Jan Norris: Food and Florida

Biologists question the idea that there are female and male eggplant fruits. Yet it’s proven that those with more seeds are more bitter. And there seems to be an obvious way to tell which has more seeds. So maybe we need to tap some cooking biologists. To figure out which is which – look at [...]

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There’s a fun food website I check frequently: What’s Cookin’  – I get their email newsletter that shoots several recipes they’ve found on the web, usually about one food or holiday, into my inbox in one neat format twice weekly. They have a sister website called Snooth that deals with wines and spirits – also [...]

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A fellow food writer, Lynn Kessel from Tampa, went to the Tampa Bay Veg Fest – all things vegetarian and vegan. It was there she found this pumpkin pie, a vegan pie made with tofu. I’ve borrowed it from her blog – go here to read it and get more great recipes and food news. [...]

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Field of Greens, a salad shop with locations in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens and Wellington, is leading the charge for Meatless Mondays in Florida. Meatless Mondays, a non-profit initiative in association with Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health, has grown into a nationwide movement to encourage people to reduce meat in their [...]

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Ok, if you don’t make anything else, make chili for Superbowl. It feeds a crowd and everybody loves it. Do a search on my site for more chili recipes and a cornbread recipe, to go along with them. Make it healthy: This is a Southwest Sweet Potato Quinoa chili from The New Healthy blog (the-new-healthy.com) [...]

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