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Top Five Eats & Drinks this Week: From A Four-Course $10 Meal to a $2 Dinner

Another weekend has flown by and it's time to get back to the daily grind. No lamenting loss of freedom. , we're already sipping some serious cold brew and we've snagged an exclusive deal on free coffee for you. From $2 meals to healthy dinner demonstrations, this week's eats are mostly budget fri ... More >>

Whole Foods Coral Gables Celebrates Mother's Day Thursday

Mom's work hard all year round, so why is mother's day only celebrated one day? Whole Foods Market in Coral Gables has decided to show mother's some love early, and begin celebrations tomorrow with a free healthy brunch buffet and make-your-own body care class. So leave the kids with dad for once ... More >>

Whole Foods North Miami Opens May 1

Residents of North Miami will now have a place to buy sustainable seafood, prepared foods, and local produce when Whole Foods Market opens Wednesday, May 1.The art-deco-inspired shop is the company's 19th Florida store. Another Whole Foods, located in downtown Miami, is in the works.Whole Foods is c ... More >>

Picnic on South Beach: Healthy and Easy Alternatives for Your Basket

It's January in the Magic City. The sun is shining, the weather is sweet, and it's perfect picnic time. And since it's a new year and you're probably very much committed to the universal resolution of eating healthy and losing weight, Cheetos puffs and croquetas can't be on your basket's menu. Unfor ... More >>

Miami Farmers' Markets: The Fresh, the Local, and the Bargains

Review: Coconut Grove Farmers Market

Glaser Organic Farms occupies the largest tent at the Coconut Grove Farmers Market. Tracy Fleming, who has owned the farm with her husband, Stan, for more than 30 years, sells a variety of local and nonlocal produce. The tent is widely recognized for its locally processed, organic raw and vegan food ... More >>

Can Slithery, Slimy, Creepy Crawlies from Whole Foods Become an Art Project?

Poking around Whole Foods down on Sunset Drive recently, I encountered a highly regarded delicacy that, according to many people's standards, is disgusting, promotes up-chucking and, if courageously ordered then viewed on a plate, often becomes impossible to swallow. Man up you wimps and let those l ... More >>

Miami Beet Reporter Finds "Vegan Glory" in LA

See Raw Cactus Wraps and Meatless Airport ChowI'm running an all-terrain, 12-mile, 25-military obstacle race in San Bernadino on Saturday. That's sure to be a challenge, but endurance races also come with their perks. Among them is that you get to carbo-load guilt-free for a few days before the race ... More >>

Underappreciated Butchers Want Your Appreciation

Whole Foods Market recently hosted a competition for butchers. Why? Many of us remember living in other parts of the country, and the world, where there was a butcher shop on every street corner. (Vegans: Reader discretion is strongly advised from here on in.)Rich, tender pieces of meat hung on stai ... More >>

Top Five Miami Restaurants for Dining During a Hurricane

During the coming week, you'll be hearing and reading a lot about how this Friday kicks off the official hurricane season in South Florida. You will be privy to all manner of advice on how to best weather the potential storms, and the very word hurricane will blow into your ears over and over a ... More >>

Publix Seafood Practices Rank 19 of 20 Stores Analyzed, Greenpeace Says

Wikimedia CCPublix seafood practices score a failing grade of 2.7 out of 10, according to the environmental group Greenpeace. A study by the organization's Carting Away the Oceans project (CATO) analyzed major grocers such as Target, Safeway, Whole Foods, and Winn-Dixie. Publix landed at 19 among th ... More >>

New Downtown Miami Publix: Does It Deserve Being Ranked Third in the Nation?

Hipsters and dog owners in midtown and downtown can now rejoice. Publix has finally opened a convenient location in the Omni area. No longer will denizens have to visit the jam-packed outpost on Biscayne at 48th Street. The new location, at 1776 Biscayne Blvd., features both a liquor store and a pha ... More >>

Health Drink Kombucha: Fermented Tea to Get Your Guts in Order

Kombucha is fermented tea crawling with live and active cultures. And it is taking up ever more shelf space in the beverage aisle at Whole Foods. Why? It may help restore health to your digestive tract and give you an immune boost.Probiotics are not just for yogurts anymore. In fact, they haven't be ... More >>

Last Week to Enter the $1,400 Whole Foods Holiday Bake-Off

Photo by Bryan Ochalla/Wikimedia Commons​If one of your wild food fantasies includes running up and down the aisles of Whole Foods like a crazy person, filling your shopping cart with any and everything your heart -- and stomach -- desire, and doing it without spending your whole paycheck, read on ... More >>

Hey Whole Foods: Stop the Crap

​​The U.S. Department of Labor Office of Public Affairs is suing Whole Foods in an attempt to "reinstate a former employee with full back wages and benefits after the company allegedly fired the worker for voicing and reporting workplace health concerns regarding a raw sewage spillage at its s ... More >>

Fresh Market, Whole Foods, Publix: Let's Compare Prices

Lee KleinThe Fresh Market​​​A new the Fresh Market opened last Wednesday in the Sunset Harbour neighborhood of South Beach. Publix premiered a glossy new SoBe supermarket in the past year (to go with two in the area already), and the Whole Foods Market on Alton Road has a renovated exterior (r ... More >>

Top Five Cheesy Snacks From the '90s

Via MrKolby Four Loko? Ha! This was far more dangerous.​​Ah, the '90s. The era when we were but aspartame-inhaling, hydrogenated-oil-guzzling kiddies. Back then, we thought playing in the Ronald McDonald playhouse was hygienically advisable and Fruit Roll-Ups were an appropriate example to bring ... More >>

Frank Jeannetti Dishes About Just How Organic Essensia Is

Jeannetti gets up close and personal with his food.​Yesterday, we chatted with the guy we affectionately referred to as Chef Green Jeans, Essensia's Frank Jeannetti. Click here to read the first part of this interview.You claim your restaurant is organic but, really, with the incredibly high cost ... More >>

Dispatches From South Beach Wine & Food Festival 2011

Photo by Jose D. DuranIce sculptors at SoBe Wine & Food Festival's Let Them Eat Cake event. ​It's over. The gluttonous celebration of food known as South Beach Wine & Food Festival is now in the books. History books? Maybe. Cookbooks? Absolutely.Yep, the festival celebrated its 10th annive ... More >>

Vegan Alert: Get Nutritional Yeast at SoBe's Apple A Day

Camille LambNutritional yeast packs the B-12 most vegans lack​I hate saying the words "nutritional yeast" out loud. It sounds like the most unappetizing product ever cultured. And truthfully, it can be. Try putting a straight spoonful of the powder in your mouth. If you don't suffocate on accident ... More >>

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Whole Foods Joins Cheese Recall

The cursed curds have been pulled from shelvesWhole Foods has pulled seven types of cheddar cheese from its shelves as a precaution over the risk of listeria or E. Coli. The cheeses come packaged in clear plastic wrap with a sticker across it reading "Distributed by Whole Foods Market." They are par ... More >>

Chef Jeremiah Wins Deering Battle of the Prune

Photo by Juan CabreraFull moon and full stomachs at Deering EstateEpicures of all ages made the long haul out to the Deering Estate Saturday night for Wine on Harvest Moon, the annual fundraising event benefiting The Deering Estate Foundation. They enjoyed food samplings, drank free-flowing wine, an ... More >>

Here Come the Olive Oil Tastings--Try for Yourself Today (Wednesday) at Whole Foods Pinecrest

Pawel Kryj/stock.chang​Coffee, wine, chocolate, cheese...now, here come the olive oil tastings.  You may have noticed these popping up, and I don't mean someone handing out swigs from a pill cup at a food festival.  These are sit down events, where one takes notes, and compares the fruit ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Festival Tickets on Sale October 25

​Get your wallets ready! Tickets for the 2011 South Beach Wine & Food Festival go on sale Monday, October 25.The festival, which takes place February 24 to 27, 2011, will be celebrating 10 years. Ten years since Lee Schrager took over the one-day wine festival that started at FIU, moved it to ... More >>

Organic Peanut Butter For All: Plans for Downtown Whole Foods Back On

​Downtown Miami residents who love organic garbanzo beans and various imitations of snack foods made out of soy can breath a sigh of relief. The plan to bring a Whole Foods to the area is finally back on. Pop your bottles of Kombucha in celebration, yuppies.

Prometheus Springs is a Cool Hot Cold Drink

Lee KleinAsk yourself: How good would a Lychee Wasabi Martini taste right now?​Prometheus Springs is a relatively new organic soft drink that's arguably the spiciest beverage to ever hit the market. The heat generator is capsaicin -- derived from the namesake chili pepper and loaded with antioxida ... More >>

Whole Foods Coral Gables, January Events

Ah, the supermarket, that great bastion of packaged foods and conditioned air, perfect lines of consumer bliss, and walk-by coupon dopamine hits.Whole Foods has shopping down to a science, and the key is interactive marketing.Welcome to 2010. Here are some events you might enjoy checking out in Janu ... More >>

Miami Beach Whole Foods worker spills the beans on a sewer leak and gets canned

Don't Talk About it: Whole Foods Workers Get Threats From Lawyers Over Sewer Leak

Letter from the Whole Foods Attorney. ​The Whole Foods cooperate website lists this as its company motto: "Open books, open doors, and open people." That's not the case Miami Beach.  A few days ago, Riptide posted a story about an employee who was fired for reporting a sewer spil ... More >>

Wholly Crap: Whole Foods Worker Reports Sewer Spill and Gets Canned

robert owens via flicker cc​On the afternoon of November 1, Whole Foods workers in Miami Beach noticed an unsettling odor. There was no mistaking it, says a marketing specialist who asked to remain anonymous: "It was the smell of poop and pee."The employee, who we'll call Janet, did some investiga ... More >>

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Chefs Club Miami & Whole Foods Market: An Unholy Alliance

​"Begun in 2006 as a series of intimate, word-of-mouth chef gatherings at restaurants all across South Florida, Chefs Club Miami -- now boasting a membership of more than 30 of the town's culinary innovators and restaurant industry honchos -- is proud to announce its recent partnership with Whole ... More >>

The Chefs Club, Where South Florida's Best Chefs Eat, Network, Make Deals and Bust Balls In Pictures

Jacob Katel​ The mafia's got a way of referring to itself called "this thing of ours." Chefs are the same, not a mob, but a network of bosses, underbosses, and soldiers who put in work to bring home the fattest envelopes and be recognized for their accomplishments. It's no secret society, the rest ... More >>

Coalition Of Immokalee Workers Declare Tomato Pickers Victory in Florida

image via ciw-online.org The Coalition Of Immokalee Workers, a Florida farmworkers union known for taking on the "big 4" fast food giants, winning, and garnering higher wages because of it, has just marked another milestone. Two Florida farms that specialize in growing and selling or ... More >>

Valentine's Recap in Pictures

Many of you probably spent a romantic Valentine's Evening at a fine restaurant, supping on foie gras and fine wine. And that's all good. But here's an alternate view of Valentine's Day - a less expensive option for leaner times. This simple meal of salad, cheeses, good olives, fresh bread, and wine ... More >>

Downtown Deprived of Organic Peanut Butter: Whole Foods Pulls Out

Oy, it is not a good week for a certain type of smug yuppie. First the local smooth jazz channel turns to all guilty pleasures all the time, and now Whole Foods Market has pulled out of its plans to open a store in Downtown. The organic grocery store was set to open at Met 3, but changes in the pro ... More >>

WtF Is It?!? Round 6

Sorry, but Whole Foods is Awesome

Sorry, but Whole Foods is Awesome

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