I don’t know about you, but I need a mid-week break, and a wine tasting sounds like the best way to get my drunk on while pretending that I’m A) continuing my gastronomic education and B) being all sophisticated and stuff. Here are three grape-flavored blowouts going on tonight that…
Breakfast of Champions So, what’s the most hideous thing you’ve ever knowingly swallowed, food-wise? Do you crave the nasty bits? We’d love to hear your story. And to get the old creative juices flowing, here are a few images of delectable dishes served at the Olympics food concessions in China…
Taco Tuesday. For months, New Timesers went to Treasure Trove every Tuesday for Taco Tuesdays, a special day on which chicken, beef, or veggie tacos are just $1. We haven’t been in a while now — you can only ingest six- and seven-taco meals for so many weeks in a…
In Which I Fall Down the Rabbit Hole “Every day the same thing,” my spouselet complained. “I want variety. Fix me….. hossenfeffer…” hit the jump to see what happened…..
The amazing dondakaya We seem to have exhausted the brainpower of blog-readers the last couple of weeks; once again, nobody carried off first prize in our WTF is IT??!! contest. The mysterious vegetable in question was the dondakaya, also known as the “ivy gourd,” a little bugger that looks like…
[Picasso, Blind Man’s Dinner] And if you’re feeling flush as ever, or pretending you are… You can help end childhood hunger and satisfy your own in one shot. The “Gold Medal Wine Tour” will be making its way around some of the best South Florida restaurants this fall, pairing wines…
Remember The Gong Show? Talentless hacks interrupted in mid-performance by a huge, cruel gong, signaling to the whole world the imminent and permanent separation of the hapless artists from the airwaves (and from their egos)? The concept is back at Dada’s (52 N. Swinton Ave), every Monday night at 9:30…
Carl Gussow, “Oyster Girl” John Linn and I noticed something fishy about the “oysters on the half shell” we ordered from Jackson’s Steakhouse the other night. Our waitress told us they were Gulf oysters, which you know can’t be safe to eat raw in August. The water warms up and…
a penny saved…. Everybody’s offering tips to save on dining out these days, but Miami foodist Danny Brody has a truly imaginative list of ideas on DailyCocaine that we all ought to print out and tape to the fridge, including: 9. Carry a flask. Order tap water-when no one’s looking,…
image courtesy pebblebedreactor.blogspot.com If you had an idea that biofuels (like ethanol) made from corn, soy, or rapeseed were going to solve our energy problems, think again. Er, well. Even if biofuels allieviate the energy headaches of the West, at the moment their cultivation has left populations around the globe…
above: Hurricane preparedness kit I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion that there are two types of Floridians. The first has stockpiled enough bottled water, canned chili con carne, sterno, matches stored in waterproof bags, and flashlight batteries to survive a nuclear holocaust followed by an invasion of cranky aliens…
I’ve still got an alligator tail steak the size of a bistro table in my freezer from LAST year’s season, and here we are starting the party all over again. Fact is, I’m a little afraid of it. The steak, I mean, although the folks who hunt alligators can sometimes…
Weeeeyull, looks like you folks aren’t quite as brilliant as you thought you were, eh what? Last week’s photo evidently left you gasping for mercy, calling “Uncle!,” too whipped to offer even the wildest, bouncing-off-the-wall guess. Or maybe the stunning silence on that one was because I forgot to OFFER…
Julia Child, infiltrating a goose Documents: Julia Child part of WWII-era spy ring Washington Post More college students turn to food stamps More than 54,000 Florida college students are on food stamps, a 44 percent increase from this time last year. Miami Herald/Florida Trend Restaurants sing the brown-bag blues Arizona…
Amazing what you’ll find out reading Miami New Times. Apparently we’re putting on a terribly cool culinary event on September 10th: Iron Fork, in which “Top Chefs Battle Head to Head for the Prestigious Golden Fork Award.” Who knew? Celeb judges include Susser, Dean James Max, Clay Conley, Zach Bell,…
Don’t have a cow: The list is finally here Flavor Palm Beach, which runs through the month of September, has posted its list of participating restaurants offering a three-course dinner for $30, lunch for $20. The line-up is so disappointing, so baffling, it’s given me an ice-cream headache. Hardly any…
Hot enough for ya? Wings’n’Curls, arguably the most beloved and hopping little wing joint in all of Hollywood, has a new menu. They’ve dropped the trans fats from all their dishes and added a shit-ton of new items: buffalo shrimp, sliders, a double-stuffed Philly Cheese Steak, and plenty more. They…
image courtesy Bee Heaven Farm From October to early May we get our produce delivered weekly through a co-op CSA program at Green Cay Farms in Boynton Beach (they may already be subscribed for the coming season, but you can contact them at kes@bellsouth.net). But off season or for fill-ins…
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Last week Victoria Fedden sent us this awesome memory of finding free food in Delaware: “Each summer we were chicken-neckers. We stood on bridges in the dawn’s mist, over nearly stagnant creeks or nearly up to our knees in eelgrass, dragging strings tied to raw chicken necks through the dark…
OK, I took a lot of guff last week for posting a photo that made the game way too easy (yes, if you can read the fine print, backwards, that was UGLI fruit) sold at Whole Foods. So this week I have TWO weird edibles for you brainiacs out there…
A skeleton walks into a bar and says, “Can I get a beer and a mop?” No seriously, mini lobster sport season in Florida opened last week (regular season starts tomorrow) and four divers have already ended up dead, crushed within the deadly claws of murderous mini-lobsters staging a well-organized…
