon

  published June 29, 2006

  Despite many mediocre meals and the occasional dangerous one — food poisoning is an occupational hazard — food-writing is fun. Rarely... More >>

• Try It on for Size

  published June 22, 2006

  Less is more — or is it? With apologies to modernist architect Mies van der Rohe, less seems more like loss, at least with regard to the... More >>

• Simple and Stylish

  published June 1, 2006

  Since opening a few months ago, Lost & Found Saloon has lived up to its name: Lost behind bulldozers and mounds of street construction, this tiny... More >>

• When Sandwiches Were Simple

  published May 18, 2006

  Claiming to make "the best damn sandwich on the planet," as Big Slick's Deli does, is no small feat, considering the competition. In Manhattan,... More >>

• Bands and Barbecue

  published April 27, 2006

  One little-known fact about food writers: The background of many American restaurant reviewers does not include a stint at culinary school.... More >>

• Thinking Outside the Box

  published April 13, 2006

  The Japanese traditionally consider a huge variety of ingredients appropriate for use in sushi: pieces of egg omelet, a myriad of pickled or fresh... More >>

• Where Continents Collide

  published March 23, 2006

  Barely a week after Canela opened two months ago, a very picky Cuban-American friend of mine — who happens to be a stickler for authenticity... More >>

• Hog Heaven

  published March 9, 2006

  It's clear you are in the country when you pull up to a four-way intersection — with no traffic lights, just stop signs — and the... More >>

• Aye, Aye, Captain

  published February 16, 2006

  When one fantasizes about a perfect fish house, certain criteria are universal: waterfront location, preferably with an outdoor dining deck; fun... More >>

• Tea for Two

  published February 2, 2006

  Roughly 50 zillion locales in Paris bear signs saying salon de thé. Yet one finds serious tea — the loose-leaf kind,... More >>

• Comforting Chinese That's Authentically American

  published January 19, 2006

  There's good Chinese food, and then there's bad Chinese food — the latter being something in which Miami-Dade County specializes. Sadly,... More >>

• Hurl of Sandwich

  published January 12, 2006

  We make the BEST sandwich on the island." Such was the claim I noticed, while cruising food Websites one day, of a place I normally would have... More >>