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Sharon Picone specializes in vegetarian cuisine. A native South African now living in the United States, she creates recipes and offers cooking classes that incorporate her extensive knowledge of traditional South African foods. To receive a FREE monthly newsletter, register at www.thesavvychef.com

Nearly 22.8 million adults in the U.S. follow a vegetarian diet some of the time. With the most recent statistics placing the number of veg… Continue

Ceviche (seh-VEE-cheh)—an appetizer of raw fish that is “cooked” in citrus juice (usually lime, but sometimes lemon) and turns the flesh opaque in the process. Ceviche—also the name of a tapas restaurant occupying the space of former Lily Marlene’s in historic downtown Orlando. While strolling through Church Street recently, I discovered the restaurant quite by accident, and I am thrilled that I did.

If you are not familiar with a tapas bar, let me explain. Tapas are appeti… Continue

Someone once said that in the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips. I’d like to add my own spin and say that in the cookies of life, chocolate chips are the friends.

Having not grown up with the chocolate chip cookie as an indelible part of my culture, I have become increasingly intrigued by Americans’ love affair with the chocolate chip cookie. The affair began on that fateful day in 1933 when Ruth Wakefield added chocolate chips to her sugar cookie dough. No one knows for c… Continue