In 1949, Tom Kelley, Sr. snapped a series of nude portraits of Marilyn Monroe that have come to be known as the “Red Velvet” series. One of these photos – “Pose 8” – appears on the label of The Velvet Collection’s new Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2007. The discreet golden…
Twenty-five dollar hot dogs? $30 hamburgers? That’s what Prime 112 charges for what it calls Kobe beef.The problem is, the high buck meat isn’t always what is advertised. It’s not the product of cattle raised in the Hyogo Prefecture of Japan that in some cases drink beer and receive sake…
If you’re like me, you don’t eat meals, you drink them. You’re on a tight schedule with only ten minutes to stuff the gut, so there’s never time to chew. But you still need your essential vitamins, nutrients, and other basic sustenance, right? Well, the solution’s easy — just head…
Cooked milk, get your cooked milk.Whole Foods Market has officially dropped raw milk from its shelves in Florida.Raw Milk is milk that has not been pasteurized or homogenized. Pasteurization is a heating process meant to kill bacteria, and homogenization is the process of making the milk one consistency throughout. The…
During a complimentary press dinner Tuesday night at Solea, we were treated to a dip in humidity and a pistachio semifreddo that signaled talent was making pastries in the W South Beach Hotel kitchen. The man behind this cooling and creamy lime green mound, topped with olive oil ice cream…
Some broke American alcoholics drink “pink ladies,” canned sterno filtered through a piece of bread or an old sock. It can get you drunk, and it can kill you. Cuba’s version is called “chispa de tren,” so named for the hallucinations it causes that resemble the sparks made between a…
A teeny sneak preview of the New Times restaurant review for next week. Beef “effilochée” was effing delicious. The cylindrical castle of shredded shank meat gets braised for seven hours and crowned with organic micro sprouts sprayed with truffle vinaigrette. Surrounding the meat are concentric moats of red wine reduction…
Roaches!On September 8, 2009 a Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulations routine food inspection saw them running around the kitchen of Ola at Sanctuary (1745 James Ave., Miami Beach). Click here for the report.The disposition of the report was “Emergency Order Recommended: Conditions have been found that endanger the…
If you’ve ever stepped in dog shit as you walked into a restaurant you might not like this list. Same goes for if you’re allergic to K9s.Food & Wine magazine has named Miami one of the top five dog friendliest cities in the United States, based on dining and lodging…
Starting this coming Monday, October 5th, and continuing every Monday afterwards, Bourbon Steak Miami is offering diners 50% off every bottle of wine in stock — all 850 of them. The “Half-priced Wines Mondays” promotion doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue when you try to say it, but this is…
We noticed that Cacao Restaurant in Coral Gables had been closed for the month of September — never a good sign. But as the message on the restaurant’s answering machine optimistically declared that it would reopen October 1st, we figured we’d wait before worrying. Today is October 1st and no…
Welcome to October, y’all. New fall menu items are rolling out today at Michelle Bernstein’s South Florida restaurants. Suckers that we are for nostalgia, it was time to relish some last bites of summer at Sra. Martinez last night, including the curtain call for her Miami Spice menu. Favorites included…
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Less is more is a sound gastronomic principle, and certainly one the dining public has been eager to embrace. Sane portions, light sauces, bright flavors? Of course. Food from the Mediterranean, where the less-is-more crowd prefers to weigh anchor, likewise enjoys near-universal appeal — especially in Cuisine of the Sun-conscious…
You could say fat runs in my family. Like, genetically. That’s my great grandpa to the right. They called him Chins Mulliggan.He was an Irish gangster. A hard drinking killer that carried tripe in his overcoat pockets, and taught my father to do the same.So I don’t entirely blame the…
Cindy Hutson started her professional cooking career in 1994 when she and her partner Delius Shirley opened Norma’s On The Beach. They named the place after his mother, Norma Shirley, a famous chef who Food & Wine once called the “Julia Child of the Caribbean.”Cindy says “Our first restaurant, Norma’s,…
They call it food with integrity. We knocked em’ for not having it when they were buying what could have been slave tomatoes.But Chipotle recently struck a deal with Florida company East Coast Growers and Packers to pay fair wages and ensure humane labor practices for Sunshine State tomato workers…
Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza is offering local football fans a chance to win the ultimate “Dolp-fan” package: Two club seats, a parking pass and Anthony’s tailgate food for 10 will be given away to each home game. In order to qualify, you have to pick up a form available at…
