Jan Norris: Food and Florida

“I never did a day’s work in my life: It was all fun!” — Henry Ford. That’s how I feel about this “job” after meeting people like Jon Snowden. He runs Jo-Al’s on U.S. 1 in Boynton Beach. In all the years I worked at The Post, including a stint in Delray as bureau chief, [...]

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To celebrate their 10th anniversary, BarryMore’s Steakhouse in Jupiter is having a surf-and-turf dinner for $10! (Prime rib and scampi, or sole Francais.) It’s Sept. 30 at BarryMore’s in the Bluff’s Square in Jupiter – and reservations are REQUIRED. (Call 561-625-3757). I found out about this through Taylor Morgan’s email blast from SouthFloridaDines.com - go to her [...]

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You know her as Typhoid Mary, but Mary Mallon, of Ireland, was known as “cook” to several households in New York city around the early 20th Century. Immune to typhoid fever, she was instead a carrier, and through her cooking and food handling, spread the disease that’s caused by Salmonella bacteria. She was captured, later released, [...]

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Clearly one of my favorite parts of my job as a food writer is going into the kitchens and getting the stories about their foods from the chefs. They’re usually working away and I get to see techniques, taste some interesting stuff and catch up on all the restaurant gossip. I recently got an email [...]

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I’ve been a supporter of childhood hunger relief in all forms long before I was Food Editor at The Post. Here’s my theory: health, education, work programs, and all sorts of other social work aids are great and useful, but you can’t do anything if you’re hungry. And I find it simply criminal that we live [...]

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