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My Croqueta Quest in Miami

April 21, 2020

Croquetas are a breaded and fried snack food with various fillings that are extremely popular  in Miami

Carlos Frias, the food editor at the Miami Herald, is my buddy and guide to all things delicious in his Florida home. Read more…

Filed Under: Baking, Chefs, Restaurant, Sleuthing, South Beach Miami Tagged With: carlos frias, croquetas, Dos Croquetas, Frankarlo Hernandez, Miami, Palomilla Grill

The Miami Herald’s Food Editor Led me to the Amazing El Palacio de los Jugos

March 18, 2018

Carlos Frias at El Palacio de los Jugos with an array of Cuban dishes

I think it was in the early 2000s that I started making an annual pilgrimage to Miami. Read more…

Filed Under: Beef, Recipe, Restaurant, South Beach Miami Tagged With: beef, carlos frias, Cuban food, el palacio de los jugos, Miami, miami herald, picadillo

My Top Spots to Nosh in South Beach, Miami

March 21, 2016

a key lime pie from home

My ultimate Key Lime Pie, Florida’s signature dessert (scroll down for recipe)

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Miami, Fla: I call Miami “New York on the beach.” Read more…

Filed Under: Dessert, Key Lime Pie, Pie, Pie, Podcasts, Recipe Tagged With: key lime pie, Miami, South Beach Miami; restaurants and cafes; Tap-Tap Haitian food; Puerto Sagua Cuban restaurant; Delano Hotel Kobe Burger

Martha Cooks Crustaceans

March 14, 2009

MIAMI – This year’s recent South Beach Wine & Food Festival was a royal occasion, in more ways than one.

“Viva Espana!” was a culinary celebration and key theme headed up by the King and Queen of Spain at this four-day, non-stop, over-the-top annual event packed with noisy parties, glitzy grazing and back-to-back cooking demos by celebrity chefs.

Sponsored by the Food Network and Food & Wine magazine among others, this star-studded feast on the beach is never dull. Read more…

Filed Under: Chefs, Cookbooks, Recipe, Seafood Tagged With: gordon ramsay, lobster, martha stewart, Miami, recipe

Miami Must-Eats

March 5, 2009

The annual South Beach Wine & Food Festival took place this year from February 19-22 in Miami.

As usual and even in tough economic times, this glitzy, pricey, never-dull four-day event sponsored by, among others, the Food Network and Food & Wine magazine, was sold out.

Attended by more than 30,000 people and founded by a fellow called Lee Schrager in 2001, it is the biggest culinary celebration of its kind in North America. Read more…

Filed Under: restaurant reviews, Seafood Tagged With: crab, Cuban food, Devito, martha stewart, Martinez, Miami, News Cafe, Puerto Sagua, seafood, South Beach

Martha My Dear …

February 26, 2009

It took a flurry of e-mails and phone calls between publicists and p.a’s but I finally obtained an audience with Martha Stewart: one of the most powerful women (up there with Oprah, methinks) in North America and now the come-back queen of cuisine.

She was one of the stars at this year’s annual South Beach Wine & Food Festival: a four-day feast on the beach that took place from Feb 19 to 22.

Like everything in Miami – home to the SUV, boob-jobs, tanned abs and obscenely large restaurant portions – the event was a non-stop, over-the-top wing-ding. Celebrity chefs cooked up a storm, the King and Queen of Spain attended celebrations of Spanish food and there were all manner of before- and after-parties at swanky hotels like the Raleigh and Delano. Needless to say, the booze flowed freely. Read more…

Filed Under: Foodies, Women Tagged With: martha stewart, Miami, South Beach, TV

More Feasting on the Beach

March 22, 2008

This appeared in the Toronto Star’s Living section on Saturday, March 22, 2008.

MIAMI – Jamie Oliver, wearing a fitted short-sleeved shirt and jeans, emerges from behind the scenes and is greeted with a barrage of screams, whistles and applause.

His face is flushed. Hot in every sense of the word, this adorable British chef with the Mockney accent and penchant for “easy-peasy” cuisine wipes his brow with a tea towel. Read more…

Filed Under: Chefs, Recipe Tagged With: grill, Jamie Oliver, Miami, mozzarella, pizza, recipe, sausage

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Marion Kane, Food Sleuth®

Marion Kane has been a leader in the world of food journalism for a few decades. She is an intrepid populist whose work combines social commentary with a consuming passion for all things culinary. For 18 years, she was food editor/columnist for Canada's largest newspaper: the Toronto Star. She lives in Toronto's colourful Kensington Market and is currently a free-wheeling freelance food sleuth®, podcaster, writer and cook.

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