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  Archive for January, 2009

Midnight Roundup

Written by dave in Saturday, January 31st 2009 under Round-up   
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Louis Thornton at Louis Loves Food, and Andy Huse at Delicious History have joined Creative Loafing’s food blogging army. *** Jaden cooks some Kobe steak burgers on CBS. *** “Find farmers’ markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area” at Local Harvest. *** Michael Pollan is disappointed with Obama’s choice [...]

Message from Mike Merino

Written by dave in Saturday, January 31st 2009 under Food Politics, Restaurant News   
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Mike Merino ran Merino’s Deli in Seminole Heights until closing down late last year. There have been some rumors floating around about why Merino’s closed, and Mike writes in to clarify. *** For those who were real Merinos Deli food lovers, allow me to add more info to why Merinos went out of business. The [...]

gnatv Eats at Square One

Written by dave in Saturday, January 31st 2009 under Food blogging, Restaurant Reviews   
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Here’s the latest from gnatv. Be sure and visit their site, where the design is better, the video is larger, and there’s lots more info about Square One. They didn’t really say if they liked the burgers. St. Pete Times food critic Laura Reiley, however, selected Square One as one of her Best 100 Restaurants [...]

Bacon Explosion

Written by dave in Saturday, January 31st 2009 under Recipes   
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BBQ Addicts offers up a recipe for – 2 pounds thick cut bacon 2 pounds Italian sausage 1 jar of your favorite barbeque sauce 1 jar of your favorite barbeque rub aka – The Bacon Explosion. I like the way the bacon strips have to be woven together -

Chef Dolphin

Written by dave in Saturday, January 31st 2009 under Uncategorized   
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Dolphins take time to prepare their food. “A wild female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin was observed going through a series of complicated steps to prepare cuttlefish for eating in the Spencer Gulf, in South Australia.” *** “The dolphin then lifted the body up and beat it with her nose to drain the toxic black ink that [...]

Quizno’s Franchisees Suing Quiznos

Written by dave in Wednesday, January 21st 2009 under Restaurant News   
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Quiznos on Treasure Coast are closing down. Is it because the economy is tanking, or because Quiznos is a crappy corp? Hmmm, seems to be a little from column A, and a little from column B. “Many franchisees are suing over excessive fees, overly-expensive products and expensive supply contracts among other complaints, he said.”

Wednesday Night Round-up

Written by dave in Wednesday, January 21st 2009 under Humor, Uncategorized   
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BR @ CL notes 3 new restaurant openings around Tampa. ### Three Shells restaurants are now Stingray’s, including the Shells/Stingrays on 30th. ### gnatv can now also been seen at Creative Loafing’s new food page. (scroll down) ### Here’s ABC Action News’ Dirty Dining. Now with embeddable video. (Which I just removed because it begins [...]

Louis Loves Food on the Food Network

Written by dave in Saturday, January 17th 2009 under Food blogging   
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Palm Harbor foodie Louis Thornton was recently filmed for an appearance on the Food Network. “Next thing I know, a producer flies here to chat with me for an afternoon. They go on to tell me that they might like to send a crew to do a bit of video with me. Well, one thing [...]

Top 100 Restaurants

Written by dave in Friday, January 16th 2009 under Restaurant Reviews   
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Awesome! St. Pete Times food critic Laura Reiley has compiled Tampa Bay’s Top 100 Restaurants. Here’s the full top 100 list, complete with maps. I picked up a copy of TBT today so I could have a hard copy of the list. I’m amazed at how little overlap there is between Laura’s list and Eating [...]

Taco Bus Hosts Diana Kennedy

Written by dave in Wednesday, January 14th 2009 under Food Politics, Humor, Recipes, Restaurant News, Restaurant Reviews   
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Diana Kennedy will be at Seminole Heights’ favorite Mexican food diner El Taconazo (affectionately known as the Taco Bus) Friday, February 14 13. She’ll be signing books at 5:30 and start her cooking class at 6:30. I’m a huge fan of Kennedy’s. The first cookbook I ever owned was The Art of Mexican Cooking. While [...]

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