Jan Norris: Food and Florida

CLASSES AND EVENTS IN SOUTH FLORIDA Note: Events, teachers and times subject to change; call venue and confirm information in advance. To have your event published, see instructions at end of this calendar. Week of Dec. 15 Publix Apron’s Cooking School, 5050 Champion Blvd., Boca Raton. For information or reservations, call 561-994-4883 or www.publix.com/aprons/schools/Boca/Home.do Monday, [...]

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I’ve got several recipes for pecan pie, and this year, tried one from James Villas, a good old Southern cook, who was writing in Southern Food. It was fine, but I still prefer the one from my late husband’s aunt, Bebe. She’s from the Mobile area (Grand Bay, Ala.), where pecan trees used to outnumber [...]

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Snickerdoodles, snickerdoodles, snickerdoodles!!! Next to chocolate chip cookies, these have to be an all-time favorite cookie across the country. (My web master points out there’s one made with the ganga weed.) They appeal these days because of their comfort level and kid-pleasing flavor — cinnamon and sugar. Bake them with a child — they’re SO easy! [...]

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Vegetarians: Skip this post. A discussion I read about cooking in duck fat – see below - led me to remember the small jar of bacon drippings my mother always kept around — a fixture in Southern kitchens, of course. That led me to a recipe I recited last night at dinner to a seatmate for my favorite way [...]

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Here’s the Palm Beach version of helping the needy: You can drop off pantry food items (canned and jarred products, pastas, grains – all non-perishables) at Cafe Boulud in the Brazilian Court Hotel. These foods go to the Daily Bread Food Bank and the needy in Palm Beach County will not go hungry over the holidays. [...]

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