America’s Most Wanted Recipes in Miami

America’s Most Wanted Recipes takes a simple precept, that people love mass produced corporate formula food, and exploits it. You gotta give credit to author Ron Douglas who has been profiting off our shackles to the chains through his website RecipeSecrets.net since 2003. His previous published works contain copycat recipes…

Fruit Tree Giveaway for Green Miami Campaign

Ever wanted a mango, avocado, lychee, or tamarind tree? Here’s your chance to get one for free. The City of Miami will be giving away 750 fruit trees on Saturday July 25th from 8 a.m. to 12 noon at Robert King High Park (7025 West Flagler Street). Experts will be…

Behind The Line at Michy’s in Miami’s Upper Eastside

Chef Michelle Bernstein says “The first place I worked as a cook was Janjo’s in the Grove for Chef Jan Jorgensen. At the end of my shift he’d say ‘here’s half a lime. Go clean the stove.’ I said ‘Can I get a whole lime?’ and he said ‘No. Too…

Weekend Blogwatch – Miami Food Photography Phase II

Food photography is a hell of niche. Plenty of highly paid, professional, top-model type camerafolk can’t shoot so much as a sandwich with 50 gigs and an hour. A lot of us in the food blogosphere are using consumer level point n shoots, and we’re getting to be fuckin’ awesome…

Lights off and No One Home at Mariposa on Third Ave. in Shenandoah

Open only since February, Mariposa on Third Avenue in Shenandoah appears to have called it quits.  Hints of its demise were evidenced by step ladders seen through a newly un-branded storefront on a recent drive by.  Calls placed to its phone number today resulted in a perpetual busy signal on…

Free Pizza Tonight at Piola in Brickell from 5 – 7 p.m.

According to their website, “Farofa Nation is a design and t-shirt company dedicated to helping the unfortunate and poor kids of Brazil.”They donate 10% of the proceeds from the sale of every t-shirt to TASK Brazil, an organization that saw a  major cash infusion from Led Zeppelin rock icon Jimmy…

Weekly Wrap Up: The Friday Sauce

This week, the cover of our print product depicts hand sewn, plush, homemade Star Wars dolls. On the web front, Short Order wrote a week’s worth of hopefully entertaining, informative, insightful, and humorous posts that had almost nothing to do with the grim realities of life in Miami in the Summer…

Plato Royale: Casale Pizzeria Mozzarella Bar vs. Pizza Volante

Do you sometimes feel like you live in Pizzami? Well, if you’ve been following the munchings and musings of local food bloggers and Twitterites lately, it’s hard not to. There’s been a flood — er, fireball — of new, gourmet pizza joints opening up across town, and not a moment too…

Top Ten Ways to Eat a Coconut Now With Coconut Recipes

According to wikipedia “The only states in the U.S. where coconut palms can be grown and reproduced outdoors without irrigation are Hawaii and Florida.” Wether you get yours straight off the tree or on a plate at Red Lobster there’s plenty of ways to consume one. Here are Short Order’s…

A Meeting of the Gluttonous Sharpe Tongues Over Bubbles and Eggs

Eat, drink and be merry.  That’s the idea behind a group of wine and food enthusiasts who gather monthly for gourmet potlucks, replete with the fermented grape.  Last night’s raison d’être was vintage champagne and eggs, in honor of Bastille Day.   “The idea is to get foodies to put their…

Miami Intern Reports From Aureole In NYC

Miami native Nicholas Prieto has been attending Le Cordon Bleu Miami, and is currently finishing up his internship at Aureole in New York; when he gets back here in August, he will be a graduate. These are some of Nick’s observations about what it’s like to go from the frying…