Yesterday, I traded stories with my friend Dianna when we met for lunch at Go-Go’s. With buttery empanadas (try the steak chimichurri and the shrimp scampi) and salads full of good things, I can see why they know Dianna’s name here (I think they will soon learn mine). Here, she gestures how she cannot be [...]

Sailing through Coral Gables yesterday morning, I picked up this week’s CSA farm box to find tomatoes, greens, bok choy, avocado, sugarcane, and the first of the eggs: My friends Jenne (here, Skyping with a friend in France) and Jess came over to help with the greens and make Abba gingerbear cookies: Our friend Pilar [...]

My friend Pilar has just opened an empanada shop with her husband Juan on Washington Avenue (right next to Lincoln Road) in Miami’s South Beach called Half Moon Empanadas. The food is as satisfying as the great typefaces in the logo, and Pilar tells me everything is made in the restaurant: My favorite is the [...]