Food Truck Roundup at Arts Park in Hollywood Tonight (Video) UPDATE

Update: Tonight’s food truck event at Arts Park has been cancelled.Bring an umbrella and your appetite to tonight’s food truck roundup at Hollywood’s Young Circle, because the forecast predicts scattered thunderstorms and lots of street food. Almost two dozen food trucks will converge upon Arts Park from 5:30 – 10…

Culture of Cuisine: Chef Michael Bennett Writes a Workbook

Michael Bennett isn’t content to just sit around on a rare day off from his executive chef job at Bimini Boatyard. Instead of sunning or fishing, Bennett writes.  With two Caribbean-influenced cookbooks, In the Land of Misfits, Pirates and Cooks and Underneath a Cloudless Sky, under his belt, Bennett decided…

Snoop Dogg Seeks Pot Growing Advice From Welsh Farmer

We love us some Snoop Dogg – from pimping with Katy Perry to smoking large amounts of herb, the man still finds time to tour the world…and personally invite noteworthy individuals via his YouTube channel.Using hashtag #WhenSnoopsInEurope, the rapper has been sending video invites to famous Europeans to come to…

Make a Toast on Facebook to Win a Bacardi Oakheart Stein

In one of the more ingenious Facebook contests, Bacardi is giving away 5,000 Oakheart steins per week to fans who submit three-word toasts.Just become a fan of Bacardi Oakheart on Facebook and submit a three-word toast. The first 5,000 entries per week will win a stein. …

Johnny Rockets GameRoom Opens at Sawgrass Mills

Johnny Rocket’s and GameRoom have partnered to open a giagantic 20,000 square foot restaurant, bar, and arcade at the former GameWorks site at The Oasis at Sawgrass Mills Mall in Sunrise.The restaurant portion will feature an expanded Johnny Rockets menu that includes Monterey Chicken, Center Cut Rib Eye Steak, and…

Michelle Obama: FLOTUS Goes to Baskin-Robbins, Target, Petco (Video)

News flash — the first lady is like every other red-blooded American woman — she runs out to Target, Starbucks, and Baskin-Robbins as often as possible.In an interview on the Today Show, Michelle Obama admitted that she sneaks out to Target, Starbucks, Baskin-Robbins, and Petco. She also mentioned that on…

East End Brasserie to Open at Atlantic Resort & Spa

East End Brasserie is set to open on the ground floor of the Atlantic Resort & Spa in Fort Lauderdale on October 27.Executive Chef Steven Zobel, formerly of New York City’s Triomphe, promises to “introduce a taste of France and the relaxed vibe of the Côte d’Azur to the Fort…

Paula Deen Named Maxim‘s Hottest Female Television Chef

Yes, you read that correctly… Maxim Magazine named the queen of butter television’s hottest female television chef on its Dirty Briefs blog. Deen beat out some of the sexiest women in cooking, including Giada DeLaurentiis and Padma Lakshmi, to come out on top of the list.What makes Deen so damned…

Derek Zoolander, Stefon Hold Fundraiser for Fat Kids on SNL (Video)

Derek Zoolander (AKA Ben Stiller) dropped in on his new boyfriend, Stefon, during Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live.After Stefon shared some tips on trendy new places for tourists to visit while in the Big Apple (a nightclub in a haunted synagogue named Quack run by reggae superstar Rasta Primavera…

Sesame Street Introduces Show on Child Hunger (Video)

Lily is an adorable hot pink muppet in a little blue dress. Lily is also very hungry. In a departure from the usual songs about the ABCs, Sesame Street aired a special last evening on childhood hunger. Growing Hope Against Hunger introduced Lily, a muppet girl who said her family…

Coal Energy Drink: Who Needs Bull When You Have Fossils? (Video)

It’s 2 p.m. and you’re crashing. Last evening’s happy hour ended at midnight and you had to get up for the weekly management meeting. Now you need a serious boost.  Heading over to the convenience store gives you an even bigger headache — so many energy drinks to choose from…

Eat St. Filming Food Trucks This Weekend

Cooking Channel show Eat St. is filming in south Florida for their third season.  Check out Sugar Rush and Ms. Cheezious and be a part of the filming (food truck fans are often picked for segments) at the following locations:  …

The Situation Launches His Own Lollipop

First there was the Situation GTL bag, which holds your laundry (buy one here for $11.99); then Sitch got a sweetheart deal (and partial ownership) at Boca Tanning Club.  Wait — it doesn’t stop there. Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino is also the spokes-guido for Devotion vodka, the first casein-infused vodka…

Doner Pocket Opens on Clematis (Video)

German kebab joint Doner Pocket has infiltrated America with the opening of its first shop in West Palm Beach. The restaurant serves meats slow-cooked on rotating skewers, served on platters and pitas. Doner Kebab is based on the many “kebab shops” in Germany — small restaurants that serve doner pockets,…

Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde Closes Her Ohio Restaurant, Citing Bad Economy

Chrissie Hynde closed her vegan restaurant on Sunday, citing a bad economy.  The Akron, Ohio, restaurant was open four years and was voted one of the top five vegan restaurants in America by Business Week.The Vegiterranean served vegan dishes with an Italian-Mediterranean flair. On the restaurant’s site, Hynde, 60, posted…

The Vegan Drag Queen: Cooking in Heels

There are so many cooking shows on the internet… go surfing for a recipe and you’ll get everything from Martha Stewart showing you how to bake a pie to druggies cooking up a batch of crystal meth. With all these choices, we look for something that can inform and entertain…

SNL Rocks: Melissa McCarthy Is a Crazed Salad Dressing Tester (Video)

Have you ever done a focus group?  You know, when you share your opinions on a new product sell your soul to the Corporate Marketing Machine for a crisp $100 bill in an envelope?Melissa McCarthy (who made Bridesmaids so freaking funny) played a particularly enthusiastic ranch-dressing tester in the focus…

Top Chef Texas: Padma, Pee-wee, and the Alamo (Video)

Top Chef season nine is coming to Bravo, and this time, we’re in for beef, beef, beef as the cheftestants battle their way through the Lone Star State. Top Chef Texas promises to be more than “big hat, no cattle,” from the look of the promo, in which we’re promised…