Nibbling on apple slices dipped in honey during Rosh Hashanah — the Jewish New Year — symbolizes hope for a sweet new year. But there’s a lot more to honey than just age-old symbolism and sugar. In fact, any visit to a local farmer’s would reveal that there are numerous…
Vietnamese iced coffee, a cool combination of dark coffee and intensely sweet, rich condensed milk, is one of the best ways to sip away the blazing Miami heat. The traditional preparation involves a phin filter, a contraption that works almost like a single-serve French press. Set atop a tall glass,…
It might rain on Labor Day. Or you might live in a cramped one-bedroom apartment, with no access to an outdoor grill. When you’re faced with a couple of pounds of marinaded, raw chicken, the sight of rain — or your tiny loft apartment — might seem rather depressing. Miami…
If making perfect risotto were a race, it would be a marathon, not a sprint. The cooking process is all about maintaining a watchful hand and a careful dedication to teasing the starch out of each rice grain. In fact, if a restaurant serves a risotto less than 15 minutes…
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If you haven’t been to one of Eleanor Hoh’s local Wok Star cooking classes, here’s your opportunity to get some valuable tips on wok cooking in your own home — for free.Hoh, who doesn’t refer to herself as a chef, has a simple philosophy when it comes to cooking: A…
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There is nothing more DIY than brewing your own beer from grain, but all of that great brew comes with a hell of a lot of spent grain gone to waste. So what to do with it all? Don’t throw it away, make bread!That’s exactly what Matt Weintraub and Zhi…
For Miami Spice, some of Miami’s top chefs are putting on cooking demonstrations around town durning the two-month program. Even better, the demos are free and open to the public. Chefs from at least a dozen of Miami’s best restaurants — including Michael Aguilar of Wynwood Kitchen & Bar, Jordan…
A roast chicken is a lot like a chocolate chip cookie. Both are obviously prepared in an oven, but aside from that, both are one of the most popular subjects tackled by food writers, alongside other classics like the perfect pie crust or chicken noodle soup. Just like every pastry…
Cecconi’s is launching a monthly series when executive chef Sergio Sigala will be instructing guests on the true nature of summertime cooking in Italy. For this first installment, Sigala is focusing on his favorite summer dishes, demo-ing a four course meal featuring simple ingredients with easy to follow directions. You’ll…
Canning and preserving foods may be a hobby for hipsters in Brooklyn, but it’s actually practical for us here in Miami. With the very real threat of hurricanes and the zombie apocalypse, every good South Florida resident should be prepared to go a few weeks without electricity, and canning is…
The food universe is infinite, which makes learning about it a never-ending pursuit. For decades I’ve been marinating various meats, but it wasn’t until I caught a rerun of America’s Test Kitchen on the local PBS station that I gleaned the secret to getting a marinade to truly penetrate and add…
This is the time of year in Miami when friends hand me mangoes. “I have more than I know what to do with,” they are apt to say in these circumstances. In fact, it isn’t that unusual for strangers to hand me mangoes. “I can’t eat them all,” they say,…
This Fourth of July, Short Order is all set to fire up the grill, call up some friends and kick it poolside with some good ‘ole fashioned Texan barbecue, all thanks to a chat we had with the masterminds behind The Federal Food Drink & Provisions.Since you won’t be able…
A selection of local mangoesFarm Tropical just launched its website last week, but forager Nick Bernal has been working with local South Florida farms for more than three years. He’s already supplied Whole Foods, community-supported agriculture programs, and great chefs like Kris Wessel of Red Light Little River and Timon…
Yesterday marked the beginning of yet another wet and humid summer for Miami. To most everyone else living in the United States, summer equates to long, sunny days and fun-filled barbecues. Unfortunately for the Magic City, these upcoming wet months mean a lot more time will be spent seeking shelter…
I’ve had my share of batidos. Growing up in the Dominican Republic, my mother would always whip up thick shakes with produce from her favorite street-side fruit carts. She’d add the fruit, milk and ice to a blender and serve a simple, yet delicious, batido. The chilled drink would cool…
Mango season is upon us, which means these sweet, succulent fruits will be falling from trees, rolling under cars and rotting on sidewalks throughout Miami. Every year, an abundance of this fleshy tropical fruit strikes our city, and locals with mango trees are overwhelmed.In an attempt to save Mother Nature’s…
What’s Memorial Day without the barbecue? Millions of us will fire up the charcoal and throw some steaks on the grill, beer in hand, as celebration of the unofficial start of summer (and in remembrance of our troops). But how many of us can successfully navigate our way around the…
Tomorrow the Alliance Francaise Miami is organizing a ten-person cooking class with Nobu’s acclaimed pastry chef, Thomas Baduel and the in-house pastry chef at Alliance, Angela Garcia.The intimate course will walk you through the ins and outs of making macarons, fruit tarts, and chocolate tarts.The class ends with a tasting…
After inquiring about trans fats at supermarket and restaurant bakeries and receiving unsatisfactory response, I devised a blind fat taste test. I baked identical pies, with the same filling (fresh strawberries), but with different fats.I tested the following 100 percent artificial trans fat-free fats: cultured unsalted butter, palm oil shortening,…
