Dimitra Marsellos or “Tula” as she is known to family and friends, is exactly what you would expect from a Greek mother; vivacious, full of energy and always in the kitchen cooking up a storm. Tula’s cookies have seen the Marsellos clan through weddings, baptisms and memorials. “Good food and…
Last month, Burger King gave away 2,688 Xbox Kinect packages. Why such an odd number? The company was delivering one prize package every fifteen minutes throughout November.When purchasing select products, you’d be given a code which you would then enter online. And presto! If you were the lucky wiener–you’d get…
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…
I found Sugar Rush at Rainbow City on Friday night. It was their first night on the town. Sugar Rush is the mobile version of Sweetness Bake Shop & Café in Kendall.Folks who’d wrapped up their Jefe’s Original Fish Taco dinners next door straggled over; others just lined up for…
Last Saturday was the first day of the new South Miami Farmers Market. Last Friday, I wrote a post about the market’s mission of sourcing local produce, cheese, meat, eggs, and value-added products (jams, salsas, and other prepared foods) from local farms, community gardens, home gardeners, and from around Florida…
[jump] I noticed this bottle of Malbec has your logo on it.For many years we’ve had our own wine. We used to make our wines in Spain. Now they are from Argentina. I didn’t know anything about wines.How many diners would you say drink wine with their meal at your…
Art Basel, which ended over the weekend earned top dollar and, we hope, signaled a turnaround in both the local and national economies. Hell even the Wall Street Journal seems to think so. The special Saturday art walk was jammed, but my favorites were the fairs at Red Dot and…
What goes better with latkes than applesauce and sour cream, you ask? Why, vodka, of course!!!The good news is you don’t have to shred pounds of potatoes yourself this year, especially if you are a single Jewbie aged 22 to 39. A local group called The Tribe (isn’t that cute?)…
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…
Last night’s meanderings around the Design District/Wynwood area made us hungry for some good art. Thankfully we got our fill…
Some opinions are still acceptable in our increasingly politically correct social climate. While most people wouldn’t dare make a joke about the handicapped, African-Americans, or newborns, it is safe to say that Carrot Top is a loser, Lindsay Lohan a coke head, and that network television sucks balls.A new food…
Florida vegetables, fruits, eggs, grass-fed beef, and cheese, oh my! These will be on sale in front of South Miami City Hall (6130 Sunset Drive) tomorrow (on Saturday) from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will also be jams, salsas, native and edible plants, and other products.The market will be…
I miss the old News of the Weird column. It always made me feel better to read about the ludicrous situations in other people’s lives.A recent event in New Mexico had Chuck Shepard written all over it. A place called Amigo’s Mexican Food was robbed by a “slim, masked man”…
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…
med some foodies and libertarians recently by banning food ingredients in order to make it healthier. Should the government be allowed to dictate what we can and cannot eat?It all started with trans fats. Plucked from relative obscurity a few years back, trans fats quickly became Public Enemy No. 1,…
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…
More flesh for your carnivores: At right you see the longest pieces of cow flesh you will come across at any local restaurant, for sure.Chef/owner Luis Gajer of Las Vacas Gordas has been rolling up skirt steaks since 1996 when patrons first started rolling into his restaurant. When he and…
Tis the season to give, and what better gift to give than a good ol’ loaf of brick-like fruitcake? We all know how much people love to receive these little gems, don’t we? If you are stumped on what to give to the host of your neighbor’s holiday party, why…
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…
