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THE CULTURAL KITCHEN

Nancy Ancrum

Nancy Ancrum is the co-founder of Curated Dining and the co-host of Join Us at the Table, a weekly conversation about food and the people who create it that's heard from 8 to 9 a.m. Saturdays on WMCU-AM 1080 (joinusatthetable.com. She is a member of Slow Food and the American Institute of Wine and Food. Her philosophy: The more we know about the foods we eat, the more we know about ourselves and each other. In addition to writing a biweekly column for The Miami Herald's Food & Dining section, she is a member of the newspaper's editorial board.


E-mail her at nancrum@miamiherald.com.


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SaBoora Yusef prepares a corn off the cob dish at her Lauderdale Lakes home.
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THE CULTURAL KITCHEN

Spreading the word about eating raw

A crisp apple, a green salad or, if we're really being fancy, a bowl of gazpacho is what most of us consider food in the raw. For SaBoora Yusef, however, eating raw has been a life-changing commitment, one that she approaches each day with dedication and creativity.

  • Chad Cherry, foreground, and, left to right, Andre Walker, Kirk Nelson and Roosovelt Disir are the Be Organic caterers.

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    Four foodies come together to make an organic whole

    Four guys, one mission: ``To provide a healthy alternative while educating our community and securing our place in the organic culture.''

  • Pearline Murray, right, and her sister-in-law and cook, Gloria Chin, shows off Clive's escovitched fish and, on the counter, rice and beans with plantains.

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    Change -- and Clive's -- is universal

    Inside Clive's, the décor has seen better days. Outside the Wynwood diner, better days might be coming. The one constant has been the food -- straight out of Jamaica: rich stews, piquant snapper and jerk.

  • Richard Campbell, Fairchild's senior curator of tropical fruit, has worked on mango development in Africa, as did his father.

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    Out of Africa: Mangoes of varied flavors, hues

    The mangoes of Africa were ready for their close-up. Amid the scores of varieties savored at last weekend's International Mango Festival at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden -- and the hundreds that grow in Asia, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean -- Heidi, Malindi, Zebda and Nelpetite were in the spotlight. Photo Gallery Available

  • Evelyne Dominique and her son, chef Jean Sebastien Bailly, present one of his menu favorites, roasted and pulled chicken salad ($7).

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    Bistro keeps it all in the family

    Jean Sebastien Bailly has thrown his whisk into the ring, adding The Boutique Kitchen to what is becoming Biscayne Boulevard's Restaurant Row. Construction-free at last, the stretch between 54th and 79th streets boasts a wine bar, sushi bars, several cafes, a high-end eatery and a classy little hot-dog joint.

  • <em>CakeLove: How to Bake Cakes from Scratch</em> by Warren Brown (Stewart, Tabori and Chang, $27.50).

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    Life is sweet for this lawyer turned baker

    There's love and there's CakeLove, and Warren Brown has been lucky enough to find both. It would be oh-so-precious to say the lawyer turned baker, entrepreneur and Food Network host (Sugar Rush) will be baking the cake for his October wedding. He won't, but bakers from his growing empire of bakeries will.


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