The Fourth Element In her amusing memoir Serial Monogamy, Nora Ephron remembers how she used to cook for Craig Claiborne in her head, spinning fantasies of having...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: September 04, 2008
Vintage Jackson's Men really had it made in the '50s. You totally get the point of feminism after watching a few episodes of AMC's Mad Men, a drama following the...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: August 28, 2008
Call in the Fluffer Strangest restaurant-review scenario ever. We're trying to turn in to the Westin Diplomat Resort for dinner at Aizia, and a uniformed guy...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: August 21, 2008
Last Man Standing? "I don't know — maybe they're on a diet."
I can't tell if Beth Schibanetz is kidding or if she's speaking metaphorically. These days,...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: August 14, 2008
Reading the Fish Bones I'm not eating any more tuna. That's right. No more blathering in this column about that unctuous piece of bluefin toro I had at Salvatore's...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: August 07, 2008
Highway to Hog Heaven Scene: Four friends plunge through the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia. They're on the hunt for what is reputed to be the best barbecue joint in...
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By John Linn
Published: July 31, 2008
Guatemala Típico Guatemalans have been much on my mind lately and much in the news. The account of a May 12 ICE raid on a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville,...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: July 24, 2008
Light My Fire? We SoFloridians have got to make the best of our rainy, hurricane-whipped summers, so it makes sense that we're suddenly all about barbecue. Even...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: July 17, 2008
Spanish on the Fly I came back from a trip to Guatemala last week with two missions: Learn Spanish. And plant some banana trees. Even before I left the States, my...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: July 10, 2008
Sizzlin' Caliente Mexican food is the fastest-growing trend in ethnic cuisine in America, probably for no other reason than the popularity of the Mexican grill....
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By John Linn
Published: July 03, 2008
Diet for a Broke Planet You can't take two steps these days without running into somebody who's been laid off — or is planning to be. Suddenly, we're all...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: June 26, 2008
From Israel, With Love "In Israel, people came from all over the world," Ilan Cohen says. "So they brought their customs and flavors and kitchen dishes from Europe,...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: June 19, 2008
In With the Old, Out With the New Back in the late '80s, if you were looking to impress a date over a sophisticated dinner, there was only a handful of restaurants in Palm Beach...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: June 12, 2008
Give Bessie a Break I just got back from a trip to Santa Monica, California, a place so foreign to my experience and sensibilities that I felt like Marco Polo...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: June 05, 2008
This Is Not a Pancake There's only one country in the world that could take something so crude, a list of ingredients any bumpkin ought to have within reach — a...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: May 29, 2008
They Might Be Giants Del Vecchio's Italian Fishery appears to be run by a mythic race of men who are just, well, larger than the rest of us. They're the guys whose...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: May 22, 2008
Jump Cut Hip, sexy, and sophisticated is how I would describe local restaurateurs Brandon Belluscio and Brian Albe... er, no, actually, I wouldn't. I...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: May 15, 2008
Cool Blue Ask an American what he thinks of the Turkish people or Turkish food and, if all goes well, you'll get a blank stare. What we don't know about...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: May 08, 2008
Immovable Feast It's a recent Monday night on Clematis Street, and the only restaurants doing much business after 9 are Cabana, Pizza Girls, and Pistache French...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: May 01, 2008
Very Like a Whale There's a little amusement you can indulge in at the Whale Raw Bar and Fish House in Parkland while you're waiting for your basket o' steamers....
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: April 24, 2008
Cold Sake, Warm Heart We've evolved to protect ourselves from dangerous food. We have a genetic predisposition to find spoiled vittles repellent, and we must "acquire...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: April 17, 2008
Marriage is Like Mushrooms If you're like Amy Winehouse, Rod Stewart, and Tony Bennett, you got married for the first or third time in May or June. That means your...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: April 10, 2008
Kerala Killer Coral Springs isn't exactly inundated with ethnic dining options — if the suburban west Broward community of young families and Fort...
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By John Linn
Published: April 10, 2008
Chopsticks Say: Ka-ching! Here's a restaurant with volume set to "max," 14,000 square feet of surround-sound at the Fort Lauderdale Grande's new China Grill. From design...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: April 03, 2008
Yes, We Have Guacamole Read anything about Mexican mole (pronounced MOLE-ay), a sauce so contrarian few have been able to define it, and you'll probably run across at...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: March 27, 2008