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11. Paula DaSilva of 1500° at Eden Roc

Paula DaSilva is one tough cookie. Working in kitchens since age 10, chef de cuisine at 21, Hell's Kitchen finalist at 28 and executive chef of a critically acclaimed restaurant by 31, this lady doesn't just take the heat: she brings it. As executive chef of 1500° at Eden Roc Renaissance in Miami ... More >>

Mother's Day in Miami: Six Chefs Pay Tribute to Their Moms

Chefs must be strong enough to do back-breaking on-your-feet labor for upwards of 12 hours a day. They play with knives and fire. And yet, they must also tap into their sensitive and creative side, working with the most delicate ingredients, using all their senses to perfect a dish. What, on earth ... More >>

23. Tom Wilfong and Vanessa Safie of Copperpots

New Times' Best of Miami 2013 issue arrives June 13. To celebrate, Short Order is serving up the top 30 tastemakers in the 305. These people have helped shape the Miami food scene into what it is today. We began with number 30 and will lead up to the county's number one. A Q&A session is included in ... More >>

24. Victoria Nodarse and Aimee Ortega of Spice Galore

New Times' Best of Miami 2013 issue arrives June 13. To celebrate, Short Order is serving up the top 30 tastemakers in the 305. These people have helped shape the Miami food scene into what it is today. We began with number 30 and will lead up to the county's number one. A Q&A session is included in ... More >>

Giorgio Rapicavoli Cooks at Casa Vincola Zonin Event, Leaks New Projects

At yesterday's Italian Culinary Experience at the Miami Culinary Institute, a few dozen public-relations professionals, chefs, and writers were treated to a wine-pairing lunch featuring Casa Vincola Zonin wines from Tuscany. These Italian Culinary Experience (ICE) lunches are part of a series that t ... More >>

Unique Designer's Cake: RSVP Quick for Opening of an Edible Showroom

Nowadays, cakes are an art form, so any pastry chef worth her or his salt (or sugar) better be able to craft masterpieces. Local bakers Carolina Montoya and Fernando Puga, owners of Unique Designer's Cake, have proven their cake-crafting skills for the likes of Food Network, Art Basel, and the ... More >>

The Five Things We Hate About Christmas (or Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa) Dinner

As a general rule, we're big fans of the holidays. Why? Because they involve eating gut-busting quantities of homemade food, scoring paid time off from work and drinking what would generally be unacceptable amounts of booze. But let's be honest - there are certain things about the holiday season t ... More >>

Five Best Food Movies: The Help, Willy Wonka, Ratatouille, and More

As movie fiends, we often find ourselves diving into film scripts. Films usually compel us with their love stories, or their horror, but sometimes, it's the food that makes the movie a little (or a lot) more memorable. So we've compiled a list of the 5 best food movies. Your favorite may or may n ... More >>

Julia Child's 100th Birthday Bash: Bon Appetit Into The Next Century

Read Also: Celebrating a Very-Merry-Un-Birthday for Julia's 100th September 15. Julia Child Turns 100: Larger Than Life and Full of Joy.Julia Child was our kind of woman. Not only did she laugh loudly and cook with copious amounts of butter, but instead of dreading her birthday like so many foolish ... More >>

Celebrating A Very-Merry-Un-Birthday for Julia's 100th September 15

If you've ever felt the need to alter your birth date, well join the club. Chef Julia Child hated to have her real birthday fall on August 15 so she decided to celebrate it a month later because all her friends were back from their vacations, bearing gifts and well wishes in September. Marking her ... More >>

Julia Child Turns 100: Larger Than Life and Full of Joy

Read also: "Juila Child Birthday Events in Miami: Pascal's, Copperbox, and the Federal"Julia Child would have been 100 today. Child, who's name is synonymous with French cuisine and uber-long cookbooks, wasn't even into food until she and her husband, Paul Child, moved to France when Child was in he ... More >>

Juila Child Birthday Events in Miami: Pascal's, Copperbox, and the Federal

Julia Child is gone, but certainly not forgotten. Festivities are taking place all over the United States to celebrate her 100th birthday this week, and Miami is no exception.Her birthday officially takes place August 15, but according to Dorothee Rubin, incoming president of the Miami chapter of Le ... More >>

Michelle Bernstein in Parade: "Put Down the Spoon, Pick Up a Carrot"

On yesterday's Sunday cover of Parade, (yes I still pick it up) three good looking chefs are laughing it up. The title of the story is "How Top Chefs Stay Slim" and follows with culinary wizards Art Smith, Cat Cora, and Curtis Stone share belly-busting secrets.Inside: eating rules of advice from Mic ... More >>

Sunday's Schnebly Brunch: Guava-Glazed Ribs, Exotic Beer, and Wine

The Miami chapter of Les Dames d'Escoffier welcome everyone to their fourth annual Tropical Brunch on April 15 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Schnebly Redland's WineryThis weekend, the fundraising event is catered by Les Dames (for which I am secretary of the local chapter) as well as numerous culinary s ... More >>

Tracy Kontos, of MasterChef Season Two, Talks Gordon Ramsay and Her Best Dish

via FacebookMasterChef season two contestant Tracy Kontos​MasterChef season two contestant Tracy Kontos, of Coral Springs, took time out of her busy cooking schedule -- and fending off Gordon Ramsay -- to talk with Short Order about her experience on the Fox reality cooking show. One of six contes ... More >>

Will Cook for Sex and Other Cookbooks to Buy for Dad on Father's Day

Dad will thank you for this.​Father's Day is Sunday and with it comes the usual array of stunningly bad gifts. We only assume that dad receives such terrible item as ties, cheap cologne and Izod polos because he never complains about them. Men like to eat and sometimes that means fendi ... More >>

Interview With Christopher Lee, Executive Chef at Eden South Beach

​As a teenager, Christopher Lee became fascinated with food. "I always knew that I wanted to be a chef. In high school, I used to ditch classes just to watch cooking shows on TV."He went on to study at the California Culinary Academy and sharpen his knife at some of the nation's most renowned rest ... More >>

Win South Beach Wine and Food Tix: Guess This Kid in the Kitchen

Ahoy there, chef!​Congratulations to anon1 for realizing yesterday's kid photo was Chef Michelle Bernstein of Michy's, Sra. Martinez, and Check, Please! fame.If you would like to win a family four-pack of tickets to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival's Kohl's Fun and Fit as a Family featurin ... More >>

Less Than Six Degrees to Holland's Chef Rudi Sodamin

Photo by Riki AltmanDid you miss the first part of our chat with Rudi Sodamin, Holland America's consulting master chef? Read it here to discover the celebrity circles this guy travels with.Who is the most famous chef you've ever worked with?Twenty years ago, when I was with the QE2, I worked with t ... More >>

Joan Nathan on Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous

Photo by Michael LionstarAuthor Joan Nathan has your haroset hookup.​South Florida certainly has its share of Jews--it has been estimated the tri-county area of Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach is home to about 10 percent of American Jews--so we wanted to share some culinary inspiration, especi ... More >>

Cooking Channel Morphing Into Food Network 2 Quicker Than Expected

You didn't think Cooking Channel would stay Rachel Ray-less, did you?​When it started, we gave the Cooking Channel one year -- two year, tops -- before Scripps Network would decide it wasn't a big cash cow. Not because we don't relish the though of a high-end version from the Food Network, but bec ... More >>

Cookbook: Julia and Jacques Cooking At Home

​This is a companion volume to the PBS series of the same name. An obviously very generous friend of mine gave this autographed copy to me as a gift, and it's one of the best cookbooks I own. Mr. Pépin and Ms. Child offer complementary recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, main courses, desserts ... More >>

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Say you wanted to kill someone you admire -- not that we're advocatin'.

Steven Raichlen's Barbecue Bash at Books & Books

Photos by Jacquelynn D. PowersHill Country brisket sandwiches. ​

The Return of Julia Child

No, it's not another movie starring Meryl Streep. It was announced today that cooking legend Julia Child will return to the airwaves. Child, who passed away in 2004, will be resurrected via the new Cooking Channel. Beginning June 1, Julia's informative and oft-imitated show will be paired with ... More >>

Interview: Chef Doug Rodriguez Gets The 10

Chef Doug Rodriguez​Oft labeled the "Godfather of Nuevo Latino," bestselling author and Chef Douglas Rodriguez has also been heaped with praise by Newsweek and Zagat, among others. But folks 'round here mostly just know him as "That guy who takes the flavors of Latin America and whips them up into ... More >>

Weekly Wrap Up: The Friday Floormat

Jacob Katel​Floormats are always getting stepped on and run over. They eat dirt. If you got some dog shit on your kicks, they're the first to know. Life's not all just looking upskirts for a floormat. Hey, they've got it rough, but where would we be without them. Give thanks for floormats. Here's ... More >>

Top Chef

In praise of the Julia half of Julie & Julia.

Morning Buzz of the California Kind: Chef Norman Van Aken Recalls a "Ms. Julia" Moment

​Norman Van Aken, Chef/Owner Norman's at the Ritz Carlton, Orlando (and soon to be Norman's 180 in Coral Gables) It seems everyone has his or her own favorite Julia Child story. That's how well known and firmly entrenched in the American psyche the inimitably voiced gourmet goddess, (of the more N ... More >>

Accurately Identify Five of These Chefs and Win a Pass for Two to See Julie & Julia Before the Public Can

Jackie Sayet Say fromage!​One made carabales cheese and walnut empanadas with pear compote.  Another, grilled Florida grouper with "bean escabeche" and buñuelos.  There was barbeque quail salad with poached egg and passion fruit vinaigrette.  Down Island French Toast with fo ... More >>

To Julia on Her 80th Birthday: Remembering a Culinary Icon in South Florida

The French Chef has her own South Florida story.  Growing up I even had the honor to live part of it, attending the tributes that our local chapter of the American Institute of Wine and Food would throw her, since my mother was the co-founder. So buckle up and come along for the ride this week ... More >>

Ortanique Stays True

If you haven't yet dined here, you should.

Anokha, Hakkasan, Chu, Susan Boyle, and Vegans in Hell

Kurma ChameleonAnokha Restaurant number two has apparently bit the dust. When it first opened a decade ago on Commodore Plaza in Coconut Grove, this was a very good place for Indian food. Over the years it slipped little by little, and then last year moved to Virginia St. We wonder: Was this a case ... More >>

Anokha, Hakkasan, Chu, Susan Boyle, and Vegans in Hell

Kurma ChameleonAnokha Restaurant number two has apparently bit the dust. When it first opened a decade ago on Commodore Plaza in Coconut Grove, this was a very good place for Indian food. Over the years it slipped little by little, and then last year moved to Virginia St. We wonder: Was this a case ... More >>

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