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• New Project: Sound Bite

  I just wanted to take a moment to introduce my new online project.  It’s where you can listen to the food radio stories longtime journalist Nancy Ancrum and I produce.   You can also see pictures and videos related to the stories.  It’s a [...]

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• Recipe: Indian Summer Cocktail from Sra. Martinez

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  The Indian Summer cocktail at Sra. Martinez (David Samayoa)

  Northerners refer to an “Indian summer” when warm temperatures persist into fall after an initial frost.  Of course, hot days that drag into fall and winter are the norm in Miami. People up north might celebrate a balmier fall, but we [...]

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• The Week(end) in Food

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  by Andrew Shirey (Courtesy of Burger Beast)

  Choices, choices. . . It’s that time of year–every weekend from here to January overflows with events!  Here are some of my picks for food events to mark on your calendar this weekend.

  If you’re attending the Miami Book Fair this [...]

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• This Weekend: Food Events at Miami Book Fair

  Street fair at Miami Book Fair International at Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus (Courtesy of Miami Book Fair)

  There were so many of this weekend’s Miami Book Fair International events to include in The Week in Food post that I decided to give [...]

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  Winner of the May 14, 2011 Lionfish Derby in Long Key with a 14 inch lionfish./ Celia Hitchens (courtesy of NOAA)

   

  Wanted: Lionfish hunters
  Fri./Sat. 11/4-11/5

   

   

   

  The next REEF Lionfish Derby is this Saturday. Cash prizes will be awarded for biggest, smallest and most lionfish captured. If you want [...]

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• Scary Cakes

  “Inexplicable” blackbird pie from Apocalypse Cakes by Shannon O’Malley, Running Press.  (Photos by Keith Wilson)

  You can bake any cake in Apocalypse Cakes, but the recipes were not author Shannon O’Malley’s primary focus: “To me, it never really mattered what was in the cakes more than them fitting the idea.”  [...]

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• The Week in Food

  Food-related events for your calendar, this weekend and beyond… Practice your Catalan at the Barceloneta Spanish Bistro & Mercat The Pubbelly crew expands their Miami Beach territory once again with Barceloneta.  Sample Catalan and Spanish tapas (and no, they’re not the same) at the communal twenty-seat [...]
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• Heirloom tomato seedlings are here

  Photo by Piku (via stock.xchang)

  Fall is my favorite time in South Florida.  One reason:  it means the time hastens when I replace the mealy, tasteless orbs that I deign to buy at the grocery store.   Heirloom tomatoes also have some evocative names.  This is your week [...]

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• The Week in Food

  

  “A couple chatting after ordering stone crabs and other dishes” in the Keys, 1963./ Francis P. Johnson (via Florida State Archives)

  Since everything seems to be “curated” nowadays, here’s my curated list of food events for this week.   Please holler back  if I [...]

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• Lunch Week: The United States of GOOD Sandwiches

  Thanks to GOOD, I got the kick in the pants I needed to start my delayed Lunch Week posts.  I started off Lunch Week by posting my response to GOOD’s question about which sandwich best represents my home state. They used submissions [...]

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