Coffee Talk: RoosRoast in Miami
Lovin the lobsta at MGFD. At a back corner banquette during a packed Friday lunch, while the Harry’s pizza oven chefs waded through the weeds; two old friends, chefs, and coffee connoisseurs caught up...
View ArticleThe Good, The Bad & The Dubstep of Conceptual Artist Zack Balber
The work in progress. Last week I sat down with Zack Balber, the local conceptual artist behind Harry’s Riesling Pizzeria pop-up gallery commissioned by Locust Projects, to get his perspective on the...
View ArticleOMG! Dinner & a Movie: American Indie Style
OMG! Dinner & a Movie returns this Tuesday, July 16th, with American indie film Take this Waltz, a love story that somehow avoids romantic cliches while painting an unusually true and...
View ArticleDrink Like a Local…with a Local at Harry’s Pizzeria
Can you find the state of Florida in the logo? Everyone knows that we love everything local. So, when we heard about Drink Like a Local, we immediately jumped onboard. And if you saddle up to the...
View ArticleSummer Recipes Part II: Quality & Simplicity
Chef de Cuisine Bradley Herron keeping it simple in the MGFD Miami kitchen. [See here for Part I] It seems intuitive, but many home cooks fail to abide by one simple rule: a quality meal begins with...
View ArticlePasture, Palmetto & Pairings for 150 Central Park
Best part of taking beauty shots – eating them. With sunny sundry neighborhoods, bars suited to every taste, Broadway, springboard diving, and ice skating shows, the Oasis of the Seas is really like a...
View ArticleGenuine Charcuterie, a Meaty Primer from the Rock
Thomas and his Biltong, a south African jerky that is even better “wet,” or not taken full term. We have some seriously meaty situations going on in the Genuine kitchens right now, and all the chefs...
View Article[UPDATED] FOOD DAY 2012: Chickens & Eggs, Students & Seedlings, Farmers &...
Update: After the questions, answers, seeds, seedlings, water trips, duck eggs, chicken eggs, and quiche with the fourth and fifth graders at Phillis Wheatley Elementary over the last three days, here...
View ArticleA Food, Film & Art Ménage à Trois
The Harry’s Pizzeria and O Cinema love affair – OMG! Dinner & a Movie – that many of you have come to enjoy, has been going strong now for over a year. And since we’re feeling French this month,...
View ArticleBranding, Boars & Babies: The Big B with Pocket-Sized Digital Designer Ilysa...
Branding. One simple word, such infinite effects. The Nike Swoosh come to mind? How about Apple’s Apple, or the Crown of England? Each of these images are internationally recognized, and have come to...
View ArticleKitchen to Farm: A Chef Field Trip to Homestead
The morning started like any field trip I’d ever been on, except that a few of our cars sat waiting in place of a school bus, and instead of a late student holding up the rest of my class, it was a...
View ArticleThe Weekend that Was: Slow Food Day 2013 in Pictures
Slow Food Day started off fast. A 6:50am wake-up call got me going, Jackie driving us off quickly into the soft morning light towards the Grounds. There we found the early bustling of the farmers’...
View ArticleOn the Prowl for the Perfekt Brew at HQ with Panther Coffee
Panther’s pre-WWII Probat Perfekt Roaster in action. Last week I sat down with Panther Coffee Manager Camila Ramos at Harry’s over a special pie, some meatballs, and an escarole salad to talk about our...
View ArticleThe Tattooed Beekeeper, His Wife and the Secret Life of Bees
Beeing a Chef: Harry’s Pizzeria sous chef Steve Martin gets up close and personal with the new source of his local honey in Little Havana. There is a secret life of bees, I learned so from Sue Monk...
View ArticleOur Main Squeeze: Florida Citrus Season!
Click to view slideshow. To learn Florida’s certain faults, tune in to a Weekend Update or Jon Stewart episode; to learn Florida’s certain merits, visit one of our restaurants right now. Florida citrus...
View ArticleA Genuine Italian Adventure: Bernalda Bella
As if anyone needs a reason to go to Italy, here are a couple… Cooking lessons by Michael Schwartz in Bernalda, the town where Francis Ford Coppola’s grandfather was born, at a Palazzo that Francis...
View ArticleRubbish to Riches: The Little Haiti Community Garden
Click to view slideshow. Our neighborhood is getting richer. In the glitzy stores and along 40th street, and eighteen blocks north of them on second avenue where arugula gleams brighter than the...
View ArticleShip Life 101
Today is day three of my second sailing on Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas and this ship, as I said before, is a city. When seeing a city for the first time it’s all glamour, expectations, things...
View ArticleMiami Club Rum: Sexy, Fun, Delicious
Miamians are complicated. We don’t often admit our love for the tropical paradise we’re fortunate enough to dwell in, because half the year it’s too hot to think straight, the traffic will drive...
View ArticleThank God It’s….LYCHEE Season!!!
I don’t remember the first lychee I ever ate. I believe I was much too young, but as far back as I do remember my mom and I were drying and sprouting the pits, trying to grow a lychee tree. They’re not...
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