Jan Norris: Food and Florida

Don’t know a mamey from a mangosteen? Want to know how big a jaboticaba gets? Get to the Mounts Botanical Gardens Saturday for their annual Tropical Fruit Festival, sponsored by the Palm Beach County Chapter of the Rare Fruit Council. Allen Susser, one of the original Mango Gang chefs of Miami, will be on hand [...]

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The name says it all: Share Our Strength – SOS for short. Wednesday night at the Taste of the Nation in Kravis Center’s Cohen Pavilion, more than 30 chefs and restaurateurs will fill small plates with samples of some of their best foods. It’s so some kids from Palm Beach County can eat nourishing meals [...]

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Tonight at the Kravis Center is the 13th annual Culinary Creations Dinner. It’s a unique style of dining – four courses will be presented, with 25 chefs involved from restaurants, hotels, private clubs, culinary schools and food companies. Diners are seated at round tables and each chef presents their course to one diner at each [...]

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Now in the 11th year, the Junior League of Boca Raton hosts the Chocolate Decadence dine-around party at the Shops at Boca Center Thursday. A number of South Florida restaurants will bring both sweet and savory foods to the dine-around, set in the courtyard in front of the Marriott. Restaurants include Philippe Chow of Boca, [...]

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Paris in Town Le Bistro is going nutty over Nutella. The chocolate-hazelnut spread from the 1940s that Europeans eat like peanut butter has made a foothold in the U.S. Fans everywhere are combining it with other nut butters, bananas, berries of every ilk and cake to create sandwiches, crepes and desserts. Paris in Town’s Le [...]

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