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    <title>Dinner and a movie at Cin&amp;eacute;Bistro</title>
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        But do these two great tastes taste great together?...
       
      
        By Brian Ries
      
      
      Dinner and a movie -- it&#39;s an icon, the foundation of millions of date-nights every year, for romantic folks and platonic buds ranging in age from 12 to 96. Movie theaters and restaurants have existed for years in this symbiotic relationship, each gaining an advantage from the classic partnership. Why fuck with a good thing? Oh, people have tried to combine the two entertainment options into one unholy whole, with results that reflect the trials and tribulations of Dr. Frankenstein.
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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Jaden Hair, food blogger and CL alum, publishes Steamy Kitchen Cookbook</title>
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        By Brian Ries
      
      
      I first met Jaden (rhymnes with &quot;maiden&quot;) Hair two years ago, in the drizzled, muddy parking lot of an organic farm stand. She came to my attention thanks to her blog -- steamykitchen.com -- which had hit the local scene a mere six months before and had already garnered a national following; and she brought Spam fried rice to the CL Sarastoa offices just because we commented on her site. The two of us bought produce, hit the grocery store
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    <title>Cafe Dufrain&amp;#39;s new chef Ferrell Alvarez needs to catch up to his potential</title>
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      One glance at Cafe Dufrain&#39;s new menu -- which is still evolving -- and you can see where new chef Ferrell Alvarez has come from. Alvarez spent the last seven years next to Marty Blitz in the kitchens of Mise En Place, Chef de Cuisine in Tampa&#39;s grande dame of modern American dining. He moved over the bridge to Harbour Island this summer to serve his own brand of cuisine in the casually elegant restaurant with expansive views across the
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    <title>Ella&amp;#39;s Americana Folk Art Cafe in Seminole Heights is retro-modern, with food to match</title>
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      I shy away from the the term &quot;hipster,&quot; if only because it&#39;s tossed around with a disregard of meaning that puts the misuse of &quot;cool&quot; and &quot;hip&quot; to shame. Sometimes it&#39;s a slur, sometimes a misguided attempt to classify a widely varied range of people. But when it comes to Ella&#39;s Americana Folk Art Cafe, it fits. This new restaurant is in a restored house in Seminole Heights, which may give you the impression that it&#39;s a tiny, funky place
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    <title>Three great &amp;amp; cheap restaurants near Tampa Bay area campuses</title>
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        Students know best: "Cheap" is the hallmark of quality....
       
      
        By Brian Ries
      
      
      Do not use the word inexpensive. It conveys entirely the wrong sentiment. Inexpensive is a word marketing gurus spout when selling low-end versions of high-end products. It&#39;s a tool the wealthy use to determine socio-economic pecking order, to know when to sneer or raise an insouciant eyebrow, to peg poseurs striving for more than they can afford. Inexpensive implies reduced quality. Cheap, on the other hand, is a bargain. Getting something for less than it&#39;s worth. The hallmark of value.
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The Ringling International Arts Festival dances on the cutting edge</title>
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      Sarasota&#39;s arts scene has been damn exciting of late, from international DJ events to Ringling College of Art and Design alums starting artistic co-ops to promote less traditional works. Ringling Museum, however, has always been the area&#39;s artistic grande dame, its formidable collection and parade of international traveling exhibits a dependable lure for visitors and locals alike -- a serious, if not exactly cutting-edge, institution. But this week the venerable museum is blurring the lines a bit with the Ringling
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The Art of Italian Cookbooks: Giuliano Hazan&amp;#39;s rise as an Italian cooking authority</title>
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        Giuliano Hazan's rise as an Italian cooking authority....
       
      
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      It would be easy to paint Giuliano Hazan&#39;s success as an appendix to his mother&#39;s career. Marcella Hazan wrote the seminal Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, which Jeffrey Steingarten predicted would &quot;become the essential Italian cookbook for an entire generation.&quot; He was right. But it wasn&#39;t quite his mother&#39;s name that allowed Giuliano Hazan to create a career as a cooking instructor and cookbook author that reflects her own. Although this Sarasota resident has won multiple awards for both his
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    <title>St. Petersburg&amp;#39;s new Grand Central bar and restaurant has impressive pub food</title>
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      How lightly do I have to tread in this review? For a straight writer, reviewing a largely gay bar and restaurant owned by two gay men -- called Queenshead, for God&#39;s sake -- is tough to do without resorting to stereotypes and puns. Thankfully, the food is good enough to make all of that extraneous chatter moot. The owners are British ex-pats Paul Smith and Darren Conner. Conner has experience working in the restaurant and bar scene across the world,
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    <title>SoHo Sushi does many things well, with some surprising exceptions</title>
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      I was taking CL contributor and local food blogger Jenna Weber to lunch and needed a place close to the office. Easy enough, but it also had to be healthy. That&#39;s Jenna&#39;s thing and, despite my devotion to bacon peanut brittle and beef in all its forms, I tend to eat healthy meals as well. Have to justify the occasional binge, after all. Sushi is a safe choice, especially with frequent Best of the Bay winner SoHo Sushi just a
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    <title>Meat Week: The great supermarket steak-off</title>
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        The best of the beef in local markets....
       
      
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      Choice. Angus. Natural. Organic. Humanely raised. Grass-fed. Prime. Wagyu. Kobe. These days, there are more marketing terms associated with beef than ever before, all of which attempt to separate you from your food budget with promises of better quality or better moral character. And it&#39;s important to know what those terms mean, especially if you&#39;re concerned about greening your meat. But for most folks, taste is the deciding factor. We might buy prime for the intense marbling, or Kobe and
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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>New movie Food, Inc. dissects our dysfunctional food system</title>
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      Among people who care about where their food comes from and how its provenance affects the daily lives of everyone in the world, there are some fundamental givens: the ills of factory-farming animals; the insidious prevalence of corn-based products in almost everything we eat; the consolidation of our food supply under just a few corporate entities; the consequences when organic goes corporate; the looming specter of Monsanto; and the causes of the West&#39;s diabetes epidemic. Everyone&#39;s already up on all
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    <title>Downtown St. Petersburg&amp;#39;s Buona Vita Italian restaurant fills a niche, and some bellies</title>
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      Buona Vita was born out of tragedy, albeit a tiny one. When Local Coffee + Tea owner Michael Duranko decided to pull out of St. Petersburg, three of the coffeeshop employees took over the place, almost ad hoc. They were on a week-to-week pay schedule with the landlord, with no formal lease. One day, after splurging on two weeks of supplies, the three found that the locks had been changed and they were done with their brief stint as business
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    <title>Chef Domenica Macchia takes an upscale diner concept and runs with it at St. Petersburg&amp;#39;s Diner 437</title>
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      I freely admit that I&#39;m a Domenica Macchia stalker. I first encountered this former Redwoods chef at MJ&#39;s Martinis and Tapas last year, when she wowed me and the rest of the Bay area food scene with her interesting and precise take on small-plate fine dining. Then, soon after the place opened, Macchia was fired by the owners of MJ&#39;s. And yes, I feel a little satisfaction that the jazz lounge/restaurant is now on a possibly permanent &quot;hiatus&quot; while it
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      Here at CL, we&#39;re very happy that the Web allows us to give readers a lot more say than in the past. Sometimes, we go to you directly and ask for suggestions or input on stories we&#39;re working on. But often, just to make it easier for everyone involved, we ask you to check a box and vote on something we think you&#39;re interested in. There are, however, occasional problems with purely democratic systems that don&#39;t subscribe to &quot;one person,
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      It took two days to thaw in the refrigerator (two days longer than my excitement wanted to allow) but when I slapped the 9-pound pork belly on my kitchen counter, it kind of freaked me out. One side was beautiful, a m&eacute;lange of deep, brick-red meat laced with a profound amount of milky-white pork fat. The other side, though, was the skin, laced with stubbly reminders that pigs have bristles and nubby dots that looked like warts. Warts, in a
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    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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