Jan Norris: Food and Florida

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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I went to lunch with the Post’s oped editor, Lou Ann Frala today and she was freaking out. She saw her first land crab. “I nearly ran off the road — I couldn’t take my eyes off this thing. It was going across the road and I couldn’t believe how HUGE it was! I went [...]

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My parents retired from Fort Lauderdale to a few acres in a sleepy little town in north-central Florida called Hawthorne. It’s little more than a stop in the road (U.S. 301 at S.R. 20), but it’s full of charm and very nice people. It has a ton of pecan trees all around, there are peanut fields up [...]

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