When the e-mail came with the subject heading "Korean BBQ Taco Truck Opening Tonight!" I couldn't believe it. Could it be true? Could Orlando's infamous food lag be catching up with the rest of the world? The Spicy Pork Taco Box isn't just filled with a generously-sized taco filled with marinated, spicy, sweet pork,...
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As all good Scots know, today is poet extraordinaire Robert Burns‘ birthday. If you don’t recall your junior year lit class so well, his Scots language verses make the dialogue in Trainspotting sound crisp and enunciated. Regardless, he’d be 252 today if that rotten tooth hadn’t gotten him, and as per tradition there are...
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Two sites to get you cooking, whether you're a newbie or a zombie
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Chef Eddie Huang (of the infamous zero-star New York Times review) will be cooking at his parents' Orlando restaurant Sunday.
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A few books that didn’t make it into my gift guide: How to Cook a Wolf, M.F.K. Fisher: It may seem old-fashioned — and it is, with its WWII focus on cooking around food rationing and keeping a Victory garden — but reading about techniques used before microwaves, food processors and bread makers were...
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Proof: banh mi are SO OVER. *
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How to make Grandma cry at the Christmas dinner table.
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“Food is one part. Love is another part.” One day Narayanan Krishnan saw a homeless man so hungry that he was eating his own feces. Krishnan quit his job as a chef for an expensive hotel and started cooking for the destitute, homeless and mentally ill. This guy’s picture should be next to “inspirational”...
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So much for the rising tide of the new Amway Arena lifting all boats. Construction on the arena killed traffic for months, and Sunday, the Taylor family closed the doors on the diner’s new digs. New circa 2006, that is, the last time politicians promised there was change in the air for Parramore. For 23...
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Of course you know that the market is tonight, 6-9 at Stardust Video & Coffee as always. But you might not have known that #2 in a series of collectible figurines will be given away free to the first 50 market visitors. Doug Rhodehamel’s “APATHETICS” series launched last week with the Starfish of Apathy. Tonight, lucky...
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