Jan Norris: Food and Florida

We keep harping to eat local – it’s a way to reduce the carbon footprint left by farmers in Iowa shipping corn to Florida and vice-versa. Must be good business for the corporate farmers – but detrimental for the planet. Think packaging, shipping, handling and the time involved from farm to table – want to [...]

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Long-time friend (note: never call a woman an “old” friend…) and excellent baker Betsy Cohen is now writing a food blog. It’s all about desserts, because, as she writes, she always considers desserts first. Cohen, of Palm Beach Gardens, won a spot in one of the cookie contests when I was at The Post for [...]

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Meet Lila Steinhoff, Jennifer Parris and Joanne Davis – three gardeners who tackle Florida’s unique growing situations. They grow their own vegetables and then cook them up in some yummy recipes like shrimp gumbo and stuffed peppers. See today’s Sun Sentinel Food cover for the story. Also there are tips on starting your own garden [...]

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Thursday night, Downtown at the Gardens and Lexus of Palm Beach team up to host the 8th annual dine-around to benefit the Big Heart Brigade’s charity work in the community. From my story in the Florida Weekly: Organizers at the Lexus Taste of Downtown are expecting more than 3000 diners to swarm the courtyards and [...]

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Pamela Blom is an architect who threw in the blueprints and followed her bliss to a pie business. She’s now in Lantana, baking in a kitchen she shares with Cakes by Lara’s. Read her story here  – and get her apple pie recipe in this month’s edition of The Coastal Star. Pamela’s Pies (at Cakes [...]

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