Subject: U.S. Department of Agriculture

• Short Order - Meat Me In Miami

  June 13, 2008

• Meat Me In Miami

  June 13, 2008

• New Yard, New Grill

  July 16, 2008

• Fast-Food Children

  January 11, 2007

• Too Pretty to Swing a Tire From

  June 4, 2009

• Food Stamp Nation - Florida Leads The Pack

  The Miami Herald reports that "In the last two years, the number of Floridians on food stamps has increased more than 40 percent to 1.7 million. That increase is the highest in the nation, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture."The numbers read like this, 356,000 food stamp recipients live in Dade, 127,000 in Broward, and almost 1 in 10 Floridians carry EBT cards, plastic for broke folks. Fleeing felons and convicted drug traffickers need not apply for the program though, as those are

  January 6, 2009

• Stinky, Crunchy, Paint-Eating Hermaphrodites

  June 10, 1992

• BLT Steak Bewitches

  June 4, 2009

• Fore!

  March 30, 1994

• Psst! Want to Sell Some Food Stamps?

  August 16, 1994

• On the Hunt for Illegal Slaughter in Northwest Dade

  Take a drive through West Miami-Dade -- anywhere from as far south as Kendall to beyond the northern borders of the county -- and you'll see the signs everywhere. Se Venden Puercos. Venden Animales. Animals for Sale. Guess what? The farmers inside ain't selling their pigs alive. But they certainly don't have anything resembling a USDA license either. Welcome to South Florida's rampant illegal slaughter industry, where you can watch your dinner be slain in front of you. In Northwest Dade, arguabl

  March 19, 2009

• BLT Heaven to Betsy

  After a series of fits and starts that have characterized Miami restaurant openings for as long as there have been Miami restaurants, Chef Laurent Tourondel will finally debut his BLT Steak at the Betsy Hotel next Wednesday, March 25th. The original BLT premiered in Manhattan in 2004, its casual take on the American steak house taking that city by storm. Now there are more than a dozen BLT Steaks, BLT Burgers, BLT Fish, and BLT BLT's in America, Puerto Rico, and Hong Kong. Actually, I'm just kid

  March 19, 2009

• Pork Pirates

  March 26, 2009

• More Exotic than Your Average Kiwi

  Learn the secret language of succulents at the Rare Fruit Conference.

  July 10, 2008

• Foie Wars

  July 13, 2006

• Eat Shit and Die

  November 22, 2007

• Another Prime Spot

  October 13, 2005

• Die, Weed, Die!

  June 23, 2005

• Rodriguez Steaks His Turf

  May 19, 2005

• Letters from the Issue of March 3, 2005

  March 3, 2005

• Orca Frustration

  September 9, 2004

• BEST STEAK HOUSE

  May 13, 2004

• Steak House Chic

  March 25, 2004

• Gourd Times

  October 16, 2003

• A-Hunting They Will Go

  February 20, 2003

• Dolled-Up Paper

  August 22, 2002

• Going, Going, Gone

  June 13, 2002

• BEST GOURMET GROCERY

  May 16, 2002

• Something Rotten

  August 23, 2001

• Anatomy of a Quarantine

  July 6, 2000

• Best Steak House

  May 11, 2000

• Best Restaurant For A Power Lunch

  May 13, 1999

• News of the Weird

  August 6, 1998

• Night & Day

  April 9, 1998

• Flipper's Revenge

  April 24, 1997

• Getting Wasted at 35,000 Feet

  September 26, 1996

• Letters

  August 15, 1996

• And You Thought Hot Flashes Were Bad

  July 18, 1996

• Get Back, JoJo

  March 2, 1995

• By the Way, Now Might Be a Good Time to Crack Down on the Pork Pirates

  Depending on who you ask, swine flu is either the 12 Monkeys virus come to scour the earth of humanity, or it's an overhyped limited-scope bug that the media has recklessly sensationalized. Though we're inclined to believe it's the latter- - those media sure are scumbags -- we still don't think people should be dumb about it. And there's something, amid all of this frenzy over the safety of the pork industry, about the fact that Miami-Dade is swarming with illegal hog farmers and slaughterhouses

  April 29, 2009

• Burger Battle '09

  May 28, 2009

• The USDA Lies

  Most people believe that a "naturally raised" label implies animals have access to sunshine, fresh air, freedom of movement and the ability to perform, um, you know, natural behaviors. Yet the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently allowed companies to slap a "naturally raised" label on meat and meat products that come from animals whose upbringing was anything but. For instance, the labeling is being applied to cows and pigs being raised in cramped crates -- unable to engage in

  July 30, 2009

• Mr. Clucky Has a Slow-News Summer to Thank for His Notoriety

  If this were January, he'd be just another unkown evicted rooster.​If you've turned on the TV news or glanced at the front page of the Miami Herald in the past week, you're familiar with the plight of South Beach's most famous cock. Newsrooms across South Florida have been stricken with Mr. Clucky fever. Its dominant symptom: the uncontrollable urge to publicize the City of Miami Beach's efforts to evict a rooster that New Times made famous for riding on the handlebars of his owner'

  August 3, 2009

• Mr. Clucky and Other Animals in the News

  August 6, 2009

• Red Serves Steaks in SoBe

  August 6, 2009

• Farm Share, Food Charity, Faces Closure Due To County Budget Axe

  image via farmshare.orgDon't take food out of their mouths.​What happens when a government starves its people? Dade County will find out the hard way if it axes Farm Share from its budget as proposals suggest.Farm Share is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization that provides food directly to at least 6,500 Miami-Dade families a month. They also supply 250 agencies using volunteer and inmate labor to distribute food donations from local farms, USDA commodities and other sources.Their mission's foc

  August 13, 2009

• Homestead's Farm Share In Pictures

  Jacob KatelFarm Share clients​Farm Share is a non-profit organization that provides food directly to 6,500 families a month. They also work with 250 agencies to distribute fresh produce, donated goods, and USDA commodities to people all over Florida. Mayor Carlos Alvarez's budget proposal for 2009/10 eliminates funding for all Community Based Organizations. Mayor Carlos Alvarez's budget calls for the elimination of an established, efficient system for the distribution of surplus food to people

  August 20, 2009

• Benihana Teppanyaki Announces Renewal, Better Shrimp, Beef, Chicken and More Japan

  image via wwworks flickr​Ever been to Benihana Teppanyaki and bemoaned the "lack of Japan" in the place? The company is addressing your concerns on that point and others. Miami headquartered Benihana Inc., which operates 65 Benihana teppanyaki restaurants, 25 RA Sushi Bars, and 9 Haru sushi restaurants, recently concluded its 2009 annual meeting of stock holders, held at the Marriott in Doral.In what's being hailed as the Benihana Teppanyaki Renewal Program, the chain has decided to imple

  August 21, 2009

• Benihana Teppanyaki Announces Renewal, Better Shrimp, Beef, Chicken and More Japan

  image via wwworks flickr​Ever been to Benihana Teppanyaki and bemoaned the "lack of Japan" in the place? The company is addressing your concerns on that point and others. Miami headquartered Benihana Inc., which operates 65 Benihana teppanyaki restaurants, 25 RA Sushi Bars, and 9 Haru sushi restaurants, recently concluded its 2009 annual meeting of stock holders, held at the Marriott in Doral.In what's being hailed as the Benihana Teppanyaki Renewal Program, the chain has decided to imple

  August 21, 2009

• New Allen Brothers Catalogue Is Out

  Baseball strip steak, potatoes not included.The fall 2009 Allen Brothers catalogue has just been released. For those not familiar with the mail-order meat company, Allen Brothers has been America's leading source of USDA Prime beef since 1893. The company has also been one of the main sponsors of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival and has provided most of the meat for the festivities, including the very meaty Burger Bash and BubbleQ events. The big news coming out of this edition is t

  September 9, 2009