To celebrate the grand opening of The Original Brooklyn Water Coffee Co., at 14451 South Military Trail, Delray Beach, Larry King, the broadcasting legend, will sign FREE one-pound tins of his very own Larry King Sunrise Coffee for the first 50 customers today.

The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. creates Brooklynized™ water for use in all its restaurants’ food, beverage and baked goods
In addition, the coffee roaster and The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. – right next door – will offer a FREE cup of coffee to customers ALL DAY on Monday, Jan. 23.

The Original Brooklyn Water Coffee Co. menu includes specialty Frozen Brookaccino coffee drinks, such as the Flathbush Freeze, Canarsie Caramel Cooler and the Bensonhurst Blast – all made with coffee ice cubes and a choice of artisan whipped creams made fresh daily. Whipped cream flavors include Amaretto, Kahlua, dark chocolate and hazelnut.

The coffee roastery also offers specialty lattes and hot chocolates made with premium Ghirardelli Chocolate that can be topped off with a favorite whipped cream, and come in flavors that include Toasted Marshmallow, Caramel, Irish Cream and Toasted Almond Mocha.

For more information, call 877-BAGEL-80 or visit brooklynwaterbagels.com.

Chuck Burger Joint (4665 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens) opens Thursday. During the grand opening Thursday and Friday, the first 250 guests 11 a.m-1 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. can order a burger, fries, and soda for $5, proceeds of which will go The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Place of Hope.

Chuck features Sprecher Root Beer from Milwaukee, Mexican Coke (made with cane sugar), Creekstone hormone-free, antibiotic-free secret beef blend ground daily, local produce, and reclaimed, sustainable furnishings and construction.

Originally slated to open last week, the restaurant ran into construction delays, but are good to go for Thursday’s opening.

“Like” Chuck Burger Joint on Facebook for additional discounts and even secret menu items only for insiders.

For more on Chuck, click here.

To celebrate the opening of its new restaurant in Palm Beach Gardens, at 4403 Northlake Boulevard, The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. is giving one free bagel to every person who visits today (Friday, Nov. 12 between 6 a.m.- 6 p.m.) No purchase necessary.

Franchise owner Michael D’Angelo III, a former 20-year Brooklyn firefighter and 9-11 first responder, says his restaurant will be franchise No. 247, in honor of his former fire station.

The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. features bagels, sandwiches, and iced coffee served with real frozen coffee ice cubes.

Help has arrived, cooks. Next time you can’t remember how long to boil an egg for hard-boiled (10 minutes at a gentle simmer) or need a recipe that uses Damson plums, you can get an answer via Twitter or SMS text message. You can also ask the question on the foodpickle section of food52.com.

Food52 co-founder Merrill Stubbs said: “Foodpickle has been a great success already, and we wanted to make it even more user-friendly and instantaneous. By adding an SMS feature, we’re opening up the service to anyone with a mobile phone, so people can ask questions from the grocery store or in front of the stove, just like they’d text their moms for cooking advice.” If their mom was texting-savvy.

Recent questions answered: How to adjust brining technique for kosher chicken/turkey, and what to do with a dozen quail eggs.

Boynton Beach High School’s choir, called Dimensional Harmony, is one of four finalists competing for a chance to perform live on NBC’s Today.

The winning choir will be chosen based on Internet votes. The winner will be announced Friday, and their winning choir will appear (briefly) via satellite. But the big prize is a trip in New York and a chance to sing live as part of the Today Show‘s Choir Showdown!

According to a news release, the finalists were selected on reviews of video submissions from show choirs across the country. In Boynton’s video, they sang September by Earth, Wind and Fire. You can see their performance here.

The other finalists include Butler Headliners from Butler Community College in Kansas, The Ball Sate University Singers, and Celebration Show Choir from Mars Hill Bible School in Alabama.

Voting ends at 8 a.m. tomorrow. To watch the videos and maybe vote for the locals, click here.

PepsiCo will spend at least $3 million to give away at least 10 million free cans of Sierra Mist Natural this Saturday at 2,800 Wal-Mart supercenters nationwide to introduce its new version of the lemon-lime soda.

Last month the company announced it was remaking the drink by using sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup and getting rid of preservatives.

It added “Natural” to the name to cater to shoppers’ desire to avoid artificial ingredients and launched a major marketing campaign.

Shoppers are concerned about artificial ingredients, so companies are removing high fructose corn syrup from a slew of products.

They’re touting these moves in everything from ketchup to cola to attract shoppers.

The Associated Press contributed to this article.

The sizzle

PARIS BAKERY AND CAF…, 212 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach, now serves dinner on Saturdays from 6 to 10 p.m. (by reservation only).

The charming café is a nice little breakfast, brunch and lunch spot, with indoor and covered outdoor seating, miniature Eiffel Towers entwined with flowers, bowls of water for the pooches outside, and a broad menu of crepes, sandwiches, soups, salads and excellent coffee.

To glimpse the menus, visit www.parisbakerycafe.com
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Cold Stone Creamery will host in the World’s Largest Ice Cream Social Thursday (Sept. 30) to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

From 5 to 8 p.m., local stores will give away free 3-ounce servings of the featured Cold Stone creation, Kate’s Creation. That’s caramel-apple ice cream, chocolate shavings, graham cracker pie crust bits, and apple pie filling.

Kate, 11, was granted Make-a-Wish day, and as Cold Stone Junior Tastemaster for the day in February, she visited the Cold Stone Creamery headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz. where she created the apple sundae. Read the full story

Are you the pork “Crock-Star” of your home kitchen? You could win $5,000.

From August 9 through September 27 (Monday), visit TheOtherWhiteMeat.com to submit an original slow-cooking pork recipe in the first-ever “Search for America’s Pork ‘Crock-Star” contest.

Five winners will win a trip to New York City to compete at Crocktoberfest in October. In addition to rubbing elbows with celebrity mom Candace Cameron Bure and winner of Top Chef – Season 5 Hosea Rosenberg, one lucky entrant will walk away with the $5,000 grand prize.

There are other rules, like the recipe should be original, and include eight ingredients or less. Check out the rules and enter your family’s favorite dish.

Good luck!

Carvel ice cream stores are giving away free scoops of their Swiss Miss chocolate ice cream, Thursday only.

The hot-cocoa flavored scoop is to thank everyone for their patronage.

Fine print: Only at participating stores, the offer can’t be combined with any other offer, and the free scoop is 3 oz.