TV / Steve Martorano on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" tonight

Fort Lauderdale’s own chef Steve Martorano returns to “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on ABC at midnight tonight.

“I’m flying Jersey tomatoes to Los Angeles,” Martorano said Monday from California, where he was waiting for his shipment. “They are the most flavorful tomatoes that this country has.”

via John Tanasychuk
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FYI / Cooking Shows On Youtube >

Five wildly successful YouTube cooking shows - from a fully costumed Black Metal musician to a 96 year old grandmother. TIME talks to the people behind the program

RECIPE / Best of the Miami Herald

Miami Herald's "Better Than The Box"
Wow your family with from-scratch versions of mac and cheese and other packaged standards.
> Uptown Get-Down Macaroni and Cheese
> Balsamic Vinaigrette
> Robert’s Absolute Best Brownies
>>> get the recipes here 

DEAL / Quickies In Hollywood - Buy One Get One

According to the Burger Beast "Quickie’s Burger & Wings of Hollywood is celebrating its 2 year Anniversary this week. Come in and Buy the 1/3 Burger w/fries & drink combo and receive a FREE 1/3 Burger. It’s a 2 for 1, how can you go wrong?" >>> details

REVIEW / Old Fort Lauderdale Breakfast House: Fancy Breakfast, but It'll Cost Ya

Décor: Clean, bright, and open, it's retro diner meets Pottery Barn
Food: I found myself coveting my friend's crab hollandaise of two soft poached eggs with spinach on toast ($16) that -- stacked with fresh crabmeat and dripping with yolk -- was very near obscene
$$$: will Lauderdalians shell out $12 and $25 a head for breakfast fare? Our table of five did; 
more via Melissa McCart  @ New Times 

GOOD IDEAZ / A Portable Urban Farm, Made Entirely Of Milk Crates

Savvy urban restaurateurs from New York to California have recently discovered that growing their own produce, whether on a rooftop farm or a neighboring site, is easier than trekking to local farmer's markets or buying from local suppliers--and it provides lots of publicity. 

When Sisha Ortuzar and Jeffrey Zurofsky, partners at the popular 'wichcraft chain, decided to open up a new restaurant, they too sought out their own farm space. But instead of building a rooftop farm, the Riverpark restaurant team opted to take over a neighboring construction site that had lain idle for years, fill it with milk crates, and grow piles of produce.

The 15,000-square-foot farm, located next to the new Riverpark restaurant, is on land that will eventually house a building in the Alexandria Center for Life Science, an office and lab campus for the life science industry. But it's not happening any time soon

>>> read more from "Fast Company"

QUIZ - Question: Which lifestyle habit of the down-and-out has moved upscale?

thanks to our friends at the "naked grape"

A. Wine in paper bags  B. Drinking wine under a bridge  C. Screw caps ?

Answer: C. Many premium wines are changing to screw caps, in the wine world known as "stelvin enclosures." After all, medicine has known for centuries that corks are nothing but spongy condos for bacteria. Too many wines are ruined--or "corked"--by TCA, a compound that robs wine of flavor and leaves damp, musty odors.

LOL / Money Shots: The Cooking Show Edition >>>

The money shot of any cooking show is when the food finally gets tasted. Slate V takes a closer look at tasters' reactions in this video mash-up.

DEAL / BOGO Quarterdeck - Get The Coupon Here

Buy One Sandwich or Entree, Get the Second One Free! With the purchase of two beverages. Until Aug 17th.

>>> click here to get coupon 

HOW2 / Baby Food for Grown-Ups? >>>

Grilled cheese and other classic adult meals put in the blender.