As the holiday season unfolds, the calendar fills with opportunities for parties from Thanksgiving to New Year’s. Besides the traditional celebrations, we often forget about the gatherings in between each holiday when we need something to serve or take along other than cookies.
As the scorching heat of summer finally gives way to milder temperatures, fall is the best time to cook outside in Florida.
Florida summer is famously inhospitable. The air is thick with humidity and the heat is relentless. Late afternoons are punctuated by thunderstorms; mosquitoes rule at dusk. Even when the tropics seem quiet, hurricanes remain on our radar. But there is a reward for all the sweat and suffering: the sweet taste of a perfect mango.
Florida’s spiny lobster season is open from Aug. 6 through March 31. The Florida Keys are the state’s most popular destination for recreational lobstering, but you can find plenty of them right here on the Treasure Coast.
Maria Oquendo was only a year old when her family returned to Puerto Rico to rejoin a legacy begun on that island — generations before she was born in Brooklyn.
Pineapple peels produce a pleasant fizzy and refreshing beer
If Key lime pie is Florida’s most famous dessert, sour orange pie must be our best kept secret.
When the temperature finally starts to drop, there’s nothing more comforting than a big pot of chili simmering on the stove.
Florida seasons are often out of sync with the rest of the country, but that’s even more apparent during the holidays. We’ve got all the celebratory spirit minus the cold weather it coincides with everywhere else. We adapt by putting a Florida spin on everything.
Home cook Polly Summerlin Moore shares Southern food in her St. Lucie Village kitchen, always served along with stories about her years growing up beside the Indian River.
