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  Archive for December, 2007

New Year’s Eve Round-up

Written by dave in Monday, December 31st 2007 under Uncategorized   
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I hope your 2008 is better than your 2007. Here’s the last spin around the internet before the end of the year.
The Tampa Tribune reveals the mystery behind the new ownership of El Taconazo – The Taco Bus. Cousin Is New Driver of the Taco Bus.
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Rumors are that El Jalapeno is closed. I meant to [...]

Cilantro Indian Cuisine

Written by dave in Saturday, December 29th 2007 under Uncategorized   
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We made it to Cilantro Indian Cuisine on 56th street tonight. For a first visit it was everything I could have wanted in a new Indian restaurant. We started with a samosa, which was wonderful, made even tastier with the spicy curry. JB had the Vegetable Malai Kofta, and I had the Tandoori Mixed Grill. [...]

Key Lime Pie For Christmas

Written by dave in Saturday, December 22nd 2007 under Uncategorized   
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Every year, my in-laws pack up their gigantic RV and head down to Florida for the Holidays. I feel like I won the in-law lottery when it comes to my hubby’s folks. I genuinely enjoy their company. Because I love my in-laws so much, I like to spoil them with their favorite foods. One such [...]

Holiday Cooking Classes

Written by dave in Wednesday, December 19th 2007 under Uncategorized   
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Holiday Cooking Classes are being held in Seminole Heights. This will be loads of fun! Pastry dough, Christmas Ham, Rudolph. All we need is the snow.
Perfect Pie Cooking ClassCooks & Co will be taking reservations for the Perfect Pie Cooking Class. Students will be taught how to make 3 perfect Holiday Pies, a Caramel [...]

Soft Hands & A Pleasant Kitty

Written by dave in Monday, December 17th 2007 under Uncategorized   
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Along with the Personal Chef thing, my Super Cutie and I moonlight as food stylists. I see all of those puzzling faces out there. Allow me to explain.
A food stylist is the person behind the scenes at every camera shoot, whether it is for print or for TV, which makes the food look pretty. [...]

Sunday Night Round-up

Written by dave in Sunday, December 16th 2007 under Uncategorized   
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Lucy D. Jones at My Florida History points to the 1995 Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook about “Florida’s oldest restaurant” by Adela Hernandez Gonzmart and Ferdie Pacheco. The Columbia is in Ybor City. Lucy also points to this 2002 release of Bern’s Steak House: Reflections & Recipes from a Remarkable Restaurant by Joyce LaFray. A couple [...]

Umami – The Fifth Taste

Written by dave in Thursday, December 13th 2007 under Uncategorized   
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The Wall Street Journal ran an article about umami last Saturday.
“Americans are taught from an early age that there are four basic tastes — sweet, salty, sour and bitter. But what describes the taste of chicken soup?
To an increasing number of chefs and food-industry insiders, the answer is “umami,” dubbed “the fifth taste.” First identified [...]

Monday Round-up

Written by dave in Monday, December 10th 2007 under Uncategorized   
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Tampa I Am passes along some rumors about a new club in Ybor, and eats at Tampa Bay Brewing Company.
***Brian Ries points to this morbid page of Texas death row prisoner last meals. The page was pulled years ago, but thanks to the wonders of the internet it remains archived.
***Tommy in Old Seminole Heights [...]

Tampa Filk

Written by dave in Saturday, December 8th 2007 under Uncategorized   
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DB Cooper says the Tranquilo Coffee House at 10024 N. 30th Street “in Pointsettia Plaza” has filk-singing(!) “pretty much every Wednesday from about 6:30 to about 10:30 p.m.”
If you don’t know about filk music, start with this Wikipedia entry.
Apparently they also occasionally have bluegrass shows.

Absinthe Minded

Written by dave in Saturday, December 8th 2007 under Uncategorized   
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My bottle of Lucid absinthe arrived via UPS the day before Thanksgiving.
Early in November the topic of absinthe came up while some friends and I sat around drinking beers. It took us only a few minutes to exhaust our knowledge of this elixir of nineteenth-century bohemian life. We weren’t even clear if it was illegal [...]

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