Thanks to local advice and a couple of friendly posters on chowhound, I’ve found my Guatemalan restaurant — and practically right in my own back yard. El Chapin in Palm Springs has fabulous tamales, homemade tortillas, and meat-heavy breakfasts. Review next week. –Gail Shepherd…
[image courtesy mtmrap.com] Hazardous. Poisonous. Fatal. Sickening. Rotten. Toxic. Threatened. *** As in, “Don’t eat that Florida tomato! It could be F__________!!!!!!” As in, “Girl, I was in Publix yesterday? And half the freaking produce was R______.” As in, “It’s probably better if sport fishermen (especially pregnant ones) forgo consuming…
there’s a backstory to the bodacious berry full of nefariousness and intrigue.
[above, Pam RuBert’s quilt, “Banana Split Pose.” See more here. Argghh, I can’t believe I’m going to miss this! And on my birthday! I leave for NYC Saturday morning — will somebody PLEEEEEEASE pick me up some banana trees???? Gail Shepherd Tropical Fruit Tree Sale / South Florida Fairgrounds (West…
At one Palm Beach restaurant, that dirty martini might be REALLY dirty I’m about to lose one of my best sources for insider restaurant dish — a friend of mine is retiring, at least temporarily, from her job as a server to get married. But she’s stored up enough tales…
Summer Slumming On the Wrong Side of the Tracks Mummy and I got gussied up as Ladies Who Lunch last Friday and tripped over to the isle of Palm Beach, hoping to test the waters at Beach House Bistro, which opened last November. The restaurant scene in Palm Beach moves…
[Ed. note 7/15/08. This recipe, I found, leaves you with a brew too thick to drink as a cocktail. But it makes a fabulous cold soup — a Bloody Mary inflected gazpacho, thanks to the horseradish and Worcestershire. Just add a shot of vodka to each bowl before you serve…
You say tomato, I say “Show me the Money” From The Economist: “After one embarrassment on top of another”…. [ed note: like being caught SPYING on Florida Student/Farmworker activists in Fort Lauderdale] “Burger King backed down last month and reached a ground-breaking agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, representing…
Evidently last week’s entry in Short Order’s weekly contest, WTF Is It?!?, — was child’s play for our MENSA-class readers. Half the world, it seems, knows what to do with a bitter gourd, while we’d been using them as foot massagers. This week we’ve got TWO summertime edibles and the…
International Mango Festival Date: July 12 – 13, 2008 Location: Fairchild Tropical Garden 10901 Old Cutler Road Coral Gables Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden invites you its 16th annual International Mango Festival featuring the mangoes of Africa. The weekend features, among many other activities and mango tree sales, the celeb-studded Ninth…
New Times Broward-Palm Beach empaneled a group of our expert staff to rate the edibility of six top brands of cat food available in local supermarkets.
Thank god for PR companies, because I really would have been bummed to have missed the news about Denny’s new late-night menu, served only between the witching hours from 10 to 5 in the a.m. At first, I thought I’d post the photo above in our weekly WTF Is It…
Listen up, mes amis. Before digging into your next filet de sole bonne femme, consider that you may be spilling more beans than a drunken chef cooking cassoulet. A friend tells me that at the venerable and hoity Palm Beach French restaurant Chez Jean Pierre, there’s a little glitch with…
This month’s issue of Food & Wine taps our very own Allen Susser, of Chef Allen’s in Aventura, for recommendations about where to buy great local foodstuffs in South Florida.
If you’d told me that these New Age drug stores were legally selling pot brownies, nut mixes infused with hashish, and tea-laced Rice Crispie treats, I would have died laughing.
Welcome to the first installment of our weekly Friday game, WTF IS IT?!? Each Friday (maybe) we’ll put up a photo of some exotic and supposedly edible foodstuff. First reader to correctly identify the thing will win…. …the smug knowledge that s/he is an insufferable know-it- all. You’re naturally invited…
Who does a girl have to flak to get a DECENT PIECE OF CAKE around here?
Whoever imagined that a simple tomato pie with a bubbly, blackened crust (“bruciata,” in the trade) could potentially cause a cancer cluster? At least one Delray Beach-based letter writer to the Sun-Sentinel did, and she’s not alone (read the down & dirty responses that letter generated here). Whether or not…
Big opera for the little ‘uns SAT 1/8 Paul Bunyan, the hunky lumberjack who could fell 23 trees in a single stroke, is pure Americana: ridiculous, annoying, glorious. And loaded with camp possibilities: In the late 1930s, two gay British expats living in New York, poet W.H. Auden and composer…
