Courtesy: WESH-TV
Our non-profit mission ‘Get Cooking’ was just featured by Orlando news station WESH-TV and news journalist Megan Mellado. My partner, Stacie Archer and I are very grateful and want to share it with you. For background ‘Get Cooking” works with food insecure families to teach them how to budget, shop…
Hi Everyone. I am happy to share the newest episode of my streaming series now out on Blackstone’s YouTube Channel. And I love reading viewers reactions to this way of taking the Blackstone Griddle experience through my lens. This is a project of love decades in the making. I joined…
Recently I finished reading a book that had been quietly, mystically ‘waiting’ for me on a bookshelf in our home. Do you have that happen to you? It is a kind of silent conversation between the author and some intuitive part of the unconscious that relies upon what seems to…
At NORMAN’S every 6-8 weeks we debut a new ‘Tasting Menu’. I have loved doing them since the late 1980’s while still working in Key West at MIRA within the very pretty Marquesa Hotel at Fleming and Simonton Streets. With our ‘a la carte‘ menu guests choose an assortment of…
Hi Everyone. I am very happy to share the second episode of my streaming series now out on Blackstone’s YouTube Channel. This is a project of love decades in the making. I joined forces with Video Content Creator/Director Nathan Lippy a few years ago to lay down the foundation and…
Hi Everyone. I am very happy to share the first episode of my streaming series now coming out on YouTube. This is a project of love decades in the making. I joined forces with Video Content Creator/Director Nathan Lippy a few years ago to lay down the foundation and it…
I sat down with a young videographer who asked me about ten questions. Here is the interview….
This article was written by multiple James Beard awarded journalist-author Colman Andrews. Mr. Andrews is well known in the world of food and beverage due to his long work and dedication as an expert in a variety of cuisines. He also was one of the founders of the great ‘Saveur’…
Courtesy: Orlando Sentinel
Journalist Amy Drew Thompson deserves a medal for all of the great community work she does for Orlando. Not only is she a fascinating, fun and detail oriented food writer she also brings us news and stories about the kinds of things that draw us together in addition to food…
I receive a newsletter titled, ‘Literary Hub’. Though I admire it, I often quickly scan it because I’m typically crushed for time. Who isn’t these days? But I saw that there was an interview with the excellent writer Marlon James on the topic of Bob Dylan. The excerpt that spoke…
Courtesy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnICEH3hDDw
Let me take you back a couple of years. I was immensely fortunate to be introduced by a mutual friend to a woman named Stacie Archer. You will learn more about her in the process of reading this post, but if you are lucky you will meet in her in…
ON ‘THE TASTE OF THINGS’. A FILM TO SAVOR I saw a trailer for a film with this title, and it affected me like a delicious amuse bouche. I knew I must have the rest of this ‘meal’ from the gifted creators who brought it to movie screens. I told…
The venerable Southern Living Magazine just released the 2024 Best New Restaurants in Every Southern State. Lisa Cericola is the journalist who wrote this engaging article. Their choice for the entire state of Florida is “NORMAN’S‘. I was taking completely by surprise to be candid. It is not like other…
ON TOAST Few things makes me take notice I’m in a different town than the one we live in than the sound of a freight train lowing in the distance. The horn, the cadence of the wheels, the bumping mechanical rumble of the boxcars all takes me on a journey…
BOQUERIA MARKET: BARCELONA Saturday, September 10, 2005 Saturdays in markets all over the world bustle with energy. At Barcelona’s famed Boqueria market on a sun drenched September morning Janet and I felt as alive and excited as we might have walking into Woodstock in 1969. Magazine pictures can only give…
I was a fan of this legendary New Orleans artist from his breakout albums ‘Gris Gris’ in 1968. I likely was turned onto it by a guy I came to identify as my chosen older brother. He preceded me in birth by four critical years. When he turned me on…
