Jan Norris: Writer, Editor, Floridian

Jan Norris writes at all hours of the day and night. To keep up with Jan, please sign up for her once-a-day Appeteaser. We have a no-spam guarantee and you can opt out of the email Appeteaser anytime you like. Of, if you’re more of the RSS sort, you may subscribe to her feed.Tomorrow, Jan. [...]

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Were you one of the 800 who entered Sunday’s Marathon of the Palm Beaches? You’re probably feeling the muscles today — they need time to catch up after that work-out.
Your body needs to catch up, too.
Here’s a crash course on extreme exercise recovery:

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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 traditions [...]

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17th Annual Thanksgiving Share-A-Supper a Success at Pleasant City Multicultural Center
    WEST PALM BEACH – Donning a paper toque, white jacket, and neckerchief is the way students get into the mode of a professional in the culinary world. “Wearing the uniform is very much a part of getting the students disciplined to work in a professional kitchen,” [...]

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In today’s Palm Beach Post food section, on the Thanksgiving Primer page, there’s a pumpkin pie recipe that calls for 12 eggs.  I actually wrote a story about this mistake last year in a correction, but I guess they picked up the uncorrected version to run this year. The recipe should read: TWO eggs. But guess what?

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My friend Ken Steinhoff, who should be writing for his bike blog, but instead wastes a lot of time wurfing (web surfing) these days, sent me this link to a web site with this breakfast cereal timeline.
I knew Kellogg’s Corn Flakes were early 20th Century, but the age of some of the others surprised me, including [...]

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I’m not sure where this tradition started, but it’s standard in newspaper newsrooms around the country. Reporters, photographers and the copy desk staff who work election night are treated to pizzas, delivered.

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One of the reason I’m not posting as often is because I’m writing for various other publications.
Make welcome the new newspaper for the county’s coastal community, The Coastal Star.  It’s a monthly newspaper (offset — no ink ruboff!) aimed at residents on and around the water in Lake Worth, Manalapan, Highland Beach, Briny Breezes and Delray [...]

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My friend Dan Oliver (The Palm Beach Post’s Beer Guy) is out in Denver, quaffing a few good beers with his buds. He makes the trek each year as a genuine brew enthusiast and student of beermaking around the world to the Great American Beer Fest, (Oct. 9-11), now in its 27th year. (Check out [...]

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I tease my hungry-for-hits webmaster constantly that I should write about food porn. The word “porn” in anything will drive people to your web site, even if your page doesn’t gyrate and grind. (There is, by the way, a web site devoted to food porn – those decadent photos of dishes that border on R [...]

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