Healthy Eating

Conscious Bite Out's 100-Mile Dinner: Elegant, Locally Sourced Vegan Soiree

Yes, glamour-puss Beyoncé recently credited vegan food for helping her get back into red-carpet-ready form, and a slew of other celebrities have announced their vegan allegiance (Brad Pitt, Russell Brand, Jessica Chastain, and Woody Harrelson, to name a few), but the cruelty-free, earth-friendly cu ... More >>

Tertulia's Seamus Mullen Speaks at Book Fair Sunday: Spanish Fare for Your Health

Long before he was a competitor in the Food Network's culinary hazing extravaganza The Next Iron Chef, Seamus Mullen, chef and owner of Tertulia in New York City, was one of countless young cooks who bought a one-way ticket to Spain in hopes of landing a job as a free labor stagier in one of the cou ... More >>

28-Day Diet Makeover Starts This Week at SoBe Whole Foods

I feel for people who have a genuine desire to improve their diets and get healthy - really healthy, not like Jenny Craig or Slim Fast healthy - but who have no clue where to start. There's a lot to learn, and for the many who have graduated from the USDA's school of misguided food recommendations, ... More >>

How Not to Get Fat at Work: Miami Dietician Lisa Eichenbaum Weighs In

In my first real desk job, I worked as an editorial assistant at a travel company proofreading a thousand-page resort directory, making sure words like "laundry facilities" were spelled and spaced correctly. Yes, that sucked, but it wasn't the worst of it. The worst was having to sit in my cubicle d ... More >>

UMiami Study: Heavy Drinkers Work Out Harder Than Non-Drinkers

You really want that six pack? Maybe you should down a six pack every night. According to a new University of Miami study, people who report heavy drinking habits work out harder than moderate drinkers and non-drinkers. This also might explain why the University of Miami gym is so damned packed all ... More >>

Paradise Farms Spends USDA Grant to Grow Healthy Mushroom Snacks for Miami Kids

The public at large is becoming wise to the fact that eating healthy should begin early, and local organic farmer Gabrielle Marewski of Paradise Farms seems to be on to this concept with her oyster mushroom project. Last February Marewski was awarded a $50,000 USDA Value-Added grant to help small fa ... More >>

Veganism Safe for Kids, Says Lisa Dorfman, Director of University of Miami's Nutrition Program

Last week, I reviewed Vegan Is Love, a children's book that explains the reasons behind the choice to go vegan. It contains a page dedicated to the health aspect of the lifestyle, but most of the book is devoted to outlining the ethics of veganism -- how animals are treated on the dairy farm, at the ... More >>

Dirty Dozen and Clean 15: Best and Worst Foods for Your Wallet and Table

Until I found out about the Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 lists, shopping for produce seemed like a game of Let's Make a Deal. I loaded my cart with a mixture of organic and conventional produce, trying to stick to a reasonable food budget, but with no system or info to help me choose which organic foods ... More >>

Rice Paper Wraps: The Best Food Ever

​So I may be a little late to find out about these amazing foodstuffs, but the funny round plastic-like rice sheets have so infiltrated my daily diet that I can't help but share my enthusiasm for them.Sure, I've eaten spring rolls before, at plenty of Asian restaurants. But I never thought to make ... More >>

Four Ideas For New Nutrition Labels, From Stars to Traffic Lights

​"The grocery store has become a Tower of Babel," said Louis Sullivan back in 1990. "Consumers need to be linguists, scientists, and mind readers to understand the many labels they see."Sullivan at the time was Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and he instructed the FDA to ... More >>

Uncook Raw Foods

David Rukin: Bee Pollen Can Make You Bill Gates or LeBron James

BuzznBee.comFlorida beekeeper David Rukin​The use of bee pollen as a nutritional supplement is far from new. The ancient Greeks and Egyptians were popping the tiny, mustard-colored granules well before pop culture breathed health food stores and smoothie shops to life. But what is it about bee pol ... More >>

Chef Giovanni Arias Won't Kill Diners at Canyon Ranch

Photo by Riki AltmanHe promises you'll survive.​Every chef is concerned about things going wrong in their restaurants -- after all, they can't always control every detail. But executive chef Giovanni Arias has to be extra vigilant in his kitchen at Canyon Ranch Hotel & Spa Miami Beach because ... More >>

L.E.A.D. Looks for Food Justice Even While the City Closes Farmers' Markets

​​By now, you've already heard that the City of Miami has closed down farmers' markets in Liberty City and Overtown and put up extremely insurmountable barriers to their reopening. These gatherings offer mostly locally grown fresh produce to neighborhoods where it's difficult to find anythi ... More >>

Doggie Bag Cafe: This Place Is For The Dogs

Enjoying a Bowser Beer in the sun.​In Miami it seems like humans have all the food-related fun. Sure, we allow our four-legged friends to tag along at food truck round-ups and restaurants with outdoor seating. But when you think about it -- us bipeds do all the eating while fido is stuck get ... More >>

Vegans Thrive

Weekend Brunch at Sugarcane

First and First Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Ray Hicks is a good Southern boy who grew up on comfort food and at his downtown eatery, ​First & First Southern Baking Company. He's bringing those flavors to Miami one deliciously gooey cake at a time.  From Coca-Cola cake to red velvet,  the only thing more American in this establ ... More >>

Grow Your Own Food with Ready-Made Gardens

courtesy of Miami Kitchen Gardens​It seems that with all the talk of knowing where your food comes from, the rising concern about obesity and a move toward healthier eating, more people are flirting with the idea of growing their own fruits and veggies. But for people who know nothing about garden ... More >>

BK Flame Grilled Chicken on Whole Grain Ciabatta

You got that headline right. Burger King, the Miami-based fast food giant, announced yesterday that is now serving what sounds like gourmet dish for $4. The thing has only 470 calories and in the corporate speak of BK senior vice president, global product marketing and innovation, John Schaufelberge ... More >>

Share Our Sugar Holds Great American Bake Sale

​Another day, another benefit -- don't the people who run these things have day jobs? Right, I forgot, pestering people for money is their job. Be that as it may, Share Our Strength pesters as well as anyone, and its annual Great American Bake Sale takes place this Sunday, May 2 from 12 to 4 p.m. ... More >>

Tonight! Whole Wheat Bread Punks Out Propaganda

Air hockey is totally a contact sport​Ever since Run-D.M.C. threw down rap verses on top of Joe Perry's guitar riffs on its 1986 remake of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way," many bands have endeavored to mesh hip-hop lyricism with rock wallop. While that formula has proven fruitful in some instances -- ... More >>

How Il Grissino Lost Its Chef In 18 Minutes

​From a press release sent at 10:13:Casual and fine dining styles used to be mutually exclusive. That's changed with the opening of Il Grissino, the charming new 70-seat Italian restaurant at 127 Giralda Avenue, in Coral Gables . The restaurant features simple good cooking, using the freshest whol ... More >>

Cookie Monster Veggie Monster: Top 5 Unhealthy Vegetable Meals

I'm still the Cookie Monster biatch!​One of the top 10 searches on Google this hour is Cookie Monster Veggie Monster, and we are happy to report that the good old blue and cookie lovin' Cookie Monster the world knows and loves is here to stay, he will not be replaced by Veggie Monster as internet ... More >>

Miami's Natural Choice Vending Stocks Healthy Options In Snack Machines

image via Natural Choice VendingPirate's Booty, Stacy's Pita Chips, Back to Nature Snacks, Nature's Path Toaster Pastry, and many more.​Aah vending machine, that great bastion of robot based snack-type commercial transactions. Frosted cakes, chocolate bars, sour candies, chips a plenty and sodas t ... More >>

Shallow Canyon

The food at Canyon Ranch Grill won't hurt you, but it won't boost salubrity either.

The Taco That Ate Wellington

Restaurants are scaling back plans for expansion. That new carpet for the foyer has been put on hold, and the chipped plates will just have to last another year. So it's nice to see one Florida company planning to open 12 new locations this year: According to today's Orlando Sentinel, Tijuana Flats ... More >>

Food Without Fire: Raw Food at Whole Foods

Ten Bucks, Good Food

Top eats near home.

ADM: Supermaggot To The World

ADM: Supermaggot To The World

The Riptide Guide to Summer Fruit

The Riptide Guide to Summer Fruit

Fat City

The county may ban trans fats. Nobody, including cooks, knows what the heck they are.

This Kosher Carrot Kicks Ass

Who knew health food could be so tasty?

Great Balls of Ire

The culinary conflict continues

BEST PREPARED FOODS

Whole Foods Market

BEST CAF CON LECHE

Casa Alberto

D-Liteful

Another fresh and fine café to add to the growing mix of good lunchtime choices

The Top Texan

Houston's is brash and fresh and delivering it up your way

BEST SUPERMARKET

Publix Super Market at Shores Center

BEST GOURMET GROCERY

Norman Brothers Produce

A Natural Innocence

Artichoke's

Best Fresh Produce

Rancho los Cocos

Best Doughnuts

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

Best Neighbors

Harriel's Tobacco Shoppe of Suniland

Best Chain Coffeehouse

Xando

Cantina Cuisine Weighs In

Rabbi with a Cause

For Loring Frank, South Florida's freewheeling rabbi of the people, Judaism is all about inclusion

Oaky Dokey