Jan Norris: Food and Florida

Chili, making a mess in my pink Le Creuset enameled cast-iron pot and on my stove It turned cold by South Florida standards this week – after a long bout of 80+ degree weather and horrid humidity, we welcome temps in the low 70s, or 50s at night. A perfect time to make a pot [...]

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I worked a deal this year at Thanksgiving: I’d make two pie crusts in exchange for a jar of pear butter from my friend, Libby Volgyes. I definitely got the best end of that stick. Libby is known to her co-workers at The Palm Beach Post for her domestic goddess status when it comes to [...]

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A post by Food52.com (a website with terrific recipes) for a potato salad using arugula and Dijon vinaigrette got me to thinking. I’ll read every new potato salad recipe out there…yet I keep returning to the one of my childhood. So I’ve decided potato salad may be one of those foods we like, but our [...]

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I was rummaging around for bread to make a pimento-cheese sandwich for lunch the other day. None to be found except a two-week old loaf of grocery store French bread originally scheduled for garlic toast one night that never materialized. It was brick-like. Seriously, I could have used it as a bat for the preserved [...]

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Doing a Derby Party this weekend? Get out your widest hat, buy your fresh spearmint, shine your silver julep cups, and learn the words to My Old Kentucky Home, by Stephen Foster. (These are the modern lyrics sung at the Derby today.) “The sun shines bright in My Old Kentucky home, ‘Tis summer, and people [...]

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