Jan Norris: Food and Florida

I’ve been slack in posting to my page lately – and have three legitimately big excuses: Hurricane Isaac, a bout of serious bronchitis, and the biggest, most wonderful excuse ever: newborn Jake Thomas. I was on storm watch with the rest of South Florida as well as the Republican conventioneers for a week – and [...]

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Guest blogger Victoria Malmer recalls growing up in Kentucky, where family traditions surrounding the Kentucky Derby included the Governor’s Derby Breakfast, festive hats, ham biscuits, friendly wagering, roses – and of course, mint juleps. Kentucky Derby Memories By Victoria Malmer Guest blogger for JanNorris.com I wish I were in Kentucky this week. The energy and [...]

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How many of you Boomers remember Charles Chips potato chips? They were delivered to your door by the “Charlie Chip man.” Kids everywhere looked forward to the delivery day when a new tin of chips would arrive. Something about opening a full tin of fresh, crunchy chips was thrilling. Sitting in front of the TV [...]

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At the sighting of the new moon, Muslims around the world began the holy month of Ramadan. I’m familiar with the holiday because of my friends and former Post workers Rahman Gholam, originally from Bangladesh, and C.B. Hanif, former oped editor from the U.S. Both are practicing Muslims and both active in interfaith councils and [...]

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Once again I was invited to help judge the now-annual Steinhoff Chili Cookoff at the West Palm Beach home of Adam and Carly Steinhoff. (And soon-to-be-Steinhoff; Carly’s due Feb. 12.) It was a smaller-than-usual crowd, since several parties here recently had worn out the guest list, and several would-be guests were out of town, but [...]

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