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Urban Oasis Launches CSA Program

Urban Oasis Launches CSA Program

Grow Roots Miami Plants Food Gardens

Grow Roots Miami Plants Food Gardens

It's Time to Drain Your Favorite Restaurant of Its Wine

By Zachary Fagenson
Mar 23, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, people are desperate to help their favorite restaurants, which are just as desperate and lost as to how to stay in business. Wine helps.
Fear, Uncertainty, and Closures Swirl as Coronavirus Pandemic Hits Miami Restaurants

By Zachary Fagenson
Mar 16, 2020

Miami restaurants respond to the coronavirus pandemic with reduced hours and meal pickups.
How to Prep Your Kitchen for a Coronavirus Pandemic

By Jen Karetnick
Mar 4, 2020

What’s that, you say? Fats, salt, and nitrates? Forget about it. This is no time to worry about long-term harm to our arteries.
Florida Lychees Are Latest Crop Threatened by Pest Infestation

By Zachary Fagenson
Mar 3, 2020

Researchers, agriculture officials, and growers are asking anyone and everyone with a lychee tree — whether one or several acres of them — to look for signs of Aceria litchii, known as the lychee erinose mite, after a tree was found infested in a North Miami homeowner's yard earlier this month.
Father-Son Team Opens Venezuelan-Style Sourdough Bakery in Doral

By Zachary Fagenson
Jan 24, 2020

As luck would have it, the father and son independently found a passion for sourdough bread, and their disparate paths merged this month at the new Caracas Bakery.
North Beach’s Café Prima Pasta Offers Dishes at 1993 Prices

By Carolina del Busto
Jan 22, 2020

It’s an ordinary Monday night in North Beach. The parking lot at Abbot Avenue and 71st Street is nearly full. The corner restaurant, Café Prima Pasta, emits an inviting red glow. Past the red awning awaits a warm space blushing with red lanterns and excited chatter. It almost feels like home.
The Native Guy Is the Man Behind the Honey in Your Favorite Local Cocktails

By Carolina del Busto
Oct 29, 2019

Out of sight on the 15th-floor balcony of the Bacardi headquarters in Coral Gables lives a modest bee colony. Its keeper is Nick Bofill, founder and CEO of the Native Guy. Bofill visits his beehives here at least twice a month, in addition to checking his 35 other hives in his farm space in the Redland...
Suite Habana Café Serves Locally Sourced Cuban Coffee

By Josie Gulliksen
Sep 16, 2019

When Nayelis Delisle came to Miami from Cuba in 2005, she found the city beautiful but lacking one basic need: a Cuban coffee shop.
Tropical Fruits, Okra, Asian Greens Are Miami's Summer Bounty at Local Farmers' Markets

By Zachary Fagenson
May 28, 2019

Few places in the world consider the beginning of winter a blessing, unless you're an avid skier or a Homestead farmer. In tropical South Florida, it's when all of the vegetables that disappear in almost every other climate begin to thrive.
Adelita's Cafe Reopens in Little Haiti

By Ana Maria Figueredo
Mar 28, 2019

Adela Alcantara had hesitations about going back into the restaurant business. After starting operations out of a laundromat in 1989 and opening seven restaurants across the county, Alcantara sold her Honduran restaurant empire, Adelita's, in 2011.
Florida's Best Pork Producer Hangs It Up After Hurricane Irma's Devastation

By Zachary Fagenson
Mar 7, 2019

Jim Wood's Palmetto Creek Farms in Central Florida is shuttering, leaving some Miami chefs scrambling to find a substitute for his top-quality, heritage breed pork that has been lauded statewide and around the country.
Box Greens Hydroponics Brings Farm-in-a-Box Concept to Miami

By Wendy Rhodes
Oct 29, 2018

Imagine growing 500 heads of lettuce every week in a space smaller than your backyard. That is what sisters Lisa Merkle and Cheryl Arnold of Box Greens are doing with hydroponics. But instead of growing greens inside stationary buildings like most hydroponic farmers do, they use portable 40-by-eight-foot shipping containers that can be placed near where the produce will be consumed.
Slow Food Miami Will Plant More Than 100 Gardens at Local Schools This Fall

By Hannah Sentenac
Oct 8, 2018

For the future of food to be sustainable, kids must get onboard. Such is the aim of Slow Food Miami (SFM), a branch of a global movement dedicated to promoting healthful, environmentally friendly food. SFM is sponsoring the creation of more than 100 gardens at schools across South Florida, so Generation Z can get clued into nutritious eating as early as possible.
Brendan Sutton Is the Farmer Behind Ghee Indian Kitchen

By Zachary Fagenson
Sep 24, 2018

Brendan Sutton knew he wanted to be a farmer in his mid-20s. Now, at age 50, he grows produce that fills the coolers at Ghee Indian Kitchen, widely regarded as one of Miami-Dade's best restaurants.
Essensia Debuts Farm-to-Table Summer Menu and a New Chef

By Clarissa Buch
Jul 12, 2018

Inside the Palms Hotel & Spa is its resident restaurant, Essensia, where locally sourced ingredients take center stage on a Caribbean-inspired menu. Recently, the farm-to-table eatery, which focuses on slow food in a relaxed environment, enlisted Ilde Ferrer to serve as chef de cuisine. With more than two decades of...
Where to Get Stone Crabs: From On-Demand Delivery to All-You-Can-Eat Claws

By Carla Torres
Oct 18, 2017

The 2017 Florida stone crab season kicked off October 15 (or this past Friday for Joe’s Stone Crab devotees who lined up for their first night of service celebrating the institutions 104th season). Don’t want to wait two hours for a table at Joe’s or cross the bridge to score...
As Palace Bar Closes, Owner Vows to Find Larger Ocean Drive Location and LGBT Center (Video)

By Laine Doss
Jul 7, 2017

Miami Beach's Palace Bar went out with fireworks and a literal bang after hosting a week's worth of parties that culminated in a street bash along Ocean Drive on the Fourth of July.
Find South Asian Seafood and Produce at North Miami Beach's Sonali Bangla

By Zachary Fagenson
Jul 5, 2017

As 28-year-old Rizwan Sowkat tries to explain the taste of fish such as ayer, boal, and shor puti, entombed in his freezer cases at his North Miami Beach grocery store, he pauses and offers a curt nod when Kamrul Khan steps through the door.
Proper Sausages Debuts Hot Dogs in Time for Fourth of July With Party at Taquiza

By Laine Doss
Jun 30, 2017

For years, Proper Sausages has been the place to stock up on sausages, burgers, and other quality meats, but there was one beloved item missing from the shop's roster: hot dogs. Just in time for the Fourth of July, the purveyor has debuted its own frankfurter.
Todd Erickson to Open Plant-Based GLAM in Midtown Miami

By Laine Doss
Jun 6, 2017

Todd Erickson is opening GLAM, a plant-based fast-casual concept in midtown Miami, at the end of June. "GLAM," by the way, stands for "Green Living Animals Matter."

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