Pete Schnebly looks for ripe lychee fruit to use in his winery's new beer. (Photo by Allison Diaz)
By ADRIANA MONTOYA
Schnebly Redland’s Winery, nearing its sixth year since opening as Miami-Dade County’s first commercial wine production facility, is expanding to include an in-house brewery.
The owners Peter, 49, and Denisse Schnebly, 55, who say this new addition will open to the public this summer, plan to integrate the same tropical flavors used in their wines into beer recipes.
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‘Nicky’s Week’ fund-raiser, through Saturday, RA Sushi, Palm Beach Gardens. Proceeds will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. (561) 340-2112.
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IN THE KITCHEN, Gallery Square North, 389 Tequesta Drive, Tequesta, (561) 747-7117 or www.inthekitchennow.com
Three floors above the happy hour bustle of Delray’s Atlantic Avenue an exclusive party buzzed last week to celebrate (belatedly) the opening of Buddha Sky Bar. What a scene it was, with the most daring of guests sampling sushi rolls off a live (and very still) model.
The less adventurous took their nibbles from the cozy sushi bar in the corner or from friendly, roaming waiters. The servers navigated a chic Asian-accented space with trays of excellent lobster rolls (our favorite bite of the night) or the just-crispy-enough soft-shelled crab.
RX ON A PLATE: Chistopher's Kitchen raw, flavorful dishes, such as this ZLT (zucchini, lettuce and tomato) salad, are full of nutrition. (Photos by Libby Volgyes/The Palm Beach Post)
Cranky, hot and feeling under the weather, I retreated to Christopher Slawson’s world of living foods for lunch on a recent day. I needed a food-as-medicine fix, but it was too hot for chicken soup or echinacea tea or any of the usual culinary flu remedies.
Billed as an estrogen-charged version of the hilariously raw The Hangover, the new smash hit Bridesmaids is an in-your-face chick flick that would make Jane Austen call for the smelling salts.
But its fans say Bridesmaids finds its power not only in its gleeful gross-outs but in an all-too-rare portrayal of how a lot of real women actually talk.
And the movie helps seal the box-office dominance of funny ladies.
Starring and co-written by Saturday Night Live star Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids is an antidote to standard wedding-porn pictures (like the recent Something Borrowed) about wimpy women who can’t stand up for themselves.
Alan Gerstel's story of trying to find his birth parents is now a book. (Richard Graulich / Post file photo)
Five or six years ago, I wrote a long story about then-Channel 12 anchorman Alan Gerstel’s search for his birth parents, a search that took 30 years, an amazing amount of legwork and a lot of serendipity.
Alan has now written his own version of the story, and the book is entitled Swing. It’s not giving anything away – the information is contained in the book’s subtitle – that Alan’s father turned out to be the great entertainer Louis Prima.
It’s a story that is by turns nostalgically evocative and quite sad, and Alan hasn’t shied away from any of it. In his various lives, Alan has been an actor, a newsman, and a documentary filmmaker, but he’s perhaps proudest of his status as a husband and a father. And now he can be proud of his writing.
Swing is the story of his life and his parents’ lives, and it’s eminently worth the reading, especially if you’ve been adopted or just wondered about the vast, chaotic genetic soup that constitutes mankind.
Even he concedes he does not look like Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Yet playing the man who presided over the country during The Great Depression as well as World War II feels natural to Ed Asner. Call it a liberal icon paying tribute to another liberal icon.
On Wednesday, he opens at Boca Raton’s Caldwell Theatre in the one-man biographical show, FDR, by Dore Schary, who also wrote 1958′s Sunrise at Campobello, about Roosevelt’s struggle with polio.
Jeannette Rawitt, owner of Jersey Girl Homemade Flats and Twiggs, didn’t start baking until she had kids . Years later, she expanded her repertoire to include flatbreads. She’d make them on a grill at home.
“I’d roll it out, put it on the grill and wish for the best, because there was no way to regulate the temperature,” says Rawitt, a Jersey girl indeed, born and raised in Teaneck, N.J.
Her chef-caterer husband would bring the cracker-like breads along on his jobs, serving them with his cheese platters.
Grilling season is here and spice rubs are an easy way to pump up the flavor. Grocers offer a huge selection of rubs intended for steak, chicken, pork, seafood, even veggies. But consider saving your money and making your own. They are easy to assemble and you can better cater to your tastes.
We created these four rubs with versatility in mind. While wonderful on steak, also try them tossed with chunks of zucchini and summer squash, skewered shrimp and chicken breasts.
There’s just something about a chopped salad. The idea that the bits are bitsy enough to pile together on a single forkful at once creates the perfect bite of balanced tastes and textures. Sweet, savory and a bit of tartness meet crunchy, crisp and perhaps a touch of ooey-gooey. And as each bite is the delicious sum of its disparate parts, the overuse of calorie-laden salad dressings is completely unnecessary.
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