The heavens opened, angels sang, and I think I just pooped my pants.
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Salivation Army
Marching orders for Orlando’s hungry. Fresh chow daily
UPDATED: Trader Joe’s coming to Florida! (soon!)
Mark your calendar, cluckface: Free food at Pollo Tropical next Thursday
How far would you go for free chicken?
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Share Our Strength Charity Dinner (Cress Restaurant)
Our intrepid restaurant reviewer, Faiyaz Kara, bit the bullet, ate his way through this dinner crafted by five local James Beard Award-winning chefs last week and lived to tell the tale. Here's his account of the evening:
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Selection Reminder: Fill the Grill finals tonight at Whole Foods!
Tuesday, August 30 – Fill the Grill For the everyday home cook, $20 could stretch into several months worth of ramen noodles and Uncle Ben’s. For gourmet chefs like Alec Cheak and Steve Saelg, that same amount of cash might only go as far as one, single ingredient. But that’s the challenge Whole Foods...
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Hive mind
As a side note to our cover story, “Honeycomb hideout,” I wanted to give credit to the backyard beekeeper who originally inspired our interest. Artist Kim Fox, a former Orlandoan and member of the Lure Design team, is the first person we knew who kept her own bees and processed her own honey; of course,...
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Cakey Anthony
It was only a matter of time before somebody figured out how to bring some funny bread to the unfunny bread-and-circuses moment unfolding down at Orange County Tower of Justice, and apparently that time was last Friday (so we’re a week late!). We just got a call from somebody who we sleep with who...
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Free food tonight at College Park Market
This just in from Chef Tony of Big Wheel Food Truck (a regular at the neighborhood markets and other dark, hungry alleys where food trucks roam): apparently Ford will be at the College Park Market held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Infusion Tea tonight (that’d be Thursday, June 16 if you’re reading...
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Summer fun: The Daily City Food Truck Bazaars at Parliament House planned for June, July, August
Sources confirm a summer series of Daily City Food Truck Bazaars, scheduled from 6 to 10 p.m. Sunday June 26, July 24 and Aug. 28, at the Parliament House.
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New food truck in Orlando: Mexican BBQ Taco Box (yes, you read that right)
As I write this, I've just finished an excellent spicy pork taco from a yellow truck with a red-and-white banner, parked in the Citgo lot at Primrose and Colonial: the Mexican BBQ Taco Box.
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Cinco de Mayo FREE taco truck
Another day, another food truck, yeah. But unlike the others revving their wheels on our streets, the Camarena Tequila Taco Truck is giving its comestibles away for free -- we're talking gourmet tacos fashioned by local chef Andy Williams
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