UNwineD returns to Panama City Beach on March 31 and April 1 at Aaron Bessant Park. Spend the weekend tasting craft beer, wine, and spirits while sampling cuisine from renowned area chefs and local eateries. At its heart, UNwineD, presented by Publix, is a stylish garden party that showcases...
By Jack Smith
The origin of the Bloody Mary revolves around two of the world’s greatest bars. The tale begins in the roaring twenties at the famous New York Bar in Paris (later known as Harry’s New York Bar), one of Ernest Hemingway’s favorite haunts. There, bartender Fernand “Pete” Petiot...
By Jack Smith
Southern cooking has some international roots showing. Fried chicken, rice and gravy, sweet potatoes, collard greens, and spoon bread - all good, old fashioned, down home Southern foods, right? Wrong. The fried chicken and collard greens are African and the rice is from Madagascar. Southern cooking, as...
By Jack Smith
The daiquiri’s origin goes back to an actual cocktail recipe card signed by a “Jennings Cox” in 1896. This original recipe underwent an important transformation in the 1920s and 1930s when, with shaved ice and an electric blender, Constantino “Constante” Ribalaigua Vert, bartender and owner of a...
By Marta Rose-Thorpe
I recently enjoyed a tasty lunch at San Marcos Mexican Grill in Pier Park, which opened several months ago. This spacious, breezy eatery plays lively Mexican music and gives one that festive feeling of “I’m on a fun vacation and may never come home!”
My server, Rogers, was...
The word dessert comes from the French word desservir, which translates to “to clear the table.”
Sweets were fed to the gods in ancient Mesopotamia, ancient India and other ancient civilizations. Dried fruit and honey were likely the first sweeteners used in most of the world. It was the spread...
By Jack Smith
Southern cooking has some international roots showing. Fried chicken, rice and gravy, sweet potatoes, collard greens, and spoon bread - all good, old fashioned, down home Southern foods, right? Wrong. The fried chicken and collard greens are African and the rice is from Madagascar. Southern cooking, as...
By Jack Smith
Hamburgers may well be considered America’s favorite food, but the origins of the hamburger are fuzzy at best.
The Germans claim it started in Hamburg (hence the name, hamburger), influenced in turn by the 12th century Mongolians’ steak tartare. In the 19th century, beef from German Hamburg cows...
By Susan Benton, 30AEats.com
This Italian Wedding Soup is packed with immune boosting and good for you foods, like lemon, dill, spinach, bone broth, and much needed lean protein.
Wedding soup is not so named because it is served at Italian weddings, but because the flavors of stock and bitter greens...
