Jan Norris: Food and Florida

Here’s my fresh Florida orange cake!

Read it and weep, Leslie Streeter!
Leslie Streeter, That Girl  at The Palm Beach Post’s pbpulse web site, posted this photo of her grandma’s homemade cobbler that’s she’s throwing down against my cake:
 
I’ll let the photos do all the talkin’.
Seriously, come out and vote for my delicious, beautiful cake at today’s Celebrity baking [...]

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CLASSES AND EVENTS IN SOUTH FLORIDA
 Celeb chef Anne Burrell appears at Publix Apron’s Cooking School in Boca on May 30.
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.

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I’m fairly well known for my baking — my former colleagues at The Post, my neighbors and assorted friends and family would likely come to my defense if there were a Baking Nuremburg.
I am never satisfied with results, however — and usually spurn compliments in exchange for real criticism. I always think I can improve on the [...]

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Review of Beer Wars by Dan the Beer Man Oliver

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Find me a Southerner who doesn’t like fried green tomatoes and I’ll show you a fake. A crispy fried green tomato beats any other fried thing I can conjure, and I can never get enough of them.
I hate to fry and don’t do it nearly as much as I once did, for both health and [...]

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