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Short Order Post Preview: Chef/Owner Richard Hales of Sakaya Kitchen

Posted in kitchen interviews on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Tomorrow I’m posting a brief write-up on Short Order, the Miami New Times food blog, about the yummy steamed roast pork buns at Sakaya Kitchen. This fast-casual restaurant (you order at the counter, seat yourself, and then grab your food when they call you) is a newcomer to the Midtown area , but has quickly [...]

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Meet Miami’s Newest Food Blogger: French Fry Fairy, Beth Swanson

Posted in kitchen interviews on August 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

You may have seen my item today on Short Order about the French Fry Fairy.   As it would happen, I was sifting through the morning’s emails and Twitter feed from bed when I overheard this new blogger mentioned on Today in South Florida, and curiosity was piqued.  So I quickly emailed our new nymph of [...]

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Jacob Katel, Video Dine-Amo, Shoots ‘Behind the Line’ for Short Order

Posted in collaborative cuisine, kitchen interviews on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Jacob Katel has been shooting video and editing his own film since he was 11.  He’s also my counterpart at the Miami New Times Short Order food blog, where he created a regular online feature called ‘Behind the Line.’  You probably have seen it — he goes into the back of the house and observes [...]

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baby I like it raw

Posted in kitchen interviews, tagged , , , on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Zipping past Lifefood Gourmet on my bike Saturday morning, I suddenly screeched to a halt.  I had biked past the raw food movement long enough!  It was time to give it a shot.  So I dismounted, turned around and walked back to the store front.
I admit I’ve paid little attention to raw (or live) foodism.  After all, with celebrity tabloids as my entree to [...]

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Q&A with Whole Foods Market

Posted in kitchen interviews, sustainable thinking + doing, tagged , , on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I recently caught up with Russ Benblatt, executive marketing coordinator for Whole  Foods Market’s Florida Region, to ask him about how the company’s locally-grown promise is brought to life in its produce sections here in Florida.   Regarding the Coral Gables store, 50/1000 produce items are locally-sourced.
KI:  The Whole Foods Market website mentions that the Company currently [...]

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up close and personal at Whisk

Posted in kitchen interviews, sustainable thinking + doing, tagged , , , on March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »

A week after receiving a tip from two friends who know good food, I found myself pulling up to an unassuming strip mall on the outskirts of Coral Gables.   Why had I not heard about Whisk before?  I was either living under a rock for two years or this was a place that fans and regulars coveted, wanting the word to get out only just so [...]

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family meals

Posted in kitchen interviews, omg kitchens, tagged , , , , , , on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We sat down at a cleared, round 8-top in the front of the house.  Me in my poly-blend tee, skinny jeans and pumas, and seven chefs in their whites, each looking more different from the next, listening quietly as Chef Allen began the meeting.  Tonight there would be a private party of 70 at 8:00 p.m.  A la carte tables [...]

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“get thee to a nunnery…”

Posted in kitchen interviews, wine finds, tagged , , , , , , on March 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

When Hamlet utters these words to Ophelia in the eponymous Shakespearean tragedy, it is interpreted as an expression of his conflicted state, an inner turmoil over a father slain, a revenge plotted and a love uncertain.  (Nunneries were once known to operate as both convents and brothels, believe it or not!  How’s that for dramatic [...]

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Kitchen Interview at Joey’s

Posted in kitchen interviews, tagged , , , on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

On my way driving to Joey’s, a new Italian caffe e ristorante in the heart of Wynwood, I realize it may not be obvious to an untrained eye that here, just north of Downtown, lies a blossoming gallery district and the cradle of what is said to become Greater Miami’s artistic and cultural hub.  Perhaps even that of the East Coast.  Could “El Barrio,” as our Puerto Rican community [...]

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Kitchen Interview at Maria’s Pastry Shop

Posted in kitchen interviews, tagged , , on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A fluffy, demure kitchen cat named Cookie, the best Sfogliatelle this side of the Atlantic and a passionate Neapolitan artisenne completes the divine experience called Maria’s Pastry Shop.
Straight from the heart to your mouth, Maria, her daughters, sister and mother run this unpretentious gem of a bakery in a quiet strip mall that forms [...]

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