Jan Norris: Food and Florida

Let’s cut to the chase. Get these things now!

And – print and save this article if you’re planning ahead for impending hurricanes – please say you are!
1. A full tank of gas for your gas grill. You won’t need much more if you have canned food.
2. Water. Lots more than you think you need [...]

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They’re baaaack!!! Those diet demons of January: tempting Trefoils, sinful Samoas and anything-but Thin Mints. We won’t even discuss those perfect peanut butter patties, Tagalongs.
The Girl Scouts will be seen at shopping centers and offices peddling their cookies for their annual fund raising sale beginning Jan. 21. This year’s lofty goal is 1.5 million boxes sold.
No [...]

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A warm welcome on this record cold day to those of you just joining me through my new job as columnist at the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale.
Today kicks off my first “You Asked for It” column with the Sentinel. Every week I’ll be tracking down recipes from Broward and Palm Beach restaurants, or will try to find [...]

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Dear Readers:
Most of you know this site is evolving, sometimes faster than I can keep up. Well, often, in fact. In a move to fix the program that allows you to comment without logging in, there was a glitch somewhere else in the system.
The result was I missed a couple months’ of emails forwarded to me through the Contact [...]

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A warm welcome to all those just joining me as a result of either the Metropolitan Cooking Show  (I’m there again today at noon) or the ad in The Palm Beach Post — or however you landed here!
Browse my site from the categories on the left, and I’m sure you’ll find a good deal of [...]

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