It’s been a week, and I’ve missed writing here, so this is a longer post below. I hope that all of you are having wonderful days—
Last Wednesday, my friend Dianna showed me the community garden in South Beach. With retro signs (community gardens are quietly beginning to be called Victory Gardens again across the United [...]

Like the first line in the Wilson Phillips’ classic “Eyes Like Twins,” I was smiling as I visited the Coral Gables market this morning.
Two weeks without my CSA farm box (today’s box is heavy on the squash), and I was ready for Florida citrus, beans and tomatoes in season, and chard.
Go early enough [...]

In the key of B.
My friend Holly wrote me tonight that she took the same beets I found at the Coral Gables farmers’ market on Saturday and made a beautiful carrot-beet-shallot soup and folded the beet tops into an omelet.
Inspired, I took out my guitar (I know, story for another time) and decided [...]

Each time I visit, I fall harder for Austin, Texas–the pride in local, surfeit of vintage, and funktacular food entice me into scheming ways to make migas my regular breakfast.
Yesterday, the delightful Rosental Alves, who directs the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, invited me to talk to his journalism class preceding one [...]

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 [...]