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Taste of the Nation Miami is Thursday, July 7 at the Fairmont at Turnberry Isle. Restaurants providing tastings include Bourbon Steak, The Forge, Joe’s Stone Crab, Mercadito, Michy’s and Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill, as well as the new City Hall.

If you’ve been enviously eyeing the BK Food Swappers or the PDX Food Swappers events on Facebook, your time has come! Marie Castro of Broward is organizing the first ever South Florida Food Swap.

Here are ten reasons to attend or support the National Bloggers Bake Sale this Saturday, May 14 at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  These are in no particular order, although I imagine  you tend to think with your stomach, as I do. 1. You can buy and taste Paula Nino [...]

  * * *Pikiliz (hot sauce) * * * Last year, I wrote in the Under the Sun blog about a Haitian cooking demonstration.  I shared recipes and tips by Haitian cook and folklorist Liliane Nerette-Louis.  That post about how to prepare griot (seasoned, fried pork), its accompanying pikliz hot sauce and acra (malanga fritters) [...]

* * *Bacardi building by David Samayoa* * * You might have noticed that while Chuck Ferrin has been holding down the fort with his Miami Drink column,  my own postings here have been fewer and farther between.  Don’t worry, I haven’t disappeared! I’ve just been busy with some other freelance work, which is a [...]

by Chuck Ferrin (The Fifth Drink) I know this is going to be hard for some people, but mezcal is not tequila with a worm in it.  That chubby grub bobbing in your half-finished bottle is a marketing ploy, and you’re the mark.  In every sip of that hot, hellish, and mean spirit you choke [...]

This weekend is the 18th annual event at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.  Fairchild continues to expand on their festival with a series of mangophile events, including a culinary conference, mango brunch, and weekend festival.  This year, the mangos of India are highlighted. The events begin Friday with an all day Mango Culinary Conference.  James Beard [...]

Ed. Note: Fleming is now closed. Fleming is tucked on the side of a strip mall on 136th Avenue Street, close to the Falls.  It’s popular with Pinecrest locals.   Have you heard of it?  Exactly. Fleming hopes to increase its visibility with a turn on Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.  The surly chef and his staff [...]

* * * Photos by David Samayoa * * * I suppose you can file this one under “better late than never.” Here is a photo post of the Midnight Amore pasta orgy that took place at Scarpetta from 11 pm to 1 am on Saturday night of the South Beach Wine and Food Festival.  [...]

Roots in the City’s Overtown Community Garden last summer. /Trina Sargalski According to the Redland Organics COMmmunity POST, the Roots in the City Farmers Market pilots this Wednesday, March 24th.  The Market witll be held on Wednesdays from 1 pm to 4 pm at the corner of NW 10th Street and 2nd Avenue. This new [...]