Who doesn’t love pastry chef Hedy Goldsmith’s chocolate cremoso? The creamy, rich chocolate topped with sea salt and olive oil has conquered many palates at Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink, and Thursday is our chance to learn how to prepare it.Goldsmith will make her signature dessert at the Coral Gables…
In terms of street food, Art Basel was like the second coming of the Fall for the Arts Festival. Everywhere I turned there were food trucks and carts, some new, some old. One of my discoveries was Raaga Cart at the Miami Independent Thinkers Fair. Owners Jennifer Garcia-Mathews and Frances…
It seems like South Florida’s food bloggers were busy seeing art because it was slow out there last week. Here are the highlights.Miami Herald critic Victoria Pesce Elliott says she would like to have dinner with Jesus. This and more in her interview with South Florida Food and Wine.Savoring South…
We couldn’t wait to check out Rainbow City, the 40-piece installation by the artistic duo FriendsWithYou (Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III). The giant playground opened to the public yesterday for Art Basel and it was the perfect setting to have a picnic. Sitting on one of the installation’s candy-striped…
Isn’t it a little sad that child nutrition is a trend? Hey, let’s feed kids nutritious food because, you know, everyone is doing it.A National Restaurant Association survey asked 1,500 chefs to predict the hottest menu ideas for 2011 by rating 226 items as “hot trend,” “yesterday’s news” or “perennial…
There’s no shortage of food-related art in the fairs taking place during Art Basel. We like this bright, colorful sign at the Graffiti Gone Global and SushiSamba Fresh Produce exhibit. Inside the bodega-like market you’ll find merchandise, books and food on the walls…
If the cold weather has you Jonesing for some hearty food, try this pork loaf recipe by Elana Garces. It is one of the handful of South Florida dishes included in Molly O’Neill’s One Big Table: A Portrait of American Cooking, which I wrote about yesterday. In the book, Garces…
A report released this month by the USDA’s Economic Research Service shows food insecurity increased significantly in Florida from 2004-2006 to 2007-2009. Food insecurity means the inability, at times, to buy enough food for household members due to lack of funds or resources. In our state, an average of 14.2…
I was excited to receive a copy of Molly O’Neill’s new book One Big Table: A Portrait of American Cooking in the mail this week. The nicely designed, picture-laden book includes 800-plus pages of great recipes and offers an encyclopedic look at cooking in America. To write it, O’Neill, an…
In today’s Scene Eating, Trina Sargalski talks to Jennifer Rubell about her “Just Right” exhibit for Art Basel. Short Order was there this morning to get some warm breakfast.After walking through the Rubell Collection building and into its courtyard, I entered the rabbit hole that would lead me to breakfast…
There were quite a few openings in November, including American Noodle Bar, Pubbelly, DB Bistro Moderne and Wynwood Kitchen & Bar. Here are notable openings and closings in November (or earlier and not included in our October roll call).Openings American Noodle Bar, 6370 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami Barrio Latino SoMi, 1559…
Top Chef Season Eight premieres tonight with a cast of all-stars (contestants from previous seasons who didn’t take the title) and it sounds like we may be in for a treat. It really won’t take much for this season to outshine Top Chef: Washington, D.C. — likely the worst season…
Chef Michael Schwartz’s cookbook isn’t due out for a couple of months but, to coincide with Art Basel, the restaurant is showing a behind-the-scenes look at what went into putting the book together. A short film, produced by the book’s photographer, Ben Fink, will be screened at the restaurant’s back…
The best of South Florida food blogs last week. You know, in case you missed it while you were in a holiday food-induced coma.Food for Thought puts out a great guide on where to eat during Art Basel. Tinkering with Dinner prepares Monlar oo thoke with his first CSA delivery.Redland…
As the executive chef at the Trump International Beach Resort in Sunny Isles, Kurtis Jantz oversees the entire food and beverage operation for the resort. This is one busy man, and most of his Thanksgivings are spent working.”My tradition is definitely working it,” Jantz told us. “Around here we fix…
There’s a little kitchen shuffling going on at the Fontainebleau. Chef Ooi Soon Lok, a Malaysian chef who most recently worked as executive Chinese chef at Capella Singapore Hotel, is the new executive chef at Hakkasan.The kitchen at Hakkasan was formerly in the hands of a corporate chef who has…
Water is at the center of a legal food fight between a Delray bagel shop and a Lake Worth pizzeria. But it’s not South Florida water that heating up. It’s the New York tap H2O that does miracles for pizza and bagel dough. Or so they say.The simmering feud started…
The latest from the South Florida food blogosphere …A cupcake order goes bad for … And the Eggs.Redland Rambles tells us about the opening of the Pinecrest Gardens Market.The Chowfather has Sol Kitchen cater his NFL Sunday.Jeff Eats visits Buena Vista Deli. The Burger Beast reminds us that Lee Schrager will…
Have you ever gotten a craving for Gigi’s pork buns right smack in the middle of the day? Good news. The restaurant will open for lunch starting Tuesday, November 16, according to its Facebook page. It will also serve brunch on weekends…
Chef Dena Marino moved to Miami from Colorado last summer to head the kitchen at DeVito South Beach. The job was short lived but Marino loved Miami so much she stayed. She’s now working on another Miami project about which she can’t reveal much because details aren’t final yet. And…
Green Table Artisan Kitchen & Bistro hasn’t opened yet, but from what we can tell, owner Monica Rios is serious about regionally sourced, artisanal food.Rios arrived in Miami eight years ago from Venezuela and she quickly started transitioning from accounting to cooking. She attended culinary school and worked at restaurants…
Time for the highlights from South Florida food blogs …Food for Thought offers a first look at American Noodle Bar.Crepes on wheels over at Burger Beast.Tinkering with Dinner shows how to make mamey sapote ice cream.Chadzilla gives a behind-the-scenes look at the preparation of Sol Sunday.Molasses spice cookies courtesy of…
