Menu for Hope is an annual fundraiser for the United Nations World Food Programme.  Food bloggers from around the world donate fabulous food prizes, including cookbooks, appliances, rare treats and delicacies, food tours and restaurant certificates. You bid $10 for each virtual raffle ticket and designate which prize(s) you want your ticket(s) to go towards.  The [...] » Read more..

I was invited by Slow Food Miami Chair Donna Reno to attend their last dinner of the season in late April at the Sagamore Hotel.  This dinner benefited the Slow Food Miami School Gardens Program, as well as UNICEF Darfur in Action. The event started with a reception and presentation by Hunter Reno, Slow Food Board [...] » Read more..

This past Saturday, Miami Dish participated in a global blogging event, as part of the official launch of Foodbuzz.com. Twenty four bloggers from around the world held dinners on Saturday night and then posted about the events on their blogs. There was a BBQ road trip, a recreation of a Serbian medieval dinner, and [...] » Read more..

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..