When it comes to Thanksgiving, there’s no right or wrong way of celebrating the holiday — especially here, where various customs and traditions are merged into one. In Miami, as long as you have a good spread of food and are surrounded by friends and family, it doesn’t matter whether…
Thanksgiving is just a couple of short days away, and if you’re like us, you’re now scrambling to purchase the fixings for your holiday meal. Don’t fret about not being able to defrost the turkey in time and whether the market will be out of yams. Just go to Trader…
On Black Friday, most of us will just stuff leftover turkey between two slices of white bread and call it a day. But we’re selling ourselves short. An extra bit of effort can yield bigger — and tastier — rewards. On Thanksgiving day, DB Bistro Moderne will be handing out…
True Loaf opened in Sunset Harbour in early November, but owner Tomas Strulovic has been developing this bakery for the past three years. “It’s been a long journey,” he says. The Venezuela native lived in Miami before moving to San Francisco, where he studied bread-making at the San Francisco Baking…
We’ve all been there. You just got home from a lousy day at work and you’re still drunk from happy hour. You crash on the couch, switch on some mindless TV show, and then realize: You need cookies. Now. Enter Night Owl Cookie Co. — Miami’s first late-night munchies delivery…
J. Wakefield Brewing Company has an early Christmas gift for Miami. During Art Basel, the brewery will host a pop-up beer garden. Scheduled to take place on December 6, Wakefield is expecting to have 15-20 kegs on hand — including some of his famous easy-drinking Berliners and possibly several donated…
Long before Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking was published, people were reading and relishing books on culinary skills and the history of food. After all, food is a universal subject and, while we all have different tastes, we cal all agree that the acts of cooking and…
The savory scent of pork-filled GAB Studios on Sunday afternoon as a group of Miami’s most notable chefs joined forces for P.I.G. 4, the swine-heavy feast led by Jeremiah Bullfrog. During these all-you-can-eat extravaganzas, food enthusiasts like to crown the top dish — the so-called bite of the night. But…
This week most of us will gather together with family and friends to share a warm meal and give thanks for what we have. But, while we’re eating our fill of turkey and ham, thousands of dogs and cats will languish in a cold, loud shelter — many of them…
Elvis Presley has his famous peanut butter and banana sandwich, and Elena Ruz has hers. Here’s how the story goes: In the 1930s, Ruz was a young socialite in Cuba. One day, she wandered into Havana’s El Carmelo restaurant and requested a very specific sandwich. She wanted turkey, cream cheese,…
Being an herbivore can be boring, particularly in a less-than-progressive city like Miami. The “vegetarian option” at many establishments is a salad sans chicken or pasta with vegetables. Gag me. But the Federal Food Drink & Provisions — often categorized as a meat-lover’s paradise — is shedding those stereotypes. The…
This Thanksgiving, why waste time baking a pumpkin pie when you can just buy one? We’re not talking about a mass-produced puck from Publix. We’re talking about the ultimate pumpkin pie from Fireman Derek’s World-Famous Pies. Derek Kaplan — a six-foot-two, tattooed City of Miami firefighter — has been baking…
Since its opening in 2010, Lester’s in Wynwood has been a big part of Miami’s literary scene.
During Thanksgiving Live, a live holiday cooking special on Food Network, Giada De Laurentiis cut her finger badly, causing the beautiful television personality to leave the set and get stitches from an onsite medical team. De Laurentiis was filming the special with Alton Brown, Bobby Flay, and Ina Garten when…
Sergey Lebedev looks like the Hollywood version of a South Beach bartender. He’s handsome, dresses fashionably, and wears plenty of product in his hair. He also makes a mean cocktail. Recently crowned the Ultimate Miami Bartender during the Ultimate Miami weekend competition, Lebedev works behind the bar at the Local…
Streets were flooded and umbrellas were popping like bottles, but Miami’s weather tomfoolery couldn’t keep the crowd away from the official launch of Rekorderlig cider at the Broken Shaker last night. The ciders are made with water from the Boulder-Ridge river, which runs through the Swedish town of Vimmerby. As…
Thanksgiving is right around the corner, but if you’re so over the whole turkey-ocalypse, there are always other options. Caribbean roasted guinea hen, anyone? Miami’s farm-based cooking show, the Fare Field, is featuring a Thanksgiving-appropriate menu in this week’s online episode — including the aforementioned hen, pigeon pea rice, and…
The 30th Miami Book Fair International has been going on all week, but the fair really gets heated up today, Friday, November 22, when the fair turns a large part of downtown Miami around Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus into a bookworm’s dream, with hundreds of thousands of books for…
In Surfside, a small town packed with kosher restaurants, Josh’s Deli stands out for its unique (and often unkosher) deli food. Things get even funkier from 6 p.m. to midnight. At night, John’s Tacos takes over the cozy space. John O’Connell is the man behind the tacos. With festive flag…
Chef and prolific restaurateur Gaston Acurio is launching La Mar at the Mandarin Oriental in December. The upscale restaurant will feature novo-Andean and Asian-Peruvian cuisines. Diego Oka, formerly of La Mar Cebicheria Peruana in San Francisco, will helm the kitchen. He has worked with Acurio for more than a decade…
If you start digging into the origins of that sale-priced Butterball turkey at your local Publix, you probably won’t like what you find. Turkeys bred in factories are genetically engineered, pumped full of antibiotics, mutilated — the list goes on. And even if you set aside the animal welfare issues,…
This weekend is a multimedia extravaganza of entertainment, with something for just about everyone. Do you miss Carrie Bradshaw and the Sex and the City girls? Why not make a date to have cosmopolitans with them! Nose always stuck in a book? There’s an entire weekend of activities for you…
