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.

THE BEST / 10 most popular McDonald's menu items of all time

1. French fries The McDonald's french fry can trace its heritage all the way back to the original McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, Calif., that introduced french fries in 1949; now, the restaurant chain serves approximately four million kilograms of fries every day. And in a 2007 Zagat survey, McDonald's fries got 63 per cent of the vote, compared to just 10 per cent each for runners-up Burger King and Wendy's.

>>> here's the other nine 

THE BEST / Supermarket Standoff: Canned Tuna -

Bon Appetit Magazine Taste Test 
The first tuna fish was actually canned as a replacement for the more popular sardine during a shortage in 1903. What started as a temporary substitution has become a national habit; Americans consume almost 1 billion pounds of the stuff per year. 
Best Supermarket Brands for Flavor
1) Trader Joe's Albacore Solid White Tuna in Water  2) StarKist Chunk Light Tuna in Water 3) Genova Tonno Solid Light Tuna in Olive Oil
>>> more info including nutrition rankings  

MARKET / Season's Fresh Market In Plantation

Looking for something from Bulgaria, Croatia, Egypt, Israel,Jordan, Lebanon, Persia, Turkey or just about anywhere else on the globe? Look no further than this pristine market where you'll discover everything from exotic groceries to hookahs, beer and wine, prepared foods, and even a coffee bar where you can sip a beverage or enjoy a plate of feta and hummus slicked with imported rich olive oil.
>>> get the full profile via the sun sentinel
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