This week in Short Order:

• Are those SunChips bags really that noisy?
• Chef Paula Da Silva talks about her new job at 1500° Restaurant
  
• Who has the best bandeja paisa?
• David New of Ability Explosion talks madeleines and dining in the dark.
• Food-writing luminaries are headed to Key West in January, and you can be a part of it.
• Customizable vending-machine foods.
• Immokalee Workers win money for farm laborers.
• Don't bring chopsticks near Chow Down Grill's Joshua Marcus.
• September's Miami restaurant openings and closings.
• Slow Food Miami works to preserve the rare hua moa plantain.
  
• Contrary to rumors, Norman Van Aken has not left Norman's 180.
• Gonzalo Rivera, however, is moving from La Marea to the Waldorf Astoria's Boca Raton Resort.