Jan Norris: Food and Florida

Learn all about your backyard fruit at the annual Tropical Fruit Festival put on by Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden Saturday. Hundreds usually attend the festival at the Mounts complex in West Palm Beach, co-sponsored by the Rare Fruit Council’s Palm Beach chapter. Cooking demo with Susser Along with dozens of displays of fruits, [...]

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Sorry to see one of my newest food friends depart, but John Linn, restaurant critic and fellow blogger at the Broward New Times, is packing up and taking off for a road trip. Nothing but envy for him – hitting the road in an RV or the like, with his fiance, going wherever the wheels [...]

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This weekend, July 31 and August 1, the 2010 Small Farms Conference will take place at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee. If I were in town, I’d definitely be there. Localecopia, a group whose mission it is to connect the small farmers, ranchers, and others producing foods in earth-friendly, user-friendly ways – esentially getting back [...]

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MIAMI – Surrounded by mangoes from her native homeland, Madhur Jaffrey, noted Indian cuisine author and speaker looked cool despite the humid heat in the ballroom of the Fairchild Gardens. She related the proper way to use a mango – “Just eat it.” The Alphonse mango of India was the star of the 2010 International [...]

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Broward Sun Sentinel’s goes out while section is at its prime.

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