All About Allspice
Posted on 16 August, 2008 by trina
The name of this spice may lead some to think that it’s a mix of the “fall” spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, but it’s actually a unique plant. The pimento or allspice tree grows mostly in Jamaica. I didn’t know that allspice grew in Florida before I saw it on the list of summer [...] » Read more..

Tastes like Summer!
Posted on 12 August, 2008 by trina
Luscious photographs of plums, peaches, berries and tomatoes emblazon the covers of the national food magazines. Food writers wax poetic about the summer harvest. Of course, they are not talking about anything we find in Florida. What about local fruits and vegetables? The pickings seem slim when it comes to local produce in South Florida’s [...] » Read more..

Five Ways to Get Your Ice Cream Fix!
Posted on 20 June, 2008 by trina
(Above photo courtesy of Shing Wang.) The ice cream mania at Miami Dish continues! Here are some of the ways I plan to indulge in the coming weeks. Shing Wang Vegetarian, Icee and Tea House Ok, so it’s not specifically ice cream but it is cool and refreshing. I was so excited to learn about this place; [...] » Read more..

Audio Bite: The 100-Mile Diet
Posted on 23 May, 2008 by trina
Cooking locally is very different. Instead of cracking open a cookbook and seeing that list of ingredients and going out and buying all of those things, you’re doing the opposite. You’re going out and seeing what’s available, what’s in season right now, bringing it home and then saying, “How can I turn that into good [...] » Read more..

Slow Crabs…
Posted on 24 January, 2008 by trina
Paula of mango and lime wrote in the Sun Post today about an upcoming Slow Food Miami stone crab picnic. It looks like Slow Food Miami is gathering momentum. There will be another event on February 24. The Sunday dinner at Fratelli Lyon will commemorate that first slow food meal. In 1986, Carlo Petrini led [...] » Read more..

CSA Show and Tell #7
Posted on 17 January, 2008 by trina
This week, I drank some delicious fresh-squeezed orange juice from the Uncle Matt’s Hamlin oranges. I expected great things from these oranges, since the Uncle Matt’s brand of orange juice at the store is always so tasty. I was not disappointed. Bill from tinkering with dinner was wondering what to do with the ginormous bunch [...] » Read more..

CSA Show and Tell #6
Posted on 7 January, 2008 by trina
After the lovely indulgence – read dessert for breakfast, lunch, dinner and midnight snack — of the holidays, I’m ready to start my weekly cooking and writing again. I haven’t written a CSA Show & Tell since week 2, but I’ll start with week 6, since that’s where we are right now. I know [...] » Read more..

CSA Show and Tell #2
Posted on 8 December, 2007 by trina
The second week of my farm share arrived on a hectic weekend. I had a houseguest and we spent most the weekend out while my vegetables sat cold and neglected in the refri. Since the vegetables were fresh picked they still looked crisp on Monday. They probably would have looked even better if I had [...] » Read more..

CSA Show and Tell #1
Posted on 29 November, 2007 by trina
I was thrilled to collect my first half-share of veggies from my Redland Organics CSA subscription last week. I plan to share what I get and what I make with it each week. I’d love to find out others’ ideas about what they did with their CSA treasure. I used the komatsuna greens [...] » Read more..

How About Some Canistel With Your Turkey?
Posted on 21 November, 2007 by trina
    The Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock enjoyed a three day gathering with the Wampanoag Indians. They ate corn; waterfowl like ducks and geese, and maybe some cranberries. There is no evidence that they ate any turkey. I discovered this while listening to an interview with a historian from the Plimoth Plantation [...] » Read more..
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