“Hopefully our trendy restaurants that say they buy local stuff actually do,” Andres Barrientos says. Through their smokehouse, Miami Smokers, the Miami-born executive chef of Aaron’s Catering and sous-chef James Bowers have spent the past year experimenting and testing how the Magic City responds to special smoked pork products. What…
“We’re taking electricity from our neighbor because this bitch did not pay the electricity bill,” says Josue Garcia, dressed as his bearded drag personality Karla in his newest Youtube upload. “You wanted to go to Space, right? Well, you have to pay the price,” sasses back Gio Profera in his…
Here at Short Order, we like to avoid topics related to religion, for no other reason than that this is a blog about food. But the Jewish New Year — that’s Rosh Hashanah, to all the gentiles out there — is this week, and it’s one that merits some discussion…
Any decent chef will tell you a meal is only as good as the ingredients used to create the dish. You can drop serious cash to score exotic elements or you can do what the ladies at Open Kitchen are doing. Instead of running scared from the heat like most…
Oh those crazy Scandinavians, they’ve done it again. First the Danish invent an iPhone-controlled coffee maker that pours coffee out of a faucet, now the Swedish come up with a machine that turns your sweat into potable drinking water. Anyone thirsty? Inspired by astronauts who pretty much recycle everything, this…
The smell of butternut squash brings back one of Naylet LaRochelle’s fondest memories. It was during early autumn about 13 years ago that she moved into her first home with her husband. “I remember watching my husband and my dad do repairs, and the anticipation of that time. In addition…
You know what’s hard? Farming. I’m not talking big-time farming. You know the kind: colossal tractors, measurements in acres, intricate irrigation systems. Nope, I’m talking about the small stuff. Farms where growers bend over tiny plots of earth, plant seeds, and hope for just a little bit of rain. Over…
It’s summertime, and with these scorching temps, the idea of heavy, rich food is less than appetizing. Besides, who wants a bloated belly when donning that sexy new swimsuit? Instead, it’s all about fruits and veggies for the next couple of months. (Mango Festival, anyone?) And in our neck of…
Summertime is here, and you’re desperately trying to figure out some easy and healthful meals to whip up in no time. Looking at all the beautiful seasonal fruits, you know there must be a way to use them creatively, but you chicken out and stock up on frozen dinners instead…
What’s so perfect about national ceviche day being held on June 28 is the fact that ceviche is the perfect dish for sultry summer days in Miami. Seafood and vegetables are kissed by citrus to make a cool and refreshing meal. My Ceviche chef/partner Sam Gorenstein knows a thing or…
Bitcoin, the world’s foremost digital currency, has finally made it to Miami, and this week Planet Linux Caffe in Coral Gables will become the first business in the city to accept the decentralized digital currency as payment for items on its menu, says owner Daniel Mery. If this news means…
Today is National Doughnut Day and there’s no better way to celebrate than with a delicious burger and a cold craft beer. But it can’t be just any burger. You have to have Lokal Burgers & Beer’s My Childhood Dream, the doughnut burger that owner Matthew Kuscher has literally been…
I’m not much of a cook. Wait, that’s an understatement. My cooking skills include the ability to scramble an egg white and mash an avocado. This is a sad state of affairs, considering my mother is a chef and I’m a vegetarian (which leads to a lot of obvious food…
David Laws thinks organic farming is almost like civil disobedience. “Organic farming is by definition against the grain,” says Laws, the farmer behind Treehugger Farms in Davie. “There’s a huge monstrous, mechanized market out there that’s really out to stop all that we are doing. But things are changing slowly.”…
Like our own little version of Best Thing I Ever Ate – sometimes, the Short Order staff tastes foodstuffs so unbelievably delicious that we can’t stop talking, Tweeting, Instagramming, Facebooking, dreaming and writing about them. A recent brunchtime visit to Jake’s Del Mar in coastal Del Mar, California, produced just…
Oscar Mayer, the first name in hot dogs and makers of the original ear worm jingle (just try to get “Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener” out of your heads now that we placed it there), has announced the launch of its most innovative product — just…
If you’ve been celebrating Cinco de Mayo as long as we have — you might be over the standard drink-cheap-margaritas -till-you-puke plans. So if you’re looking for a more refined (yet still booze-heavy) approach to the holiday — we’ve got you covered. This year, instead of shooting tequila – you…
National grilled cheese month continues along its cheesy path tonight with a free cooking class tonight at Whole Foods Market in Coral Gables.Oh, and the class is taught by a James Beard winner. So, who’s this top chef and what’s he doing making a humble grilled cheese sandwich, anyway?See also:-…
The human body is approximately 65 percent liquid, which means we inevitably do a lot of drinking to keep that waterlogged equilibrium. Whether it’s the recommended allowance of H20 or copious quantities of booze, there’s lots of the wet stuff constantly flowing down our gullets. So proper drinkware is no…
You’d expect to be served some great fried chicken at Yardbird Southern Table & Bar. After all, the restaurant’s slogan is “run, chicken, run” as in some guy with a very sharp knife is coming for you, little one.But making fried chicken in the Bon Appetit test kitchen? That’s quite…
Culinary school is expensive. And for most of us, Mommy and Daddy laughed their heads off when we said we wanted to pursue a career in the industry. Rude. So we became lawyers. And bankers. And writers. Still, every now and then, we dream of what could’ve been had we…
Venezuelan restaurants across Miami announced specials such as discounted arepas and one-buck Miller Lites following the news of President Hugo Chávez’s death yesterday afternoon.The end of the socialist leader’s tendentious rule meant Venezuelans took to Doral with flags and Polar beer until late in the evening. This means it’s the…
