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• Southwest Community Farmers’ Market is Now Homeless

  Zucchini, eggplant and cranberry beans at Southwest Community Farmers' Market

  Update as of 3/15/13 at 6:30 p.m.: This article originally posted with the headline: “Southwest Community Farmers’ Market is Now Homeless.” However, Art Friedrich of Urban Oasis Project just emailed this update: 

  “Great news! Our homeless market has found its new [...]

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• Recipe: St. Lucian Hot Chocolate

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  This weekend (3/9 and 3/10) is the Miami Fine Chocolate & Food Show at Pinecrest Gardens. Chefs and exhibitors will give out samples of chocolates, desserts and other food and drink (the $35 ticket price includes 15 samples). There will be chocolate [...]

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• Video Bite: Aloo Tikki with Ayesha D’Mello

  Aloo tikki are crisply fried potato patties–they make a great snack, appetizer or side dish, especially on cool-weather days. The aloo tikki sizzle in the pan just long enough to form a golden crust, keeping the potato on the inside tender . The recipe is below.

  The recipe requires that you [...]

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• Interview: Mark Bittman on his “Vegan Before 6″ Philosophy

   

  Journalist, New York Times columnist and cookbook author Mark Bittman's new book, "VB6: Vegan Before 6:00," will be released later this year. (Photo by Fred R. Conrad/New York Times)

  Last week, as part of my South Beach Wine & Food Festival coverage for WLRN, I wrote about how the [...]

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• Recipe: Sautéed Spinach with Pine Nuts and Raisins

  by Nancy Ancrum

  Spinach with raisins and pine nuts (Photo by Nancy Ancrum)

  The spinach from South Miami-Dade is flavorful and hardy. The leaves are long, lobed, and stand up to the heat.

  Remove the thicker sections of the stems, but the thinner part near the leaves cook up nice and tender. [...]

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• Miami Drink: Make a Pimm’s Cup Cocktail

  The Pimm’s Cup became one of my favorite cocktails after I first tasted one at the waterfront Lido Bar at The Standard Miami Beach. It was tangy, vaguely botanical, and full of bright fruit slices–like an English version of sangria.

  Afterwards,  I would request the classic cocktail at The Standard and [...]

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• Recipe: Chocolate Fondue for Two

  by Nancy Ancrum

  Photo by George Fishman

  Sure, strawberries dipped in chocolate is a romantic’s cliché–especially on Valentine’s Day. Is that really a problem? This time of year, South Florida produces a rich bounty of “dippables” for this fondue: bananas, star fruit, oranges–and those ripe, red strawberries.

   

  Chocolate Fondue for Two

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• Chefs Help You Decide Where to Eat in Miami

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  A screen shot from the Chefs Feed app (courtesy of Chefs Feed)

  A couple of free Smartphone apps give the lowdown on where chefs like to eat, providing an alternative to reviews on Yelp and Google. The Chefs Feed app and the Find. Eat. Drink. app/website give recommendations from chefs [...]

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• Recipe: Spicy Strawberry Salsa

  By Nancy Ancrum

  Use Florida's winter strawberries to make a spicy strawberry salsa. (Photo by Nancy Ancrum)

  This time of year, the strawberries from Homestead farms are huge jewels of ripe, red, juicy sweetness. Get enough to eat some right out of the basket, and make this piquant salsa with the [...]

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• The Eating Habits of Amy Rosenberg, Founder of Overtown Music Project

  A table at one of the Jazz (and a Little Bit of Blues) events at Jackson Soul Food. (Greg Clark)

  Amy Rosenberg is founder of the Overtown Music Project, which celebrates the history of what was once a vibrant musical hub, hosting performers like James Brown and Sam Cooke. [...]

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