Jan Norris: Food and Florida

The Daily Meal website has released its 2012 list of the most powerful people in food in the nation. The list is all-encompassing – doctors, CEOs, chefs, TV personalities, farmers, the First Lady, lawyers, authors – all here. These are the people who influence us as diners, cooks, shoppers, growers, voters and entertainment and health [...]

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The year’s flown by – seems like only yesterday I was in the same boat – way behind, waiting to bake dozens of Orange drop cookies for my family. This year, I’ve already wowed some recipients with gifts of the traditional “Magic 7-layer cookie bars” – versions of which are known as Congo bars. They’re [...]

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A benefit tonight for A Place of Hope brings together state legislators at the ASID Wine and Design dine-around, held at Store Self-Storage on Military Trail. A number of Palm Beach Gardens area restaurants and others will provide tastings, while spirits companies and breweries will have drinks available for sampling. Some of the restaurants participating [...]

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Check back here all week at JanNorris.com to see how the restaurant scene shapes up for the season in Palm Beach County – openings from longtime restaurateurs like Dennis Max, and some new ones as well – serving up Italian “Rat Pack” food and atmosphere, farm-to-fork cuisine, burgers and fries. I’ve got the scoop on [...]

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A Delray Beach blogger, John Swinford, found my site and thought his story about his college town food (he’s a U of Cincinnati grad) might interest my readers. Swinford wrote about Cincinnati chili – a peculiar combo of pasta and chili that I know as Skyline Chili. There’s a Skyline Chili outlet in Fort Lauderdale, [...]

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