Home Cooking: Pasta with Tomato, Basil and Garlic

So it’s pasta. Dressed simply with tomatoes, garlic and olive oil. What’s the big deal? I’ll tell you. It’s comforting, easy to make and relatively inexpensive. It never fails in those “I could care less for cooking” moments. Which typically occur on a weekday night when all you want is…

Cook Your Own Indian Food

We’ve raved in the past about Ayesha D’Mello’s Indian cooking classes. For $75 you get to learn specific regional recipes (usually for six to eight dishes) in a fun environment — and then feast on the always-delectable end results. I took the class a year or so ago and have…

The Genuine Kitchen: All Hot and Buttered Rum

James Beard Award-nominated Chef Michael Schwartz of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink brings his and his team’s knowledge to your home cooking with The Genuine Kitchen column. A guest blogger for this installment, Michael’s Genuine bar manager Ryan Goodspeed shares a recipe suitable for the recent dip in temperature. You…

If You Must Serve Eggnog This Season, Make Your Own

Eggnog is one of those staples that should be voted off the holiday table. Really, is that warm, thick, egg-y beverage the best thing to drink with your holiday meal? Especially in this Miami heat? Eggnog originated in England and was brought over to America by the colonists. Originally made…

Learn to Cook Healthy, Gourmet Meals at Delishe’s Supper Club

Chef David Whyko, CIA graduate and former personal chef to Lenny Kravitz, is all about healthy but flavorful food. Inspired by his 12 years working for Kravitz, a job in which he prepared healthy meals to take on long bus rides in exotic places, he opened Delishe in 2008. There…

Whole Foods Hosts a Flood of South Florida Chefs for Demos Across the State

Have you ever messed up cooking ramen noodles? If you answered yes, like we did, you could probably use some professional help of the cooking variety.Give thanks for South Florida’s bounty of highly touted, greatly revered, very experienced, mostly trained, and overall excellent chefs and for Whole Foods harnessing its…

The Genuine Kitchen: Hedy Goldsmith is Sweet on Basil Ice Cream

James Beard Award-nominated Chef Michael Schwartz of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink brings his knowledge to your home cooking with a new column, The Genuine Kitchen. A guest blogger for this installment, Michael’s Genuine Executive Pastry Chef Hedy Goldsmith shares a recipe and thoughts on basil, one of her favorite…

Hedy Goldsmith’s Winning Pear Granita Recipe

Hedy Goldsmith, executive pastry chef of Michael’s Genuine Food and Drink, has been recognized by Pear Bureau Northwest as its December “Pear Panache” chef of the month for her Pear and Cardamom Granita with Pistachio Pomegranate Biscotti.”Chef Goldsmith’s granita is a showstopper,” said Kevin Moffitt, president and CEO of Pear…

Mayor Manny Diaz at Roots In The City Urban Farm in Overtown

Mayor Manny Diaz is like the Bill Clinton of Miami, people just like the guy. Well, maybe not everybody, but here he is at the Roots in the City urban farm in Overtown (NW Third Avenue and Ninth Street, Miami) talking collard greens with South Florida historian Marvin Dunn, who…

Placita Los Girasoles Fruteria & Nursery and Fresh Roasted Corn

A placita, or little plaza, is a fortified central patio or courtyard found in buildings all over the world, but especially Spanish style ones in Mexico and the Southwest U.S. Placita Los Girasoles (15970 SW 177 Avenue), of sunflowers, is a fruit and produce market and nursery in the Redlands…

Slow Food Miami Conference in People and Pictures

Last night in an Upper East Side event space called the Coverings Showroom, Slow Food Miami’s membership met for its annual conference.  With a musical booth buffet orchestrated by Chef Kris Wessel of nearby Red Light Little River, the evening was less structured meeting and more pre-Thanksgiving pause. It was…

Jeff McInnis at Locust Projects, In Photos

What’s a Design District exhibition space got to do with liquid nitrogen aided cooking?Everybody has to eat; especially starving artists, moreso ones with money. Food is universal.Last night, Chef Jeff McInnis from the DiLido Beach Club at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach held a cooking demo and Q&A at Locust Projects…

Cooking Classes at MDC Wolfson Kitchen

College isn’t all about beer bongs, orgies and smoking like the Everglades. It’s also about learning stuff. Miami-Dade College’s School of Community Education is all about advancing your knowledge. Anybody can sign up, and you don’t need any stupid high school diploma either.Wolfson Campus (300 NE Second Avenue, Miami) has…

The Genuine Kitchen: Are Two Yolks Better Than One? You Bet!

James Beard Award nominee Chef Michael Schwartz of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink brings his knowledge to your home cooking with a new column, The Genuine Kitchen. With each installment, he’ll discuss an ingredient or theme and then deliver a recipe. Questions or comments? Email thegenuinekitchen@michaelsgenuine.com.Like most of my food,…

Sidewalk Chef’s Recipe for Chicken Shashank from his New Book

Shashank Agtey is the Sidewalk Chef, a wacky South Florida entrepreneur with over twenty years experience in professional kitchens starting at The Forge on Miami Beach back when it was still owned by gansgta gangsta Meyer Lansky.We’ve written about the Sidewalk Chef before, click here and here to follow the…

Slow Food Conference Miami 2009

What do you call a cow on a unicycle, a pig stuck in rush hour, or a potato calling an insurance company? Slow food.Others seem to think the term refers to an internationally renowned “member supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life.”Either way,…