Jan Norris: Food and Florida

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Entries from July 2009

Summertime Eats: Freshest Fish in Islamorada

July 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of “Summertime Eats” guest columns. We’d’ love to have your favorite summertime food story — submit yours by email to: Jan@JanNorris.com. Write “Summertime Eats” in the subject line and if possible, include a .jpg of yourself. If published, you could win one of my cookbooks. By Larry [...]

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Tags: Food and Family Intertwine · Old Florida

The Armenian Kitchen – A Worthy Click

July 2nd, 2009 · 4 Comments

One of my new favorite food web sites is The Armenian Kitchen, written by Robyn Kalajian and her spouse, Doug. Robyn is a retired high school cooking teacher; Doug and I were colleagues at The Palm Beach Post. That was a huge family with many good cooks; Doug was among them. The Kalajians are Armenian [...]

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Tags: Food People · Jan's Favorite Things

Slicing a Mango a Messy Proposition

July 1st, 2009 · 16 Comments

photo by Ken Steinhoff Wear a mac The droll Brits have the right idea: The best way to eat a mango is standing in a bathtub, wearing a rubber raincoat. The Brits have a ton of experience at this — since they tried to own India, and that country has arguably the most and best [...]

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Tags: Ask Jan

Big-batch Mango Chutney Recipe from the ’60s

July 1st, 2009 · 7 Comments

Long-lost recipe makes a baby-bathtub full I am still in contact with so many of my food readers from The Palm Beach Post — many have become friends I keepĀ  in touch with regularly. One whom I recently found again is Ingrid Hugel of Lake Worth. We met this week at the Palm Beach County [...]

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Tags: Recipes: What's Cooking!