Writing about food since 2004.
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Florida
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Bagelworks, Boca Raton
Comfort of comforts–the white fluorescent lights, the angry senior citizens shoving in line–is there a taste more sweet than the taste of a Bagelworks bagel, shmeared with lox spread and whitefish salad, topped with sliced tomato and onion and washed down with a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice? Welcome to Bagelworks in Boca Raton,…
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Michy’s
I possess a Florida driver’s license–I lived there from 1990 (when we moved to Boca Raton from Oceanside, New York) to 1997 (when I graduated high school and left for college)–but I do not possess a favorite Florida restaurant. My parents certainly have theirs: steakhouses, both (New York Prime, Prime 112). Yet, on a recent…
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Florida on a Fork: Bice, Johnny V, and Prime 112
At the top end of Florida you have Jeb Bush shouting “yeehaw” wielding pistols on his gubernatorial tower, on the lowest tip you have gay men riding scooters near Ernest Hemingway’s favorite bar; in between you have grown adults dressed in mouse costumes, suntanned tourists stepping off cruise ships in sombreros and wrinkled gray-haired senior…
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Feeding in FLAH-rida: Ago, Cafe Boulud, Norman’s
My friends mock the way I say Florida. “FLAH-rida,” they tease when I tell them where I’m going for the holidays. “How do you say it?” I protest. And then they correctly pronounce it: “Floor-IH-dah.” After much examination, we’ve determined that mine is the case of the New York Jew pronouncing words through a Long…
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New York Prime (Boca Raton, Florida)
“Don’t write anything bad about New York Prime,” my mother warns. “I’m serious, Adam. Don’t.”New York Prime is my parents haunt; it is their Cheers, their Casablanca. We go there every time I come home and we are treated like royalty.”Mrs. Roberts!””Dr. Roberts!”The entire room shifts with excitement. New York Prime is a scene, and…
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Carpaccio (South Florida)
Today the Roberts Family decided to get fit, choosing sensible foods and exercise in lieu of heavy and rich concoctions.We drove down to Bal Harbor in Miami—a scenic trip that provided the following views:The back of my mom’s head:Pretty water:Once we got there it was exercise, exercise, exercise! We immediately stepped into Gucci for heavy…
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Cafe Maxx (South Florida)
Yes, I have arrived safely and soundly in South Florida; my plane touching ground at 2 pm, and my parents arriving at the airport slightly late, but–in their defense–the plane landed early.One brief note about Airtran. For the money you save, Airtran is worth the small discrepancies: the shopworn flight attendants, the buslike wear-and-tear of…
