It’s tough to imagine what might have convinced a handsome Parisian chef (and sailor) and his chic American wife to give up what sounds like an idyllic existence on Saint Bart in the French Caribbean — where they presumably spent their days slathering themselves with Bain de Soleil and popping…
Let’s pull our heads out of the sand for just a minute, shall we? Let’s rip the rose-colored glasses from our mugs and contemplate — clear-eyed and sober — the vast expanse of endless blue, that parallel universe that exists right at our doorstep, home to our weird and watery…
I fell for an older man, and I fell hard. The night we met, I was in my office, chewing on the toothbitten plastic filter of a Tiparillo. Our first conversation went like this: Brrrrrring. Brrrrrring. Brrrrrring. Him: “Good evening, Ruggero’s Bistro and Martini Bar…” Me: “Yeah, hi. You open…
Trace the family tree of South Florida’s serious superchefs and you’ll find that our local restaurant scene is as incestuous as a Renaissance monarchy. And the Merrie Olde King who’s had relations with just about every member of his culinary family is a dude named Dennis Max. Maybe you’ve heard…
The folks at the table next to us are as eager to strike up a conversation as they are to inhale what’s on their “small plate.” There’s something about The Cottage (522 Lucerne Ave., Lake Worth, 561-586-0080) that’s got people talking to each other. And singing to each other. A…
We comparison shoppers know we’re in trouble when we find ourselves line-reading, in the latest issue of Consumer Reports, a story detailing the relative pros and cons of gastric bypass versus gastric banding versus liposuction. I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling a bit buxom after the holidays, and…
Ten thousand food critics can’t be wrong. Seems like everybody who’s ever written a word about cuisine in South Florida has fallen under the spell of Phyllis G’s Enigma (2717 N. Federal Hwy., Delray Beach 561-243-6377). “Culinary adventures await,” blathers the Palm Beach Post. “Amazing…” crows the Sun Sentinel. “Deserves…
If you telephone Flowers restaurant early in the morning when nobody’s there, you’ll get an answering message. “Thank you for calling Food Amongst the Flowers,” a man’s voice intones, in the precisely articulated upper-crust British accents of, say, actor James Mason. “Our hostesses are presently busy assisting other customers. We…
If you want to get inside the head of Mike Jones, the man behind Jetsetter Lounge, you need to fire up your time machine and travel back to 1965. That was the year that 6-year-old Jones visited the New York World’s Fair. And like tens of thousands of other space-age…
“Here’s something unique,” Michelle Soudry says. “Bova has a full water menu.” Soudry is director of public relations at the Gab Group, the boutique PR firm handling the explosive pre- and post-intelligence on Ristorante Bova in Boca Raton. “Um,” I say. “Like, they’re serving a lot of seafood?” Soudry’s tinkle…
They are two perfectly round, flawless half-moons. And I’m temporarily mesmerized by what is truly the most beautiful ass I’ve ever seen. It’s un-Photoshopped, it’s almost entirely bare, and the girl this anatomical triumph belongs to is shaking it around with innocent abandon. Her body should be registered as a…
Screw Christmas. The hell with Hanukkah. December 12 was Frank Sinatra’s birthday, and did a single city hall even bother to drag out a likeness of Ol’ Blue Eyes for the occasion? Or were they too busy bickering over their stupid crèches? Half the baby boomers in America were conceived…
‘Tis the season to totally lose it. Some people crash and burn on sugar cookies. Others max out their credit on flat-screen TVs. But if you’re like Jay Simpson, your weakness is for $200 bottles of Louis Roederer Cristal champagne. Simpson and his partner, Cindy White, are hoping a lot…
New Year’s Resolution: Spend more time outdoors. Parenthetical: Between November and April. “No, scratch that,” I said. “Make it ‘spend more time eating outdoors. ‘” My spousal equivalent had a notebook on her lap, and the pages were ruffling in the breeze off the harbor. A boat festooned entirely in…
I used to know a bunch of gay South Florida ladies who took biyearly treks to Atlanta in search of brides. Fed up with Palm Beach slim pickin’s, they’d pack up the car with a week’s worth of bait (massage oil, patchouli-scented candles, CK One cologne, Ani DiFranco tapes) and…
Dream Dinners is to cooking as: a) Tom Cruise is to Godliness. b) “Burgundy cooking wine” is to French premier cru. c) Abu Ghraib is to romance. d) All of the above. You don’t go to Dream Dinners, the newly opened franchise in Sunrise, to learn anything about the culinary…
The streets of Quimper, an ancient city in northwestern France in an area known as Cornouaille in Brittany, are better-suited for motorcycles than for SUVs — and in some areas of the old town, cars are forbidden anyway. The roads are crooked and cobbled, as likely to end in cul-de-sacs…
You know you’re getting close to Red Rock Coal Fired Pizza (50 NE First Ave., Boca Raton, 561-361-6655) when, a block or two away, you catch a whiff of burning coals. That scent tells you you’re going to sit down to the kind of pizza that has generated a good…
London in the mid-1980s was a crash course in East Asian culture for a girl like me. The universe was Thatcherite; the city reeled under economic stagflation, an AIDS crisis, and a resurgence of neo-Nazi extremism. But there was one bright side: Every corner minimart had a pile of samosas…
In his famous essay La Duende, Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca tells the story of a flamenco dancer, well into her 80s, who trounces her younger, prettier competitors in a contest. “Competing against beautiful women and young girls with waists as supple as water,” he says, “[she] carried off the…
At least a few residents on North A and B Streets in Lake Worth think a tornado ripped through their neighborhood on the afternoon of Monday, October 24, right in the middle of Hurricane Wilma’s second wind. When they finally emerged from their battered houses, Our Savior Lutheran church on…
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