Larry David just released some of his family Thanksgiving memories. Of course, this being Larry David, they’re not on the Hallmark Channel — they’re on Funny or Die.In this animated short, Larry reminisces on holidays filled with family members that ring familiar. Uncle Leo eats in his undershirt, Ma won’t…
Travel the country in search of the perfect pie, and you’ll probably come up with a simple fact — New York pizza is somehow indefinably better. Many claim it’s the water that makes New York pizzas (and bagels) superior. Others say the coal-fired ovens of old generated the perfect environment…
Thanksgiving is fast approaching and if you haven’t made plans, take a page from the Food Network cookbook’s two booziest ladies and have a good old fashioned Southern Thanksgiving – complete with lots of booze and an easy to make turducken. After a meal of turducken washed down with a…
There’s been a lot of pizza discussion this week. First Kermit the Frog rants about it, then Domino’s Pizza launches an app for your iPad.Called Pizza Hero, the app allows you to make your own custom pizza in the video game portion. Based on Domino’s Pizza school, players will start…
S3, a new restaurant by the Restaurant People, is set to open on the ground floor of the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort sometime mid-2012 and will cater to both tourists and locals seeking a midpriced dining experience with a view. S3, short for Sun, Surf, and Sand, will take…
When People magazine asked Joel McHale to do a little video for its “Sexiest Man Alive” edition, it had to have known that it wouldn’t be exactly what it asked for.The Community and The Soup star explains he was asked by People to film himself doing something mundane… but to…
Kermit the Frog is making a comeback. He’s got a new movie due to be released in a few days, his relationship with Miss Piggy is still solid, and he even made an appearance on this past week’s Saturday Night Live.Kermit cohosted the “Really!?!” segment on “Weekend Update with Seth…
Sef Gonzalez has turned eating burgers into a mission and a career. The man behind the popular food blog Burger Beast has become a food critic, blogger, food-truck-roundup promoter, and host of his own annual award, the Burgies. The third-annual Burger Beast Burgie Awards is tonight at Miami’s Magic City…
Singer/songwriter Kina Grannis is making her way up the music charts with her song In Your Arms, a sweet and singable love song.Speaking of sweet, when Grannis decided to make a music video of In Your Arms, she has something different in mind – a music video with background, props,…
I found what I want Santa to bring me for Christmas — skydiving with Anthony Bourdain, followed by burgers and beer.Gilt City has just announced the craziest offering that we’ve ever seen — an opportunity to go tandem skydiving with the No Reservations host. One lucky person (the first one…
The fair’s in town. Time to load up on food you would never normally eat on the drunkest of escapades and then allow yourself to be spun high into the air in a giant erector set, operated by a guy who resembles an extra in AMC’s The Walking Dead.The 35th-annual…
The commercial starts as the usual 30 second spot for booze. Soft music plays as some liquid silk of a libation is pored into a perfect glass. A narrator with a soft burr (Swedish? Scottish?) says that “for six generations the house of Taman has created an exceptionally smooth experience.”…
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County will host their third-annual Future Tastes Great Iron Chef Competition this Saturday, November 19, at 6:30 p.m.The competition, held at Hugh’s Culinary in Oakland Park, will benefit the BGCBG Culinary Arts program, which introduces teen members to possible careers in the culinary…
Did Paula Deen show up drunk to film a recent Extra segment with Mario Lopez? We’re not ones to spread rumors, but the queen of butter was acting supercrazy and frisky while taping a recent show segment.We’re not even sure if she was plugging a book or just wanted to…
Can we love Padma Lakshmi more than we do today? It seems mutherf**king unlikely. We just got wind of the totally awesome preview for tonight’s episode of Top Chef. With the cheftestants finally chosen after two throwaway episodes, the fun begins. The cheftestants’ first quickfire challenge? The chicken of Texas…
According to its website, condiment giant Heinz sells 650 million bottles of ketchup every year and about two single-serve packets of ketchup for every man, woman, and child on the planet. That’s a lot of ketchup to go with your burgers and fries. Heinz Ketchup is pretty much a mixture…
The 49th-annual Christmas on Las Olas celebration on November 29 will turn five blocks of Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale into a winter wonderland, complete with ice skating, snow, sledding, and some serious Christmas cookies battling it out.If you didn’t know those innocent gingerbread men could fight, you’ve got…
Christmas is already upon us. To us at Clean Plate Charlie, that means drinking lots of eggnog, wearing ugly reindeer sweaters, and making frequent stress-filled trips to the mall to buy presents.It’s also the time of year to help people who won’t have a great holiday season. Especially children.Each year,…
Chocolate is the one vice you can do indulge in anywhere. Think about it — when was the last time you brought a nice Pinot Noir to the office or lit up at the PTA meeting? But you can break out a nice piece of 70% cacao.If you love chocolate…
Dos Caminos is celebrating executive chef Ivy Stark’s cookbook Dos Caminos’ Mexican Street Food: 120 Authentic Recipes to Make at Home on Friday, November 18. Stark’s cookbook contains 120 recipes and profiles of real Mexican cooks. Home chefs will enjoy recipes for traditional Mexican dishes like plantain croquettes, chilies stuffed…
Remember when your parents told you to eat everything on your plate? Well, Louis, the dreadlocked guy who eats the weirdest stuff in the world, takes “waste not, want not” to a new level by eating a dead, rotting frog.While vacationing at a Canadian hot springs, Louis finds a frog…
The Grace Jamaican Jerk festival at Markham Park in Sunrise brought what had to be tens of thousands of jerk fans together for an entire day of good eating and soulful music.After navigating a snaking line of cars that seemed to go on forever, the lines to enter the festival…
