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"It's going to be a celebration of the Black diaspora," he tells New Times. "You have low country and Midwestern. You go down to Louisiana and there's Creole. There's even a Mexican mashup in the Mississippi Delta. The beauty of the International Black Food & Wine Festival is that there are so many cultures to highlight." Smith, whose Hungry Black Man site covers Black cuisine in Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, New Orleans, Austin, Montgomery, and Orlando, as well as Miami, says that he was looking for a way to celebrate all those unique food styles. "In Black culture, there are cooks and che...

On Friday evening, Otto Othman and his Pincho partners Nedal Ahmad, Nizar Ahmad, and Adrian Sanchez will participate in the South Beach Wine & Food Festival's Burger Bash.

On May 13, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) performed an abrupt about-face on its mask guidance, recommending that people who are fully vaccinated could stop wearing facemasks under most circumstances. The update, titled, "Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People," stated that "fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask or physically distance in any setting, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance." Suddenly, per the CDC, it ...

Founder and organizer Lee Brian Schrager is still expecting to host a festival that entertains and educates. Here are his favorite SOBEWFF events.

Most recently, WCK has worked to feed people who were left without jobs during COVID, with an emphasis on the culinary community. Last year, before it even opened, Red Rooster Overtown partnered with WCK and Food Rescue US to serve meals to Miamians during the pandemic. The chef and humanitarian will appear virtually tonight (Monday, May 17) at the Broward College Speaker Series. The topic, "Changing the World Through the Power of Food" will address how everyone can help end hunger by starting with a simple gesture. In the meantime, New Times checked in with Andrés, hoping to pick up some ...