(sturgeon: It’s what’s for dinner)The Slow Foods Glades to Coast Chapter, which covers roughly the Palm Beach and Broward areas, is hosting a 5-course Growers’ Discovery gourmet dinner at Cafe Boulud in Palm Beach this Thursday, December 11, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. The dinner, overseen by chef Zach Bell,…
I’ll put up my vegetarian chili against any meat-based recipe — this one is insanely flavor- and color-full, and it’s so spicy it’ll make you weep. It’s ideal post-Thanksgiving eats, since it’s cheap, criminally healthy from all the folic acid, B vitamins and lycopene, and loaded with fiber if you’re…
My favorite culinary stars have crossed in Fort Lauderdale this month, jumped the broom, eloped in the dead of night; let’s pray this heaven-sent marriage is one of uninterrupted bliss. The result is Bova Prime. May they never have to dust off the prenup. And yet, the number of interested…
We’ve confirmed with executive chef Mark Liberman this morning that Stephen di Asprinio has in fact left the restaurant he gave his name to, Forte di Asprinio, in West Palm Beach, “to pursue other opportunities.” Liberman wouldn’t, or couldn’t tell us much more, except that Asprinio left sometime last week,…
Until I saw Milk yesterday, the biopic starring Sean Penn as gay activist and San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk, I’d forgotten all about the Twinkie Defense. Fellow supervisor Dan White shot and killed Milk and Mayor George Moscone in their offices at San Francisco City Hall in 1978 and…
You know me. I’m not a girl to go all giddy over splashy restaurant P.R. Those artfully composed packages, bearing their painstakingly designed logos, arrive in my mailbox pretty regularly, and I greet them with mixed feelings: excitement (hope springs eternal), dismay (the overwrought hyperbole!), and pity for the office…
I don’t have a whole lot of sympathy for you schmucks who haven’t given one second’s thought to what you’re doing for MY FAVORITE HOLIDAY — since personally my 2008 Thanksgiving has been in planning and development since last May. I’ve ordered (and received) my absurdly expensive Heritage turkey, I’ve…
Every dog must have his truffle, and tis the season for the famous fungi, which fruits most prolifically in autumn in Piedmont. Thus, tickets are going fast for the next Slow Food Miami Dinner, which features Terra Madre and the cuisine of Piedmont, famous for its white truffles and mushrooms…
Deep frying a turkey can destroy your home, kill your neighbors, and ruin your life. It happened to a friend of mine. This was in Chicago, some years back. He turned on his heating element — something red and dangerous looking, made by a company with a Japanese sounding name –…
I just got this news release from JusticeNewsFlash.com, a “Pro American Legal Distribution Service,” and it’s just too delicious not to quote directly: Skilled South Florida personal injury attorney, Susan Ramsey, is proficient with consumer health law news and is reminding all Americans that the holiday time is a constant…
Baby wants Amarone Always planning ahead, I am, and this year you can skip the chocolate-covered chocolates on Valentine’s Day and buy me tickets to Vinitaly instead. I know it seems like our favorite romantic occasion is months and months away, to say nothing of the MAJOR PRESENT HOLIDAY we…
There was quite a bit of buzz about Dolce de Palma when it opened last spring — everybody I ran into wanted to shove me against a wall and yak into my ear about Anthony de Palma’s new paninoteca. De Palma had opened Dolce in a frighteningly eccentric location —…
You haven’t quite missed the bargains this year: Dine Out Fort Lauderdale has been extended until December 14th for 22 of the restaurants originally participating. Among them, Cero (they have a new chef, Toby Joseph has left to go to Bova Prime); Four Rivers, and 3030 Ocean; Lola’s on Harrison…
Of course, you could just hire a waitress and a scullery maid, but in this economy, who has the extra dough? If you’re starting to melt down at the thought of serving 20 people on Thanksgiving from nothing but the hot plate and a microwave in your crappy apartment kitchen,…
Sandy Skoglund, “The Cocktail Party” Got 100 people coming for a holiday shindig? Stupidest idea you EVER had, right? Believe it, we’ve been there. But four of Palm Beach’s top chefs are taking pity this season and throwing a bash at Cafe Boulud that might help prevent us from totally…
I just love ethics questions, and lucky for me, there’s an unending supply of morality dramas in the food biz. Like, for instance, is it ethical to put “grouper” on your menu when all you’ve got in the deep freezer is panga or swai, as dozens of restaurants in South…
John Currin, Thanksgiving, 2003 I’ve volunteered to do Thanksgiving again this year, complete with Heritage bird, and though there’s a part of me that really gets off on shoving my butter-coated fist into a turkey cavity this isn’t a job I’d really wish on anybody. It’s just too messy, too…
Two restaurants. Two cities. One menu. The restaurants aren’t even remotely related. Yolo is a flashy newcomer on Las Olas Boulevard operated by high-rolling dining duo Peter Boulukos and Tim Petrillo, the team responsible for igniting the fire under the Fort Lauderdale restaurant biz. In a decade, they’ve opened Himmarshee…
Photo by John Mariani December’s Food & Wine Magazine gives a shout-out to Miami chef Michael Schwartz and the Design District in a recipe-laden article by Victoria Pesce Elliot. Elliot credits Schwartz, who opened Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink last year, with aiding and abetting a Design District Renaissance –…
For those of you who’ve been waiting to grub out at chef Toby Joseph’s new Bova Prime, your moment has arrived. Bova is still operating under its old marquee — it was Riley McDermott’s, and so it shall remain for a week or three — but the menu is all Bova…
Do they really spit in your pasta? I’ve just finished reading Steve Dublanica’s new bestseller, Waiter Rant. Dublanica made his name by blogging about his experiences at an unnamed, upscale Italian bistro in Manhattan, apparently to the delight of a million readers — the site was such a success he…
Teaching an old town new tricks? It looks like the island of Palm Beach is going to try to shake its image as the most boring resort city on the planet. I don’t know what happened — when I was a teenager the island was fun: We actually had a…
