Jan Norris: Food and Florida Online

ORLANDO – I’m up here taking a class that I desperately hope will improve my web site. It’s a week long and for bunches of reasons, have been unable to catch up with friends for dinner. Last night I took the easy way out and stopped by Uno’s on I-Drive to pick up a small [...]

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It’s been raining cats and dogs — and alligators down here these past few weeks. And this being Florida, it’s never halfway. All or nothing.
So my food friends in Jacksonville are taking the water taxi to dinner these days.
There’s a unique restaurant up there in a burg named Mandarin on the Julington Creek  called Clark’s Fish [...]

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Letters from friends about foods…
A friend in Africa writes about the national dish — nshima, a dish made from maize meal. The closest common food to it, she says, is a very firm, congealed polenta.
(Somewhere in Zambia)
Hi, Jan!
The photo above is of my favorite meal -nshima and bream dinner, with vegetables. The nshima is the side starch [...]

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My fellow ex-Poster, Mary Thurwachter, was the knowledgeable Travel section columnist who searched out and wrote about the bed and breakfasts around the state (and elsewhere).
She just launched her own travel blog, called InnSide Florida, and because travel dovetails with food, she’s guest blogging here once in a while.
Today, she’s got great ideas for housing winter visitors [...]

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You have to think outside a box to get visitors to your New Jersey inn during the heart of winter, right?
Owners of the Spring Lake Inn, a bed and breakfast in Spring Lake, N.J., have come up with hands-on vegetarian cooking classes for their guests, free if you stay two weeknights during January through March. The [...]

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