Jan Norris: Food and Florida

No better way to get your feet wet with cruising vacations than to leap aboard the biggest ship of them all: Oasis of the Seas. The Royal Caribbean line is mighty proud of its behemoth ship – I’ll set sail today (why do they call it that if there are no sails?) from the RC [...]

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LAS VEGAS, Nev. – The thermometer will creep close to 111 degrees, the local weatherman said. I’m staring at 86 degrees at 5:30 a.m. Las Vegas time. (A friend who failed to get the message I was away called at 5 a.m. to ask if I was on vacation yet. Note to self: Call friend [...]

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MIAMI – Chef Joel Huff is new at Azul, the still stunning restaurant on the bay in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Brickell Key. A friend and I took advantage of Miami Spice (which runs through Sept. 30) for a $35 three-course dinner there last night. Even in this restricted format, the chef’s talent was [...]

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Those of you who read me closely know that many of the photo artworks that show up on my site are from John J. Lopinot – a former colleague of mine at the daily newspaper and an award-winning nature photographer. Another of my former colleagues, Mary Thurwachter, writes a Travel blog called INNsideFlorida – but [...]

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The islands of the Outer Banks are getting flooded – again. It worries me – we’ve made a lot of friends on those out-islands (dubbed OBX on the popular car stickers) in only two visits – most recently in July. It was during a drive around Hatteras that we stopped at Frank’s OBX Dog House [...]

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