It's a Living There was quite a bit of buzz about Dolce de Palma when it opened last spring — everybody I ran into wanted to shove me against a wall and...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: November 20, 2008
The Potato Chip Chronicles Two restaurants. Two cities. One menu.
The restaurants aren't even remotely related. Yolo is a flashy newcomer on Las Olas Boulevard operated by...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: November 13, 2008
A Good Chef Is Hard to Find My job as a restaurant critic is great fun, but there's a sad irony. I never become a regular customer. Budget and time limitations conspire:...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: November 06, 2008
Cooking Like a Rock Star I don't know how the Italians managed it. They've infiltrated the collective consciousness so thoroughly that even a WASPy Irish/English daughter...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: October 23, 2008
Sliders in Paradise Crepes are one of the world's simplest foods: As long as you've got flour, egg, milk, and a pat of butter on hand, it's possible to produce a...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: October 16, 2008
Carolina's on My Mind I take no pleasure in seeing a restaurant fail, especially one that had as much going for it as Cuban café Brisa Atlantica in Delray...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: October 09, 2008
How Sweet It Is I never believed that bit about little girls being full of sugar and spice. My experience has been that little girls are mostly made up of piss...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: October 02, 2008
The All New Same Old Of all the foodist trends to come and go in recent years, the one I'm fervently hoping will survive the swings of fortune and fashion is the...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: September 25, 2008
Up-Tempo Few restaurants are perfect. And most of us don't demand perfection anyway. We just want to have a place to hang, eat, and drink, secure in the...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: September 18, 2008
Straight Hot Dog, No Chaser It's my best friend Phil's 40th birthday, and Sunday is going something like this: Rounds of $4 wine at Harry's Banana Farm under the stuffed...
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By Gail Shepherd
Published: September 11, 2008
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