Jan Norris: Food and Florida Online

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of “Summertime Eats” guest columns. We’d’ love to have your favorite summertime food story — submit yours by email to: Jan@JanNorris.com. Write “Summertime Eats” in the subject line and if possible, include a .jpg of yourself. If published, you could win one of my cookbooks.
By Larry Carrino, [...]

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Hukilau, a weekend-long event in Fort Lauderdale, will celebrate all things tiki culture and Polynesia. The hub is at the Bahia Cabana hotel across from the Yankee Clipper on the beach where there’s an art display and several events poolside.  But food events and drink seminars will take place appropriately at the still-thumping Mai-Kai. (Get info and [...]

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An email about a mere orange caused me to stop in my tracks. I had to put down my fried egg sandwich and espresso. It had been more than five years that I had such a strong flood of memories at the mention of a food.
The email had a video attached starring a new buddy of [...]

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A little homage on Thanksgiving day, about a wild turkey subspecies found in a certain area on the Florida peninsula, and named for the famous Seminole chief. W.E.D. Scott gave the bird its name.
Here’s the gobble on it, from Slow Food writer, Diane Campion. (Slow Foods is the international organization that’s helping preserve food heritages and traditions [...]

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My good friend Chuck Keefer has a new blog about the area, full of photos that are especially drool-worthy if you’re somewhere gray and dreary and snow-possible.
A recent post talks about a big (expensive) piece of history now up on the block: Parcels of the estate formerly attached to the oldest house on the island (Island is Palm [...]

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