Jan Norris: Food and Florida Online

Lucky folks who’ve scored a ticket to one of the season’s top wine and food events, Boca Bacchanal. In case you didn’t get in on one of the private vitner-chef dinners in the homes, there are still tickets left to the Grand Tasting on Sunday in Mizner Park.
This is the event’s seventh year — and [...]

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Further proof that athletes are the last to evolve. Tool development being one of the classic examples of evolution:
Downhill U.S. ski champ Lindsey Vonn chose a bottle of Champagne for her victory in a recent race. The cork apparently broke off in the bottle, and rather than reaching for a more intelligent tool, she got [...]

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New research says that those hard plastic soda and water bottles, sports bottles, and food containers may be harmful to us as a reproductive species. It’s because of a chemical compound, Bisphenol-A, or BPA, that may leach into the foods or drinks from the plastic. This stuff has been linked in some studies to hormonal changes [...]

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I have a strong connection to New Orleans: My late husband Tom spent his teen years in the Crescent City, and directly after our marriage, I had a ton of family recipes to learn. First and foremost was red beans and rice (Monday’s washday food) since it was a favorite from his mother’s kitchen. She died when [...]

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It’s not today, but the franchisees of KFC, the king of fast-food cluckers, will hold their annual convention in National Harbor, Md. starting Monday.
Tom Brokaw will be the welcoming speaker.
KFC trivia

Col. Harland Sanders was born in Indiana in 1890. He didn’t start Kentucky Fried chicken till after he was 40 years old. Hooray for late-bloomers.
Pressure [...]

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