Jan Norris: Food and Florida

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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Looking for a vegetarian/vegan Thanksgiving dinner? Darbster in West Palm Beach is your place – but hurry, tables are going quick. A vegan Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings will be served at the waterside outdoor bistro at 2:30 on Thanksgiving Day; space is limited. But you also can get a take-out meal – perfect [...]

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