Jan Norris: Food and Florida Online

A fun wine read comes from Mark Gauert, my editor at City and Shore magazine in Fort Lauderdale. He writes about the American Fine Wine Competition, held at Lincoln Culinary Institute in West Palm Beach in mid-January. Gauert tells of marrying into a French winemaking family, yet finding American wines that rival his new family’s [...]

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Congrats to my Brazilian friends who get to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Here’s a recipe for its national drink, the caipirinha, and some facts about Rio de Janeiro.

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Find great brews here at home if you can’t make it to the Great American Beer Festival.

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Here’s a hypothetical situation, an agricultural version of Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal:
Assume you are a highly successful commercial farmer, with assets in the billions. You decide that you want to grow corn in some region of the world where corn will not naturally grow: under the polar icecap, or in the Mohave Desert. You want [...]

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I’ve been tippin’ a few around the local beer scene lately (it’s my job, you know) and I’m here to tell you things are frothing up all around us. So here’s a quick look at new places you might want to check out, new beers either here or on the horizon and an upcoming event [...]

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