Jan Norris: Food and Florida

Editor’s note: The day after this post appeared, Bobbi Sue Bar-B-Que in downtown West Palm Beach closed. They will not open for Mother’s Day brunch. Happy Mother’s Day to all the  moms out there. Now, let’s cut to the chase. Here’s a list of Mother’s Day specials and brunches that happening in and around Palm [...]

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Warning: Acrophobics will not want to read any further. Others: Are you up for dining in mid-air – with only a safety harness and a chair supporting you as you are swinging 180 feet above the ground? Dinner in the Sky is coming to Delray Beach on Saturday, Oct. 20, as part of the Lynn [...]

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Paul Berger is a chatty sort. An attorney from Boston with a lot of enthusiasm for cooking but no formal training, he’s appeared on the Master Chef show. Now, he’s at the helm of a restaurant in Boca Raton, Wicked Awesome Snackbar. “I haven’t got a restaurant background,” he said, in an phone interview in [...]

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For a limited time, Seasons 52 restaurant will have Copper River salmon on its menu for lunch and dinner. What’s so special about this fish? It’s special enough that chef Alice Waters served it  to a group of food editors from around the country – representing a heritage food of America. It was served in [...]

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I’ve often wondered what immigrant chefs think about the way American chefs and cooks take on their traditional foods. Thanks to Anthony Bourdain, in a post he found on gilttaste, I get an inside look. Read the article here that Bourdain calls “thoughtful and insightful.” It’s a terrific discussion – if you care about food, [...]

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