Chef Angelo Elia Versus Chef Jean Pierre at Fourth-Annual Cook-Off

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Chef Angelo Elia Vs. Chef Jean Pierre at Fourth Annual Cook-off
The UFC has Maynard versus Guida, but the food world has its own beatdown at the fourth-annual France versus Italy Cook-Off at Casa D'Angelo.

At 7 p.m. Monday, we'll have chef/owner of Casa D'Angelo restaurants, Angelo Elia, in one corner and Chef Jean Pierre of Jean Pierre's Cooking School in the other, ready to duke it out, culinary style. 

Each chef will whip up a special four-course menu that will feature two appetizers, two fish, two meats, and two desserts that they will 

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The Five Best Restaurants in Which to Break Up

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Valentine's Day prompts some of us to evaluate our relationship status. The result is a peak in breakups just before or after the holiday.

Rather than sever things over g-chat, texts, Post-Its, or Facebook announcements (I wish I were joking), show your guy or girl you have a set by breaking up face to face, in someplace less personal than one of your houses.

Before we list the best places to break up, a few rules.

1) The less boozy the breakup, the better.
2) Be sure to choose a place with attentive service to minimize awkwardly long waits and excuses to get pissed off.
3) Never choose a place that valets your car.
4) Keep it classy. Don't choose a fast-food joint or someplace equally as soulless, regardless of how fast you'd like things to move along. The go to hell conveyed by taking a soon-to-be ex to McDonald's is absurd.

After the jump, our curated list for best places for breaking up.


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Christmas on Las Olas Cookie Battle Is Tonight

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These guys mean war!
The 49th-annual Christmas on Las Olas is tonight! Time to take a break from the mall frenzy (don't worry -- Target will have the same plastic crap tomorrow) and bundle up the family and friends. 

Bundle up? In south Florida! Yup! Because tonight's forecast calls for snow! And cookies!

Tonight, Las Olas Boulevard will be filled with ice skating, snow, carolers, and Christmas cookies.

The inaugural Christmas Cookie Battle will feature three of Fort Lauderdale's best cookie bakers in a heated battle of gingerbread, chocolate, and butter. The cookies will be judged by a panel of experts... and you!

For a $2 donation to the American Lung Association, you'll be able to sample the competing cookies and vote for your favorite from these participating bakeries:



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Christmas on Las Olas Cookie Battle: Gingerbread Wars

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Gingerbread men are lovers, not fighters.
The 49th-annual Christmas on Las Olas celebration on November 29 will turn five blocks of Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale into a winter wonderland, complete with ice skating, snow, sledding, and some serious Christmas cookies battling it out.

If you didn't know those innocent gingerbread men could fight, you've got to come down and see for yourself, as spice drops, butter cookies, and gingerbread men all vie for the top honor of Best Christmas Cookie on Las Olas. More »

Five Things We Hate About Food Truck Events

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There's no denying that we're still enamored with meals on wheels at various food truck rallies. And we want to support these fledgling businesses as much as the next person.

Yet with the novelty of food trucks wearing thin, customers are becoming more discerning-- which could lead to food truck fatigue on the horizon. And it's not even about the food. Dare we say that we have a couple of complaints? After the jump, a list of what we're less than enamored by when it comes to food truck meet-ups. 

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The Chew's Michael Symon Responds to Anthony Bourdain

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Michael Symon just wants to cook for America
In an interview with Mercury News, Anthony Bourdain was asked what he thought about The Chew, the ABC foodcentric daytime talk show.

Bourdain said, "(Heavy sigh) I'm really shaken. Honestly, I don't know what to believe anymore. Mario Batali is a better chef than I am, a better businessman. And Michael Symon! I can't tell you how much I like and respect those guys. They're the smartest, funniest, best since Julia Child. They had to know what they were getting into. I'm not trying to be funny or snarky -- I'm really shaken. I feel like I've left the mountains, and found all my comrades had joined the Interior Ministry. The whole world has tilted in a way I don't understand. I feel like I'm a million years old and very naive. I just don't know who the fool is. I suspect it's me."

Thing of it is, Bourdain was just telling the truth this time around - no rabble rousing..no feather puffing...just straight up honest confusion as to why two of America's best chefs would want to take on daytime television.

As if reading our minds, Michael Symon replied to Tony on The Chew. Starting with, "Speaking of Prosciutto...", Symon says, A ham friend of ours, Anthony Bourdain took a swing at us." 

Symon then goes on to say that he's on The Chew because he simply wants to cook delicious food for America...Batali, however, chose to remain mute (wise choice). Here's the response:

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Palm Beachers: We Don't Need a Green Market; We Have Maids

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We don't need no fresh veggies.
Green markets, with their mountains of fresh veggies and artisan bread, have long been the yuppie alternative to slumming it with the wilted lettuce at Publix. But in the Town of Palm Beach, where the millionaires roam, fresh kale and organic tea are still no match for blue-blooded snobbery.

This week, the town's Planning and Zoning Commission rejected a proposal for a Sunday-morning green market because, apparently, the wealthy don't need fresh produce. They have maids.

"We have beautiful supermarkets to send our maids to," Palm Beach resident Ruby Rinker
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Pizza Polemic: Florida's Pizza Time Calls 'Foul' on Washington's Pizza Time

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Hungry for legal action.
Well, here's a food-oriented legal proceeding that's more Big Lebowski than Law & Order

Coral Springs-based Pizza Time, Inc., claims that a Washington-based pizza chain -- that's also called "Pizza Time" -- has stolen its name, according to a lawsuit recently filed in the Broward County Civil Court. 

The conflict is rooted in chronology, it seems. 


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New York Times' Bruni Quiets Bourdain, for Now

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Deen 1, Bourdain 0.
Former New York Times food critic Frank Bruni sides with Paula Deen on the op-ed page in the aftermath of Anthony Bourdain's calling Deen "the most dangerous person to America" for "telling an already obese nation it's ok to eat food that is killing us."

"Ill-timed elitism" is what he calls it, siding with Deen's response in the New York Post. "My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills... It wasn't that long ago that I was struggling to feed my family too." 

Her response exposes
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Fuck You Yelper Collects Website's Most Asinine Comments

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Among my favorite links today is one brought to my attention by our colleagues over at LA Weekly. Behold Fuck You Yelper, the Tumblr dedicated to collecting jackass comments on Yelp. The company's rendition of online democracy is great in theory but has shaped up to become an abrasive collection of comments that businesses sometimes stack in their favor, or a slew of submissions showcasing utter stupidity. That said, Yelp's legal woes in 2010 led to doubled traffic, to a whopping 50 million visitors a month, reported Huffington Post.

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