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Living on the edge

The combination of a challenging economy and tenuous job market has left more than its share of middle- and upper-class Palm Beach County residents in dire straits, prompting organizations in and around Boca to double their efforts.

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Readers comment on articles in recent issues of Boca Raton.

36 Editor’s lEttEr

Boca Raton looks to build on its successes after another award-winning year for its flagship publication.

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Boca Raton keeps you connected to South Florida with the latest trends, tips and news in five categories.

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45 Body: Target workouts for specific body parts; why salt is good for you 51 hoME: Adding an exotic touch to interiors with Moroccan-inspired decor 57 travEl: Inside the enchanting North African world of Morocco 63 a&E: Success story at the Maltz; 2012-13 cultural season preview

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Tired of the same-old, same-old Thanksgiving menu? Let Boca Raton expand your turkey-day spread with outof-the-box recipes. Also, we present our cocktail of the month, check out the local restaurant scene and, in honor of our burger feature, put french fries to the Boca Challenge.

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Meet one of the few female master sommeliers in the world, a local farmer on a mission and a prosecutor leading the battle against Internet predators.

Spend time with the local people who make our community so special— including a “Design Star” and a former actor bringing history alive.

He’s been credited with saving/ prolonging the lives of more than 1 million people. Meet FAU professor Charles Hennekens, the world-renowned scientist behind one of the major discoveries in recent times.

You might just see some familiar faces in our snapshots from talked-about social events in and around Boca Raton.

by kevin kaminski

The author comes to grips with man’s interest in fashion and hair mousse.

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Don’t leave home without it—our comprehensive guide to the best restaurants in South Florida, including new reviews of Red the Steakhouse in Boca and Imoto in Palm Beach.

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An inspirational athlete at the 2012 Summer Olympics reminds us all to never give up in the face of adversity.

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VINTAGE INTERVIEW:

Master sommelier Virginia Philip (see page 84) offers readers of Boca Raton a variety of tips and insights when it comes to the world of wine.

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I’ve been researching the Boca area because I’m about to move there from Boston, and I came across your column. So maybe you can help a single woman in her mid-30s who is about to be the new girl in town: Can you give me the lowdown on Boca men? What do I need to know before joining the dating scene?

Curious in Beantown DeAr Curious: Welcome to beautiful Boca!

I’ve been here 15 years— and can’t imagine living anywhere else. Here’s the scoop: For starters, it’s rare to find someone born and raised here. You’ll meet men from the Northeast, West Coast, Canada and Latin America. So don’t feel like you’re alone moving to our fair city.

Men here are no different than anywhere else. You’ll meet some great ones to whom you’re immediately drawn; others will send you running away screaming.

Where do you meet the good ones? I’m a big fan of meeting the opposite sex anywhere except a traditional bar scene. The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach—guys

love great food. Check out the Palm Beach Wine and Food Festival in December; it will be loaded with interesting men who are passionate about—you guessed it—wine and food.

On my trips to The Fresh Market on Camino Real Road in east Boca, I see loads of handsome single men shopping for a great meal. (Men that are handsome and cook rank high on the potential mate list.)

Men do love their sports here, but let’s face it—Boca isn’t exactly Boston. We do have a new 30,000seat football stadium in our backyard (at Florida Atlantic University), as well as the Delray Beach Tennis Center, plus a full complement of professional sports teams in South Florida.

Given our year-round bikini weather, you’ll want to hit the gym. The good news?

There will be plenty of single men pumping iron and getting their cardio groove on alongside you. Where are the best spots? Try Impact Sports for the hardcore athletes, Life Time Fitness for workouts with socializing, and, my favorite, Flywheel Sports, for indoor cycling like you’ve never seen before (along with plenty of sweaty, sexy men).

The most important piece of advice: Set your sights on making as many friends as possible first.

This includes men and women. Once you get your social circle established and get settled into life here, the dating will fall into place. Good luck!

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hen she won the Academy Award in 1969 as Best Supporting Actress for the film “Rosemary’s Baby,” Ruth Gordon, then 72, accepted her gold statuette from Tony Curtis and deadpanned one of the most memorable opening lines in the history of Oscar speeches.

“I can’t tell you how encouraging a thing like this is,” said Gordon, who had been a working actor since 1915.

There were no acceptance speeches in Lake Buena Vista at this summer’s Charlie Awards, the annual ceremony hosted by the Florida Magazine Association that honors the work done by standout publications throughout our state.

However, the staff of Boca Raton couldn’t have been more encouraged—and more deeply humbled—by the evening’s outcome.

For the fourth time in five years, Boca Raton earned the first-place Charlie Award as Best Overall Magazine in our circulation bracket. The judge for the category commented that our publication was “national magazine”-like in design, quality and content. It marked an unprecedented 10th consecutive year that Boca Raton has been one of the three finalists for this prestigious award—and the seventh time during that stretch that our magazine has brought the FMA’s top prize back to Boca.

In addition, Boca Raton won a Charlie Award for Best Photographic Essay (“Visions of Havana,” which ran in our February 2012 issue), two Silver Awards (for Best Use of Photography and for Best Overall Online Presence) and a Bronze Award in the Best In-Depth Reporting category for our November 2011 feature on sex trafficking in South Florida.

Earlier this year, the South Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists honored Boca Raton with two Sunshine State awards—a third-place nod for the sex trafficking piece and first place for best magazine design.

What most encourages our team, however, isn’t the number of statuettes we earned this award season but what those accolades mean. We don’t produce magazines for ourselves; we produce them for our readers. So it’s not just important, but it’s imperative that what we share in the pages of Boca Raton resonates with our community—whether it’s the wellness advice in this issue from a world-renowned medical

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Your feedback tells us that it does. According to a recent survey courtesy of The Media Audit, readers in this market view Boca Raton as the magazine authority by more than a 6-to-1 margin compared to other publications that claim to cover our city.

Such standing in the market doesn’t happen without publishers, editors, designers, photographers, and production and sales teams that never stop building on our successes.

Boca Raton turns 33 this year, an impressive enough number by today’s standards in any industry. And yet, in many ways, our magazine and its digital offspring feel more vibrant and relevant than ever— look no further than the daily coverage and fresh videos offered on our award-winning website (bocamag.com).

Even as our particular medium evolves, we’re proud to say that Boca Raton remains an undisputed leader in regional publishing. We encourage our readers, our advertisers and our friends throughout the community to continue following the leader in print and online.

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Gender TwisT In 1977, Diane

Lola Boot jeans, $99, Lucky Brand

Keaton’s menswearattired character in “Annie Hall” ignited a fashion craze. Gender-bending wardrobes, however, have appeared throughout fashion history—and 2012 is no exception. Ladies, try pairing masculine items with existing feminine designs for a fresh, contemporary new look.

All products available at Town Center at Boca Raton

Miansai hook bracelet, $55, J.Crew

Stretch perfect shirt in classic stripe, $72, J.Crew

Celine patent tuxedo slipper, $650, Neiman Marcus

Celine phantom square tote, $3,000, Neiman Marcus

The Lady Diver Starry Night watch, $30,600, Ulysse Nardin

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Classic hatch ankle pants, $88, Ann Taylor

• Look for straight-legged, dark-wash jeans and skinny pants for a masculine look on bottom. Cuff the jeans to your ankles for a more preppy presentation.

Valentino patent lace-up Derby, $795, Neiman Marcus

• Oxfords are a popular trend. Look for high-heeled, black-and-white, saddled oxfords—and pairs that include bits of lace and embroidered leather detailing.

Alexander Wang buckle shoes, $425, Neiman Marcus

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• Roll the sleeves of a blouse to the elbow, and add a tie that reflects your mood.

• Buckle shoes are popular this season for both genders. Two buckles appear even more masculine.

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sharp dressed man Guy La Ferrera celebrates 30 years of dressing local men in the finest Italian offerings. Tim Beasley, manager of the store at The Shops at Boca Center (5050 Town Center Circle, 561/6200011), discusses South Florida style and current trends.

From left: Guy La Ferrera and Tim Beasley

A GUy’S GUy

The owner of Guy La Ferrera is the first to admit that the past few years have been challenging. But, in the same breath, he’ll also tell you that his clients continue to value quality over quantity.

“They prefer artisan-made clothing that lasts a long time,” La Ferrera says. “As a result, we have been able to weather the economic turmoil by aligning ourselves with companies such as Brioni, Canali, Ravazzolo and Pal Zileri.

“We proudly enter our 30th year of business in Boca Raton.

This is a great place to live and work; I am grateful to call this my home.”

[1] Look Lean: Pants are trimmer and more tailored—as opposed to box pleats or two-pleated styles. Look for flat-front pants, a leaner leg cut and a trimmer seat cut. Short rise (worn a little below the waist) was a fit made for traditionally shorter men, but now men standing 6 feet or taller can be seen wearing the shorter rise.

[2] Button Up: The classic two-button jacket, with side vents, is very popular. The four-button jacket is coming back in style.

[3] Customized Clothing: Tailored attire is more popular than ever. Choose the fabric, and the fit, get measured and try it on. Guy La Ferrera can have a suit ready in two to four weeks.

[4] Paint It Black: South Florida suits don’t have to be light blue or pale gray. Black is the top seller because it’s versatile.

“Black, dark navys and charcoals have a lot of value. They are the suits you should buy first. Always.”

—Tim Beasley

[5] Softer Side: Soft jackets, fully unlined with almost no canvas, are on trend. The piece has a complete soft shoulder, which makes it feel like putting on a shirt. The less structured style is a cooler alternative in the Florida heat. You can dress it up or down, depending on the fabric.

[6] Price Point: Be wary of low-priced garments or suits marketed as “buy one, get three free.”

What is it made of? How long will it last? A medium-priced jacket should run around $500 to $700.

Jackets that cost less tend to break down quickly.

[7] Toe Talk: People are looking for a good price and comfort. Italian shoes, with wing tips, embroidery and pointy toes, stand out. Invest in the basic colors, black and brown.

[8] Make a Statement: Pleated, colored tie sets will be common at formal events this season.

This will help you stand out from the other penguins in the group.

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body Tone Like the Stars

Boca bodies come in all shapes and sizes. The problem is that, sometimes, we want shapes and sizes like our favorite celebrities. So how do you get abs like Gwen Stefani? Turn the page to learn about target workouts in our area.

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A workout for the arms at Michael’s Body Scenes in Boca Raton.

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TargeT WorkouTs Looking to sculpt a specific part of your body? Check out these local exercise classes for the arms, legs, abs and butt.

Goal: arms like miChelle obama

■ Barbell Blast at Michael’s Body scenes: After a full-body warm-up, it’s time to break out the barbells and dumbbells. Lots of reps, low-weight and multiple exercises work your biceps, triceps, shoulders and forearms. After just one class, you’ll be lucky if you can feel your arms. Our instructor says, “If you can pick up your 5 o’clock cocktail, I didn’t do my job.”

it’s in this class. Be forewarned: Laughing may hurt for a day or two.

45-minute session. Prepare to feel the burn.

ConTaCT: 1499 Yamato Road, Boca

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Raton, 561/208-5900, lifetimeathletic.com

Road, Boca Raton, 561/3683246, florida.flywheelsports. com

■ Hips, Thighs and Abs at Boca GyM & Fitness center: This class works the core and the areas that women always worry about. Crunches, leg lifts, stretches and more help create a defined midsection.

ConTaCT: 141 N.W. 20th St., 561/3624001, bocagym.com

Goal: legs like

ConTaCT: 5994 S.W. 18th St., Boca

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Raton, 561/750-7945, bodyscenes.com ■ Les Mills Body Pump at 24-hour Fitness: This 60-minute barbell class tones arms with lifts, curls and presses.

If you find the weight room intimidating, this is the class for learning the basics and finding motivation in a group environment.

ConTaCT: 1775 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach, 561/536-1440, 24hourfitness.com

Goal: abs like gWen sTefani

■ Core at liFe tiMe athletic: This 30-minute class is all about the abs—abs lying down, abs standing up, abs in a plank, you name it. If the abs exercise exists, then

■ Tramp! at cuttinG edGe Fitness: Jumping on mini trampolines in this high-intensity class releases endorphins, clears the lymphatic system and builds leg strength. Leaping, squatting and balancing works your quads and calves—after just 10 minutes, your legs will be burning.

ConTaCT: 21000 Boca Rio Road Suite A4, Boca Raton, 561/356-6588, yourhealthyaddiction.com ■ Indoor Cycling at Flywheel sports: The music, stadium seating, free water and free clip-in shoe rental makes it the coolest spin studio in town. The high-tech bikes and energetic instructors (like Boca Raton dating blogger, Angela Lutin) keep your legs moving for a pulse-pounding

Every Breath You Take

CheCk out these popular Cardio Classes around town.

ZumBa at VirtuOus PrODuctiOns (2880 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton; 149B N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach; 561/750-6700): Zumba is a worldwide phenomenon that was originally created in Colombia and is currently headquartered in Hallandale Beach. Zumba calls its classes “parties” and uses easy-to-follow Latin-inspired dance moves to firm and tone your body. Visit zumba.com to find a class near you.

KicKBOxing at La Fitness BOca east (4950 Technology Way, 561/206-3034): Variety is the spice of these lively classes, which offer an always-different mix of cardio and strength exercises. Expect relatively easy punching and kicking sequences, old school aerobics, dumbbell exercises, and toning and stretching on a mat. Prepare to sweat.

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Goal: buTT like a brazilian model

■ Brazilian Butt Lift at united state oF Fitness: A shaking and lifting class that promises to raise your booty to new heights and tone your glutes by mixing squats, lunges and leg lifts with Brazilian dance moves.

ConTaCT: 233 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach, 561/330-0338, unitedstateoffitness.com ■ Xtend Barre at pilates oF Boca: The premier barre program was created by professional dancer Andrea Rogers right here in Boca Raton, and it went from a class at a local Pilates studio to 75 locations worldwide. You’ll plie, lift, lunge and squeeze until your glutes are shaking.

Then you’ll do it again.

ConTaCT: East: 2621 N. Federal Highway, 561/955-9585; West: 9704 Clint Moore Road, Suite A109, 561/4834160; pilatesboca.com, xtendbarreworkout.com

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high tech health trends How do salt- and infrared-related activities benefit the body? We have the answers.

Salt therapy In 1843, Feliks Boczkowski, a physician at a Polish salt mine, noted that workers never had Where to Find it respiratory or lung problems.

The SalT SuiTe: 3100 Since that time, Europeans S. Federal Highway, #3, have been visiting salt caves for Delray Beach; 561/3167258; thesaltsuite.com health and wellness purposes.

In Palm Beach County, salt caves can be found at your local strip mall. The local version of halotherapy involves sitting in a room with walls and floors made of Dead Sea salt and breathing air fused with a Try Halo Yoga at the Salt dry salt aerosol composed of Suite. The yoga room has microscopic salt particles. This a salt wall, so you get all relaxing 45-minute session can the benefits of both the treat a variety of breathing and salt and yoga combined. skin ailments.

At Breathe, the yoga offered is hot yoga.

Dr. Y. Aaron Kaweblum, founder of the Boca Del Mar Pediatric and Adolescent Center, first heard about salt therapy in medical school. “I was told by my pulmonary professors about the European salt caves and how, for centuries, physicians that did not have at their disposal the medications we have now would send their patients to the caves for treatment of chronic lung disease,” he says.

A 2006 study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that inhaling hypertonic saline improved lung function in people with cystic fibrosis. There have been European studies that suggest that salt therapy can help smokers with chronic breathing problems.

Children also can benefit.

“The most impressive case I saw was a 2-year-old patient with severe persistent asthma,” Kaweblum says. “He was on strong asthma medications but despite that had chronic exacerbations.

His mother asked my opinion of taking him to the Salt Suite [in Delray Beach]. I was unaware of its existence. I obviously said yes. Within a few weeks, I was able to stop most of this patient’s medications. He is doing better than ever.”

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Far-InFrared Sauna The difference between a regular sauna, around for thousands of years, and an infrared one is how the sauna heats up. Regular saunas heat the air, but infrared saunas heat an object, like a ceramic plate, which emits infrared radiant heat that is absorbed safely into the body.

The room is slightly cooler (very slightly) than a regular sauna, and the infrared rays penetrate deep into the skin. “It’s a state-of-the-art sauna that detoxifies you from the inside out,” Where to Find it says Sasha Connelly, The Maui Spa & WellneSS CenTer: director of The Maui 2100 N.W. Boca Raton Blvd., Boca Raton; Spa & Wellness Center 800/768-6259; themauispa.com in Boca Raton. reiner ChiropraCTiC & WellneSS Studies show that CenTer: 5768 Okeechobee Blvd., West saunas with farPalm Beach; 561/689-4700; reinerchiro.com infrared technology can help assist with weight loss, lower blood pressure and increase blood circulation. A medical study published in 2009 said that rheumatoid arthritis patients received short-term benefits such as decreases in stiffness and fatigue after multiple sessions in a far-infrared sauna.

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home Rockin’ Moroccan

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More and more of South Florida’s ubiquitous Mediterranean abodes count on Moroccan elements to elevate style from so-so to sensational with furnishings, fabrics and treatments that capture the country’s mysterious vibe. Even in the smallest dose, Moroccan is pure magic.

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Stunning borders and assorted patterned papers from Schumacher’s new Byzantium collection come together to create a breathtaking backdrop for this elegant yet exotic Moroccan-style living space.

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Make It Moroccan, Part I Inspired by bustling bazaars, the shimmering

North African coastline and sun-soaked architecture, Moroccan design captivates with intricate patterns, saturated colors and exotic elegance. Here’s how to integrate it into your decor in large or small doses.

Inject color Think sparkling seas, desert sands, spice markets and African sunsets, and you’ve captured a typical Moroccan color palette. Color is a key ingredient of most Moroccanstyled spaces and requires an anything-but-timid application. Too much? Enlist white walls and dark floors to help tame vibrant treatments.

tantalIze wIth tIle Handmade tiles—ranging from unique silhouettes to small pieces clustered in mosaic designs—are a Moroccan mainstay adorning everything from floors and walls to mirror frames and tabletops.

Play wIth Patterns and texture

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Pattern and textures bring depth and dimension to the decor, enriching everything from drapery and pillow fabrics to inlaid tabletops, Persian rugs and even wood ceilings. Daring, distinctly ethnic designs often rely on neighboring solid surfaces to complement their intricacy.

keeP It real Above: Brilliantly colored, hand-formed tiles animate a Delray Beach powder room.

A wall fountain performs as a unique sink.

Left: A trio of metal and glass lanterns adds colored pattern to a hallway’s ceiling while accentuating its archways.

Below: Saffron- and creamcolored tiles enrich a bathroom wall in Delray. Tasseled towels add Moroccan style.

Natural stone arches, dark-wood floors, hand-wrought iron fixtures, metal lanterns, blown glass accents and terracotta tiles showcase natural materials that help evoke a Moroccan mood. Pass on synthetics or faux. Real is the deal here.

layer wIth luxe Capture the adrenaline of a souk (or marketplace) with an abundance of punchy pillows, draperies and stacked cushions casually strewn across a room’s rug-covered floor.

FInesse your FurnIshIngs Pass on frilly or fancy. Instead, choose rustic, dark-wood tables, carved accents and low-profile sofas upholstered in natural fibers—from woven cottons to sensuous silks.

Make a statement with distinctive lighting and lanterns crafted from carved wood, metal and handblown colored glass. Use mirrors to seduce the space with reflected light. A couple of rug-covered ottomans, leather poufs or oversized cushions enrich the relaxed decor with distinctive Moroccan charm.

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Gather & Glean pillow, $188, anthropologie, Boca raton

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Wide World of Furnishings EnlivEn your South Florida intErior SpacES with intErnational trEaSurES From thESE local dEcor outlEtS.

Make It Moroccan, Part II Capture the spirit of an open-air marketplace with furnishings and fixtures that enrich every room of the home.

Bali importers (628 Lake Ave., Lake Worth, 561/533-0109): This charming boutique is filled with exotic Indonesian gifts, including cast-stone Buddhas, bamboo masks, elephant artwork and jewelry.

Karins mexican Furniture (6405 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, 561/242-1304): Karins, which opened in 1998, specializes in Mexican furniture, Talavera (a milky-white glaze) and clay pottery, clay chimineas (fireplaces), and equipales (furniture made with pig skin and wood) to decorate your humble abode.

persian velvet pillow by Kevin o’Brien, $291, aBc carpet & home, delray Beach

raj candleholder, $5, crate & Barrel, Boca raton

Zigzag dhurrie floor pouf, $249, west Elm, westelm.com

exotic Furniture and pottery (2613 N.

World oF decor (545 S. Federal Highway, Deerfield Beach, 954/570-6210): Eclectic and practical mesh seamlessly at this interior outlet with more than 10,000 home furnishing selections—from an Egyptian sphinx and a whimsical statue of King Tut to an elephant floor torchiere lamp, Oriental cherry blossom and geisha vases, and exotic plant holders.

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iron stool, $100, c.G. Sparks, cgsparks.com

marrakech curtain, $108, anthropologie, Boca raton

hall Sigma side table, $1,395, aBc carpet & home, delray Beach

Bonus tip Schumacher’s new Byzantium collection of wall coverings offers an alluring mix of bold geometrics, tribal ikats and eye-catching borders in striking to subtle colorations.

AdAm Finkle

Federal Highway, Delray Beach, 561/279-1279): After originally selling Colombian pottery and furniture, this store has expanded its reach to feature products from the likes of Indonesia, Vietnam, Morocco, the Philippines, Peru, Mexico, Haiti, Bolivia and Spain. Enjoy an array of handmade, hand-painted items, wood furniture, and colorful hanging-glass fixtures.

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Your view of the 18th and the lake, family dinner on the deck at sunset, a classic blazer that feels like a friend, a few of your favorite things.

You want the best from life. And you know it when you find it. Get a jump on the season by visiting our shops for a preview of our Spring 2013 fabrics and special savings on orders placed during this period.

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Gateway to North Africa

We always imagine Ingrid Bergman’s luminous face in the dim shadows at Rick’s Place, saying to Humphrey Bogart: “Victor Lazlo must not die in Casablanca.” That’s the Casablanca we love, but it’s one that never existed. In fact, as Boca Raton discovered, many tour guides circumvent the city altogether for more interesting forays into other parts of Morocco.

Moroccan Musts

[1] Although this is a largely Islamic country, there’s no strict dress code. That said, dress respectfully, do not take photographs of anyone without permission, and be polite.

[2] Tote your own toilet tissue; in many public places, you will have to pay for tissue and toilets.

[3] Haggle. This is how purchases are made,

and it’s standard operating procedure. If you can’t bargain, don’t buy it—chances are, you’ll get ripped off.

[4] Having said that, do buy that rug. You will wish you had once you get home.

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The ancient city of Ait Ben Haddon

Road to MoRocco, PaRt I This romantic Arab country is both exotic —and accessible.

the back stoRy: Morocco has enchanted travelers for centuries—and Americans since the Summer of Love, when it was the end point for traveling ex-pats on the “hashish trail,” which started in Amsterdam and ended in Marrakech.

Today, the country is a routine weekend destination for Europeans—and an increasingly popular vacation for a new generation of international visitors. It is exotic, inexpensive and has a wide range of diversions, from mountain climbing in the high Atlas range, to wind surfing at Essaouira to camel riding in the Sahara.

The country is marked by fertile hill towns and sunflower fields reminiscent of Tuscany, as well as crumbling pink adobe Kasbahs hundreds of years old rising from the rugged plains. There are men driving donkey carts, and Berber and Bedouin nomads who live in dark winged tents. The call to prayer wails through narrow winding alleys. The smell of spices and fish, raw meats and almond oil fills the souks. It is all Morocco, and all worth seeing.

Love aMong the RuIns: About a four-hour drive northwest of Casablanca is Meknes, the ancient Berber capital known as a “city of 100 minarets” and a World Heritage site as designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It’s lush and fertile, contrary to the country’s desert image, with olive groves, date palms, wild poppies—and canaries singing in stands of cedar. It’s also close to the Roman ruins of Volubilis, which is a well-preserved 58

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Fez FactoR: Fez in northeast Morocco is the former capital, founded in 789 A.D., and now a destination for ceramics, copperware and embroidered linen. It also has a famous leathertanning market with ancient dye pits. (When entering the leather market overlooking the dye pits, guests are given a fresh sprig of mint to offset the odor.) The medina, or market, is within a walled city center (no automobiles allowed) comprised of more than 8,000 ancient narrow alleyways twisting and turning, full of people, produce stalls, donkey carts and spices. Once a major trading post on the Barbary Coast, the old city retains a sense of mystery and embodies the heart of traditional Moroccan culture.

The Cuisine

Typical Moroccan food is cooked and served in a cone-shaped ceramic tagine and usually has layers of vegetables, lamb, chicken or beef, and rice or couscous. Olives are on the table with every meal, and sweet mint tea is served with a flourish afterward. There is an abundance of fine French food in the country, as would be expected since Morocco was a French protectorate from 1912 to 1946. Our favorite? Try Seffa Medfouna, a famous dish featuring saffron chicken, lamb or beef hidden within a dome of steamed couscous or broken vermicelli (chaariya). The couscous or vermicelli is sweetened with raisins, butter and powdered sugar and decorated with ground fried almonds, cinnamon and additional powdered sugar.

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Where to Stay/Dine Fez

Riad Fes, a Relais & Châteaux property, offers luxury accommodations in a dramatic Hispano-Moorish “guest palace” conceived in traditional riad style (which is a domicile surrounding a garden courtyard with water). This hotel is nothing short of stunning, with a dramatic grand open lobby and impeccably appointed rooms.

Le Maison BLeue is the oldest guest house and restaurant in Fez.

DeSert

An aBeRcRoMBie & Kent (A&K) tented camp is the way to go; make arrangements with A&K by calling 800/652-7963.

Marrakech

The lush and luxurious La MaMounia is one of the legendary hotels of the world, a five-star experience that some have described as “mythic.” The RoyaL MansouR, built by the royal family and within the old city walls, maintains that it elevates “Moroccan living to an art form.” It may be the most luxurious property in the country, with individual threestory riads, each with its own discreet butler. The over-the-top PaLais naMasKaR is a new luxury five-star hotel designed with feng shui principles and a stunning water component. It is both contemporary and classic, with fine food, a spa, sumptuous individual pool villas and exceptional service.

La Maison aRaBe has both French and Moroccan cuisine, a romantic terrace, and a piano bar that only needs Peter Lorre with a martini to be perfect.

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The ancient arch at the Roman ruins of Volubilis

Road to MoRocco, PaRt ii

Discover more adventures inside this exotic North African vacation spot.

MeRzouga dunes and the gReat caMeL Ride: No trip to Morocco is complete without the desert experience, and Abercrombie & Kent provides a superlative one. The closest town with tourist hotels is Erfoud, where desert explorers wait until the sun slips lower in the sky and the desert becomes bearable. At 4 p.m., four-wheel drive vehicles head west toward the border of Algiers, and in no time the first pink dunes of the Sahara rise in the distance against a cobalt blue sky. After careening off road into the desert for about eight miles, the caravan arrives at its overnight accommodations: a line of festive African tents, each with its own shower-and-WC tent. There are Berber carpets on the floors, running water and comfy beds. A string of camels led by their Bedouin keepers shows up, and guests head off to watch the sun slip into the dunes over the Sahara.

The camel ride is followed by a fine dinner in the communal dining tent—and a good night’s sleep under a star-choked sky so close you can touch it.

MaRRaKech exPRess: This is party city compared to Fez, with an international cachet and a festive atmosphere. The Djemaa el Fna Square and Market comes alive at night with cobra handlers, people with monkeys, acrobats, tribal food vendors and musicians. The vast souk is ground zero for shopping, with tourist baubles as well as substantial stores selling antique jewelry, rugs and home furnishings. A must-see stop is the Berber Pharmacy with its room of spices and teas, medicinal creams and mixes, Argon oil products and the magical Berber lipstick that changes color on every individual—to the perfect natural shade.

Other points of interest in Marrakech are the Jardin Majorelle gardens, the Bahia Palace and the Saadian Tombs.

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Let the Season Begin

Bravo Amici, the quintet of divas and tenors (including Geoff Sewell, pictured) that wowed Boca last year, returns to Lynn University this winter for a muchanticipated concert. What other events made our list of the top 10 A&E highlights for 2012-13? Find out on page 66.

More A&e coverAge At BocAMAg.coM Visit bocamag.com for all your local A&E coverage, including John Thomason’s Monday breakdown of the upcoming week’s cultural events; movie, concert and theater reviews; interviews with local entertainers—and much more.

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he most compelling story in local theater belies the aphorism that “you can’t go home again.” Andrew Kato did just that in 2005, assuming the reins of the struggling, then-3-yearold Maltz Jupiter theatre and reforming it as the region’s gold standard for Broadway classics. the son of a puppeteer, Kato, 47, moved to Jupiter from his native New Jersey as a teenager. cutting his theatrical teeth at the Burt reynolds dinner theatre (now the Maltz location), he eventually migrated to Broadway, where he became a writer and producer, specializing in one-nightonly extravaganzas. he also became a creative consultant for the tony Awards, which he has helped produce for the past seven years. since taking over as artistic director at the 554seat Maltz, Kato has led the charge to turn north palm Beach county into an oasis of culture by luring top talent from New York and playing to constantly sold-out audiences. his team’s tireless efforts were rewarded at this year’s carbonell Awards; no regional theater in south Florida claimed more honors than the Maltz.

Where other notable theaters in palm Beach county have collapsed, Maltz’s largesse has ballooned, with nearly $2 million in annual donations and a record-breaking 7,350 subscribers set to attend its 10th anniversary season, which just began with “Amadeus.”

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You manage to sell out entire runs of shows that audiences have often seen time and again (such as “La Cage Aux Folles” and “The Sound of Music”). Why do you think that is?

I think, for one, we do it differently. Audiences have learned the lesson that we’re not looking to duplicate the Broadway production, in most cases. Also the quality and intimacy ... you’re seeing a quality show, well produced, upclose, and with talented people.

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Have you encountered any resistance to doing nonmusical theater, such as last season’s “Red?” Of course. For “Doubt,” (running Feb. 5–17), people are writing on their subscription forms “not appropriate subject matter.” But for every person that opts out on that show, we get a single-ticket buyer who wants more of that.

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What kind of strategy goes into selections for a season?

Diversity. The way I say it, without sounding like Forrest Gump, is that it’s like a box of chocolates. You could bite into one of those chocolates, and it [might not be] your favorite. But it still has to be good. If two out of three are OK, then I’m not doing my job.

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Because of the location of your theater, do you feel somewhat disconnected from the South Florida theater scene?

A little bit. It’s not their job to accept us; it’s my job to be part of a community. My frustration with the South Florida acting community is that they have accused us of not hiring them, but they don’t come to our auditions. You can bet your bottom dollar that if I know someone’s work, that I would rather have a South Florida person.

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Do you have an alltime favorite show?

I have a few. Not the movie, but Michael Bennett’s original work on “Dreamgirls,” because of the integration of the scenic elements with the storyline.

And I love “Sweeney Todd.” For plays, the ones you see at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre are the ones I love. I knew as soon as I saw “Red” that it would be on our stage. There are just days you sit in a theater that change your world. That’s my hope in creating or writing anything, is that you change the way the world sees things.

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South Florida’s cultural programmers never fail to disappoint. Here’s a look, in descending order, at Boca Raton’s picks for the top 10 most anticipated events in Palm Beach and Broward counties from November through May. Jan. 22, 2013

“The Birds”

Where: Society of the Four Arts, 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach What’s the buzz: A longtime stalwart of American conservatism and a former editor of The National Review, Will today sounds like a liberal next to the bombthrowing rhetoric of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

Like William F. Buckley before him, Will is an erudite scholar who influences the populace with statistics rather than paranoia. He brings a professorial approach to his syndicated newspaper columns and incisive appearances on “This Week,” sharing with one of the show’s occasional panelists, left-wing commentator Keith Olbermann, an abiding love of baseball. In this polarized political climate, we’ll take any common ground we can find.

ContaCt: 561/655-7226, fourarts.org

Where: Mosaic Theatre at American Heritage Center for the Arts, 12200 W. nov. 15Broward Blvd., Plantation dec. 9 What’s the buzz: Nothing says “welcome to fall” quite like a disgorged eye socket. Most people know “The Birds” for this and other unseemly images from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film about avian terrorism on a British coastal town. But for this unexpected stage adaptation, Irish playwright Conor McPherson—whose 2006 work “The Seafarer” won a handful of awards for Mosaic Theatre a few years back—looks not to the silver screen but to Daphne du Maurier’s original novelette, where meditations on morality and religion share the stage with the ornithological onslaught. Expect Mosaic’s sound designer to create a sense of squawking terror.

ContaCt: 954/577-8243, mosaictheatre.com

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Where: Duncan Theatre at Palm Beach State College, 4200 Congress Ave., Lake Worth What’s the buzz: The greatest dance company ever named after a feed supplement for veal calves was founded in 1981 by Moses Pendleton as an offshoot of his other company Pilobolus.

MOMIX has developed a reputation for its staggering combination of dance and illusionism.

Special effects, props and dramatic lighting designs complement the group’s impossibly acrobatic dancers across thematic tableaux ranging from baseball fields to arid deserts to the craters of the moon. For this tour, MOMIX will perform its latest piece, “Botanica,” which represents the dancers’ immersion into an everchanging world of nature. Expect copious animal costumes, snakelike appendages and duets with dinosaur skeletons, as the performers transform into a myriad of flora and fauna.

ContaCt: 561/868-3309, duncantheatre.org

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“Warhol & Cars: ameriCan iCons” Where: Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, 1 E. Las Olas Blvd. nov. 10What’s the buzz: It’s not the feb. 10, 2013 first image that comes to mind when considering the career of Andy Warhol. However, the pop artist incorporated cars into his works for upward of 40 years. This exhibition of nearly 50 pieces includes early drawings of cars that date to a summer course he took, to avoid flunking, between his freshman and sophomore years of college. “To think a young Warhol is doing these technically brilliant drawings is eyeopening,” says curator Eric Shiner, director of the Warhol Museum.

“Automobiles pop up again and again, and he always equated them as part of the American Dream. They represented success and mobility ... at the same time, he’s looking at the reverse of that: the tragedy and death that the automobile brings.”

ContaCt: 954/525-5500, moafl.org

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bravo amiCi Where: Lynn University’s Wold Performing Arts Center, 3601 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton What’s the buzz: This talented quintet of international tenors and divas comprise the only performers to return to Lynn after a sensational performance at the Wold last season. If that previous show was any indication, they’re sure to be the highlight of 2013’s truncated arts season at the glittering venue. Shattering the misconception that the best opera singers boast widegirthed proportions, these dashing young turks have the goal of introducing classical musical forms to pop audiences. Backed by a full orchestra, Bravo Amici’s compelling vocalists croon classics in Italian and English, crafting a crossover cultural stew of polished musicality. It’s no wonder they’ve sold more than 3 million albums, counting Sir Elton John among their rapidly growing fan base.

ContaCt: 561/237-9000, lynn.edu

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Jan. 17, Where: Crest Theatre, Center for the Arts at Old 2013 School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach What’s the buzz: Actor, author, singer, polemicist, sexpot—Joan Collins has worn all of these hats over a career that has spanned more than 60 years. In her new biography, The World According to Joan, the “Dynasty” star shares caustic opinions on men, women, Hollywood, fashion, modern television and more. Expect similar no-holdsbarred disclosures at the Crest.

“Everybody thinks of her as an evil, nasty woman, but I’ve By the Book found her to be the sweetest South Florida’s most exciting person in the world,” says literary event, the Miami Book Joe Gillie, executive director Fair (miamibookfair.com), returns Nov. 11–18, with a of Center for the Arts at Old popular weekend street fair School Square. “She’s not a and eight days of talks and diva; she’s just a great lady.” signings from luminaries ContaCt: 561/243-7922, including Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe, Robert Caro and oldschool.org Adam Gopnik.

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noV. 30dEc. 1 Where: Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 S.W. Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale What’s the buzz: Vedder postponed the original spring dates on this solo tour due to temporary nerve damage in his right arm. But the Pearl Jam front man is back in top form, music to the ears of the band’s fervent fan base, which will be in full throat for this two-night stand. Vedder’s 2011 record “Ukulele Songs” proved a hit with Pearl Jam fans and folk-music aficionados alike, with its 16 tracks of covers, new songs and rediscovered Pearl Jam B-sides. He’ll perform most of them and more during his first South Florida appearance since Pearl Jam played West Palm Beach in 2008. With a surprising set list that changes by the night, this is a tour not to miss. The Swell Season’s Glen Hansard will be the opening act.

ContaCt: 954/462-0222, browardcenter.org

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Where: Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach What’s the buzz: Remember the Rolling Stone photo of a nude John Lennon curling in an almost fetal position against Yoko Ono, cradling her head in an act of pure, unselfconscious love? Lennon was killed five hours later, making the person behind the camera for that iconic image, Annie Leibovitz, the last person to professionally photograph the ex-Beatle. As Rolling Stone’s photo editor during its glory days, Leibovitz shot all the stars, developing a legendary reputation as a sensitive portraitist who dug beneath slick celebrity exteriors. She has continued to bait controversy to this day, making headlines with provocative images of a tiara-less Queen Elizabeth and a seemingly topless Miley Cyrus. The Norton’s exhibition of 39 recently acquired Leibovitz photos aims to explore some of her least viewed, but crucial, portraits, delving beyond the artist’s own celebrity image.

ContaCt: 561/832-5196, norton.org

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Jazzing up Bayfront

Miami has a new music festival: The first annual Miami Jazz Festival (miamijazzfest.com) will take over the Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park Nov. 17–18, with one night dedicated to Brazilian jazz and the other to straight-ahead jazz from international performers.

MiaMi City Ballet PrograM iii

Where: Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach What’s the buzz: It’s been a challenging stretch for Miami City Ballet, which has gone from national television coverage and a sold-out tour of Paris last year to the announcement of a $1.5 million budget deficit and the forced early retirement of artistic director Edward Villella. Thankfully, that hasn’t impacted the company’s innovative

creative work. Program III will feature “Symphonic Dances,” a new piece by Alexei Ratmansky, one of the world’s most soughtafter choreographers. The award-winning phenom, who premiered the piece at a Miami City Ballet gala earlier this year, based it on the Rachmaninoff composition of the same name. In a recent interview, he told audiences to expect his trademark fusing of narrative and abstract dance styles in a dynamic piece that addresses love, war and death.

ContaCt: 561/832-7469, kraviscenter.org

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Where: Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 S.W. Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale What’s the buzz: Two years after opening on Broadway, the play that critics have dubbed “the theatrical event of the decade” premieres in South Florida as the jewel in Broadway Across America’s crown. Following a young man’s pursuit of his beloved equine after it is requisitioned during World War 1, the story of “War Horse” is a powerful one—as evidenced by a reading of Michael Morpurgo’s awardwinning 1982 children’s book or a viewing of Steven Spielberg’s Oscarnominated 2011 film. The stage version achieves the impossible—it conveys the authenticity, brutality, sensitivity and inspiration of the source material on a bare stage, with puppets for horses. “War Horse” has become the highest grossing production in history in London’s West End, drawing Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip to the theater for the first time in four years.

ContaCt: 954/462-0222, browardcenter.org

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Turkey-day Special

Every year at this time food editors put on their thinking caps and try to reinvent the Thanksgiving holiday dinner wheel.

To that, we say: Mission accomplished. In addition to creative side dishes from two local chefs, we present the turkey recipe to end all turkey recipes.

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The Ultimate Turkey Recipe

Plain ol’ roasted turkey is just too boring, right?

Think again. The preparation of this ridiculously simple, breathtakingly delicious bird is inspired by the roasted chicken served by well-known San Francisco chef Judy Rodgers. It’s not molecular gastronomy, but it is the best turkey you’ve ever tasted.

IngredIents 1 12- to 16-pound fresh, unstuffed turkey Kosher salt Black pepper, preferably fresh-ground 1 bunch fresh sage leaves PreParatIon [1] Two to three days before cooking, pat turkey dry, remove giblets, pop-up thermometer and all other useless, miscellaneous junk.

[2] Measure 1 tablespoon kosher salt for each 5 pounds of bird. Grind as much black pepper into salt as desired; 1 tablespoon for a 15-pound bird is good. Mix well.

[3] Carefully separate turkey skin from meat. Try not to tear skin. Insert 2 or 3 sage leaves beneath the skin of each breast half, leg and thigh. Turkey will look saggy. Don’t sweat it.

[4] Sprinkle salt-pepper mixture all over turkey, using more on meaty parts (breast, leg and thigh) and less on bony parts (back, wings). If you have leftover mixture, sprinkle in turkey cavity. Place turkey on platter or roasting pan, cover loosely with plastic wrap and refrigerate for up to three days.

[5] Before cooking, remove turkey from fridge, remove plastic wrap and let air-dry for one hour. Turkey should be moist but with no visible salt (you will see little flecks of pepper). Don’t touch or rinse. It’s fine.

[6] Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Place turkey on roasting rack and in oven, breast side down, for 30 minutes.

Judy RodgeRs Reduce temperature to 325 degrees and “dRy BRining” and, using oven mitts or dish towels, flip turkey over, breast side up. Don’t tent.

Credit for popularizing the “dry brinDon’t baste. Let oven do the work. ing” of meat and poultry goes to Judy [7] A 15-pound bird should take Rodgers, chef-partner of San Francisco’s between 2 3/4 hours and 3 hours, Zuni Café, where for years the presalted with internal temperature (taken with and “cured” chicken (with bread salad) instant-read thermometer inserted in has been the Fowl of the Gods. thickest part of thigh, not touching The idea is that salt draws moisture bone) of 165 degrees. from the meat, but then, during the [8] When done, remove turkey from days-long “curing” process, it’s reaboven and let rest for 20 to 30 minutes. sorbed back into the meat, not only Carve, serve and graciously accept all helping to keep it moist while cooking compliments from amazed and satisfied but salting it all the way through. guests.

Separating skin from meat and airnote: You can use pan drippings to make gravy; they’ll be a little salty but not overwhelmingly so (best taste gravy before adding additional salt).

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Thanksgiving salad Chrissy Benoit, Chef/owner, the LittLe house 480 e. oCean ave., Boynton BeaCh, 561/420-0573

salad IngredIents 4 pounds Cascade greens or mixed greens 1 cup toasted walnuts or chestnuts 1 cup fennel, thinly sliced, in lemon juice, olive oil and poultry seasonings 1/4 cup blue cheese crumbles 1/4 cup dried currants 1/2 cup shallots, thinly sliced and sautéed in butter 1 cup cranberry vinaigrette Stuffing croutons

drying the bird are techniques used by the Chinese in Peking duck. This allows subcutaneous fat to melt off during cooking, plus it crisps the skin and lets you stuff herbs between the skin and meat.

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NONTRADITIONAL TURKEY-DAY SIDES Millefoglie Vegetale Rickie PiPeR, execUtive chef, D’Angelo tRAttoRiA 9 S.e. Seventh Ave., DelRAy BeAch, 561/330-1237

Cranberry VInaIgrette 1 cup cranberries, frozen or fresh 1/2 cup champagne vinegar 1/2 cup walnut oil or olive oil 1 teaspoon fresh tarragon, chopped 1 teaspoon fresh thyme, chopped 1 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons fresh orange juice Whisk all ingredients except cranberries together to form emulsion. Add cranberries and toss with salad when ready to serve.

Serves four. stuffIng Croutons Box of turkey stuffing mix 1 pound unsalted butter, melted

IngredIents 2 pounds pumpkin, cut in 3-inch slices 6 large zucchini, sliced 1/4-inch thick 4 medium-sized Yukon gold potatoes, sliced thin 1/2 pound fontina cheese, grated 1/2 cup Parmesan, grated 1 cup milk 1/4 pound butter 1 cup Panko bread crumbs Olive oil Salt and pepper

PreParatIon [1] Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Toss pumpkin slices with olive oil, salt and pepper. Roast until soft. When cool, scoop pumpkin out of shell and reserve.

Toss zucchini slices with olive oil, salt and pepper, and roast for five minutes.

[2] Turn heat down to 350 degrees.

[3] Melt fontina in milk and set aside.

Butter 9-inch-by-12-inch Pyrex baking dish and make layers of roasted pumpkin, potato and zucchini. Top each layer with 1/3 of Parmesan and Panko and dot with butter. Repeat until you have three layers. Pour cheese sauce over vegetable mixture, then top final layer with remaining Parmesan, Panko and butter.

[4] Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.

Remove from oven and let rest at least two hours for the millefoglie to firm up.

Cut into squares. Serves 6.

More outside-the-Box sides ◆ Savory bread pudding with roasted chestnuts, sage and Parmesan ◆ Sweet potato-broccoli croquettes ◆ Roasted Brussels sprouts in béchamel with Pecorino Romano ◆ Roasted pears stuffed with Gorgonzola and walnuts, and drizzled with honey

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Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Mix butter and stuffing mix, spread out on nonstick baking dish and bake until browned. Remove from baking dish and dice into cubes, then bake again until golden brown. Allow to cool and become crisp. Use to garnish salad.

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EAST THIRD STREET Recipe by Sean inglehaRt, co-owneR SweetwateR baR & gRill, 1507 S. FedeRal highway, boynton beach, 561/509-9277

2 ounces Clément V.S.O.P. Rhum Vieux Agricole or another fine aged Caribbean rum 2 ounces unfiltered apple juice 1/2 ounce St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram (optional, if unavailable) 1/2 ounce pumpkin spice syrup 1 egg white InstructIons: Pour ingredients into mixing glass. Dry shake to emulsify egg white, then fill with ice and shake hard. Strain into vintage Champagne coupe glass.

GarnIsh: Dust dry pumpkin spice on top, and set fire with 151 spray.

InstructIons: Combine water and sugar in medium pot over medium heat. Cook until sugar has completely dissolved. Whisk in remaining ingredients. Cook for about 6 minutes, stirring frequently.

Do not allow mixture to come to boil.

Strain syrup through cheesecloth into large glass measuring cup.

Transfer to bottle of choice and store in refrigerator.

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The InspIraTIon

“I love pumpkin pie,” says Sean Inglehart, co-owner of Sweetwater with partner Clint Reed. “And I wanted to do something with those flavors.”

So he made a syrup based on pumpkin pie spices to which he added rum (“because they go really well together”), along with other ingredients, including egg whites, to give it that pie-like creaminess.

“You almost want to eat” the East Third Street, he says. But you can drink it too.

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PumPkIn sPIce syruP 1 1/2 cups water 1 1/2 cups sugar 4 cinnamon sticks or 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 3 tablespoons pumpkin purée

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Dr. Khatami has had the honor of working with Florida Atlantic University as their Official Team Chiropractor since 2009. He works with a variety of athletes from football to Ironman to Crossfit, and can often be found on the sideline for the Owl’s home football games. His experience with collegiate athletes keeps him on the cutting edge of musculoskeletal conditions. He specializes in Active Release Technique (ART), Graston Technique, and Kinesio Taping. These therapies are effective in finding and eliminating internal scar tissue; the basis for many muscular, joint, and spine related dysfunctions. Contact us for more information regarding how Dr. Khatami can help diagnose and eliminate the cause of your pain.

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Rich aNd RicheR: The (restaurant) rich just keep getting richer, which is Buzz’s way of saying that downtown Delray Beach has snagged yet one more high-concept, high-profile restaurant.

This one is 75 Main (270 E. Atlantic Ave., 561/243-7975), our own version of the Hamptons’ celebrity magnet of the same name, which has drawn such train-wreck types as Lindsay Lohan, Tila

Tanzy’s dining room

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Sea bass Livornese at Tanzy

Tequila and Snooki. Both Mains are the work of New York restaurateur-nightlife maven Zach Erdem, who’s promised to bring “a touch of Hamptons sophistication” to our little corner of paradise.

In the old Cugini Grille space, 75 Main is 4,600 square feet of posh—from white-leather Barcelona chairs to textured wave walls to a marble-topped bar. The food, from top chef John Thomas, is billed as “contemporary American cuisine with Mediterranean accents,” which can mean everything from veal Milanese to crab cakes with avocado salsa.

little house, Big FlavoRs: Don’t look now, but the flip side of Delray’s boom of tony, white-tablecloth restaurants may be the fun-n-funky spots opening in Boynton Beach. The al fresco Backyard (formerly Cuthill’s Backyard) offers a delicious taste of the laid-back Keys just off South Federal Highway, while just across I-95 you can snag a glass or three of some of the best beer brewed in Florida at bare-bones Due South Brewing Co. There’s also a new restaurant from Chrissy Benoit, who (with a little assist from Guy Fieri) made Havana Hideout in Lake Worth into a good foodgood times destination. It’s The Little House (480 E. Ocean Ave., 561/420-0573), the 1940-vintage Ruth Jones Cottage moved downtown and transformed into a homey restaurant dishing up Benoit’s signature brand of high-style, low-priced, easy-to-like comfort food. There’s lunch and dinner and weekend brunch, breakfast burritos and smoked salmon pizza, daily mac-n-cheese and savory bread pudding, house-made popsicles and citrus-sour cream trifle.

Maybe the King of Flavortown will pay this house a visit too. say hello to: Salt Seven, a nightclub-style steak-n-sushi joint fronting Delray’s Worthing Park; Thai Room Restaurant in West Palm Beach from the one-time chef of Wattana Thai; and Pietro’s Plump Tomato, a cute little place in downtown Lake Worth. november

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Now PlayiNg: Back at the beginning of the American culinary revolution a million or so years ago, the idea of “restaurant as theater” was the next big thing. So now is it “restaurant in theater?”

The folks behind Tanzy (Mizner Park, 301 Plaza Real, 561/9226699) at Boca’s iPic Theater sure think so. Tanzy is done in a posh, eclectic style that might be described as equal parts European Traditional, Frank Lloyd Wright and Zen—with a touch of Hobbit.

(Think tufted banquettes covered with ornate fabrics, lots of natural stone and wood, giant bonsai trees in the dining room and a spooky tangled branch archway.)

The food isn’t quite so over-the-top theatrical. With former Cucina d’Angelo chef-owner Angelo Morinelli at the stove, Tanzy bills itself as “artisanal Italian,” and to back it up they’re dishing everything from Parma prosciutto and Puglia burrata to sea bass Livornese and tagliatelle Bolognese to a roster of Italian craft ales and boutique wines.

And if popcorn drenched in fake butter doesn’t do it for you, the Tanzy Express menu features more palate-pleasing offerings, like a trio of filet mignon sliders, barbecue chicken flatbread and truffled fries, all of which you can take into the theater.

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ove and marriage. Marriage and divorce. Divorce and Larry King. Some things just go together.

Like burgers and, of course, fries. They’re called french fries, supposedly, because sometime in the mid-1800s an unknown French chef got the bright idea to slice a potato into long, thin strips and fry them in oil until crisp and golden. Since that time, the humble french fried potato has become one of the Western world’s five major food groups (along with grease, booze, cheese and chocolate).

So it only makes sense that in an issue where we explore the local boom in “gourmet” burger joints, that we challenge these same featured purveyors of pampered patties to produce a fry worthy of their protein. We kept the judging simple: taste (fresh potatoes, properly salted, fried in clean oil), texture (crisp on the outside, creamy on the inside, not greasy or over/undercooked) and value, which led to an overall rating.

The results, frankly, weren’t that impressive. Cooking the perfect french fry, it seems, is a lot more difficult than cooking a burger. Still, even a decent stick of fried potato is worth all the tofu and wheatgrass juice in Berkeley.

—Bill Citara TASTE

TEXTURE

VALUE

Where’s the beef, you ask?

Check out our burger feature on page 160.

OVERALL

BURgER BAR

Not a huge portion, but these thick-cut fries (with skin on) were admirably crisp, not greasy and had solid potato flavor.

Could have used more salt. Good value at $2.

BURgERFi

Medium-thick cut, nicely browned, decently crisp and not greasy. We liked the taste of potatoes and use of clean oil.

Big portion. $2.77.

Cg BURgERS

Yikes. These were limp, greasy and undersalted—the only fries that actually improved by reheating them hours later in the oven. $2.95.

gREASE BURgER BAR

The class of the tasting. Fries were super skinny, moderately crisp, perfectly salted and with real potato flavor; a little greasy but good value at $1.95.

MORAn’S

Skin on, cut not quite thick, not quite skinny. Admirably crisp, properly seasoned and not at all greasy. Definitely worth the $2.99.

RELiSh

A big disappointment. Pallid and limp, not to mention tasteless, mealy and undersalted. These fries were wildly overpriced at $3.49.

ratings:

fair

Burger Bar, 4650 Donald Ross Road, Palm Beach Gardens, 561/630-4545

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BurgerFi, 6 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach, 561/278-9590

very good

Cg Burgers, 2000 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens, 561/275-2185

excellent

grease Burger Bar, 213 Clematis St., West Palm Beach, 561/651-1075

Moran’s italian Burger Bistro, 2107 10th Ave. N., Lake Worth, 561/318-5048

Relish, 401 Northwood Road, West Palm Beach, 561/629-5377

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SINCE 1980, DAVID HERSCHTHAL, MD HAS PROVIDED patients with the highest quality dermatologic and aesthetic care, using state-of-the-art equipment in convenient, comfortable Herschthal Dermatology and Aesthetics offices in Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale. Board-certified by the American Board of Dermatology, he is well-known for his expertise in skin cancer, aesthetics and laser surgery. He

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Dr. Khris provides high quality medicine to meet the needs of each patient. Dr. Khris has also served the Boca Community since 1997. She is affiliated with the American Medical Association and speaks French, Czech, Russian, and English. We invite you to stop by and take a tour of our office. Come experience quality medical care. Hope to see you soon!

Dr. Richard A. Levine practices comprehensive general and preventive internal medicine in a limited membership concierge medical practice. A native of South Florida and second-generation physician, he has cared for the local community for more than twenty years. Dr. Levine received his bachelor’s degree at the University of Florida and received his MD at the University of Rome. He completed his residency at the University of Virginia and is board certified in internal medicine and geriatric medicine.

Dr. Levine is an assistant clinical professor at Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine and is recognized as a Top Doctor by Castle Connolly Ltd.

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Dr. Ross G. Stone is one of a few orthopaedic surgeons in South Florida performing both anterior approach minimally invasive primary hip surgery and anterior approach revision hip surgery. He utilizes cement free implants to ensure longer life of the hip or knee replacement. He specializes in computer-assisted surgery and bone ingrowth joint replacement. Dr. Stone is Ivy League educated and evaluates all orthopaedic problems. He completed orthopaedic residency and fellowship training in hip and knee replacement/joint revision at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University and general surgical training with a clinical fellowship at Harvard University. He received an MD from Columbia University and a BA from Yale University.

Dr. Charles L. Vogel is an acknowledged world leader in breast cancer treatment and research. He has trained at Princeton University, Yale School of Medicine, and the US National Cancer Institute. He participated in the development of virtually every drug and hormonal therapy approved for breast cancer treatment. Largely known for his pivotal work with Herceptin for Her -2 positive disease, he has authored over 530 manuscripts and abstracts while lecturing worldwide on breast cancer. He is one of the founders of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami and now directs the Women’s Center at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at Deerfield.

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Virginia Philip Master soMMelier/Wine shop oWner

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graduated in 1989 from Johnson & Wales in Providence, R.I., with offers to go into hospitality management. Instead, she moved to Aspen, Colo., and took a part-time job at a wine shop. Six months later, Philip landed at The Little Nell, a five-star resort in Aspen, where she did stints on the culinary side as a room-service, banquet and restaurant manager.

“That’s where it clicked,” Philip says. “I didn’t mind doing the restaurant/management thing, but it had to be linked to wine somehow.”

In 2000, with experience in San Antonio as a retail wine buyer and restaurant sommelier under her belt, Philip accepted a post at The Breakers in Palm Beach, where she continues to oversee a small staff as wine director. (Her twin sister, who was married at The Breakers, prompting Philip’s interest in the area, also lives in Palm Beach.)

To pass the Master Sommelier exam, the final stage in a program that now requires completion of four levels through the Court of Master Sommeliers, Philip had to produce a theory paper involving areas of sommelier expertise, take a service test (food and wine pairings, how to decant a bottle, proper glassware, etc.) and then blind-taste six wines. Participants have 25 minutes to identify grape varieties, country of origin, region, appellation, vintage and quality level. According to the Court, the pass rate for the Master exam is only 10 percent; Philip took the test twice.

“So much of tasting is a snapshot, a mental recognition,” she says. “It’s like,

how a certain smell always reminds you of Grandma’s house. Now, it has to be a certain smell that reminds you of Chardonnay—something about the wine that acts as a trigger.

“I can give you hints; I can tell you lemon drop, citrus and honey for Chablis. But you have to develop the mental part around that.”

Philip is giving locals such expert insights, and much more, at her namesake Wine Shop & Academy, which opened to raves last November. In addition to some 450 wines for sale (all hand-picked by Philip and business partner Richard Paladino), the store hosts a variety of monthly wine tastings, events with local chefs, and educational classes for the aspiring oenophile.

As if her glass wasn’t already overflowing, Philip also found time to establish the wine program at recently opened Stéphane’s restaurant in Boca—a 160-selection list contained on an iPad menu (for which Philip wrote all the wine descriptions). Plus, she’s working with former NFL wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson on the launch of his wine this fall.

“I’ve been very fortunate,” she says.

“Wine has taken me all over the world. The things that I take for granted I have to remind myself that other people would give their right arms for.”

—Kevin KaMinsKi

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t may sound like a party on paper—and, trust us, Virginia Philip isn’t complaining—but even a world-class wine connoisseur begins to feel the effects when the bottle count approaches triple digits.

In her role as an expert judge at various national sommelier exams and competitions, the owner of Virginia Philip Wine Shop & Academy in downtown West Palm Beach has been known to sample as many as 100 wines over the course of several days.

“At those events, my teeth hurt, my tongue hurts, my lips hurt,” says Philip, 45.

“Around day three, my stomach begins to burn from the acid.”

Such are the occasional demands when you’re one of only 25 female Master Sommeliers on the planet—compared to 173 men who’ve completed the certification, which is conferred by the Court of Master Sommeliers. It’s a distinction that, even a decade after earning it, Philip still calls “mind-boggling.”

“It’s definitely a male-dominated field, and people always ask why there aren’t more female masters,” says Philip, who was just the 11th woman in history to become a Master Sommelier when she passed the final stage in 2002. “The answer is very simple: Women have children. Once you start raising a family, it becomes very difficult to pass this exam. To pass, you don’t watch TV, you don’t read books, you don’t go out. Every spare moment must be devoted to studying, testing and developing [your palate].

“It’s a life-changing experience.”

It certainly has been for Philip, who

Temperature Tips

How warm should your reds be? How cold should whites be served? Virginia Philip has your answers.

Champagne/sparkling wine: 40 to 44 degrees Lighter whites (Riesling or Pinot Grigio): 42 to 46 degrees Heavier whites (Meursault), big, buttery Chardonnays, or older whites: 55 to 60 degrees Lighter reds (Chianti, Cru Beaujolais, Pinot Noir): 55 to 62 degrees Heavier reds (Bordeaux, Cabernet, Malbec): 60 to 68 degrees

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Palm Beach county assistant state attorney

“Between here and Broward, I’m aware of five or six arrests that have occurred only because that intentional-viewing statute exists,” Schiller says. “We’ve received calls from other states looking to do the same thing. The federal government already had intentional viewing as a pornography crime, and so did seven other states. I didn’t reinvent the wheel, but that wheel didn’t exist in Florida.”

For these efforts, detectives in SVU nominated Schiller for an award this year from the federal Department of Justice. In May, he received the department’s annual Missing Children’s Protection Award in Washington, D.C., but Schiller downplays the recognition.

“I do my job because I believe that sex offenders are piranhas, they’re deviants, and they’re a complete and utter danger to our society,” Schiller says.

Hollywood Vs. Reality “Law & ORdeR: SVU” is one of Schiller’s favorite programs—but, he says, it’s not always 100-percent accurate.

“A lot of the interactions between the police officers and the prosecutors are very real,” he says. “But the closing arguments you see are drummed up; a lot of that stuff would never be said in court. I have to spend a good [part] of my jury selection trying to convince people that what we see on ‘Law & Order’ and ‘CSI’ is Hollywood.”

After moving from Boston to Palm Beach County in 2003, he worked his way through the misdemeanor and felony divisions of the State Attorney’s Office; he then prosecuted violent felons and drug rings in Riviera Beach for two-plus years before his promotion to the SVU. Today, he handles “To Catch a Predator”-style online solicitations as well as child porn cases.

His typical defendants are white males between the ages of 15 and 75, but he has prosecuted individuals of all races, religions and sexual orientations. (Out of his 100 or so prosecutions, only one was a woman.)

Schiller regularly lectures at area schools about the dangers of online predators in the world of social media, and there are fewer more passionate advocates on the subject. Schiller firmly believes that there is a major correlation between viewing child porn and sexually abusing children.

“Unless you’ve got proof they were molesting somebody, [some] people will say that it’s just pictures,” he says. “That couldn’t be further from the truth.

“You’re talking about people who can access their crime anywhere on the Web—and in places that law enforcement maybe doesn’t know about yet. It’s extremely difficult to find them. We’re doing the best we can with it.”

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he legacy for which Gregory Schiller will be remembered dates back to 1996, six years before he became a legal intern in Boston.

That was that year that a Boca man named Robert Coletto was convicted of sexually molesting an 8-year-old girl. Coletto served seven years in prison before being released on probation. From there, he was arrested for probation violation related, in part, to child pornography.

Schiller, by now an assistant state attorney in Palm Beach County’s Special Victims Unit, prosecuted the conviction, which led to a 25-year prison sentence for Coletto, handed down in 2011.

When digging through evidence related to the violation of probation charge, Tina Bolton, an Internet Crimes Against Children task force detective, and computer forensic examiner Paul Indovina, both of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, discovered hundreds of child pornography images cached on Coletto’s computer. Prosecuting the child-porn charge was tricky; Coletto didn’t possess the images via downloading.

He simply viewed them on his computer.

There was no law in the Florida statute that criminalized viewing child porn, only possessing it. So Schiller decided to write one, amending the statute to include intentional viewing. Guided through the Florida Senate by Republican Lizbeth Benacquisto and through the Florida House by Democrat Mark Pafford, Schiller argued his case in Tallahassee. The bill passed without a single nay vote.

In 2011, Gov. Rick Scott signed it into law.

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Jason McCobb

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ason “Farmer Jay” McCobb is feeding leftovers to his pig, Pearl, and wondering when the chickens are going to start delivering eggs. He is standing in a

grove of royal palms on a weedy five-acre tract that’s down a farm road few in the adjacent country clubs probably know about.

But this scrubby patch of land off Lyons Road and south of Atlantic Avenue is at the heart of his dream to change the world— one garden at a time.

“It’s called ‘natural process’ farming,” he explains, pointing out lettuces among the undergrowth and noting that, during the growing season, there were 15 varieties of tomatoes here, along with peppers, micro greens, fruit trees and herbs.

The makeshift farm is only part of what McCobb does. Although he says he is “a farmer first and foremost,” supplying high-end restaurants like Max’s Harvest in Delray with greens, he also teaches adults and children about sustainable gardening through his Whole Foods series, lifelong learning programs, summer camps and community groups. He also builds gardens for individuals, schools and restaurants— plus, he helped to launch the Moonlit Farmer’s Market at Boca’s Ellenville Garden Center on Thursday nights.

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now putting gardens in people’s backyards; this is what we all have to do. Seventy years ago, 70 percent of the population grew something. Today, it is less than 1 percent.”

McCobb is a man on a mission, trying to persuade people to grow at least some of their own food in ways that are healthy and sustainable, which he defines as “using Earth’s resources at a rate that they can be replenished.” But he wasn’t always a man of the earth; in another life, he worked at sports bars, including Gatsby’s in Boca. But it was a gig at a Palm Beach resort that really turned a then-hobby into a true vocation.

“I worked at The Breakers as lead gardener, and that kind of sparked the whole thing,” he says. “I started composting, got to know the chefs and developed an herb garden. We started this whole sustainable thing.

“They sent me to California to do research—that’s when I met Bob Cannard [the eco-friendly grower for Alice Waters’ iconic Chez Panisse in Berkeley, credited with launching “California cuisine”]. I went back a year later and spent a whole summer at Cannard’s Green String Farm. I visited French Laundry, Chez Panisse, Mustards Grill. They were all growing their own food in some way, connecting farm to fork.”

It was a pivotal experience for McCobb, who came away with a real vision for

change—and for his own life’s work.

“I want to create a local food system; we don’t have it here,” he says. “In California, I was engulfed by this community in Petaluma. I’d never experienced anything like it. I ate food on the farm that was grown right there—the meat, the cheese that was aged in caves—it was beautiful.

The whole time, I was dreaming about how I could do all of this back here.”

McCobb says it isn’t just about the health benefits; he thinks farm-to-table living can change the world.

“We’re going to eat healthier foods, have healthier people, decrease water consumption, decrease petroleum products,” he says. “Sustainability addresses everything, and we can help stop global warming by putting carbon back into the soil. Like our forefathers said, the most important citizens are the caretakers of the earth. ... If this falls apart, our food falls apart—and then we fall apart.”

The small plot of land where McCobb grows his vegetables is one way to start. So are the gardens he is building for people throughout South Florida. So are his classes, and his talks to schoolchildren.

“I have a good message,” he says. “I have seen the future. I understand what sustainability is. We need to localize our food.”

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AAron Bristol

Farmer, sustainable gardening advocate

Farmer Jay Says

u Take a second look at what you’re

eating and where it comes from. u Incorporate more fresh veggies in

your diet. u Look to the tropics when it comes to

fruit trees—mangos, avocados and star fruit. u Get to know your local farmers; shop at farmers’ markets. u Support the organic farmer. u We’re the opposite from up north when it comes to the growing season; aside from fruit trees, we don’t grow in the summer.

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Here’s to Your Health

Charles hennekens, the researcher responsible for one of the major medical discoveries of the 20th century, continues to preach preventive medicine at fau.

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What led you to Medical school?

My mother and father were children of immigrants from Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. They met in Brooklyn, and they were uneducated working-class people. When my mother’s sister died, my parents raised their daughter; when my father’s sister died, they raised her son.

You’re so influenced by your early-life experiences. My parents could have told me to become someone like Al Pacino in “The Godfather.” Instead, they instilled these values— work ethic, doing the best you can—that were just amazing. All they wanted for me was to get the best education—and do something that would make a difference to society.

On Aug. 14, 1959, my father dropped dead from a heart attack. He was in his 50s, and he was a very heavy smoker. I was 17.

Years later, I met Richard Doll [considered one of the 20th century’s leading epidemiologists], who was part of the research team that discovered the correlation between smoking and lung cancer. He invited me to Oxford to come work with him; he said he felt we were on the same page. I asked him how. He said, “Death is inevitable, but premature death is not. We want to increase the quantity and quality of people’s lives while they’re here.”

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s the joke goes in National Institutes of Health circles, aspirin is older than medicine itself—because God told Moses to take two tablets when he came down from the mountain.

But when it comes to pronouncements of biblical proportions involving aspirin, nothing tops the Physician’s Health Study published 24 years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine. In that landmark report, a research team led by Dr. Charles Hennekens explained to the world that aspirin prevented a first heart attack.

The already-popular headache reliever and painkiller, first synthesized by Bayer Co., in 1897, would gain millions of new disciples. And Hennekens, who spent three decades at Harvard Medical School before joining the faculty at Florida Atlantic University eight years ago and becoming the college’s first Sir Richard Doll Research Professor, would become one of the most recognizable researchers on the planet.

According to ScienceWatch.com, the Cornell Medical School grad was the third-most-cited medical researcher in the world between 1995 and 2005. On its list of the scientists who have saved the most lives, ScienceHeroes.com ranks Hennekens No. 81—ahead of Jonas Salk and his polio vaccine. The site credits him with prolonging the lives of more than 1.1 million people.

Hennekens’ body of work, however, involves far more than an aspirin a day.

His career-long dedication to preventive medicine has led to groundbreaking insights into everything from commonly used painkillers to cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Though he came to Boca in 2000 intent on semiretirement, Hennekens found plenty to pique his interest at FAU—even more so given the recent debut of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the 136th medical school in the United States.

“It’s not just an exciting time for the medical school and FAU, but for Boca Raton and Palm Beach County,” says Hennekens, 69. “This has the potential to make a huge difference in the quality and quantity of life for people all over.”

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q&a DiD you make the Decision to go into preventive research because of your father’s Death?

Not exactly. I did feel an obligation to live up to what my parents had created for me. And that was a life that, I could see, was potentially better than anything they could have had for themselves.

When the aspirin findings came out, a reporter asked, “Why did you go into this field?”

And I do remember then saying that, in part, I was paying back the disease that had taken so much away from me. Something inside me was saying, “You couldn’t save the one you love, so try to save everyone else.”

how many years of research, how many tests, went into proDucing your lanDmark physicians health stuDy? By 1988, I had spent 17 years in research on aspirin. We tested 22,071 doctors.

Why doctors? In 1950, Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill [also a distinguished English epidemiologist] did the casecontrol study in London that showed a significant relationship between smoking and lung cancer. This was the first analytic study to test the hypothesis. ... They then enrolled British doctors in a study asking about their smoking habits. Because Great Britain had a national health service, they could look at how and why those doctors died. In 1961, they published the findings on the British doctors—and sure enough, those who smoked had a 15- to 20-timesgreater risk of lung cancer.

Live Longer and Healthier

When: Dec. 12, 2012, 3:45 p.m.

Where: Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium at FAU What: Hennekens lectures on evidencebased lifestyle and pharmacologic options to improve your quality of life.

Tickets: Call 561/297-3185 The beauty of Doll and Hill is the way they pursued the hypothesis. [Note: Hill died in 1991; Doll died in 2005. Hennekens refers to both men as friends and mentors.]

So, I pursued these American doctors and got such cooperation from them. They took the pills like they were supposed to, they reported everything, they gave me permission to review their medical records.

That allowed us to obtain a degree of precision that was unbelievable.

what other health benefits DiD you Discover regarDing aspirin?

Working with Doll and Richard Peto [a professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at the University of Oxford], we also found that aspirin was beneficial in people who’ve already had heart attacks and strokes. [Note: Other Hennekens studies found that aspirin given during a heart attack reduced the death rate by 20 percent—and that aspirin may reduce the development of type 2 diabetes.]

I’m also pleased to report that colleagues at Dartmouth have done randomized trials that show that aspirin not only prevents colon polyps, but if you have colon polyps, it prevents their development into cancer. ... I recently said that aspirin was the wonder drug of the 20th century—if this keeps up, it may be the wonder drug of the 21st century as well.

That said, I don’t believe that you should take aspirin in primary prevention—unless you have a risk that exceeds the side-effects risk of taking aspirin. I don’t want to see a society where a woman in her 30s takes aspirin when there is no benefit.

can you talk about your finDings involving the carDiovascular risks of painkillers, like motrin?

There was a time when people thought Celebrex and so-called Cox-2 inhibitors [anti-inflammatory drugs] were causing a high death rate. The furor came up because the research involved [insurance] claims

DiD You Know?* u Malnutrition and infection are no longer the leading killers in the world. It’s

cardiovascular disease. u If you have morbid obesity, you take seven to 10 years off your life. u There are more women each year who die from lung cancer than breast cancer

in the United States—however, there are more women who die from heart attacks than die from either lung cancer or breast cancer. u A four-pack-a-day smoker for 10 years has a much lower risk of lung cancer

than a one-pack-a-day smoker for 40 years. Conversely, that four-pack-a-day smoker has a far higher risk for a heart attack. People who stop smoking, even at age 65, get an immediate benefit regarding cardiovascular disease. It’s never too late to quit smoking to prevent heart attack and strokes—but you still have an elevated risk of cancer.

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data that included the sickest patients with the worst symptoms who were at the highest risk of heart disease.

I was on a panel that reviewed evidence from the Cox-2 drugs. We found that these Cox-2 inhibitors did have an increased [cardiovascular] risk of about 40 percent. Drugs that were used as substitutes for them—like Advil and Motrin—were effective for pain relief in the short term. But if you used them long-term, the cardiovascular risk was 60 percent—higher than the Cox-2s.

The only anti-inflammatory that didn’t carry this excess risk was naproxen, which is sold as Aleve. That’s a once-every12-hour anti-inflammatory; we hypothesized that the long-term effect of naproxen has aspirin-like qualities. My conclusion was that the safest long-term pain reliever is Aleve, based on the current evidence.

Doctors treat these people with statins [for high cholesterol] and aspirin and ACEinhibitors [for high blood pressure] and beta-blockers [for cardio issues], but it’s a vicious cycle.

People wouldn’t have to take so many pills if they enacted therapeutic lifestyle changes. The couch potatoes have to get off their duffs. ... [Our studies have] shown that if you walk at a fairly brisk pace for

20 minutes a day—or even every other day—you lower your risk of cardiovascular disease by 35 to 55 percent. You don’t have to go to the gym and jump on the treadmill to reduce your risk of heart disease.

My message is a simple one. To get to middle and old age safely, you have to avoid cigarettes and obesity. To improve your quality of life in middle and old age, you also have to be active.

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Because americans are so inundated with pharmaceuticals, is there a tendency to think that a pill can cure everything?

When my aspirin findings came out, the New Yorker had a cartoon with a guy who was smoking a cigarette while holding a newspaper article with the headline that aspirin can prevent heart attacks. He’s at a fast-food restaurant going, “I want a double cheeseburger, large fries ... and an aspirin.”

I don’t blame the pharmaceutical companies; they’re trying to make money. I’ve said before that most people prefer the prescription of pills to the proscription of harmful lifestyles.

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There is a constellation of symptoms connected to obesity called metabolic syndrome that involves lipid abnormalities, insulin resistance leading to diabetes, blood pressure abnormalities. This metabolic syndrome confers a 10-year risk of a first heart attack of 16 to 18 percent. Twenty percent of Americans over age 20 qualify for this diagnosis. It’s 30 percent in men and women ages 40 to 49; 40 percent for people 50 to 59; and 50 percent for people 60 to 69. when U want to know

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[1] Debra Elderkin, Royal Delgoti and Kim Knapp, Skin Apeel Day Spa [2] Jackie Reeves, Bell Rock Capital; Sarah Pearson, Boca Chamber; Cassandra Toroian, Bell Rock Capital; and Beth Johnston, Boca Chamber [3] Sheri Gherman, American Fine Wine Competition & Gala; and Stacey Joiner, The Royal Treatment [4] Dr. Marta Rendon and Fern Cole, The Rendon Center for Dermatology & Aesthetic Medicine; and Debra Elderkin, Royal Delgoti

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From executives to entrepreneurs, successful women are everywhere in business today.

Many of the most successful national and international corporations have women at the helm or in top management positions. Scores of businesswomen are honing their skills and making key contributions at companies. And more female entrepreneurs than ever are striking out on their own and starting businesses.

The Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce’s Successful Women In Business—or “SWIB”—program was created to provide women with the opportunity to network with women business leaders of a similar mind-set on a regular basis. In January 2003, the Chamber hosted its inaugural Successful Women in Business meeting, where 40 women met in the Chamber’s boardroom.

Today, those lunch meetings include more than 100 attendees. Each month, the Chamber provides women with the opportunity to network, in addition to hearing from a dynamic and successful speaker.

With topics ranging from women’s health to balancing work and home life, each luncheon’s presentation is followed by an

in-depth question-and-answer session to maximize the benefits for the attendees.

“The SWIB program provides our members the opportunity to build a foundation in business by joining a promising group of aspiring and successful businesswomen.” says Sarah Pearson, vice president of business development at the Boca Chamber.

“SWIB is the one-stop resource for women seeking new ideas, strengthening relationships and learning how to help their business succeed.”

In addition, women members of the Boca Chamber may enjoy the monthly Smart Talk for Women events. The small-group dynamic cultivates an atmosphere where women feel free to share their challenges and work with other women business leaders to mastermind creative ideas in order to effectively build their businesses.

With a professional facilitator running each meeting, participants walk away inspired, empowered and full of new tools and resources.

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rose glamoclija, r.n.

Founder/President

Boca nursing services, inc.

342 E. Palmetto Park Road, Suites 1 & 2, Boca Raton 340 Royal Poinciana Way, Suite 322-B, Palm Beach 561/347-7566 • 561/833-3430 www.bocanursingservices.net License # HHA20196095

It’s something I love to do—taking care of the elderly and making a difference in their lives. If you do it from the heart, it’s not just a job.

EstablishEd 1993

Rose Glamoclija knows firsthand about the serious need for quality private duty nursing services in South Florida. That’s exactly why she launched Boca Nursing Services—to ensure that her clients receive the personal touch from handpicked caregivers of the highest caliber. Glamoclija also wanted her clients to know they have options.

“In a majority of the cases that I take over for other companies, the clients are desperate,” she says. “They feel they can’t stay in their home because the family is out of town.”

Perhaps prior caregivers didn’t show up for work, or the company was not dependable. But Boca Nursing Services is different.

“With us, they realize that they can stay comfortable and worry-free,” Glamoclija adds. “They can be taken care of in their own home without going into a nursing home. We provide a service they can count on.”

Boca Nursing offers a full slate of concierge nursing services to its clients; in essence, it’s a one-stop shop. A nurse is available and on call 24/7; clients never receive voice mail. The firm can arrange for physicians to make house calls on short notice. Even a home X-ray can be arranged. “It’s a complete, unique service that we provide to our clients,” Glamoclija says. “Whatever their needs are, we can do it in their home setting.”

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Lynne Wines President/CEO

FIRST SOUTHERN BANK 900 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton 561/479-2100 www.firstsouthernbank.com

Our number one niche is to develop long-term relationships with our clients and to be there when they need us.

EstablishEd 1987

Lynne Wines is an American success story. She started her banking career as a teller. After several years of “being mentored by some very smart, successful people—and having an opportunity to learn a lot,” she was recently named President and CEO of First Southern Bank, headquartered in Boca Raton.

“I just had a succession of opportunities and promotions,” she says.

Now Wines heads up the rapidly growing bank, which has 15 branches in three of Florida’s largest markets—South Florida, Orlando and Jacksonville—and is committed to providing local businesses with financial solutions designed to meet all of their banking needs.

After joining the bank in July 2011 as President, and taking over as CEO in April 2012, Wines, who is originally from Westchester County, N.Y., is spearheading the bank’s expansion and growth efforts. “We’re on target to double loan originations over last year, and we’ve grown deposits considerably,” she says.

Wines is also currently negotiating leases to add two new branches. “So we’ve accomplished quite a bit,” she adds.

The bank provides for the needs of businesses in all phases of their life cycles, providing working capital, equipment loans, commercial lines of credit and commercial real estate loans. First Southern also supports numerous community organizations, such as United Way, 2-1-1, Ann Storck Center and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

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Kimberley Knapp Founder/Owner

skin apeel day spa 21301 Powerline Road, Suite 215, Boca Raton 561/852-8081 www.skinapeel.com

We see ourselves as your home away from home— a place where you feel safe and can escape and where everybody knows your name.

EstablishEd 1992

Kim Knapp’s first foray into business didn’t go very well. But 7,000 current customers of her highly acclaimed day spa now reap the benefits of that early misstep.

“I babysat once, and the baby cried so much that I decided I would never babysit again,” says Knapp. “I fell into skin care, and I knew this was going to be my career.”

In 1992, Knapp founded Skin Apeel Day Spa, a holistic retreat where clients soothe their minds, bodies and spirits. Signature treatments include the Ultra Micro-Life Facial, which safely turns back time, and the Artisan Massage, a fully customizable massage experience.

Knapp prides herself on incredible service, loyal employees and innovative holistic principles. All of her 32 employees have been with her at least 10 years. “We see ourselves as your home away from home—a place where you feel safe and can escape and where everybody knows your name,” she says.

Skin Apeel also features a boutique offering a variety of premium products and unique gift items.

“Everybody comes in here with baggage, because they’re inundated with stress,” Knapp says. “But when they leave, they leave with a smile.

And when they make another reservation before they leave, then I know our job was done.”

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MADELEINE NARVILAS Director

Ocean Drive 7781 N.W. Beacon Square Blvd., Boca Raton 800/221-6500, 561/982-3043 www.caronoceandrive.org

I want people to know that Ocean Drive is here for them, to be able to do something about their addiction challenges in such a concentrated, effective setting. The clinical firepower we offer is simply unparalleled.

EstablishEd 2011

Madeleine Narvilas began her career as a social worker before attending law school and working as a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. But recently, she returned to her roots—to her heart’s desire, as she puts it—by taking over as Director of the newly established Ocean Drive, an innovative program that offers discerning individuals of influence and affluence a discreet addiction treatment environment.

“It’s really unlike anyplace I’ve seen in the country,” says Narvilas. “I’ve been wildly impressed with the clinical focus and how the program is all about the best interests of the client and the client’s family.” Clients at Ocean Drive live in nearby estate-style homes while they receive highly individualized treatment at the clinical campus in Boca Raton. “They each have their own beautiful bedroom and access to technology, all within a secure context,” Narvilas says. One of the unique aspects of Ocean Drive is the ability of clients to return to their homes and businesses for a week at a time during their treatment experience.

The minimum stay at Ocean Drive is 60 days, but many stay for 90 days or more, Narvilas says. Discretion is the key here, and the experienced clinical staff designs a treatment plan tailored for each client. Treatment may include group, individual, family, experiential and equine therapy, and clients enjoy the comforts of home—and the ability to conduct business—along with five-star cuisine and an emphasis on the family.

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debbie gonzalez Co-owner

sugar plum fairy 326 Plaza Real, Boca Raton 561/447-4545 www.sugarplumfairy.com EstablishEd 2007

Jennifer Gonzalez loved ballet when she was little. Each year she’d dance in “The Nutcracker Suite,” always aspiring to be the Sugar Plum Fairy. So it only made sense that when Jennifer, 32, and her mom, Debbie, decided to open a children’s store that they name it Sugar Plum Fairy.

kelly hanning Owner

9round 9858 Clint Moore Road, Suite C-130, Boca Raton 561/482-9899 www.9round.com

EstablishEd 2010

Kelly Hanning loved her workout routine so much that when the company that originated it began selling franchises, she didn’t hesitate. “I jumped onboard,” she says. “I wanted to be part of it in a bigger way.”

The boutique features everything from infant layette sets to designer denim to party dresses, as well as accessories such as jewelry and shoes. There are more than 100 designer brands— including Flowers by Zoe, True Religion, Juicy Couture and Luna Luna—that appeal to national as well as local clientele. Gonzalez then shares some of the store’s profits with numerous charities, including the American Cancer Society and PAWS. “We carry not only traditional, but trendy too,” says Debbie, who co-owns the retail store at Mizner Park, while Jennifer manages physical and online sales. “And we are the only store in East Boca that goes from newborn to size 16.”

New this season are monthly events, such as story time and Parents Night Out, says Gonzalez, who prides herself on the level of service she provides. Need a gift but can’t get into the shop?

Gonzalez will pick something out, snap a photo, e-mail it to you for approval and then ship it out, beautifully wrapped. “We always go that extra mile,” she says. “That’s why our customers become our family.”

Hanning now is the owner of two 9Round franchises—in Boca Raton and Boynton Beach—and she’s working on establishing her third in Wellington. “This allows me to combine my love of fitness with my love of business,” she says. “I don’t consider it going to work every day.”

9Round is a specialized fitness center that combines kickboxing with cardiovascular, interval and circuit training regimens. In just 30 minutes, members complete nine “rounds” in the circuit, each lasting three minutes. On-site trainers guide clients through the gauntlet—from jumping rope to kicking the heavy bag to working the speed bag. It’s fun, it’s intense—and it has emerged as one of the most popular workouts in the area.

9Round enthusiasts range from elite athletes to people who haven’t stepped foot in a gym in 20 years, Hanning says.

“I love being able to make a positive difference in my members’ lives,” she added. “This is why I love what I do.”

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marta I. rendon, m.d.

Founder

The rendon cenTer for dermaTology & aesTheTic medicine 880 N.W. 13th St., Suite 3C, Boca Raton 561/750-0544 www.drrendon.com

We take pride in our results, whether it’s medical or aesthetic. We are honest with our patients and tailor the best treatment program for them to ensure that their end result is the best result.”

EstablishEd 1999

It’s not difficult to find a dermatologist in Boca Raton. But it is difficult to find one with the knowledge, experience and accomplishments of Dr. Marta I. Rendon.

Rendon, who founded the Rendon Center for Dermatology & Aesthetic Medicine in 1999, is a double board-certified physician who not only handles all of the dermatologic needs of her patients (including the treatment of hair and nail disorders) but also brings the latest cutting-edge treatments to Boca Raton by virtue of her participation in new research and treatment applications.

“We have a very unique practice,” says Rendon, who brings more than 25 years to the forefront of cosmetic dermatology. “We not only do general dermatology and aesthetic medicine, but we also have a big division that does research. And, on top of that, I’m very involved with the pharmaceutical industry, so we bring new technology to our patients—before it’s available to the general public.”

Rendon has been involved in clinical trials for psoriasis, rosacea and acne treatments and is an international physician trainer who instructs other dermatologists on the latest techniques.

Rendon is at the forefront of the hottest, the latest and the newest treatments. Other physicians may offer Sculptra, an anti-aging treatment, for example. But the Rendon Center was one of only 10 sites in the United States that did the original trials—so Rendon has been working with it for almost 10 years. If you want ultimate skin health, come visit the teacher, not the student.

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EstablishEd 1994

It’s no coincidence that Jayne Scala really understands the candidates she places in temporary or full-time office staff positions. After all, she began her career the same way.

Jayne scala

Business Solutions Manager

Scala, a Business Solutions Manager for Ultimate Staffing in Boca Raton, began her career in the staffing industry as a temporary—ironically, for a staffing company. “They thought I had the personality to be in this business,” she says. “I guess they were right, because here I am, and very successful.”

Today, her attention to detail, industry experience and an overwhelming desire to help people enables Scala to provide her business clients with employees that perfectly fit their needs. “The best thank you we can get is a referral—and we get many referrals from both clients and candidates,” Scala says.

With more than 120 offices in 22 states, Ultimate Staffing is a large established company, but small enough to be personalized, she says. Her passion for delivering excellent service to employers and candidates is evident in everything she does. Many times clients will call over the weekend to say they need a temporary employee on Monday. Scala always comes through.

“We are a company that will really work for you,” she says. “If it can be done, we will get it done, and do it right! Our company promise is ‘We love to create remarkable experiences, every person, every time.’”

ultimate staffing 1900 Glades Road, Suite 201, Boca Raton 561/750-1688 www.ultimatestaffing.com

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Lesley Hack broke with family tradition when she decided to become a veterinarian. “Pretty much my entire family are doctors,” says Hack, the medical director of Boca Veterinary Clinic, which she opened in 2010.

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Medical Director/Owner

“Most of them regard veterinarians as second-rate doctors. I disagree— especially at the level of medicine we practice here.”

Hack and her associates are “fluent” in many technologies, including ultrasound, a noninvasive diagnostic tool that gives them an instant picture— literally—of what’s going on inside their patients’ bodies. “We have many programs that are pretty much on par with many human facilities,” Hack says.

“And I think our patients are always wonderful.”

Boca Veterinary Clinic is a one-stop shop, offering boarding, grooming and daycare services as well as on-site diagnostic labs, ultrasound, radiology, pharmacy and surgery. Hack has grown the practice from two to 25 employees in two years and prides herself on knowing both people—educated, knowledgeable pet owners are the key to proper treatment, she says—and their 4-legged children.

“Good medical care needs to be sophisticated, high tech and personal,” she says. “It’s not just about numbers—it’s about relationships. At least to me.”

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Catherine warren Spa Director

Eau Spa at thE Ritz-CaRlton, palm BEaCh 100 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan 561/540-4960 www.eauspa.com

We want perfect treatments and perfect team members to really take care of our guests, we want people to judge all other spas by ours.

EstablishEd 2009

Ready to be pampered? How about a little “me” time so you can leave the world behind and destress? There’s no need to wander far from home to experience one of the best spas in the world.

Eau Spa at The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach is a 42,000-square-foot oasis of luxury located right here in Palm Beach County. With 20 treatment rooms, bath and garden lounges, body scrub bars, a boutique, beauty salon and fitness center, the Spa is bound to have something special for everyone.

“It’s a spa wonderland,” says Spa Director Catherine Warren who, with Assistant Spa Director Becca Anderson, oversees every aspect of the Spa to perfection. “Our clientele has been to the best spas in the world and have extremely high expectations, so we have to make sure that all of our treatments are that much further above their expectations.” As the social hub of Palm Beach, Eau Spa encompasses everything that is playful and fun. “Eau Spa is the perfect place to go for some ‘Me Time’ or for a fabulous day with your girlfriends,” Warren says. “Men can also bring their business partners and hold meetings in our Eau Zone or discuss business in our swinging chairs in the Self Centered Garden.”

Enter the Spa and you’ll be greeted with a glass of Champagne and couture cupcakes to set the mood. Then enjoy one of the signature treatments, such as the CACI Ultimate, a facial that combines crystal-free microderm, micro-current lifting and an LED light to resurface the skin. “The results are unparalleled,” says Warren. Warren and Anderson recently rewrote the Spa menus to make them “fun, luxurious, social and relaxing all at the same time,” Warren says.

Women in Business 2012 • Special Advertising Section

Cynthia sedlacek President

Stanford Search, inc.

4400 N. Federal Highway, Suite 210-6, Boca Raton 561/997-8777 www.stanfordsearch.com

EstablishEd 2007

Cynthia Sedlacek began her career in staffing with a large national agency, but it wasn’t long until she realized she wanted to do things differently—and better.

Joan lamonica Founder/Owner

Sara Mique 4800 W. Hillsboro Blvd., Suite B6, Coconut Creek 954/531-6800 www.saramique.com

EstablishEd 1978

A degree in political science and a job flying around the world for Pan Am is not the usual way a fashion designer begins her career. But it’s that path that inspired Joan Lamonica to ultimately launch her own line of evening wear.

She wanted to establish a company that was focused on the people she was trying to place, that better understood the needs of her business clients and that offered boutique, personal service. So she launched Stanford Search five years ago and has never looked back.

Sedlacek specializes in executive search, as well as accounting, finance, legal and administrative positions. Her clients are businesses and law firms of all sizes that are seeking the level of service she provides. “It’s not just about throwing résumés at an open position—I discern their needs, their work culture,” she says. “Boutique firms such as mine care for a company and provide talent throughout the years on a very consistent basis.”

Sedlacek coaches all of her candidates, empowering them, to ensure that only the best are sent for consideration to her clients.

And with turnover so high in the staffing industry, Sedlacek wants companies to know that Stanford offers consistency. “They can really count on me,” she says. “I’m not going anywhere.”

“I started in a little New York apartment, with pots of dye bubbling on my stove and dresses in my bathtub,” says Lamonica, who has dressed tens of thousands of women since as owner of Sara Mique, which now has a retail showroom, design studio and production facility in Coconut Creek.

Her unique line, which she describes as feminine, fun and romantic, features nontraditional bridal gowns, mother-of-the-bride dresses, cocktail and evening wear, as well as a new collection of casual separates introduced when Lamonica moved her operations to Florida in 2009. The styles flatter women of many ages, shapes and sizes—and each is uniquely created onsite, where it is designed, cut, sewn and hand-dyed.

Lamonica’s pieces are timeless—in fact, she still sells the first dress she designed more than 30 years ago—and they are highly customizable.

“Drop by the showroom, and enjoy a glass of wine or an espresso as you review our collection,” Lamonica says. “It’s like a little bit of Paris in Coconut Creek.”

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from left to right: Hope Bruens, Julie Mullen and Elizabeth Kelley Grace

Hope Bruens, Julie Mullen, & Elizabeth Kelley Grace Partners

The buzz agency 104 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach 855/525-2899 www.thebuzzagency.net

What differentiates us is the depth and diversity of our collective experience, Mullen says. We offer clients highly well-rounded and thoughtful communications campaigns.

EstablishEd 2009

Energetic. Passionate. Smart. Creative. Any of these terms could be used to describe the three women who joined forces to create The Buzz Agency, a public relations, marketing and event management firm headquartered in Delray Beach.

In fact, when founders Julie Mullen and Elizabeth Kelley Grace walked into a local bank one Friday—in 2009, in the midst of the recession—with nothing but $500 and a great idea, they were able to convince skeptical bankers that they would succeed despite the odds. “We never doubted it, because we knew it was going to be a success,” recalls Grace. “And it took off from the very beginning.”

Mullen, Grace and Hope Bruens, who joined the firm a year later, sensed that there was a local need for a public relations and marketing firm that utilized a team approach and provided a one-stop shop, serving all the needs of their clients. “We integrate all of their marketing, public relations, social media and advertising,” says Bruens. “That way, the message is consistent.”

The Buzz Agency represents companies in a number of industries—hospitality, restaurant, outdoor, real estate, consumer goods and nonprofits.

The partners put together a team tailored specifically to meet the needs of each client. With business “exploding” since the agency was launched, the women—who are also moms and volunteer to work with charitable organizations—proved that they could succeed in a tough industry and a tough economy. “We do what we say we are going to do,” says Grace. “We deliver for our clients. And we have a great team.”

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name Caron and Nancy Dockerty (sisters-in-law)

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Caron: gemstones & jewelry design, travel Nancy: book club, traveling, re-purposing old designer handbags

why they read Boca Raton magazine Caron: “To stay current with the interesting people who grace and support our wonderful community— and to learn about the fun happenings around this great city.”

Nancy: “I love reading Boca Raton magazine because it keeps me up to date on who is active in both the non profit and business community, and also has a fresh take on what’s current and hip in Boca.”

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Miami City Ballet Miami City Ballet kicks off the 2012-2013 season with Program I at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach on Nov. 30 – Dec. 2. The season opener features the enchanting “Les Patineurs (The Skating Party),” steamy, tango-inspired “Piazzolla Caldera” and George Balanchine’s first great masterwork, “Apollo.” Tickets start at just $20.

For tickets, visit miamicityballet.org or call 305/929-7010 or 877/929-7010.

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Join Boca Raton magazine—and start the season in style—at our annual “Best of Boca & Beyond” celebration at The Shops at Boca Center. Enjoy tastings from 30-plus restaurants, live music, strolling fashions, jewelry, wine and spirits, an after-party, and much more!

Tickets: $50 Available for purchase only at bocamag.com.

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Welcome

We are happy to invite you to South Florida’s premier party! Boca Raton magazine is celebrating its 13th annual Best of Boca & Beyond event Thursday, November 15, at the newly redesigned courtyard in the Shops at Boca Center. Please join us for a fun-filled evening dedicated to the extraordinary lifestyle that we enjoy here—and to all the people who make it happen.

Proceeds from the event will benefit Hospice of Palm Beach County Foundation. In addition, we are proud to honor five community partners who have helped endow Boca Raton with a quality of life that is unparalleled in the state. The newest members in the Best of Boca & Beyond Hall of Fame include: The Boca Raton Resort & Club, Lynn University, The Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, Jim and Marta Batmasian of Investments Limited, and Office Depot.

We know that you’ll love the tasty dinner-by-the-bite treats from 30 of the area’s top restaurants, fine wines and spirits all night long, live music, raffles, and even an after-party.

Thank you to all of our Best of Boca & Beyond sponsors and partners; we couldn’t do it without you! We look forward to seeing you at one of the best parties of the season!

Sincerely, John and Margaret Mary Shuff Boca Raton magazine

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Charity

I'd like to express my gratitude to Boca Raton magazine and the Boca Raton community for selecting Hospice of Palm Beach County Foundation as the charity of choice for the 2012 Best of Boca & Beyond event. We are truly honored that owners Margaret Mary and John Shuff, as well as their staff, believe so strongly in our mission.

As a not-for-profit hospice, our philosophy is simple: do whatever it takes to meet the needs of our patients and families.

We realize that when your family is facing a life-threatening illness, it can seem like the world is closing in. Hospice of Palm Beach County provides medical, emotional and spiritual care for both our patients and families at the greatest time of need. We consider it an honor to give your family the tools to focus on each other, treasuring the gift that each day holds.

The generosity of the Best of Boca event helps us cover the costs of programs, so that everyone who wants and is eligible for hospice care can receive it—regardless of age, insurance or ability to pay. Whether you sponsor an event or attend with friends, know that the funds raised go directly to patient-care programs and stay directly within Palm Beach County. Your support and generosity allows us to continue to offer the very best care to your loved ones, your friends, or your neighbors ... when you need us most.

I sincerely appreciate every one of you for your support of Hospice of Palm Beach County Foundation.

Sincerely, Greg Leach, President Hospice of Palm Beach County Foundation

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Boca Raton inducts its second class into the “Best of Boca & Beyond” Hall of Fame—a group that includes an international business empire, an iconic resort, a distinguished nonprofit, a renowned philanthropic couple, and a university having an anniversary year like no other.

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impact on Boca: Since 1979, the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County has been raising funds to further the welfare of Jews here, in Israel and in more than 60 countries around the world. It serves as the key address for the Jewish community in this part of the county. As its president and CEO Matt Levin says, it serves as a “magnet” for Jews to express their “religious, cultural, social and philanthropic activism.”

“With a diminishing Jewish community globally, the Jewish Federation plays a central role in bridging that gap between an older generation and the generation that needs to continue a culturally rich Jewish life. The Federation is the one organization in the Jewish world that truly has the ability to look at Jewish continuity on a timeline and do the planning necessary not just for today and tomorrow, but for 10 years from now. ... It’s an important role that we take seriously.” —Matt Levin

2. James & marta Batmasian

impact on Boca: James and Marta Batmasian came to Boca Raton in the mid-1980s from Boston and have become the largest landowners in Boca Raton, as well as one of the city’s most engaged and philanthropic couples. In 1997, they launched the Walk of Recognition—which

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honors Boca Raton citizens who have made significant cultural contributions to the city—at Royal Palm Place, their iconic downtown shopping and dining enclave. The Batmasians have been recognized over the years numerous times for their civic contributions and service, and have served on more than 30 boards and committees, including FAU, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, The Haven, PROPEL—and countless others. The Batmasians have said that they want to be regarded as “responsible citizens who care for their community and are simply giving back.”

“Today we are more of a city than a sleepy little town—and I embrace that.”—Marta Batmasian

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impact on Boca: Since its inception in 1926, this iconic Boca Raton landmark designed by Addison Mizner has been both an international destination and a centerpiece for the city’s social season. The Resort has undergone a transformation over the past decades—including a significant $220 million renovation in the last several years—from a historic hotel to a modern and luxurious resort and meeting center. In addition, it has long been a partner with the city’s business community, civic initiatives and nonprofit groups.

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Fame Inductees “By partnering with the City of Boca Raton, cultural organizations and businesses, we strive to promote Boca Raton as a destination, which underscores the desirability of the Resort as a premier vacationing spot and meeting venue in Florida.”—Resort president, Steven Ast

4. Office DepOt

impact on Boca: In November 2008, this international supplier of office products/services moved into its new global headquarters—a sprawling 28-acre property on North Military Trail that hosts some 2,000 associates, making it one of the largest employers in Boca Raton. Beyond the cachet of having a $11.5 billion business in our backyard—the chain operates more than 1,100 stores and sells to customers in 60 countries— Office Depot has been an invaluable community partner, from the work done through its Office Depot Foundation to the influence of its cuttingedge environmental programs. The arrival of former NFL president Neil Austrian, who took over as chairman and CEO in May 2011, has elevated the company to new heights regarding its bottom line and a renewed consumer focus.

“Boca Raton has a business-friendly climate, and people here truly want you to succeed.”—Neil Austrian

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5. Lynn University

impact on Boca: That this independent college of some 2,000 students has enjoyed one of its shining moments during a golden anniversary year is mere coincidence; for the past 50 years, Lynn University always has made our community proud—in times of triumph and tragedy.

This October, after more than a year’s worth of preparation, the college became part of this country’s political history by playing host to the final presidential debate. It was a richly deserved experience for a school still grieving over the loss of students and faculty in the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010. Lynn is home to five academic colleges (business and management, liberal education, international communication, hospitality management and education), a Conservatory of Music, a School of Aeronautics and the Institute for Achievement and Learning.

Its innovative “Dialogues of Learning curriculum has drawn raves in academic circles for its progressive approach.

“Boca Raton is indeed a college town with a variety of educational institutions contributing to the area’s social and economic engines. As an independent institution, Lynn has the freedom to focus on individualized and experiential learning and combines liberal arts and professional study to prepare our students to succeed in Boca and beyond.”— President, Kevin Ross

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Celebrating 10 years and voted best Italian restaurant in Boca/Delray, Cucina Mio offers outstanding authentic Italian food with huge portions and fresh-from-themarketplace ingredients, plus a knowledgeable staff that will make you feel warm and welcome. The ambience is quaint yet sophisticated. The wine list is very well thought out and fairly priced. Then, there’s the food! Coined the “Italian Cheers of Delray” by the Sun-Sentinel, Cucina Mio looks like a quaint little village in Italy. The feeling you get when you walk in the door is exactly like when you visit the family-owned bistros and osterias in those quaint towns in Italy.

16950 Jog Road, Delray Beach 561/499-9419 cucinamio.net Sunday: 5–10 p.m.

Monday-Saturday: 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m., 5–10 p.m.

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Boca Raton’s newest concept has arrived. Fresh, healthy meals that offer variety, great flavors, freshness and creativity to accommodate the busy South Florida lifestyle. Each dish is individually proportioned and calorie controlled, offering no-worry satisfaction and providing that “home-cooked meal” yearning that is often desired. For the sweet tooth, visit the homemade dessert bar that includes delicious brownies, cakes, muffins and protein bars. Enjoy the café environment by dining in or taking home freshly prepared meals with our extensive takeout menu.

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Get ready to enjoy South Florida’s healthiest dining alternative, featuring organic American comfort food prepared with robust bravado by one of South Florida’s most talented chefs. We serve fresh-made soups, breads, sandwiches and salads, pastas and full dinners, assorted homemade pastries and desserts, handpicked organic wines and microbrews. This is indeed your one-stop shop for only the freshest, all-natural and sustainable foods.

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Living on the

Edge An extended stretch of joblessness, even in a county known for its pockets of affluence, can trigger a swift, shocking collapse that turns haves into have-nots. Meet some hard-working locals who have walked that thin line—and learn about the organizations in and around Boca that keep hope alive for those on the brink of losing everything.

By Tom Collins

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Marc, the former Army Ranger from Boca Raton

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arc speaks quietly and modestly—but proudly—about being an Army Ranger, one of the toughest of the tough. He was part of a battalion known for going places. Once called upon, Army Rangers can be deployed anywhere in the world in 18 hours.

He’d spent two years in Iraq and another in Afghanistan. He was a member of an esteemed “high-speed unit,” one that maintained a higher tempo than others, meaning fewer breaks and tougher assignments—like four days nonstop in enemy territory.

“I would get up, go in that Publix, spend the last of my money, buy beer, and go back to that Dumpster,” says Marc, now in his late 30s, from a meeting room at The Lord’s Place, the Boynton Beach-based nonprofit where he finally sought help.

“With it being concealed, I felt safe.”

One day, as he sat there, he realized he’d lost everything. Everything, it seemed, but the can of beer on the ground next to him.

Marc had become one of an estimated 3,228 people, according to the Homeless Coalition of Palm Beach County, without a

More and more calls, according to executive director Kokie Dinnan, are coming from the middle class, people with strong work ethics who quickly can go into free-fall when the trapdoor opens on their livelihood. According to a nationwide survey by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies referenced in a July 2012 Sun-Sentinel story, nearly two-thirds of unemployed workers with a 401(k) at their last job were forced to withdraw money from that account to pay bills.

The 401(k) accounts of middle-class workers in the survey had been all but wiped out.

Marc, a one-time Army Ranger, would spend the last of his money on beer, then return to the one place he felt safe: behind a Dumpster at Publix.

But even that couldn’t prepare this elite soldier for the battles he would face after returning to Boca Raton in 2004.

Marc was working as an account executive for a company that sold car warranties to dealerships when the firm was bought out.

In order to keep his job, Marc was told he’d have to move. But Boca was home; he and his wife, who he had married in 2008, were settled and starting a family. He turned down the transfer, assuming he’d be all right.

But Marc couldn’t nail anything down.

With decent-paying jobs scarce, his military experience and bachelor’s degree (from the University of Colorado) were not enough to compete with the rest of the candidates.

The stress of being jobless exacerbated post-traumatic stress symptoms. Marc developed a drinking problem. His marriage grew strained, spawning run-ins with police over domestic violence. Eventually, his wife left, taking their daughter with her. He lived in their new house alone—but, soon, that too was gone.

He moved from place to place, until, last year, he found a temporary sanctuary—behind a Dumpster next to a Publix supermarket off Federal Highway. when U want to know

place to live on any given day—right here, in a stretch of Florida known around the world for its pockets of affluence.

Even the toughest of the tough, it turns out, can crumble under the weight of a global recession.

Dire Straits

The current job market can take out people living paycheck to paycheck like a fish in a barrel. This summer, the unemployment rate in Palm Beach County was on the rise, hovering near 10 percent—more than a full percentage point above the national average.

Even those with money in the bank—like Marc had—will struggle to survive a lengthy stretch of joblessness. A study produced by the Hamilton Project, an economic think tank that’s part of the Brookings Institution, showed that 53.4 percent of Florida’s unemployed went six months or more without a job in 2011—the highest rate of long-term joblessness in the entire country.

At Family Promise, the Delray Beachbased organization that helps feed and house low-income and homeless families, the number of calls for assistance this year—in excess of 70 new inquiries each month—has doubled from 2011.

“It’s not only more difficult for them to ask for help,” Dinnan says, “but it’s more difficult for them to navigate the system. ...

“By the time people come to us, their self-esteem is pretty much gone.”

None of this is breaking news to Jim Gavrilos, director of Boca Helping Hands, the food distribution organization off Glades Road that has seen its clientele skyrocket.

In 2010, the nonprofit served 28,143 meals between its hot lunches (Monday through Saturday) and a Thursday night family dinner. Last year, that total jumped to more than 43,000 meals. Two years ago, Boca Helping Hands handed out 6,881 bags of groceries to local families through its pantry program; in 2011, that figure tripled to more than 20,000 bags.

“The demand for our services has just exploded,” Gavrilos says.

In addition to the chronically down-andout that Boca Helping Hands always has served, Gavrilos also has seen an alarming spike in middle-class families in need. One man, the victim of a company downsizing, resisted seeking help—as almost everyone does at first—until desperation set in. When he finally came to Boca Helping Hands, Gavrilos recalls, the man seemed to be in shock. [ bocamag.com ]

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“The poor guy, his hands were just quaking and shaking,” Gavrilos said. “He [had received a] shutoff notice from FP&L. [He] could not believe he was here. ... Your heart breaks for these people.”

Gavrilos has noticed that, even after a job is lost and things become tight, people still have a few rungs of the ladder to tumble down before need supercedes pride.

“At a certain point, you [finally] run out of options,” he says. “These are families who were middle class two or three years ago.

They’ve been squeezed so tightly that there’s nowhere else for them to turn.”

By the time people are forced to reach out to the likes of Family Promise, their self-esteem is nearly gone, according to Shock of the Spiral executive From afar, the appeal of Florida rang out director like a siren’s song.

Kokie Dinnan. Yves lived in Idaho with her husband,

Kokie Dinnan of Family Promise

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who was self-employed and handled financing for real estate deals.

Florida’s housing market couldn’t be beat, so, in 2002, they headed to the far corner of the country with their young son to seize the opportunity.

And seize it they did— for around six years. Then the land of opportunity became the land of ruin.

The market plunged.

Work shriveled.

In 2008, they noticed money was becoming a struggle. Yves had been working as a property manager, but the company closed up shop locally.

Her husband’s career, like the housing market in which he once thrived, was in a tailspin. Before long, Yves and her husband were running on financial fumes; they couldn’t pay the rent on a single-family home in West Palm Beach.

They moved to a friend’s small apartment in Delray Beach—four people in a two-bedroom property. That didn’t last long.

The gig was up—they had to seek help from strangers. Yves called the homeless hotline number, 211, and was put in touch with Family Promise.

“We started to realize that we have to be dependent on someone else,” Yves says.

The realization hit like a fist. The hardest part, she says, was realizing her family was in a category.

“I think all of us tend to put people in a certain category, you know?” she says.

“You’re homeless because maybe you didn’t do things right or maybe because you squandered your life.”

But that wasn’t them.

“We’re not homeless because we’re drug addicts or because we did anything that brought us to this situation,” Yves says. “We work hard. And it was just, wow.”

Family Promise made the anguish of seeking help more tolerable, she says. Yves, who tries to hold back tears as she recounts her struggles, was reluctant to talk about her travails, but she did so largely to share the message that it’s OK to ask for help. “[People who are struggling] should not hesitate to call,” she says.

Yves is now working as a receptionist in a medical office and living in an apartment in Parkland, paid for partly by Family Promise. Her husband is very sick, though, and is not working.

“Financially it’s still a struggle,” she says.

“I will probably stay in the health field— but always looking for upward momentum in employment. ... We’re doing OK.”

Hanging by a Thread

Nona McKenney worked in Palm Beach County as a private nurse’s aide for seniors.

She cared about her patients as if they were family. One night, she took a call at 3 a.m. from an elderly woman who was incontinent. The woman had suffered “an accident.” McKenney made the 20-minute drive to the patient’s house and tended to her.

“I’m very dedicated when I get a job,” says McKenney, 41, who earned her nurse’s aid license nearly two decades ago.

However, when she tried working until the end of a pregnancy, McKenney grew tired more quickly and had a hard time staying awake on overnight shifts. She lost her job in 2009.

Since then, she’s moved from place to place with family and friends. But no one could accommodate her large family—six november

children, toddler age through 20—for very long. McKenney and her family eventually shoe-horned themselves into a small room at a local Travelodge. Just about every inch of floor space and bed space is filled when all seven are in the room.

McKenney managed to pay the $53.17 nightly room rate from odd jobs, like cleaning houses, and from the generosity of strangers who heard of her plight. In July, the Homeless Coalition of Palm Beach County stepped in to help pay for the room.

McKenney is the first person to admit that she has made mistakes. Her primary one? Not socking money away when she was making a good living.

“I didn’t save anything for a rainy day— so you learn,” she says. “They say it’s your fault you’re homeless. Yes, we made some mistakes, but who hasn’t made mistakes?

Who hasn’t?”

Sitting outside the motel, McKenney is quick with greetings for other lodgers, whom she has come to know well. She has a ready smile and strong faith. She believes that, at some point, a turn of events will reverse her fortunes.

In addition to placing online applications every day through Employ Florida, she uses direct marketing—that is, talking herself up to people she meets.

“I take every opportunity to advertise,” she says. “I don’t leave home without my résumé.”

McKenney has a sense of hope that is so indefatigable that even some family members don’t get it. How can she be this optimistic when her difficulties are so enormous?

“I’m encouraging myself using the word of God,” she says. “People look at me and they say, ‘You look healthy.’ What’s a homeless person supposed to look like?”

They’re not all “pushing a cart” and “under a bridge,” she adds.

“Homeless people,” McKenney says, “look just like you and me.”

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Marilyn Munoz is not interested in seeing families like Nona McKenney’s spending years trapped like sardines in motel rooms, let alone living under bridges or roaming the streets in cities from Jupiter to Boca Raton.

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Jim Gavrilos (left) of Boca Helping Hands

Lending a Hand

Boca’s premier food-distribution nonprofit steps up to the plate in a time of need.

Every Tuesday and Friday, trucks leave Boca Helping Hands, a food distribution organization, destined for three Winn-Dixie supermarkets. When they come back, they’re filled with everything that is within 24 hours of passing its expiration date.

A day later, that food is in the hands of people who need it. Cereal, macaroni and cheese, fruit, cookies, coffee, tomato sauce. If you’re going to throw it out, and it’s not spoiled, Boca Helping Hands wants it.

With more down-and-out families than ever, the organization has had to step up its efforts. But the issue, according to executive director Jim Gavrilos, never has been about the supplies themselves.

“America doesn’t have a food problem,” he says. “We have a distribution problem.”

Gavrilos likes to quote from the book American Wasteland, in which writer Jonathan Bloom says 591 billion pounds of food a year are thrown out in the U.S. Half of that is recoverable and usable.

“If we could just recover what’s being thrown out—forget new donations,” he says. “I’m not asking a business to make a donation, just give me what you’re throwing out. If we could just get that, every soup kitchen and pantry in Palm Beach County would have an additional million pounds per year of food to distribute.”

On Mondays, Boca Helping Hands collects close-to-expired food from Publix.

They also get meat trimmings from The Capital Grille in Boca.

“We send our truck over, and we get probably 600 to 700 pounds of beef every week,” he says.

From Whole Foods, it’s another 2,000 to 3,000 pounds of food each week. Donations like this go in pantry bags, are delivered to shut-ins, served at the soup kitchen, and given to low-income children at school to get them through the weekend.

The organization has collection of food down to a science, it seems. But basically, Gavrilos says, it amounts to deploying tons of people who are willing to do lots of work. Boca Helping Hands has six paid staff members—but a 300-person volunteer staff.

“We have become extremely efficient at our food recovery efforts,” Gavrilos says. “We have an amazing staff.”

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Where to turn, Where to Donate Palm Beach County, Munoz is at the forefront of South Florida’s most earnest effort to not just help the homeless, but to end homelessness.

On July 2, the Philip D. Lewis Homeless Resource Center opened its doors in West Palm Beach. It’s the first of three homeless resource centers planned for the county.

It might be a hub for the desperate, but the center is perky and shiny and new, with grounds that are neatly trimmed and peaceful. The center even has furniture donated by The Breakers. By the time it’s fully operational, there will be 60 beds to give families a temporary place to stay while they get their feet back on the ground.

The aesthetics, however, are part of a larger message. The center is meant to be inviting, and, more importantly, hopeful.

It’s not the end of the road but the beginning of one. That’s the goal, anyway.

The odds of achieving that goal have been greatly enhanced by the variety of resources available to those in need. This is the key to the center’s potential success; one-stop shopping for everything from housing placement to job training to health screening.

“This is just a centralized front door for all services,” Munoz says.

As she gives a tour through the facility, Munoz seems amazed that she actually is doing so. The county has talked, at least semi-seriously, about homeless shelters and ending homelessness for more than a decade. But nothing of substance took shape, until now. “We never thought this would open,” she says.

As the economy has tanked, national officials have put more pressure on local communities to come up with 10-year plans to end homelessness. This is Palm Beach County’s best effort, Munoz says.

“A lot of times, when you’re homeless or you have some kind of problem, people are always putting obstacles in your way until you just give up,” she says. “The premise here is, let’s remove as many obstacles as we can.”

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Starting over

Obstacles.

In the recent past—tantalizingly recent— Marc felt there were none that stood in

There are several services in the southern Palm Beach County area intended to provide interim and long-term housing, or to provide other services such as counseling or food assistance, to help those struggling financially.

Many accept donations and volunteers.

Adopt-A-FAmily 220 S. Florida Mango Road, Suite 102, West Palm Beach, 561/253-1361 Service: Rapidly gets homeless families into interim or permanent housing.

BocA Helping HAndS 1500 N.W. First Court, Boca Raton, 561/417-0913 Service: Provides food and job search services to the homeless and needy. cHildren’S Home Society/ trAnSitionS Home 1199 W. Lantana Road #11, Lantana, 561/547-0884 Service: Provides services to children and families in cases of children who’ve been abused, neglected or abandoned.

FAitH FArm miniStrieS 9538 Highway 441, Boynton Beach, 561/737-2222 Service: A free, faith-based addiction recovery program that includes residential services.

FAmily promiSe oF SoutH pAlm BeAcH county 840 N.E. Eighth St., Delray Beach, 561/265-3370 Service: Host congregations provide housing and food for families that qualify. gulFStreAm goodwill/ project SucceSS 1503 S. Federal Highway, Lake Worth, 561/540-3515 Service: Provides temporary and longterm housing and job-search services.

HouSing pArtnerSHip 4016 Broadway, West Palm Beach, 561/841-3500 Service: Provides affordable housing and participates in neighborhood revitalization efforts.

tHe lord’S plAce 2808 N. Australian Ave., West Palm Beach, 561/494-0125 Service: Provides housing to families and individuals in need, along with an array of counseling and other services. tHe SAlvAtion Army/ center oF Hope 1577 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach, 561/682-1118 Service: Provides housing services, as well as mental health and substanceabuse services.

SiStAH to SiStAH recovery HouSe 736 50th St., West Palm Beach, 561/837-9997 Service: Provides transitional housing for homeless women.

StAnd down HouSe (veterAnS only) 4309 Davis Road, Lake Worth, 561/649-9919 Service: Helps homeless veterans who are struggling with addiction. operAtion Hope 1253 10th St., West Palm Beach, 561/842-2260 Service: Provides temporary housing, help finding long-term housing, and other services. note: To access services at the new Palm Beach County Philip D. Lewis Homeless Resource Center, people must go to The Lord’s Place at 2808 N. Australian Ave. in West Palm Beach to be interviewed and assessed for eligibility. A phone call is not sufficient.

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The all-American burger sheds its Mc-reputation and earns the respect of top local chefs and restaurateurs intent on showcasing the patty in all its glory.

By Bill Citara

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Some say it’s the White House or the Washington Monument.

Others believe it’s the Grand Canyon or the mighty Mississippi. They are all wrong.

It’s the hamburger.

Yes, that humble disc of ground beef nestled in a butter-soft bun, topped with neon American cheese, lettuce, tomato and onion is the real symbol of our great nation. For too long, however, we’ve treated this icon of American gastronomy with a shameful lack of respect, relegating it to junk-food status.

No more.

Over the past several years, savvy chefs and restaurateurs in our area have applied their white-tablecloth talents to this bluecollar classic, opening a growing number of burger-centric spots. Chefs like Allen Susser, restaurateurs like Carmine Giardini, investors like Vic & Angelo’s John Rosatti and young entrepreneurs like Daniel and Desiree Tobin have given burgers the star

treatment. Not to mention the impending arrivals of Shula Burger (as in former Dolphins coach Don Shula), which is coming to west Delray Beach, and New York burger maven Danny Meyer’s Shake Shack, slated to open in Boca.

Why the burger boom?

Lots of reasons, say our experts. For one, it’s a growth industry, especially in the market segment dominated by Five Guys, which is a step above the Mc-franchises of the world. At anywhere from $5 to $12, quality burgers also are an affordable luxury. Plus, the burger suits Americans’ preference for familiar dishes that don’t require a culinary school degree to understand.

All are reasons to peer more deeply into our own burger universe. We looked at a half-dozen purveyors of upscale patties, from counter-service “fast casual” spots like BurgerFi, CG Burgers and Relish to places like Burger Bar, Grease and Moran’s that offer a more restaurant-like experience.

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CG BURGERS & COAL-FIRED PIZZA 2000 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens, 561/275-2185

Inside the Boca Burger Here’s the story behind

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Background: It’s not surprising that a guy who began his career in the meat department of a local Publix, who then went on to create a chain of 15 butcher shops across South Florida, might have a fondness for the all-American hamburger. Even if that guy, Carmine Giardini, was born in Italy and didn’t come to the U.S. until age 14.

After selling the butcher shops, Giardini built a multiconcept restaurant empire that encompassed everything from pizza to sushi. Still, he always thought he could build a better burger.

The result is CG Burgers, a six-unit chain designed not to compete with the likes of Five Guys but to offer “a bigger burger, higher quality and better value,” says Bill Herman, Giardini’s brand development chief. The burger isn’t the only thing special about CG’s; the ambience is comfortable and a little rustic, with lots of wood, greens and earth tones—more like a country café

than a hard-edged fast-food burger joint.

“A notch above,” as Herman puts it.

The Burgers: Six ounces of Prime Certified Angus beef go into CG’s burgers; there’s also an 8-ounce version and smaller “Junior.” Patties are grilled medium unless otherwise requested. Several custom burgers also are on the menu, along with a selection of add-ons, and veggie, sausage, bison, turkey and Kobe beef burgers. signaTure Burger: CG Burger; it’s a 6-ounce patty with your choice of garnishes (prices start at $6.50).

Fixins: House-custom burgers include the Napa (CG Burger with goat cheese, arugula and balsamic honey mustard) and Cuban (CG Burger with ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and mustard). Free toppings include lettuce, tomato, onion, mushrooms, kraut and chipotle sauce; assorted cheeses, bacon, ham and avocado cost extra. Bun choices include whole wheat and sesame seed. cosT: The basic CG Burger costs $6.50; house specialty burgers are $6.95, going up to $12 for the bison burger. Toppings other than freebies cost 60 cents.

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Yes, Virginia, there actually is a Boca in the Boca Burger.

It’s Max Shondor, who in 1993 created a vegetarian “hamburger” based on soy after several years of running natural food restaurants in and around Boca Raton. He started marketing his Original Vegan Boca Burger to natural food stores around the state, and it became so popular it quickly outgrew the capacity of his restaurant kitchen.

In addition to its healthful properties—zero cholesterol, .5 grams of fat and 70 calories—the Boca Burger received a huge boost from raves by two high-profile personalities: Neil Rogers, the late South Florida radio talk show host, and Bill Clinton. Shondor eventually sold the business in 1997.

Kraft Foods would purchase Boca Burger Inc. in 2000, change the name to Boca Foods, and expand the product line to 19 items—with national distribution.

And what of Max Shondor? If anybody knows, they’re not telling.

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RELISH 401 Northwood Road, West Palm Beach, 561/629-5377 Background: Daniel Tobin is relishing

the success of the almost three-year-old burger joint he and wife Desiree founded in West Palm Beach’s burgeoning Northwood neighborhood. “Joint” doesn’t do justice to the surprisingly stylish space, with its creamy travertine floor, up-market furnishings, sunny-colored walls and giant arched windows that stream in abundant light.

The couple’s limited restaurant background was no impediment to fulfilling their dream of creating a “crave-able” dining experience, Tobin says, one that balanced the seemingly contradictory aims of offering “a tremendous amount of options” while also being “incredibly simple” and delivering “real deal quality.”

Of course, “incredibly simple” might not be the first words that come to mind when perusing Relish’s 12 different burgers and 20 different relishes, developed by the couple and their talented kitchen staff, with extensive customer input.

Such variety is just one of the elements that distinguishes Relish in the burger world. An emphasis on the “entire guest experience” (for example, tipping is not allowed) is part of it too. Then there’s the food.

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complicated,” Tobin says. “There’s no BS about the food we serve. We’re about making simple food and putting a lot of love into it.”

The Burgers: Hand-formed patties are a half-pound of “premium” ground beef spiked with a proprietary seasoning blend and grilled to order. Seafood burgers (tilapia, shrimp and lobster) are 7 ounces.

Other burgers include black bean, Italian sausage, buffalo, wild boar, wild mushroom and turkey. signaTure Burger: Beef burger with sweet-and-smoky bacon relish ($9.99).

Fixins: Twenty relishes are offered, from the basic (beer-cooked onions, roasted tomato) to the more exotic (sour pickle chutney, blackberry compote, artichokespinach spread) to the piquant (spicy red chili, velvety horseradish, scotch bonnetmango). cosT: Burger prices go from $9.99 for beef to $17.99 for lobster. Each burger comes with one free relish. Additional relishes are 99 cents each.

Some places are about making food complicated. We’re about making simple food and putting a lot of love into it.

—Daniel Tobin, Relish

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BURGER BAR Above: The bar/lounge at Burger Bar and the signature Beach Burger

Want Some Fries With That?

Food editor Bill Citara puts the six restaurants featured in “Here’s the Beef” to another test—sampling their french fries for this issue’s Florida Table section. Turn to page 78 to see how many orders of fries passed the Boca Challenge.

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4650 Donald Ross Road, Palm Beach Gardens, 561/630-4545 Background: Burger Bar opened with a bang late last year, a collaboration of restaurateurs George and Lee Heaton, chef Allen Susser and real estate broker Tom Prakas. Susser and Prakas are now gone, and the menu and prices have been tweaked a little. But the same big, inventive burgers, from custom-ground beef to sushi-grade tuna, are still at the heart of this spacious, smartly designed space.

The “repositioning” was designed to put Burger Bar in the same league as Rocco’s Tacos and similar restaurants, says managing partner/general manager Alan Cohen. “We have a ton of TVs, two beautiful bars, live entertainment on weekends. We’re trying to make it more of a burger bar than some kind of gourmet restaurant.”

Appearance-wise it splits that difference nicely, with a bar/lounge area complete with comfy armchairs and high-top tables, separated by a grid of cast-iron pipes interspersed with meat grinders. The

dining room is a touch more chic with red leather banquettes and dark wood flooring.

Think of it as a gourmet bar with chefdriven burgers.

The Burgers: The Great Burger is 8 ounces of custom-blended beef cuts, ground fresh daily and cooked to order.

Other offerings include: turkey and chicken burgers, and portobello mushroom, buffalo, lamb, tuna, Angus prime and Wagyu beef burgers. signaTure Burger: The Beach Burger: it’s a Great Burger with applewood-smoked bacon, Swiss cheese, house pickle chips and sauce ($10.50).

Fixins: Burger Bar is not about DIY patties, but it does offer an array of burgers with an equally wide number of garnishes, like the Caesar Burger (beef burger with grilled tomato, mozzarella, chopped romaine, shaved Parmesan and Caesar dressing) or the Greek burger (ground lamb with Greek seasonings, tzatziki, cucumber and white onion). cosT: Burgers run from $7.50 for a Great Burger with lettuce, tomato and onions to $18 for a Kobe beef burger with pickled red onions, jack cheese and house ketchup. november

The all-BeeF glossary

Don’t pLace an orDer without FirSt unDerStanDing the baSic burger termS. Aged Beef: Beef held under temperaturecontrolled conditions to concentrate flavor and increase tenderness. Dryaged beef is hung, typically for two weeks, which can diminish as much as a third of its weight due to moisture loss. Wet-aged beef is packed in vacuumsealed bags, which speeds up the aging process without any loss of weight.

All-NAturAl: A term that can be either meaningful or meaningless, depending on who’s doing the defining.

Though beef labeled “natural” must meet certain

USDA specifications, those specifications are minimal and allow individual producers a great amount of leeway. At best, “all natural” can mean beef raised without the use of antibiotics, hormones and steroids. It is not the same thing as “organic.”

Certified ANgus Beef: This designation of the American Angus Association is for beef that meets certain criteria, such as the amount of marbling and being rated either prime or choice by the USDA. Less than 10 percent of domestic beef is reportedly Certified Angus.

ANgus Beef: Angus is a breed of cattle, one of the most popular in the United States, though not necessarily producing beef of any better quality than any other breed. FYI: “Angus beef” is not the same thing as “certified Angus beef.”

Certified ANgus Prime Beef: A further and higher stratification of Certified Angus Beef, said to include less than 1.5 percent of all domestic cattle.

BURGERFI 6 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach, 561/278-9590 Background: “Whatever happened to the old-fashioned burger joint?” asks BurgerFi director of operations Steve Lieber. You know, where families could go for a quick, simple and affordable meal, prepared with real ingredients and care?

The answer? It went away. But now it’s back—or, more precisely, the new-fashioned burger joint is back.

And its name is BurgerFi. The fledgling chain, founded 18 months ago by David Manero, John Rosatti and Lee Goldberg, aims to capture the feel of those old-fashioned joints, yet do so with a burger that meets modern standards of quality and provenance, served up in a contemporary, neo-industrial, environmentally and familyfriendly setting.

To uphold those standards, BurgerFi’s patties are all-natural Angus beef seasoned with kosher salt and fresh-ground black pepper, topped with a 15-ingredient sauce that replicates a classic French rémoulade.

“We don’t like to be called organic, upscale when U want to know

grAss-fed: Cattle fed on grass rather than grain are reputed to produce

and gourmet,” Lieber says. “But we’re kind of like all three.”

The departure of Manero earlier this year has done nothing to slow the chain’s growth.

The chain expects to reach two dozen by year’s end, with expansion to other states and the Caribbean to come. The “Burgerfication of the nation” marches on.

The Burgers: Patties are 3.3 ounces of hormone-, antibiotic- and steroid-free Black Angus beef, with an 80-to-20 leanto-fat ratio, made fresh daily (and cooked medium or well-done). There’s also a veggie burger and a handful of house-custom burgers. signaTure Burger: BurgerFi Burger; it’s two patties with lettuce, tomato and secret sauce ($5.47).

Fixins: Burgers can be as plain as a single patty with no garnishes or customized with a variety of free toppings (mayo, mustard, relish, lettuce, tomato, onions, hot sauce) and premium toppings (cheese, fried egg, steak sauce, onion rings, bacon, chili). cosT: Prices range from $3.97 for a single plain burger to $5.47 for a double burger to $9.97 for the Ultimate Cheeseburger. Toppings are $1 and $1.57 each.

steaks that are leaner and more flavorful, even more nutritious. mArBliNg: These are the veins of fat running through a piece of meat, which make it more tender and flavorful.

Prime: One of several categories of meat set by the USDA, denoting quality as measured by the amount of marbling and the youth of the cattle. Prime is the highest; it’s less than 2 percent of all beef produced in the U.S., followed by Choice, Select and other categories not typically found at retail.

We don’t like to be called organic, upscale and gourmet but we’re kind of like all three.

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Some Like it Haute Several of the area’s finedining establishments put their own culinary stamp on the burger.

The Office

Prime Boss Burger: Dry-aged natural prime ground brisket, butter lettuce, tomato, red onion, pickles and Office sauce ($19) ContaCt: 201 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, 561/276-3600

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aBe’s CheeseBurger: Caramelized onions and cheddar cheese ($13) ContaCt: 2200 Glades Road, Boca Raton, 561/447-0024 Moran’s burger with pork belly, cheddar cheese and a fried egg, among other toppings

moRaN’S itaLiaN BuRGeR BiStRo 2107 10th Ave. N., Lake Worth, 561/318-5048 Background: The mission of this un-

pretentious Lake Worth restaurant isn’t just to do good burgers but to do good in the larger sense. That’s why West Palm Beach psychiatrist Dr. Robert Moran and partners Oliver Braganza (executive chef) and Troy Sheller (general manager) joined forces to open Moran’s in May as a way to “help people in recovery get back on their feet,” Braganza says.

Several employees are former drug addicts and psychiatric patients, people typically shunned by employers. But at Moran’s, they not only learn about the industry—several have gone on to jobs at other restaurants—they turn out an impressive array of burgers gilded with an even more impressive menu of toppings. In addition, Moran’s serves pizzas baked in a woodfired oven that, like most everything else in 166

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Good food and good deeds; it’s a hard combination to beat.

The Burgers: Beef patties are an 8-ounce blend of brisket, chuck and short rib, grilled to order. Other burgers include chicken, gator, sausage, veggie, portobello mushroom, stuffed (typically with cheese), and exotic meats like kangaroo and ostrich. signaTure Burger: Beef burger stuffed with cheddar cheese ($8).

Fixins: Moran’s is all about the extras, with a list only slightly shorter than your average hose. The options include five different buns, 10 sauces, eight cheeses, 23 toppings and 21 premium toppings (think chili aioli, roasted eggplant and pork belly). cosT: Burger prices start at $8 for beef, sausage and stuffed patties, and go up to $12 for the gator burger. Exotic meats can cost more. There are several groups of free garnishes, though choosing more than two or three from each group costs either 50 or 75 cents each. Premium toppings are $1.50 apiece.

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the grille’s signature CheeseBurger: Chopped sirloin, smoked bacon and sweet onions, plus truffle fries ($16) ContaCt: 6000 Glades Road, Boca Raton, 561/368-1077

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Dry-ageD Prime Burger: House sauce, crispy shallot, Tillamook cheddar on a brioche bun ($21) ContaCt: 169 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach, 561/381-9970

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WooD-grilleD Prime Burger: Aged cheddar cheese and cornichons on a brioche bun ($15) ContaCt: 350 S. County Road, Palm Beach, 561/833-3450

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The chic interior space at Grease Burger Bar. Left: One of Grease’s monster 10-ounce burgers

GREASE BURGER BAR 213 N. Clematis St., West Palm Beach, 561/651-1075

The space called out for something moderately priced and very approachable. It was easy: a great hamburger.

—Todd HerbsT, Grease burGer bar

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Background: The greasy hamburger may be a staple of fast-food franchise jokes, but Grease Burger Bar takes that joke and turns it back on itself.

There’s nothing greasy about its monster (10-ounce) burgers and nothing fast-foodish about the handsome Clematis Street space, which more resembles a classy big city bar than a neon-and-Formica burger joint. The 120 artisan beers and 50 bourbons and whiskeys that complement the roster of burgers, meanwhile, are nothing to sneeze at.

None of that is by accident, says Todd Herbst, partner in Big Time Restaurant Group, which established Grease three years ago.

“We’re not fast food,” he says. “We’re not a chain restaurant. [Grease] is more of a dining experience. There’s a lot more to it than just coming for an inexpensive 4-ounce burger.”

One of the first truly up-market burger joints in South Florida, Grease was inspired by the blossoming burger scene in places

like New York City. “I travel; I saw how burgers were taking off,” Herbst says. “[Grease] made a lot of sense in the marketplace. The space called out for something moderately priced and very approachable. It was easy: a great hamburger.”

The Burgers: These are big suckers, 10 ounces of grain-fed Certified Black Angus beef, ground fresh daily, hand-formed and cooked to order on a flattop. There’s also a burger of organic, free-range beef from Brandt Family Farms in California, as well as meatloaf, turkey and veggie burgers. signaTure Burger: Classic Cheeseburger; it’s the 10-ounce patty with your choice of six cheeses, plus lettuce, tomato, onions and pickle slices ($9.95).

Fixins: There are several house specialty burgers, among them the Black and Blue Burger (bacon, blue cheese, blackening spices) and the Burger From Hell (jalapeños, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions and Habanero Hell sauce). Toppings range from applewood-smoked bacon, hummus and fried egg to truffle ketchup, pesto and bacon-wrapped goat cheese. cosT: Burgers range from $8.95 to $12.95; most are $10.95. Premium toppings cost from 95 cents to $1.75. [ bocamag.com ]

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The Certified Black Angus at Red the Steakhouse in Boca is USDA Prime, a designation that applies to less than 2 percent of domestic beef; plus it’s wet-aged for 40 days. But that’s not the only menu draw—as evidenced by this jaw-dropping piece of New York cheesecake with dark cherries.

Want to know more about this popular spot? Turn the page for food editor Bill Citara’s full review.

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he appeal of thick, juicy steak is primal, rooted in the time when Og the Caveman would spear and butcher a woolly mammoth and roast a haunch over an open fire. Today’s cavemen may have iPhones and BMWs, but our hunger for a great piece of meat is as elemental as when Og was prowling prehistoric Earth in search of dinner.

The delivery system for that meat—the steak house—hasn’t evolved much since then. The basic formula—meat, heat, eat—was dressed up with dark wood, leather and brass, augmented by black-suited waiters and accoutrements as predictable as the sunrise. It was comforting, in a clubby, old-fashioned way, but it’s also tired and out of step with the way we like to dine.

Red is the new breed of steak house. Though referencing the touch-points of steak houses past, it is sleek, informal and thoroughly contemporary. And while there are only so many ways you can cook and garnish a steak, the menu acknowledges that even modern-day cavemen do not eat by meat alone (see sidebar).

Still, beef is the thing at Red—and, to my palate, this is one of the best of the major steak houses, some of which seem to have dramatically reduced the quality of their beef in recent years. Not here,

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though, as evidenced by a superlative steak tartare, cubes of A 14-ounce boneimmaculately in filet mignon fresh tenderloin from Red. inset: Executive chef cut big to show Jarod Higgins off their deep, meaty flavor and need-no-teeth tenderness, and presented with tissue-thin wafers of buttery crostini.

There’s no drop-off in flavor and tenderness when that same excellent beef meaty as seagoing filet mignon, is cooked. Again, unlike those set in a pool of white winecompetitors that have taken garlic-Dijon butter sauce so to serving steaks so heavily good you don’t know whether charred that the meat is buried to lick if off the plate or smear under a crust of indigestible it all over your body. carbon, Red’s steaks get only a Our final indulgence was light sear. My 16-ounce rib-eye the dessert trio: New York-style couldn’t have been better— cheesecake, deconstructed cooked a precise medium-rare, Key lime pie and donut holes assertively seasoned with salt with raspberry jam. The oddly and pepper, and finished with gelatinous cheesecake was fora quick brushing of the restaugettable, but the Key lime pie rant’s trademark “steak oil” (olwas worth remembering, and ive oil infused with 12 different the giant, sugar-dusted donut herbs and spices). holes—which must have come If you’re not in the mood for from donuts the size of life premeat, there’s Red’s take on the servers—were irresistible. traditional chopped salad— Og the Cavemen might not iceberg lettuce, red onion, torecognize this new breed of matoes and parsimonious bits steak house. But when the of pancetta and blue cheese primal urge for a thick, juicy in a peppery ranch dressing. steak comes upon you, Red is There’s also a quintet of fat Gulf your color.

—Bill Citara shrimp, each as tender and

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Not by Meat aloNe If meat is not what’s for your dinner, Red offers several beef-free options. Starters include sushi-grade tuna tartare, crisp-fried calamari with Calabrian chilies and garlic, and a selection of seasonal cheeses. Among the entrées are linguine with red or white clam sauce, tuna “filet mignon” with roasted pepper rouille and the aforementioned killer Gulf shrimp. The sides alone—asparagus with sauce béarnaise, sautéed spinach and some wicked-good Parmesan tater tots—could make a meal.

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Dining Key $ Inexpensive: Under $17 $$ Moderate: $18–$35 $$$ Expensive: $36–$50 $$$$ Very Expensive: $50 +

palm beach county boca raton abe & louie’s —2200 W. Glades Road.

Steaks. This outpost of the Boston steak house cooks up slabs of well-aged, USDA Prime beef like nobody’s business. Two of the best are the bone-in ribeye and New York sirloin. Start with a crab cocktail, but don’t neglect side dishes like steamed spinach and hash browns. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. Brunch Sun. 561/447-0024. $$$ arturo’s ristorante —6750 N. Federal Highway. Italian. Arturo’s quiet, comfortable dining room; slightly formal, rigorously professional service; and carefully crafted Italian dishes never go out of style. You’ll be tempted to make a meal of the array of delectable antipasti from the antipasti cart, but try to leave room for main courses like giant shrimp with tomatoes, cannellini beans, rosemary and an exceptionally well-done risotto.

• Lunch Mon.–Fri. 561/997-7373. $$$ assaggio del forno—3011 Yamato Road.

Italian. West Boca gets a casual, contemporary Italian café from local restaurateur Dennis Max’s. The kitchen turns out with-it Italianesque dishes and ubiquitous Italian-American favorites. Try the swordfish with tapenade and sautéed spinach, rib-sticking rigatoni with Sunday gravy, and an estimable rendition of the classic tiramisu. The three-course, $29.95 prix fixe menu is one of the best deals in town.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/613-6460. $$ biergarten—309 Via De Palmas. German/ pub. Part vaguely German beer garden, part all-American sports bar, this rustic eatery offers menus that channel both, as well as an excellent selection of two-dozen beers on tap and the same number by the bottle. The food is basic 174

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and designed to go well with suds, like the giant pretzel with a trio of dipping sauces and an upscale burger featuring Florida Wagyu beef, knockwurst, cheddar cheese and more. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/395-7462. $

bistro provence —2399 N. Federal Highway. French. With the convivial ambience and hearty good food of an authentic Parisian bistro, this inviting, unpretentious restaurant deserves its local popularity. Mussels are a specialty, and roasted duck is excellent too. • Dinner nightly. 561/368-2340. $$

bonefish grill—21069 Powerline Road.

Seafood. Market-fresh seafood is the cornerstone—like Chilean sea bass prepared over a wood-burning grill and served with sweet Rhea’s topping (crabmeat, sautéed spinach and a signature lime, tomato and garlic sauce.) • Dinner nightly. (Other Palm Beach County locations: 1880 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach, 561/732-9142; 9897 Lake Worth Road, Lake Worth, 561/965-2663; 11658 U.S. Highway 1, North Palm Beach, 561/799-2965) $$ the capital grille —6000 Glades Road.

Steaks. This is one of more than three dozen restaurants in a national chain, but the Boca Grille treats you like a regular at your neighborhood restaurant. Steaks, dry-aged if not Prime, are flavorful and cooked with precision, while starters from Wagyu beef carpaccio to a lighter version of the hardy chopped salad are nicely done too. Parmesan truffle fries are crispy sticks of potato heaven; chocolate-espresso cake a study in shameless, and luscious, decadence. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. 561/368-1077. $$$

and zabaglione that’s made to order. The light, feathery, delicate gnocchi are merely the best in South Florida. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. 561/367-7488. $$$

casa d’angelo —171 E. Palmetto Park Road. Italian. Angelo Elia’s impeccable Italian restaurant is a delight, from the stylish room to the suave service to the expansive wine list, not to mention food that’s by turn elegant, hearty, bold, subtle and always delicious.

Dishes off the regular menu make excellent choices, like fat prawns wrapped in pancetta and grilled. But pay attention to specials like pan-seared snapper and scallops in a spicy, garlicky cherry tomato sauce. • Dinner nightly. 561/338-1703. $$$ the cheesecake factory—5530 Glades Road. american. Oh, the choices! The chain even has a Sunday brunch menu in addition to its main menu, which includes Chinese chicken salad and Cajun jambalaya. Don’t forget about the cheesecakes—from white chocolate and raspberry truffle offerings. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/393-0344. (Other Palm Beach County locations: CityPlace, West Palm Beach, 561/802-3838; Downtown at the Gardens, Palm Beach Gardens, 561/776-3711) $$

chops lobster bar—101 Plaza Real S., Royal Palm Place. Steak, seafood. Steaks are aged USDA Prime—tender, flavorful and perfectly cooked under a 1,700-degree broiler.

There’s all manner of fish and shellfish, but you’re here for the lobster, whether giant Australian tails flash-fried and served with drawn butter or sizable Maine specimens stuffed with crab. • Dinner nightly. 561/395-2675. $$$$

carmen’s—999 E. El Camino Real. continental. The Rat Pack lives and the view of the Intracoastal is sublime at this throwback restaurant on the top floor of the Bridge Hotel. The menu mixes the familiar with a few more modern updates. Favorites include a mild-tasting Caesar salad and tender charbroiled filet mignon.

Cocktails are a strong suit. • Dinner Thurs.–Sat. 561/368-9500. $$$

cuban café—3350 N.W. Boca Raton Blvd. cuban. Diners pack this traditional Cuban restaurant for lunch specials that start at $7.95, including slow-roasted pork served with white rice and black beans. Other highlights include the Cuban sandwich and (on the dinner menu only) lechón asado. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/750-8860. $

caruso ristorante —187 S.E. Mizner Blvd.

Road. Indian. There’s a lot more than just curries at this cozy Indian restaurant—crisp, beignetlike pakoras, perfect for dipping in one of three mild but flavorful chutneys; tender and juicy grilled meats and poultry; an array of palatepiquing vegetarian dishes. The curries are good, too. • Lunch and dinner Tues.–Sat. Dinner Sun. 561/392-2999. $

Italian. Former Chicago chef-restaurateurs Lillo and Gina Teodosi bring big-city dining to town. The ambience is welcoming, the service rigorously professional and the food is so lovingly prepared it makes even the most familiar dishes special. Among them: a farm-fresh caprese salad, giant truffle-perfumed veal chop

curries & more—217 E. Palmetto Park

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350 S. County Road, Palm Beach, 561/833-5522

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ow good is “Little Sister?”

Even if your own little sister was a pest, followed you around, embarrassed you in front of your friends and told on you to Mom, it wouldn’t be enough to sway your feelings about this Little Sister.

This Little Sister is Imoto, the literal Japanese translation, the seductive Japanese-inspired spot that chef and restaurateur Clay Conley opened next door to his superlative Buccan. It is little and feminine in its quietly stylish demeanor and the subtlety of its flavors, but it’s dishing big-time food from a big-time chef who could be rockin’ the house in any big-city foodie destination he chose.

That Conley, former top toque at Miami’s überluxe Azul at the Mandarin Oriental, chose Palm Beach ... well, eat your hearts out, losers. Better yet, come to Imoto, and eat what you’ve been missing.

Start with Imoto’s immaculately fresh sushi, like a rough dice of day-boat scallops with a delicate, sea-sweet flavor

above: Peking duck tacos and the interior of Imoto. inset: Clay Conley

and almost molten texture. Or, try the only California roll that’s worth eating, a compact rice cylinder encasing chunks of Jonah crab, ripe avocado and crunchy cucumber, anointed with neon tobiko and a tiny dollop of garlic aioli.

Don’t miss the restaurant’s signature tuna-foie gras sliders (see sidebar) as well as two other favorites, rock shrimp tempura and Peking duck tacos. The rock shrimp show off a mastery of deep frying you simply won’t find anywhere else. The tacos are equally impressive, four hand-sized tortillas

SliderS Supreme If you’re in the mood for luxury—and, after all, this is Palm Beach—it’s no further nor more affordable than Imoto’s tuna and foie gras sliders.

Take two slices of buttery toasted brioche; insert one slab of gloriously rich, unctuous duck liver; another slab of rich, unctuous seared raw tuna; give them a precise schmear of mango salsa— and try to retain some dignity as you inhale the thing whole. Yes, it really is that good.

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filled with shards of tender duck confit and bits of crispy skin, dabbed with plum sauce and topped with egregiously vinegar-y shredded carrots that were the meal’s only misstep, upsetting the dish’s carefully calibrated balance of flavors.

There was nothing upsetting about Imoto’s luscious mille-crêpe cake—20 lacy crêpes (each spread with pastry cream), stacked goodness upon goodness, sauced with gingered mango puree ... and devoured in seconds. Honestly, it will make you want to kiss Clay Conley’s Little Sister.

—Bill Citara

IF YOU GO PRICE RANGE: $5–$28 CREDIT CARDS: All major cards HOURS: Mon.–Thurs. 5:30–11 p.m., Fri.–Sat. 5:30 p.m.–midnight, Sun. 5:30–10 p.m

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gary woo asian bistro —3400 N. Federal Highway. Chinese. Everything about this popular restaurant is restrained—the ambience, the decor, the presentations. And the food can be that way, as well. Even supposedly spicy dishes are bereft of heat. Still, the ingredients and preparation are first-rate. Try the duck spring rolls to start, and then enjoy steak kew or Grand Marnier prawns. • Lunch Mon., Wed.–Fri. Dinner Wed.–Mon. 561/368-8803. $$

grand lux cafe —Town Center at Boca Raton. American. The Cheesecake Factory’s sister brand is an upscale take on the original

formula, with an atmosphere inspired by the great cafes of Europe. The menu offers a range of international flavors, and the specialty baked-to-order desserts are always a big hit. • Lunch and dinner daily; breakfast on Saturday and Sunday. 561/392-2141. $$

the grille on congress—5101 Congress Ave. American. Dishes range from the aptly named “big ass” T-bone steak (a generous 32-ouncer) to more healthful options like pistachio-crusted snapper or simply grilled yellowfin tuna. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.– Sat. 561/912-9800. $$

DiD You Know?

Palm Beach Post columnist Frank Cerabino has been known to break out his accordion and perform at La Bonne Bouche on Saturday nights.

LA BONNE BOUCHE 516 Lucerne Ave., Lake Worth, 561/533-0840

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jake’s stone crab —514 Via de Palmas, Royal Palm Place. Seafood. Jake’s has made a name for itself with delicious claws and excellent service. Crusty hash browns and nutmeg-flavored creamed spinach are fine accompaniments. Lobster and filet mignon surf ’n’ turf comes generously adorned. • Dinner Wed.–Sun. 561/347-1055. $$$ josephine’s—5751 N. Federal Highway. Italian. Tradition trumps trendy, and comfort outweighs chic at this Boca favorite. The ambience is quiet and stately but not stuffy, and the menu is full of hearty dishes to soothe the savage appetite, like three-cheese eggplant rollatini and chicken scarpariello. • Dinner nightly, except Tues. 561/988-0668. $$

kapow noodle bar—431 Plaza Real.

Pan-Asian. This wickedly stylish Asian-inspired gastropub delivers a delicious and inventive punch to the taste buds. Among the hardest hitters are plush-textured green tea-cured salmon with micro and fried basil and longan berries stuffed with yuzu kosho gelee, and cheesecake springrolls with a nothing-exceeds-like-excess banana caramel dipping sauce. • Dinner daily.

561/347-7322. $

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he cutest little lunch spot in Lake Worth also is open for dinner. And you probably didn’t even know it.

If you love La Bonne Bouche for the stellar croissants and pastries by chef Eric Regnier (who co-owns the spot with wife Sara Shutt) or the tres Parisian ambience of a wine- and sun-kissed lunch on the charming outdoor patio, then dinner in the cozy, bistro-esque dining room will complete the trifecta.

Now that season is here, it’s open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday nights, with a daily changing menu that might

houston’s—1900 N.W. Executive Center Circle. American. With rustic features like butcher-block tables and comfy padded leather booths, Houston’s has successfully created a “nonchain” feel, although there are more than 40 nationwide. The menu is straightforward— big burgers on sweet egg buns, Caesar salad, roasted chicken, filet mignon—but it’s not lacking in ingenuity. • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/998-0550. $$

include everything from a slab of savory, coarse-textured, house-made paté and plump little snails (OK, escargot) in lusty garlic cream to a hearty but refined beef Bourguignon or duck in a sweet-sour sauce aigre-doux.

With summer’s heat and humidity ebbing, I’m ready to again hit the patio for lunch, for a rich, decadent croque madame (hot ham and cheese), more of that good pâté on a baguette or poached salmon with a lovely vegetable salad and tangy mustard sauce.

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kathy’s gazebo café—4199 N. Federal Highway. Continental. This local stalwart smoothly rolls along with its signature blend of French and Continental dishes. The ornate, formal dining room and equally formal service are anomalies these days but are comforting nonetheless. Classic dishes like creamy lobster bisque, house-made duck paté, broiled salmon with sauce béarnaise and dreamy chocolate mousse are as satisfying as ever. • Lunch Mon.– Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/395-6033. $$$ kee grill—17940 N. Military Trail. American.

The attraction here is carefully prepared food that is satisfying, flavorful and reasonably priced. The fist-sized crab cake is a good place to start, followed by sea bass with a soy-ginger-sesame glaze. • Dinner nightly. 561/995-5044. $$$ november

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la rosa nautica—515 N.E. 20th St. Peruvian.

Expect no ambience, no pretensions, low prices and food that satisfies on a very high level. Good starters include antichuchos, chunks of grilled beef heart, and causa, a terrine-like layering of mashed potatoes and chicken salad. Ceviche and the lomo saltado are among the best in South Florida. • Lunch daily. Dinner Tues.– Sun. 561/296-1413. $$ la tre—249 E. Palmetto Park Road. Vietnamese. For almost two decades, this elegant little spot has been celebrating the delicate, sophisticated flavors and textures of traditional and contemporary Vietnamese cuisine. A house signature, shrimp tossed with coriander curry pesto, is an inspired riff on Vietnamese classics. Even better, service and wines match the refinement of the cuisine. • Dinner nightly.

561/392-4568. $$

la villetta—4351 N. Federal Highway. Italian. This is a well-edited version of a traditional Italian menu, complete with homemade pastas. Try the signature whole yellowtail snapper encrusted in sea salt, deboned tableside. Shrimp diavolo is perfectly scrumptious.

• Dinner nightly. (closed Mon. during summer). 561/362-8403. $$ legal sea foods—6000 Glades Road. Seafood. This faux-New England-ish seafooder in Town Center mall satisfies with a roster of fresh fish and shellfish, well prepared and competently served by an earnest young staff. The signature clam chowder is made in corporate kitchens but is still better than most, while crab cakes chock-full of sweet-tasting crab and hardly any binders have even fewer equals.

There’s a selection of DIY fish and sauces too.

And for dessert, what else but Boston cream pie?

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/447-2112. $$

le rivage—450 N.E. 20th St. French. It’s easy to overlook this small, unassuming bastion of traditional French cookery tucked away in a strip mall off Federal Highway. That would be a mistake, because the dishes that virtually scream “creativity” can’t compare to the quiet pleasures served here—like cool, soothing vichyssoise, delicate fillet of sole with nutty brown butter sauce or perfectly executed crème brûlee.

Good food presented without artifice at a fair price never goes out of fashion. • Lunch Tues.– Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/620-0033. $$

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where families might congregate for great food, fun music and a good time. Do as the Italians do and order family-style, sit back and watch the endless amounts of gorgeous foods grace your table. In this manner, you receive two appetizers, two salads, two pastas, two entrées, two vegetables and two desserts. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/361-8244. $$

mario’s osteria—1400 Glades Road. Italian.

One of Boca’s most popular Italian restaurants is swanky in its reincarnation, but the rustic Italian and Italian-American fare keeps with an osteria’s humbler pretensions. Signature dishes like the garlic rolls, lasagna and eggplant “pancakes”— basically deconstructed eggplant Parm—are on the new menu, as are posh veal osso buco ravioli in truffle cream sauce and thick, juicy rib-eye served “arrabiata” style. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/239-7000. $$

matteo’s—233 S. Federal Highway. Italian.

Like the wheel, Matteo’s brand of hearty Italian and Italian-American food, served in giant “family style” portions, needs no reinventing.

Though there is no shortage of local restaurants cooking in that genre, it’s the details of preparation and service that make Matteo’s stand out. Baked clams are a good place to start, as is the reliable chopped salad. Linguini frutti di mare is one of the best in town. • Dinner daily. 561/392-0773. $$ max’s grille—404 Plaza Real, Mizner Park. Contemporary American. Though its signature California-influenced cookery and “American bistro” ambience are no longer furiously trendy, this stylish restaurant is as popular as ever due to consistently tasty and well-prepared food. Dishes run haute to homey, from seared-raw tuna to meatloaf wrapped with bacon. And don’t miss the luscious crème brûlée pie for dessert. • Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. 561/368-0080. $$ morton’s the steakhouse—5050 Town Center Circle. Steak house. There’s seemingly no end to South Florida diners’ love of huge slabs of high-quality aged beef, nor to the carnivores who pack the clubby-swanky dining room of this Boca Raton meatery. The star of the beef show here is the giant bone-in filet mignon, which trumps the filet’s usual tenderness with unusually deep, meaty flavor. The side of Grand Marnier soufflé is a cloud of luscious, citrus-y beauty that says while beef may be what’s for dinner, I am what’s for dessert. • Dinner daily.

561/392-7724. $$$

new york prime—2350 N.W. Executive Center Drive. Steak house. This wildly popular Boca meatery packs them in with swift, professional service, classy supper club ambience and an extensive wine list. And, of course, the beef—all USDA Prime, cooked to tender and juicy lusciousness over ferocious heat. The bone-in rib-eye is especially succulent, but don’t neglect the New York strip or steak-house classics like oysters Rockefeller, garlicky spinach and crusty hash browns. • Dinner daily. 561/998-3881. $$$$ nick’s new haven-style pizzeria—2240 N.W. 19th St. Italian. Cross Naples (thin, blistered crust, judicious toppings) with Connecticut (fresh clams and no tomato sauce), and you’ve got a pretty good idea of the pies coming out Nick Laudano’s custom-made ovens. The “white clam” pizza with garlic and bacon is killer-good; Caesar salad and tiramisu are much better than the usual pizzeria fare. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/368-2900. $

ovenella—499 S. Federal Highway. Italian.

Fernando Davila’s modestly stylish ristorante promises “a new take on Italian classics.”

Pizzas from the oak-fired oven are a joy; we especially love the Etruscan (by request only), laden with chicken, bacon, escarole and creamy-dreamy Stracchino cheese. Vegetarian lasagna is good enough to make the meat version obsolete. Don’t miss one of the inventive cocktails, like a sweet-smoky-salty bacon-maple old fashioned. • Lunch Mon.– Fri. Dinner daily. 561/395-1455. $$ p.f. chang’s—1400 Glades Road. Chinese.

There may have been no revolution if Mao had simply eaten at P.F. Chang’s—the portions are large enough to feed the masses—and the exquisite tastes in each dish could soothe any tyrant. We particularly like the steamed fish of the day, as well as the Szechuan-style asparagus.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/393-3722. (Other Palm Beach County location: 3101 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens, 561/691-1610) $$

piñon grill—6000 Glades Road. Contemporary American. With a menu that seemingly lists every recent trendy dish to come out of modern American restaurant kitchens, you might think Piñon is a “been there, done that” kind of place.

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pair of giant crab cakes with more of that good rémoulade or a chocolate-peanut butter pie that is the irresistible definition of lusciousness. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/391-7770. $$

racks downtown eatery + tavern—402 Plaza Real. Contemporary American.

Though the menu generally falls under the heading of modern American comfort food, that can mean anything from elegant presentations like the jaw-dropping lobster cobb salad to homier offerings like burgers and pizza, fiery Buffalo-style calamari, succulent chicken roasted in the wood-fired oven and an uptown version of everyone’s campfire favorite, s’mores.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/395-1662. $$

Eat GrEEn Organic, hormone- and preservative-free food is taking over, one small café at a time.

Here are a few of the best local purveyors.

JuicE & Java 21316 St. Andrews Blvd., Boca Raton, 561/852-2230 The dish: The Town Center mall location of this South Florida chain guarantees 100-percent pure food, with no artificial ingredients. The café offers an array of breakfast and lunch wraps, pitas, soups, appetizers and platters.

The spinach-and-avocado pizza, tomato goat cheese salad and “Java’s Famous Quinoa” are just a few of the menu’s unique offerings—plus 36 varieties of smoothie. Closed Sundays.

Fit Foodz caFé 9704 Clint Moore Road, Boca Raton, 561/451-1420 The dish: Fast food for people who don’t like fast food, this café specializes in healthy, low-calorie meals for diners on the run. From breakfasts and salads to entrées and “no bun” burgers, the restaurant’s menu is eclectic and nutritional, with options like mushroom couscous, hummus veggie wrap and gluten-free roasted pepper eggplant parm. Open daily.

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Pizza Fusion 1013 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, 954/358-5353 The dish: Boca has its share of organic restaurants, but it behooves green diners to drive a little south to visit the nearest location of this award-winning pizzeria chain. Armed with the mantra “Saving the Earth, One Pizza at a Time,” Pizza Fusion delivers its organic pies in hybrid cars, and its founders continue to lobby politicians for sustainable practices.

Specialty pizzas include Greek, barbecue chicken and the Hawaiian-style Big Kahuna; vegan, vegetarian, lactose-free and gluten-free items are available as well. Open daily.

FrEsh Food MarkEts Take home organic eats, or dine in the small cafeterias in these fine fresh food markets in Boca Raton.

• 4Th GeneraTion orGanic MarkeT & café: 75 S.E. Third St., 561/338-9920 • Whole foods MarkeT: 1400 Glades Road, 561/447-0000 • The fresh MarkeT: 100 W. Camino Real and 20409 State Road 7, 561/338-2444 or 561/479-4845 (note: Fresh Market does carry some food that is not organic.)

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raffaele—508 Via De Palmas. Italian. The highly evolved simplicity that is the glory of true Italian cuisine is on display—from sea-sweet lump crab and earthy-tasting green beans lightly dressed with lemon juice and olive oil to squid ink tagliolini with just a bit of delicate tomato sauce and shellfish. Oven-roasted quail wrapped in pancetta and stuffed with sausage, pine nuts and raisins is nothing short of exquisite. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. 561/392-1110. $$ renzo’s of boca—5999 N. Federal Highway.

Italian. The buzzword is fresh for this longtime staple of the local culinary world. Fish is prepared daily oreganata or Livornese style, sautéed in white wine with lemon and capers or grilled.

Each homemade pasta dish is artfully seasoned, and Renzo’s tomato sauce is ethereal. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/994-3495. $$

ristorante sapori—301 Via de Palmas, Royal Palm Place. Italian. Sapori features fresh fish, veal and chicken dishes imbued with subtle flavors. The grilled Italian branzino, the veal chop Milan and the zuppa di pesce served over linguine are especially tasty, and the pasta (all 17 kinds!) is available in full and half orders, with your choice of 15 zesty sauces. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/367-9779. $$ ristorante saporissimo—366 E. Palmetto Park Road. Tuscan. This little restaurant is making culinary magic. Here, a taste of Italy is brought to life with rabbit cacciatorá (Tuscany style), veal ossobuco, homemade pasta with wild boar sausage, and a tasty rack of venison. Homemade desserts, including tiramisu, panna cotta and zuppa ingles, will take your breath away. Service is out of this world. • Dinner nightly. Outdoor dining.

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rosario’s—145 S.E. Mizner Blvd. Italian. A simple menu reading doesn’t reveal the quality of ingredients and the skill that go into each dish. The often fusty, rubbery clams casino is remarkably light and fresh-tasting. Perciatelli Amatriciana is hearty and meaty but no less

finely crafted, while the signature chicken Rosario’s (with sausage, potatoes and peppers) is full of old-fashioned goodness. With effortlessly competent service and unpretentious ambience, this is one book you’ll want to read all the way through. • Dinner daily. 561/393-0758. $$

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ruth’s chris steak house—225 N.E. Mizner Blvd., Mizner Park. Steaks. This is a refreshing departure from the dark-wood-andcigar-crowded ambience common to many steak houses; the room is comfortable, and conversation is possible. Naturally, we come here for the steak (they are sublime), but the lobster and fish are great. All your favorite sides are here, too. • Dinner nightly. 561/392-6746. (Other Palm Beach County locations: 661 U.S. Highway 1, North Palm Beach, 561/863-0660; CityPlace, West Palm Beach, 561/514-3544) $$$

seasons 52—2300 Executive Center Drive.

Contemporary American. The food—seasonal ingredients, simply and healthfully prepared, accompanied by interesting wines—is first-rate, from salmon roasted on a cedar plank to desserts served in oversized shot glasses. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/9989952. (Other Palm Beach County location: 11611 Ellison Wilson Road, Palm Beach Gardens, 561/625-5852) $$

sushi ray—5250 Town Center Circle. Japa-

Cool off at one of the area’s popular outdoor watering holes by ordering one of their signature thirst-quenching cocktails.

Boston’s on the Beach 40 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach, 561/278-3364 Wacky Daiquiri: Take a sip of this frozen mix of Bacardi light rum and your pick of strawberry, banana, mango or lemon-lime. Have it your way.

Goombay SmaSh: Chill out with this concoction of Bacardi and coconut rums, orange juice, pineapple juice, a splash of grenadine and dark rum.

Benny’s on the Beach 10 Ocean Blvd., Lake Worth, 561/582-9001 mimoSa: It may be the pier—or could it be the salty ocean breeze? Whatever “it” is, it makes this classic orange juice and Champagne cocktail taste that much better.

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JB’s on the Beach 300 N.E. 21st Ave., Deerfield Beach, 954/571-5220 The coSmo: Presentation is everything, and this electric drink comes with a dolphin on the side. Sip on this mix of vodka, Triple Sec, cranberry juice and freshly squeezed (or sweetened) lime juice. Cheers! remy’S manGo morninG Sky: The morning sky couldn’t be more alluring thanks to this blend of coconut and peach Smirnoff and Tropics mango puree, swirled with Chambord.

deck 84 840 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, 561/665-8484 The Deck fizz: Treat yourself to this medley of sparkling white wine with guava—and your choice of strawberry, pineapple, peach or mango puree. burTo’S berry lemonaDe: Yes, it’s a thirst-quenching lemonade concoction— but watch out for the kick, courtesy of Svedka raspberry vodka.

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nese/Sushi. Impeccably fresh and exactingly prepared sushi and other Japanese specialties are on display. The Nobu-esque miso sea bass gives a taste of this modern classic at a fraction of the price of the original, while the chef’s sushi assortment offers a generous arrangement of nigiri and maki for an exceedingly reasonable $20. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. 561/3949506. $$

table 42—399 S.E. Mizner Blvd. Italian. A contemporary Amer-Italian osteria with pizza is as good a way as any to describe Gary Rack’s reborn Coal Mine Pizza. The menu is compact but offers many mix-and-match opportunities done with great attention to detail. The results are on your plate in the form of irresistible chicken wings spiked with lemon, scallions and Parmesan; linguine in deliriously rich and creamy pesto and tiramisu so good it transcends cliché.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/826-2625. $$

taverna kyma—6298 N. Federal Highway.

Greek/Mediterranean. Few present Greek cuisine better. Expertly prepared dishes cover the spectrum of Mediterranean cuisine, from cold appetizers (dolmades; grape leaves stuffed with rice and herbs) to hot starters (spanakopita, baked phyllo with spinach and feta cheese) to mouthwatering entrées like lamb shank (slowcooked in a tomato sauce and served on a bed of orzo), massive stuffed peppers or kebobs.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/994-2828. $$ november

trattoria romana—499 E. Palmetto Park Road. Italian. This local mainstay does Italian classics and its own lengthy list of ambitious specials with unusual skill and aplomb. The cozy dining room is a welcome respite from the outside world, and service is at a level not always seen in local eateries. Pay attention to the daily specials, especially if it includes impeccably done langostini oreganata and the restaurant’s signature jumbo shrimp saltimbocca. • Dinner daily. 561/393-6715. $$$

uncle julio’s—449 Plaza Real, Mizner Park.

Mexican. Taking Tex-Mex cuisine gently upscale with better-quality ingredients and more skillful preparation, this raucous, colorful eatery offers a bit more than just the usual Mexican culinary suspects. You can get frog’s legs and quail (the latter quite tasty under a mop of chipotle barbecue sauce), as well as favorites like beef and chicken fajitas, and one of the only palatable tamales around. • Lunch and dinner daily.

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truluck’s —351 Plaza Real. Seafood.

This stylish and sophisticated Mizner Park restaurant applies the steak house formula of classy, clubby ambience, formal service and an extensive wine list to seafood from across the nation, generally with success. Crab is the specialty here and there are myriad versions—stone, Dungeness, Alaskan, soft-shell and more. Crispy soft-shells stuffed with crab and andouille are very good, if served without a drizzle of ketchup-y sauce on top. • Dinner nightly. 561/391-0755. $$$

uncle tai’s—5250 Town Center Circle.

Chinese. In an area with more cookie-cutter Chinese restaurants than cookies, Uncle Tai’s stands out for the elegance of its decor, the professionalism of its service and its careful preparation of familiar and less-familiar dishes.

The “specialties” section of the menu has exciting dishes, like the Hunan vegetable pie, finely minced veggies sandwiched between sheets of crispy bean curd skin, and Hunan-style lamb, whose seared and succulent meat shows off the kitchen’s skill in the use of wok qi. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/368-8806. $$$

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villagio italian eatery—344 Plaza Real.

Italian. The classic Italian comfort food at this Mizner Park establishment, which opened in 2009, is served with flair and great attention to detail. The reasonably priced menu—with generous portions—includes all your favorites (veal Parmesan, Caesar salad) and some outstanding seafood dishes (Maine lobster with shrimp, mussels and clams on linguine). There is a full wine list and ample people-watching opportunities given the prime outdoor seating.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561-447-2257. $$ vino —114 N.E. Second St. Wine Bar/Italian.

An impressive international wine list of some 250 bottles (all available by the glass) offers a multitude of excellent choices, especially among Italian and California reds. The menu of “Italian tapas” serves up everything from tasty breaded and fried artichoke hearts to a trio of Italian sliders (topped with three different cheeses) to ravishing ricotta and fig-stuffed ravioli with prosciutto, balsamic syrup and brown butter. • Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/869-0030. $

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vivo partenza—1450 N. Federal Highway.

Italian. On the heartier side of the menu at Tony Bova’s eatery is an appetizer of three giant meatballs in a well-made San Marzano tomato sauce that could easily serve as an entrée. More delicate fare includes a brilliantly prepared salmon. Do the zabaglione with fresh berries

for dessert. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly.

561-750-2120. $$

west boca city fish market —7940 Glades Road. seafood. A multimillion-dollar remodel of the

old Pete’s has turned it into an elegant seafood house. The whole package is here: friendly and efficient service, lengthy seafood-friendly wine list, impeccably fresh fish and shellfish cooked with much care and little artifice. Do sample the fresh oysters and the plump crab cake.

Simply griddled fish is an honest, uncomplicated pleasure. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. 561/487-1600. $$

phuket thai restaurant—Palms Plaza,

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22191 Powerline Road. thai. It’s nothing to look at—just another little restaurant in another west Boca strip shopping center. But appearances can be deceiving; this restaurant serves excellent and authentic Thai cuisine in a cozy and unpretentious atmosphere. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/447-8863. $$

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tempted thai & sushi—21065 Powerline Road. thai/Japanese. There’s more than sushi to lure you here, though the sushi is up to the caliber of local competitors. There’s an extensive menu of Thai dishes and Thai- and Japanesestyle creations, among them spaghetti in a fiery green curry sauce with grilled shrimp; a sushi roll with sheets of seared-raw New York steak; and a zippy take on tuna tartare that gilds the fish with kimchee sauce. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/353-2899. $

A trio of trend-busting restaurants bordering The Mall at Wellington Green raises the area’s dining bar. oli’S 10610 W. Forest Hill Blvd., #20, 561/792-2220 The dish: As a purveyor of selfdescribed “fashion cuisine,” Oli’s seeks to deliver a Palm Beach-style dining experience to the western part of the county. While the strip-mall space, though black-and-white chic, doesn’t quite recall The Breakers, the menu does score with expertly prepared flatbreads, greens, pasta and entrées by land (chicken saltimbocca, grilled veal chops) and by sea (pan-roasted salmon, panko snapper, shrimp and grits).

pangea BiStro 10140 Forest Hill Blvd., 561/793-9394 The dish: Chef Ryan Vargas, with a résumé that includes stops at the Four Seasons in Palm Beach and Bellagio in Las Vegas, has generated much-deserved

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buzz in Wellington with his innovative Hawaiian fusion dishes. Starters like the ahi poke flatbread and “Take a Bao” steam buns draw raves, as do entrées such as the blackened or Hawaiianstyled seafood offering and to-die-for risotto.

Franco italian BiStro 10160 Forest Hill Blvd., Suite 130, 561/615-1551 The dish: Two culinary veterans of Palm Beach (Vittorio Divivo and Christian Weibel) finally are giving Wellington diners an Italian option that doesn’t include the words “Olive” or “Garden.” Franco’s hits all the right notes with a monstrous menu of favorites— from personal pizzas and veal, steak and chicken dishes to pasta, risotto and seafood selections.

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tempura house—9858 Clint Moore Road, #C-112. Japanese, asian. Dark wood, rice paper and tiles fill the space. An appetizer portion of Age Natsu, fried eggplant, is a consummate Japanese delicacy. Don’t miss the ITET roll with shrimp tempura and avocado, topped with spicy mayo, tempura flakes and eel sauce. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/883-6088. $$ villa rosano—9858 Clint Moore Road. Italian. Step into the dining room, and you could be forgiven for imagining yourself in some rustic Italian hill town as the smells of garlic and tomato sauce waft through the air. Start by sopping up the house olive oil with slices of crusty bread, then move on to a stellar version of clams Guazzetto, delicate fillets of sole done a la Francese and one of the few versions of tiramisu to actually hold your interest. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner daily. 561/470-0112. $$

boynton beach bar louie—1500 Gateway Blvd. eclectic.

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tacos and a variety of salads, all at moderate prices and in truly daunting portions. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/853-0090. $

china dumpling—1899-5 N. Congress Ave. Chinese. The dim sum basket is an absolute must-try. A choice of signature steamed dumplings are likewise spot on. The steak kew is delicious, and the clay pot casseroles are mighty enticing. • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/737-2782. $ prime catch—700 E. Woolbright Road. Seafood. Simple pleasures soar—full-belly clams, fried sweet and crispy, or a perfectly grilled piece of mahi or bouillabaisse overflowing with tender fish. Don’t miss one of the best Key lime pies around. • Lunch and dinner daily, Sunday brunch. 561/737-8822. $$

sushi simon—1614 S. Federal Highway.

Japanese/sushi. Local sushi-philes jam the long, narrow dining room for a taste of such impeccable nigirizushi as hamachi and uni (only on Thursdays), as well as more elabo-

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Spa mines quality ingredients for maximum flavor. A light, chunky gazpacho with soothing cucumber cream is perfect warm-weather dining, and though braised short ribs with mashed potatoes is heartier fare, it’s hard to resist the gum-tender meat ringed by a silken potato purée. The butterscotch-white chocolate bread pudding with rum crème anglaise (an occasional special) is pure wickedness. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/665-4900. $$

32 east —32 E. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary american. At a time when chefs and restaurants seem to be constantly shouting their own praises, Nick Morfogen and 32 East go quietly about their way of serving thoughtfully conceived, finely crafted dishes with a minimum of fuss and artifice. The menu changes daily, but recent examples of Morfogen’s culinary expertise include plump scallops given an elegant bouillabaisse treatment and fork-tender venison with a terrific Asiago-fig risotto. When the food is this good, you don’t need to shout. • Dinner daily.

561/276-7868. $$$

buddha sky bar—217 E. Atlantic Ave. Pan asian. Don’t miss a meal at this stylish Asiameets-industrial chic spot with a view of the Delray skyline. Chinese-influenced dim sum is inspired, while rock shrimp tempura and Wagyu tenderloin skewers with twin chimichurri sauces touch the heart and the taste buds. Veggie fried rice is exemplary thanks to the kitchen’s application of wok chi. • Dinner Wed.–Sun. 561/4507557. $$

atlantic grille—1000 E. Atlantic Ave.

cabana el rey—105 E. Atlantic Ave. Cuban

Seafood-Contemporary american. This posh restaurant in the luxurious Seagate Hotel &

tropical. Little Havana is alive and well in Delray Beach. The menu is a palette-pleasing trav-

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elogue. Mariquitas (fried banana chips) are a tasty way to start your meal. For dinner, seafood paella is a winner, with mussels, shrimp, conch, octopus, scallops and clams. And the churrasco is terrific. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/2749090. $$

caffé luna rosa—34 S. Ocean Blvd. Italian.

This favorite is always lively, and alfresco dining is the preferred mode. Entrée choices are enticing, but we went with the penne alla vodka with pancetta, tomato and basil. Also delicious was the costoletta di vitello, a center-cut 14-ounce

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veal chop lightly breaded and served either Milanese or parmigiana. For dessert, you can’t go wrong with the cheesecake imported from the Carnegie Deli. • Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. 561/274-9404. $$

casa di pepe—189 N.E. Second Ave. Italian.

A welcoming staff, familiar Italian dishes done right and moderate prices define this cozy spot with a spacious outdoor patio. Two could share the fist-sized meatball with fresh-tasting tomato sauce and dollop of milky basil, before moving on to house-made linguine with clams, tender veal Francese and one of the best versions of tiramisu this side of Veneto. • Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/279-7371. $$ city oyster—213 E. Atlantic Ave. Seafood.

This stylish mainstay of Big Time Restaurant Group serves up reasonably priced seafood that never disappoints, such as crab-stuffed shrimp with jalapeño cheddar grits, bacon, shiitake mushrooms and warm vinaigrette. • Lunch Mon.–Sun. Dinner nightly. Outdoor dining.

561/272-0220. $$

cucina mio—16950 Jog Road. Italian. There

South Florida has its share of restaurants with a friendly, neighborhood vibe and highquality cuisine at reasonable prices. Here are some of our favorites.

Brewzzi Generous portions of Italian and American fare—from thin-crust pizzas and homemade pasta fagioli to the mile-high Brewzzi meatloaf sandwich—put this bistro a step above the rest. Then there is the famed microbrewery, which keeps this locally owned chain crowded throughout the year.

The popular Boca Blonde Lager blends Saaz and Hallertau hops into a smooth, crisp brew. 2222 Glades Road, Boca Raton, 561/392-2739; CityPlace, West Palm Beach, 561/366-9753

Burgerfi As much as you’ll enjoy the view (the beach is right across the street), the menu is even better with huge, all-natural Angus beef burgers, “hipster dogs,” dozens of toppings, fresh-cut fries, beer, wine, shakes, frozen treats and much more. 6 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach, 561/278-9590

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CariBBean grill The Grill feels like a Little Havana lunchroom with daily specials that could feed a family of eight—including lots of yellow rice, pork, and plantains and beans. This is a family-style plastic-tablecloth kind of place with no pretensions. 1332 N.W. Boca Raton Blvd., Boca Raton, 561/362-0161

Toojay’s gourmeT Deli Like a nice warm bowl of chicken soup, TooJay’s is there for you when you need a little comfort food, such as matzo ball soup, chopped liver, more than a dozen salads, burgers and chicken sandwiches, a to-die-for Reuben and stuffed cabbage.

Don’t forget the legendary black and white cookies or any of the killer pastries. 5030 Champion Blvd., Boca Raton, 561/2415903; 2200 Glades Road, Boca Raton, 561/392-4181; 3013 Yamato Road, Boca Raton, 561/997-9911; 419 Lake Ave., Lake Worth, 561/582-8684; 2880 N. University Drive, Plantation, 954/423-1993; Boynton Beach Mall, 561/740-7420; The Mall at Wellington Green, 561/784-9055; 313 Royal Poinciana Plaza, Palm Beach, 561/6597232; Downtown at the Gardens, Palm Beach Gardens, 561/622-8131

are many Italian restaurants in our culinary universe, most mining familiar culinary territory.

This popular eatery does so, too, offering sturdy renditions of Italian favorites in enormous portions at correspondingly modest prices. The menu highlight is perhaps tiramisu, rarely made as well as it is here. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner daily. 561/499-9419. $$

cut 432—432 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach.

Steak house. Hipper decor, a more casual vibe and an inventive take on steak-house favorites make this sleek restaurant just different enough to be interesting. Starters such as ceviche (prepared Peruvian style) and ultrarich oysters Rockefeller are first-rate, while the wetaged beef is appropriately tender and tasty. • Dinner daily. 561/272-9898. $$$

d’angelo trattoria—9 S.E. Seventh Ave. Italian. Don’t go expecting all the tired old “Italian” culinary clichés at Angelo Elia’s wickedly stylish trattoria. Instead, open your palate to more authentic and exciting Roman-style cuisine, like roasted veal bone marrow with brisk caper-parsley pesto, creamy-dreamy burrata with roasted fava beans and watercress salad, the classic tonnarelli cacio e pepe (“cheese and pepper”) and the best gelato this side of a real Roman trattoria. • Dinner daily.

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deck 84—840 E. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American. Burt Rapoport’s ode to laid-back tropical dining is like a day at the beach without getting sand between your toes. Though the restaurant is casual, the kitchen takes its food seriously, whether the steallar flatbreads, the thick and juicy 10-ounce special blend burger or homey apple cobbler. And the waterfront location just seems to make everything taste better. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Brunch Sat.–Sun. Dinner daily.

561/665-8484. $

fifth avenue grill—821 S. Federal Highway.

American. Since 1989, this upscale tavern has been a Delray favorite. The straightforward menu focuses on entrées, especially the famed Allen Brothers beef; choose from numerous cuts and preparations—and add a lobster tail for good measure. • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/265-0122. $$

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gol! the taste of brazil—411 E. Atlantic Ave. Steak house. The classic churrascaria formula—grilled meats, served until you can’t eat another bite—is done efficiently and quite satisfyingly. Start off at the well-provisioned salad bar, which offers more than three dozen preludes to meat eating, among them wellmade calamari and ham salads, rounds of smoky eggplant, and rich and delightfully old-fashioned four-cheese chicken. Meats with a bit of fat are the best choices, especially the garlicky sirloin, slices of medium-rare flank steak and hugely flavorful beef ribs. • Dinner daily. 561/272-6565. $$

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greek bistro —1832 S. Federal Highway.

Greek. If you care more about well-prepared, generously portioned and fairly priced food than Opa!-shouting waiters, you’ll love this modest little restaurant. Flaky, overstuffed spanikopita and miraculously light and delicate beef meatballs should be at the top of your appetizer list, and though entrées don’t always reach those heights, both a long-braised lamb shank and grilled whole snapper are certainly satisfying. And the baklava is great. • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/266-8976. $

henry’s —16850 Jog Road. American. This casual, unpretentious restaurant from Burt Rapoport in the west part of town never fails to delight diners. Expect attentive service and crisp execution of everything—from meat loaf, burgers and fried chicken to flatbreads and hefty composed salads. • Lunch Mon.– Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/638-1949. $$ when U want to know

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house of siam—25 N.E. Second Ave. Thai.

The normally riotous flavors of Thai cuisine are muted at this charming, family-friendly downtown spot, but that seems to suit diners just fine. Dishes, generally well-prepared and generously portioned, include steamed chicken and shrimp dumplings with sweet soy dipping sauce and crisp-fried duck breast in a very mild red curry sauce. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily.

561/330-9191. $$ il girasole—1911 S. Federal Highway.

Northern Italian. This South Florida classic is not trendy, but it offers a level of comfort and consistency that has been bringing people back for 30 years. The food is fine hearty Italian, with excellent service. Try the veal Kristy or the frogs legs. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/272-3566. $$ j&j seafood bar & grill—634 E. Atlantic Ave. Seafood. This local favorite on the Avenue—owned by John Hutchinson (also the chef) and wife Tina—serves up everything from burgers and wraps to a menu brimming with seafood options. Don’t forget to inquire about the stunning array of 10 specials—every night. • Lunch and dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/272-3390. $$ jimmy’s bistro—9 S. Swinton Ave. Eclectic.

Jimmy’s cheerily unpretentious atmosphere applies to the eclectic menu, which flits from China to Italy to New Orleans at will. Best bets are a lovely salad of ripe tomatoes and fresh, milky house-made mozzarella; a rich, elegant version of lusty Cajun etouffee; and caramelized bananas in puff pastry with silken vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. • Dinner daily.

561/865-5774. $$ la cigale—253 S.E. Fifth Ave. Mediterranean.

A team of true professionals turns out gently updated and classically oriented dishes notable for the quality of their ingredients and careful preparation. Sweetbreads in chanterelle cream sauce are simply glorious; a barely grilled artichoke with mustardy remoulade is gloriously simple. And watching your server skillfully debone a whole (and impeccably fresh) Dover sole is almost as satisfying as eating it. • Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/265-0600. $$

lemongrass bistro—420 E. Atlantic Ave. Pan-Asian. Casually hip ambience, friendly service, moderate prices and a blend of sushi and nouveau pan-Asian fare make this original Lemongrass and its three younger siblings some of the most popular eateries around. The quality of its seafood and care in its preparation are 190

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what gives Lemongrass its edge, as evidenced by impeccably fresh salmon, tuna and yellowtail sushi. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/278-5050. $

max’s harvest—169 N.E. Second Ave. Contemporary American. Dennis Max, instrumental in bringing the chef and ingredient-driven ethos of California cuisine to South Florida in the 1980s, is again at the forefront of the fresh, local, seasonal culinary movement. Max’s Harvest soars with dishes like plump Cedar Key clams with house-made tasso, savory bourbonmaple glazed pork belly, and crispy-skinned wild sockeye salmon with yuzu-truffle vinaigrette. • Dinner daily. 561/381-9970. $$

the office—201 E. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American. It’s a safe bet that your office is nothing like this eclectic gastropub, unless your office sports red leather and cowhide chairs, more than two dozen craft beers on tap and a menu that flits from burgers and fries to mussels. Don’t miss the restaurant’s winning take on the thick, juicy Prime beef burger and simply wicked maple-frosted donuts with bacon bits and two dipping sauces. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/276-3600. $$

park tavern—9 S.E. Second Ave. Contem-

fried calamari with zesty Moroccan-style aioli; savory rack of lamb crusted with herbs, mustard and horseradish; and pistachio-crusted salmon with marinated fennel, artichoke, sherry wine and a citrus gastrique served with black rice. Portions are enormous, so bring your appetite. • Lunch Tues.–Sat. Brunch Sun. Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/272-5678. $$

tramonti—119 E. Atlantic Ave. Italian. With its roots in New York’s Angelo’s of Mulberry Street, this venue is always packed. Homemade stuffed manicotti is aromatic and glorious.

Tramonti’s platter for two, containing fillet marsala, veal cutlet with prosciutto, fried zucchini and potato croquettes, is terrific. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. Outdoor dining.

561/272-1944. $$ tryst—4 E. Atlantic Ave. Eclectic. It’s tough to beat this hotspot with the lovely outdoor patio, well-chosen selection of artisan beers and not-the-usual-suspect wines, and an eclectic “gastropub” menu of small and large plates.

Try the crisp-fried rock shrimp with chipotlemayonnaise sauce. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/921-0201. $$

porary American. The guys from Cut 432 have done it again with this hip, casual modern American tavern. The menu is both tightly focused and tightly executed, whether terrific Maryland crab cake featuring fat chunks of succulent crab or crisply sautéed pork belly with apricot mostarda. And for the best meal deal this side of free, don’t miss the behemoth slab of tender, juicy prime rib for a near-saintly $29. • Dinner daily. 561/265-5093. $$

vic & angelo’s—290 E. Atlantic Ave. Italian.

God is in the details at this upscale trattoria, and He doesn’t miss much, including stellar service and an outstanding wine menu. Ingredients like Buffalo mozzarella, house-made pastas and San Marzano tomatoes are first-rate, and execution is spot on. Try the “Old School” meatball to start, the whole-wheat tagliatelle with garlic and chili-infused olive oil and the perfectly cooked veal chop. Portions are substantial. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/278-9570. $$$

prime—110 E. Atlantic Ave. Steak/Seafood.

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Prime is aptly named for its heart of the action location, classy neo-supper club decor, extensive wine list and roster of designer steaks.

Starters and desserts fare better than entrées, especially plump, crabby Maryland-style crab cakes and indecently luscious chocolate bread pudding. Service is a strong suit too, so with a bit of work this good-looking restaurant will fully live up to its name. • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/865-5845. $$$

sundy house —106 S. Swinton Ave. Contemporary American. Everyone knows about the spectacular garden, home to hundreds of species of exotic plants. But the comforting-contemporary food deserves notice too, realized in such dishes as expertly

couco pazzo—915-917 Lake Ave. Italian.

Despite the name, there’s nothing crazy about the cooking at this homey eatery. It’s the hearty, soul-satisfying Italian cuisine we’ve all come to know and love. Spaghetti Bolognese is a fine version of a Northern Italian classic; house-smoked mozzarella—breaded, fried and presented with a tangy tomato-basil fondue—is equally tasty.

• Dinner nightly. (Tues.–Sun. during summer).

561/585-0320. $$ paradiso ristorante—625 Lucerne Ave. Italian. A Tomasz Rut mural dominates the main dining room, and there is also a pasticceria and bar for gelato and espresso.

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menu. The Mediterranean sea bass branzino is definitely a must-try. Plus, the wine list is a veritable tome. • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/547-2500. $$$

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safire asian fusion—817 Lake Ave. Pan-

bice—313 Worth Ave. Italian. Bice continues

Asian. This stylish little restaurant offers food that gently marries East and West, plus a roster of more traditional Thai dishes and inventive sushi rolls. Menu standouts include tempura-fried rock shrimp or calamari cloaked with a lushfiery “spicy cream sauce.” Expect neighborly service and reasonable prices. • Lunch Tues.–Fri. Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/588-7768. $

to hold the title of favorite spot on the island for the see-and-be-seen crowd. The venerable restaurant offers a marvelous array of risottos and fresh pastas and classic dishes like veal chop Milanese, sautéed chicken breast and stuffed rack of lamb. The wine list features great vintages. • Lunch and dinner daily. Outdoor dining.

561/835-1600. $$$

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the station house—233 Lantana Road.

Seafood. If you’re hungry for Maine lobster, plucked live out of giant tanks and cooked to order, this modest replica of a 1920s train station is the place to go. Lobsters come in all sizes (up to 8 pounds) and are so reasonably priced that getting a taste of one without reservations is highly unlikely. • Dinner nightly. 561/547-9487.

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rary American. Casual elegance of Palm Beach meets modern culinary sensibilities of Miami at the first independent restaurant by chef Clay Conley. The design offers both intimate and energetic dining areas, while the menu is by turn familiar (wood-grilled burgers) and more adventurous (truffled steak tartare with crispy egg yolk, squid ink orrechiette). But they’re all good. Dinner daily. 561/833-3450. $$

café boulud—The Brazilian Court, 301 Australian Ave. French with American flair.

This hotel restaurant gives Palm Beach a taste of Daniel Boulud’s world-class cuisine inspired by his four muses. The chef oversees a menu encompassing classics, simple fare, seasonal offerings and dishes from around the world.

Dining is in the courtyard (not available during summer), the elegant lounge or the sophisticated dining room. • Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. 561/655-6060. $$$

café l’europe—331 S. County Road. Current international. A Palm Beach standard, the café has long been known for its peerless beauty, the piano player, the chilled martinis and the delicious Champagne and caviar bar.

Try one of its sophisticated classics like Wiener schnitzel with herbed spaetzle, grilled veal chop and flavorful pastas. • Lunch Tues.–Fri. Dinner nightly (closed Mon. during summer).

561/655-4020. $$$

cha cha’s—150 Worth Ave. Latin/Tapas. A variety of small plates, from Mexican tacos and

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Argentine empanadas to Spanish potatoes make up the menu of this elegant yet casual pan-Latin eatery. Though not every dish is successful, the best ones—crusty-creamy papas bravas, savory shrimp and scallion crêpe, buttery cauliflower and fennel gratin, and indecently luscious dulce de leche pot du crème—will make your taste buds do a happy dance. • Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/833-8800. $$

chez jean-pierre—132 N. County Road.

French. Sumptuous cuisine, attentive servers and a see-and-be-seen crowd are hallmarks of one of the island’s premier restaurants. Indulgences include scrambled eggs with caviar and the Dover sole meunière filleted tableside. When your waiter suggests profiterolles au chocolat or hazelnut soufflé, say, mais oui! • Dinner Mon.– Sat. 561/833-1171. $$$

cucina dell’ arte—257 Royal Poinciana Way. Italian. The wide range of items on the menu and the great quality of Cucina’s cuisine, combined with its fine service, ensures a fun place for a casual yet delectable meal—not to

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mention being a vantage point for spotting local celebs. • Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Outdoor dining. 561/655-0770. $$

echo—230A Sunrise Ave. Asian. The cuisine reverberates with the tastes of China, Thailand, Japan and Vietnam and is spec-ta-cu-lar. Crispy jumbo shrimp with soybean plum sauce is delectable, the Chinese hot and sour soup is unlike any other, and the Mongolian beef tenderloin is perfection. Sake list is also tops. This offsite property of The Breakers is managed with the same flawlessness as the resort. • Dinner nightly (during season). 561/802-4222. $$$

leopard lounge and restaurant — The Chesterfield Palm Beach, 363 Cocoanut Row. American. The restaurant offers excellent food in a glamorous and intimate club-like atmosphere. In fact, it’s advisable to make early reservations if a quiet dinner is the objective; the place becomes a late-night cocktail spot after 9. The menu is equally decadent. • Breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner daily. 561/659-5800. $$

nick & johnnie’s—207 Royal Poinciana Way. Contemporary American. Expect flavorful, moderately priced California-esque cuisine in a casual setting with affordable wines and young, energetic servers. Try the short-rib or jerk chicken quesadillas as appetizers, and don’t miss the four-cheese tortellini as a main course.

• Lunch and dinner Mon.–Sat. Breakfast Sun. 561/655-3319. $$

renato’s—87 Via Mizner. Italian with continental flair. This most romantic hideaway is comfortably buzzing in season and quietly charming all year long with Italian classics and a Floridian twist—like the sautéed black grouper in a fresh tomato and pernod broth with fennel and black olives and the wildflower-honey-glazed salmon fillet with crab and corn flan. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly.

561/655-9752. $$$

the restaurant — Four Seasons Resort, 2800 South Ocean Blvd. Contemporary American. With casual, yet refined ambience, The Restaurant is the premier dining venue at the

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MIAMI HOT SPOTS

Check out these five Miami-based restaurants drawing raves for everything from chef star power to cutting-edge cuisine to show-stopping presentation.

Azul 500 Brickell Key Drive, Miami, 305/913-8288 Clay Conley may have moved on to Palm Beach, but Azul, the chic, elegant dining destination at the Mandarin Oriental, hasn’t missed a beat under new chef Joel Huff, whose résumé includes stints with such culinary celebs as ludo lefebvre and José Andres. Huff brings Asian and “molecular gastronomy” influences (plus a touch of Thomas Keller) to the restaurant’s contemporary American menu in such dishes as “Bacon, Eggs & Toast” (suckling pig, tempura duck egg, black truffle potato puree) and almond gazpacho with foie gras “snow,” argan oil, orange essence and golden raisin pudding. The wine list is a cork dork’s dream, with multiple vintages from such legendary châteaus as Pétrus, Haut-Brion and latour.

zuMA 270 Biscayne Boulevard Way, Miami, 305/577-0277 This wickedly stylish newcomer to the Miami restaurant scene takes its inspiration from the casual Japanese dining style called izakaya.

The only u.S. zuma of seven worldwide, its plush, earth-toned interior, which boasts a main dining room, robata grill, sushi bar and sake bar/lounge, is as thoroughly modern as chef Rainer Becker’s take on Japanese

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cuisine. That can mean sea bass sashimi with yuzu, truffle oil and salmon roe; grilled king crab with ponzu lime butter; and spicy beef tenderloin with sesame, red chili and sweet soy. zuma, at the posh Epic Hotel, also boasts a terrace overlooking the Miami River and is even accessible by boat.

PuBBElly 1418 20th St., Miami Beach, 305/532-7555 From the neon pig’s head above the entrance to the pig logo splashed all over the restaurant, you might get the feeling that this “Asian-inspired gastropub” in an obscure corner of South Beach is all about pork. you’d pretty much be right. Pork belly with kimchee barbecue, bacon-wrapped dates, pork belly and scallion dumplings, and udon noodles with pork belly confit and poached egg are just a few of the piggy dishes on the mostly small plates menu. Of course, there is more, from oysters on the half-shell to Buffalo-style sweetbreads, all of it served in a cozy 45-seat space with an extensive selection of craft beers, sakes and boutique wines.

SCARPETTA 4441 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305/538-2000 New york celebrity chef and Food Network personality Scott Conant is the force behind this opulent Italian ristorante in the über-luxe

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Fontainebleau Hotel. Though no expense has been spared to create this swank, view-rich setting, Conant’s “Italian soul food” relies on prime ingredients and surgically precise technique rather than puffed-up “creativity” and showy presentations. The restaurant is probably best known for the chef’s deceptively simple (but surprisingly complex) “spaghetti with tomato and basil,” an astonishingly flavorful and rich-tasting pasta that is to the stuff at your local red sauce joint what a Rolls-Royce is to a bicycle.

DB BISTRO MODERNE 255 Biscayne Boulevard Way, Miami, 305/421-8800 Daniel Boulud’s second local restaurant (after Café Boulud in Palm Beach) is in downtown Miami’s upscale JW Marriott Marquis hotel.

The pair of dining rooms ooze big-city sophistication—modern but not stark, elegant but not pretentious—and boast soaring 18-foot ceilings. There’s also an outdoor patio with views of the Miami River. Boulud’s contemporary European-American fare shows off that kind of seemingly effortless sophistication, whether re-imagining culinary classics like vitello tonnato with tuna crudo and crispy sweetbreads or celebrating South Florida ingredients in slow-roasted grouper with royal trumpet mushrooms and smoked bacon jus.

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Four Seasons Palm Beach. Savor fresh Atlantic seafood in a contemporary setting complemented by innovative cocktails. Don’t miss the mouthwatering dessert selections. Live entertainment is featured on Saturday nights. • Dinner Mon.–Sun. 561/533-3750. $$$$

ta-boó—2221 Worth Ave. American. This self-described “American bistro” is less typical “American” restaurant or classical French “bistro” than it is posh-casual refuge for the see-andbe-seen crowd in and around Palm Beach. The eclectic menu offers everything from roasted duck with orange blossom honey-ginger sauce to dry-aged steaks and an assortment of pizzas. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/835-3500. $$ trevini ristorante —150 Worth Ave. Italian. Maitre d‘ Carla Minervini is your entrée to a warm experience, complemented by a stately but comfortable room and excellent food. We love the crispy fillet of herb-crusted sole in a rich, buttery sauce and the veal scallopini in a lemon caper Chardonnay sauce.

• Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/8333883. $$$ pAlm beAch gArdens

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cabo flats—11701 Lake Victoria Gardens Ave. mexican. Mexican cuisine often has more personas than Madonna. This highly stylized cantina adds another—that of California’s Chicano culture. All your favorite Mexican dishes are there, as well as enormous margaritas, but also niftier items like the terrific tuna ceviche in “tomatillo broth.” • Lunch and dinner daily.

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café chardonnay—4533 PGA Blvd. contemporary American. This longtime stalwart never rests on its laurels. Instead, it continues to dish finely crafted American/Continental fare with enough inventiveness to keep things interesting. The popular herb-and-Dijon-mustard rack of lamb, regular menu items like duck with Grand Marnier sauce, and always superlative specials reveal a kitchen with solid grounding in culinary fundamentals. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. 561/627-2662. $$ WellIngTOn pangea bistro—10140 W. Forest Hill Blvd. contemporary American. Add culinary influences from the tropics, Europe, Asia and Latin America to a trio of chefs from the Four Seasons Palm Beach, plus one Venezuelan designer-turned-restaurateur, and the result when U want to know

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is this smartly modern bistro that’s bringing a real sense of gastronomic adventure to Wellington. Every dish sports an element that will tickle your taste buds, whether crunchy Asian slaw on ahi poke flatbread or beguiling lemongrass-kaffir lime vinaigrette with a slab of various blackened fish. • Lunch and dinner Mon.–Sat. (Dinner only during summer months) 561/793-9394. $$

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west palm beach b.b. king’s blues club—550 S. Rosemary Ave. american. The restaurant at this club-dining spot won’t leave you singing the blues, but it will leave you wishing for more than a spoonful of the lusty flavors of its Southern/New Orleans cuisine. Punch up the flavors of pan-fried catfish and shrimp with jambalaya sauce and chickenfried chicken on a bed of mac ’n’ cheese, and you could let the good times roll. Buffalo wings, fried pickle chips and luscious banana bread pudding are good bets. • Lunch and dinner daily.

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cabana las palmas—533 Clematis St.

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Nuevo latino. With its bold, vibrant decor and flavors, this colorful restaurant is a treat for the palette and palate. Must-orders include mariquitas, thin, crispy plantain slices that are the irresistible Cuban answer to potato chips; cookbook-perfect ceviche of shrimp, octopus and calamari that shows how chili heat can be both fiery and subtle; and the signature “Coco Cabana,” a habanero and coconut milk-infused curry with a wealth of veggies, tubers and fat, succulent shrimp. • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/833-4773. $$

café centro—2409 N. Dixie Highway. Italian.

There are many things to like about this modest little osteria—the unpretentious ambience, piano nightly after 7 p.m., the fine service, the robust portions and relatively modest prices. And, of course, the simple, satisfying Italian cuisine.

The kitchen breathes new life into hoary old fried calamari, gives fettucine con pollo a surprisingly delicate herbed cream sauce, gilds snowy fillets of grouper with a soulful Livornese. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner daily. 561/514-4070. $$

china beach bistro—407 Northwood Road. chinese. South Florida may not be a hotbed of fine Chinese cuisine, but anyone who loves the incredibly diverse, sophisticated food of the Middle Kingdom should be fired up about this chic restaurant. From exquisite dim sum (like steamed chicken and mushroom dump-

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lings perfumed with kaffir lime leaf) to a superb version of Peking duck with impossibly crisp skin, tender meat and house-made pancakes, the food here is a revelation. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/833-4242. $

leila—120 S. Dixie Highway. mediterranean.

Flowing drapes and industrial lighting complete the exotic decor in this Middle Eastern hit. Sensational hummus is a must-try. Lamb kebab with parsley, onion and spices makes up the delicious Lebanese lamb kefta. Take your Turkish coffee to the patio for an arguileh (water pipe) experience. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sun. 561/659-7373. $$ marcello’s la sirena—6316 S. Dixie Highway. Italian. You’re in for a treat if the pasta of the day is prepared with what might be the best Bolognese sauce ever. Another top choice is the chicken breast, pounded thin and filled with fontina and prosciutto. • Dinner Mon.–Sat. (closed Memorial Day–Labor Day). 561/5853128. $$

pistache—101 N. Clematis St. French.

Pistache doesn’t just look like a French bistro, it cooks like one. The menu includes such bistro specialties as mussels mariniere, coq au vin and steak tartare. • Brunch Sat.–Sun. Lunch and dinner daily. 561/833-5090. $$ rhythm café—3800 S. Dixie Highway. casual american. Once a diner, the interior is eclectic with plenty of kitsch. The crab cakes are famous here, and the tapas are equally delightful.

Homemade ice cream and the chocolate chip cookies defy comparison. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/833-3406. $$

rocco’s tacos —224 Clematis St. mexican.

Big Time Restaurant Group has crafted a handsome spot that dishes Mexican favorites, as well as upscale variations on the theme and some 150 tequilas. Tacos feature house-made tortillas and a variety of proteins. Made-toorder guacamole is a good place to start, perhaps followed by a grilled yellowtail (an occasional special) with mango-pineapple salsa. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly.

561/650-1001. (Other Palm Beach County location: 5250 Town Center Circle, Boca Raton, 561/416-2133) $ umi fishbar + grill—2401 PGA Blvd. asian fusion/sushi. The tired Asian fusion genre is worked so carefully and sensitively here that it all seems new again. Choices november

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abound on the fusion and sushi menus, but highlights include fluffy Chinese-style pork buns with heritage pig filling, terrific Mexican-style corn cooked on the robata grill and Nobu-esque sake-miso-marinated sea bass that’s a symphony of delicate and lusty flavors. • Dinner daily. 561/472-7900. $$

top of the point —777 S. Flagler Drive.

Contemporary American. The food is not only good but surprisingly adventurous, and the service is exceptional at this Intracoastal spot.

Though there are plenty of steaks for the more conservative of palate, the edgier offerings, like smoky grilled octopus with “Catalan salad,” are definitely worth going out on a limb for. • Dinner Tues.–Sat. 561/832-2424. $$$

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Brooks remains a reliable source for fine cuisine.

Guests may choose from an à la carte menu or the more economical “complete menu,” which includes first course, entrée and dessert and a bottle of wine. There also are plenty of alternatives to seafood, including duck, rib-eye or rack of lamb. • Dinner Wed.–Sun. 954/427-9302. $$$

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15th street fisheries—1900 S.E. 15th St. Seafood. Surrounded by views of the Intracoastal, this Old Florida-style restaurant features seafood and selections for land lovers.

Entrées come with soup, salad, a sorbet course and fresh breads. We love the prime rib. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/763-2777. $$

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salon oasis make-over Contest winner Congratulations to Ray Schwartzberg, winner of the Salon Oasis Facebook make-over contest that included hair color, cut and style, manicure and pedicure, and makeup application by Salon Oasis, an outfit from Bloomingdale’s and an image evaluation and personal shopping experience by HLN, an image management firm. Thank you to Bloomingdale’s and HLN for the wonderful outfit and consultation!

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PorsChe desiGn: 40 years of iConiC style “If you analyze the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious.” In 1972, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, the founder of Porsche Design, made his vision a reality with a product that has become a design legend: the iconic Porsche 911. This design philosophy has inspired countless iconic creations until the present day.

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max’s Grille just had a faCelift!

One of Boca Raton’s most popular dining destinations for the past 21 years, Max’s Grille’s contemporary menu–with Asian and Latin influences, paired with a splendid array of wine–is updated daily and seasonally, but maintains its signature dishes. Come see its newly styled décor, with new flooring, decorative columns, refreshed color schemes, fine furnishings and a distinctive display kitchen.

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a week. We recommend the sautéed Florida red snapper or the indulgent butter-roasted Maine lobster. For dessert, try the popular roasted banana crème brûlée. • Dinner nightly.

954/765-3030. $$$

bistro 17—Renaissance Fort Lauderdale Hotel, 1617 S.E. 17th St. Contemporary American.

This small, sophisticated restaurant continues to impress with competently presented food.

The menu is surprisingly diverse, with everything from seafood chowder, burgers and pizza to cherry-glazed breast of duck. • Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. 954/626-1701. $$ bistro mezzaluna—741 S.E. 17th St. Italian. The bistro is all Euro-chic decor—mod lighting, abstract paintings. It also has good food, from pastas to steaks and chops and a wide range of fresh seasonal fish and seafood.

Don’t forget the phenomenal wine list. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/522-6620. $$

bongusto ristorante—5640 N. Federal Highway. Italian. This is a well-kept secret, featuring dishes that will meet the standards of those who savor authentic Italian. Mussels with scallions, garlic and heavy cream sauce is an appetizer highlight. Involtini capricciosi—tender-rolled veal stuffed with spinach, prosciutto and fontina cheese—is equally satiating, while the yellowtail snapper oreganatta melts in your mouth. • Dinner Tues.–Sat. 954/771-9635. $$

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by word of mouth—3200 N.E. 12th Ave. Eclectic. It’s not just the words from the mouths of satisfied customers that make this obscurely located restaurant so consistently popular; it’s the homey, satisfying food that goes into those mouths. The menu changes, but you can always count on home cooking with a gourmet spin, like pork tenderloin with raspberry jalapeno sauce, or coconut-crusted snapper. Go all out with any of a dozen or so unique desserts, cakes and pies. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Wed.–Sat. 954/564-3663. $$

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café martorano—3343 E. Oakland Park Blvd. Italian. What’s the magic that has people lining up? We pondered the question over crispy calamari in marinara sauce, tender meatballs and sweet-buttery scampi with huge shrimp, followed by intensely flavorful veal osso buco.

Our conclusion: explosive flavor, attention to all the details and fresh, high-quality ingredients.

Waiters whisper the night’s specials as if they’re family secrets. • Dinner daily. 954/561-2554. $$ when U want to know

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canyon—1818 E. Sunrise Blvd. Southwestern. Billed as a Southwestern café, this twist on regional American cuisine offers great meat, poultry and fish dishes with distinctive mixes of lime, cactus and chili peppers in a subtle blend of spices. The adobe ambience is warm and welcoming, with a candlelit glow. • Dinner nightly.

954/765-1950. $$ casablanca café—3049 Alhambra St. American, Mediterranean. The restaurant has an “Arabian Nights” feel, with strong Mediterranean influences. Try the peppercorn-dusted filet mignon with potato croquette, Gorgonzola sauce and roasted pepper and Granny Smith relish. • Lunch and dinner daily. Outdoor dining.

954/764-3500. $$ casa d’angelo —1201 N. Federal Highway.

Italian. Many dishes are specials—gnocchi, risotto and scaloppine. The veal chop is grilled and blanketed in a thick layer of Gorgonzola.

A delightful pasta entrée is the pappardelle con porcini: thick strips of fresh pasta coated in a light red sauce and bursting with slices of porcini mushrooms. • Dinner nightly.

954/564-1234. $$

chima—2400 E. Las Olas Blvd. Steaks. The

china grill—1881 S.E. 17th St. Pan-Asian.

“Less is more” is not the mantra of this huge edition of Jeff Chodorow’s iconic nouveau pan-Asian eatery. The food, too, is all about more—more of it, more flavor and more satisfaction with dishes like plum and sesameglazed lamb spareribs and deeply savory Korean-style kalbi beef. • Breakfast and dinner daily. 954/759-9950. $$$

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Senada, thank you for all your hard work in selling my unit at One Thousand Ocean. Getting it done in 6 weeks in a difficult market was extremely impressive. Your client and dealmaking skills are terrific and I enjoyed working with you both as a buyer and a seller” Len Potter, President, Wildcat Capital Management Senada Adzem | 561.322.8208 | Senada@EllimanFlorida.com 444 E Palmetto Park Rd, Boca Raton, FL | SenadaAdzem.com | EllimanFlorida.com

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The 12th Annual Caridad Center Gala

9/18/12 12:09 PM

Saturday , December 8 , 2012 6:30 pm Cocktails & Silent Auction 7:30 pm Dinner, Dancing & Live Auction For Tickets and more information

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Latin American rodizio-churrascaria concept— all the meat you can eat, brought to your table— is done with high style, fine wines and excellent service. The prime rib, sausages, filet mignon, pork ribs and lamb chops are very good. • Dinner daily. 954/712-0581. $$$

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café sharaku—2736 N. Federal Highway. Fusion. This Japanese-French restaurant features sophisticated offerings, from an ethereal bay scallop soufflé with an unctuous sauce Americaine to roasted duck breast with a divine port-foie gras sauce. • Dinner Tues.–Fri. 954/563-2888. $$

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Gingerbread Holiday Concert Featuring the

Lynn University Philharmonia Orchestra Sponsored by Bank of America Presented by Lynn University Friends of the Conservatory of Music

3 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012 Boca Raton Resort & Club - Great Hall 501 East Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida

Table sponsorships available (includes 10 tickets)

GOLD $2,500 ($2,150 is tax-deductible) SILVER $1,000 ($650 is tax-deductible) To become a sponsor, call 561-237-7745 or visit online at http://give.lynn.edu/gingerbread.

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OurTown celebrating people from all walks of life who make our community proud

The 30-MinuTe inTerview

Miera Melba dishes on what it was like competing on HGTV’s “Design Star” and much more during a half-hour conversation with Boca Raton.

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[ 1 ] The Delray Beach interior designer was one of 14 contestants this summer, culled from thousands of entries, on the seventh season of HGTV’s “Design Star” series. Each week, she took on a different challenge, which she completed with partners over 12-hour days, sheltered from all other media. The season’s only baby boomer, Melba was the first grandmother in the show’s history, turning 64 during the taping. “I certainly don’t act it or look it, as far as I’m concerned,” she says. “It’s not like I have a walker. Today’s 60 is the new 40.”

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The 30-minuTe inTerview (cOnT.) [ 2 ] Melba was the fifth competitor eliminated from the series. While she loved the experience of being on the show, her ouster was less than cordial. Her downfall was a botched wall unit and a personality that came off as bossy and frustrated—an image, Melba says, that the show’s producers chose to convey through editing. “I love life, I love people, I live by the Golden Rule ... I’m a much happier person than I

came across,” she says. “[I was] actually brought to tears, and you don’t like to break down in front of the camera.” [ 3 ] She also had a partner with

whom she did not get along.

“I don’t want to say anything too negative, but he was hard for me to bear,” Melba recalls.

“He was like Roger Rabbit. You hear me saying, ‘If you could just shut up for a second.’ He kept ... constantly cutting me off or interrupting me. My kids wouldn’t do that; I brought them up right.” [ 4 ] Melba was a design star

long before the show, enjoying

success with Miera Melba Designs, which she ran on Atlantic Avenue from 1976 to 2002. Her later work included a stint at Robb & Stucky in Mizner Park. She’s designed models for GL Homes and Toll Brothers and has racked up numerous awards for her style, which she describes as “elegant coastal living.” [ 5 ] Blue plays a large part in

Melba’s color schemes, and the pieces around her home testify to her Scandinavian heritage. She was born in Amsterdam, and her parents emigrated to the U.S. when she was 6 months old. Her

father was a window dresser for department stores. “He spoke broken English like you wouldn’t believe,” Melba recalls. “I used to put him on the speakerphone so everyone could hear him. They couldn’t believe I was Dutch.” [ 6 ] These days, Melba works

from home, where she’s had a client boost thanks to the show.

She hopes to launch a proper business again, with its own storefront. “I finally got the recognition that I’d been working toward all my life,” she says.

“I want to go back to interior design the way I loved it ... back to just having fun with it.”

boca by the numbers

Here are some of the figures connected to stories in this issue of Boca Raton.

(Go to the page in parentheses for more on this topic.)

No. 4 According to the federal Internet Crimes Against Children task force, Florida ranks fourth in the nation in volume of child pornography. (page 86)

45 million

Number of turkeys, estimated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that will be devoured on Thanksgiving. (page 71)

32.2 million

Estimated population of Morocco. (page 57)

7

Number of Carbonell Awards won by the Maltz Jupiter Theatre at the 2012 spring ceremony honoring South Florida regional theater. (page 66)

$27 million

Rumored amount of the insurance policy Jennifer Lopez took out on her behind, a claim she has long denied. (page 46) 204

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1 million+ Pounds of food that Boca Helping Hands expects to handle by the end of this year, a record for the organization. (page 144)

1,159,461 Estimated number of premature deaths worldwide that have been avoided thanks to the groundbreaking findings— including the role of aspirin in the prevention of heart attacks—by Charles Hennekens, the first Sir Richard Doll Research Professor at FAU. (page 90) november

Slice of

Burt richards

Life

founder, veterans speakers forum

During a four-decade run as a professional actor, his credits included a starring turn in an off-Broadway production of “Bye Bye Birdie” and appearances in “The French Connection” and “The Godfather.” But no role has gratified Burt Richards more than the one for which he was honored this past year.

As founder in late 2010 of the Veterans Speakers Forum, the former corporal in the special services (entertainment) division of the Army and Army Reserve seeks to educate and inspire his audiences about the men and women who’ve served our country. Richards has delivered his history-laced presentation, often accompanied by a war veteran, at schools, community and

religious centers and even a juvenile detention facility.

But his mission as Cpl. Richards doesn’t end there. Last year, he single-handedly launched a campaign that resulted in the county closing schools Nov. 11 for Veterans Day. His efforts resulted in special recognition from Palm Beach County’s school board and its board of county commissioners.

“I told the crowd that it was better than an Oscar, a Tony, an Emmy or a Golden Globe,” Richards says.

The self-described “mensch,” who likes to say that he “was the Fonz before Henry Winkler,” shares some wisdom with Boca Raton.

(E-mail Richards at pr.group@juno.com for speaker information.)

■ “I have a Vietnam veteran who tells the story about being [shot 13 times] by a Vietcong soldier. Most were superficial wounds, but one pierced his skull.

The bullet is still there; he’s deaf in one ear and blind in one eye. ...

So the medic that day pronounces him dead, and he’s placed in a body bag. But he was still alive—his body had just slowed down to preserve itself. When the helicopter landed hard, the jolt revived him—and he popped up in the body bag. He says the pilot probably still has nightmares.”

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■ “I don’t portray myself as a war hero, but I am a veteran. A veteran is someone who served his country in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard or Marines. You didn’t have to see action to be a veteran. There are cooks, mechanics, technicians and people like me— we’re all veterans.”

■ “Tenacity is my first name. If I can get schools to close down in two weeks when [county commissioner] Burt Aaronson couldn’t do it in 19 years, then I have a lot of balls.”

■ “Do your duty as a senator and congressman; close Florida schools for Veterans Day. Honor the men and women who served.”

■ “I talk about bullies and link it to history.

Japan was aggressive, it lost the war. Germany was aggressive, it lost the war. The Taliban?

Iraq? They lost. If you’re a bully in school, you’re going to lose.”

■ “A few years ago, some 20 World War II veterans were [awarded the French Legion of Honor] medal in Boynton Beach for [helping to liberate France] at the Battle of the Bulge. It’s an honor, sure. But you know what?

It’s also a lot of bullshit. They should have given them those medals 70 years ago.”

■ “I’ve found that many veterans could care less about medals.”

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Chrissy Biagiotti

community relations manager, city of Boca raton

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hrissy Biagiotti has held her current role for two years now, a position that was created when the city took over Mizner Park Amphitheater from Centre for the Arts, where Biagiotti had worked. “I went with the building,” she says.

Since then, she has been a large part of the Amphitheater’s growing profile as a community entertainment destination, juggling the demands of organizations seeking to rent the facility, formulating community programming and booking commercial concerts through AEG and Live Nation.

Biagiotti, 43, is on the board of the Cultural Consortium and is a member of the Junior League of Boca Raton. The Boca native’s background in nonprofits and grant writing initially brought her to Centre for the Arts, but she also has a passion for music—and a desire to shake things up a little.

“I would like to provide more variety than what has been done in the past,” she says.

“For example, we did the summer rewind, worked our way backwards and did something in every decade so we had [events that drew] young [parents], older folks and high school and college students. I’m trying to provide something for everyone.”

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In addition to her job— which she loves—Biagiotti let us ask her about a few of her favorite things: Workout: Five-mile run to the beach, several times a week Backstage moment: Trying to get Justin Bieber out of the facility after a Selena Gomez concert amid a mob of screaming girls (“We call it Biebergate,” she says.) restaurant: Vino Wine Bar & Italian Tapas, in downtown Boca

Jeans: Banana Republic skinny jeans saturday morning outing: Yoga in Sanborn Square handbag: Prada hand-me-down go-to place for a party dress: White House-Black Market salon: Salon Monaco with Steve Turner Personality: Doris Kearns Goodwin shoes: Flip-flops guilty pleasure: Chocolate getaway: Morada Bay, Islamorada

hammock Walks

family fun day

lucx discount

Price: Free Where: Gumbo Limbo Nature Center (1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton, 561/338-1473) What’s the deal? Grab your sandals and sunscreen, and head to Gumbo Limbo on Wednesday mornings at 10 a.m. for a free, guided walk along the nature center’s quarter-mile long boardwalk.

All ages are welcome. Meet at the boardwalk entrance.

Price: $5 (with museum admission) Where: Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens (4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach, 561/495-0233) What’s the deal? Bring your family Nov. 17, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., for Roly-Poly Doll day.

Craft and decorate Japanese dolls out of papier-mâché. Advance registration is required; this is for children ages 7 and older.

Price: See below Where: Lucx Boutique (307 S.E. Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton, 561/368-6364) What’s the deal? If your finds at the chic boutique in Royal Palm Place total more than $200, you receive $50 off. Spend $400 and receive $50 off—plus a $50 gift certificate to use in December.

Lucx’s boho tops and sassy cocktail dresses make perfect presents.

november

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tastemakers of delray beach

Where: Delray Beach about the event: Hundreds of South Florida residents sampled food and drinks along Atlantic Avenue during the fourth annual Tastemakers of Delray Beach. The two-day event was presented by Boca Raton and Delray Beach magazines (in partnership with the Downtown Development Authority). Attendees had an opportunity to sample culinary creations and wine/cocktails from 21 Delray restaurants, with a VIP party hosted by SoLita restaurant in Delray. A portion of the ticket proceeds benefited the Delray Beach Public Library Centennial Celebration. when U want to know

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[ 2 ] Steven Dapuzzo, Erin Carey and Adam Frankel [ 3 ] Ryan Boylston and Kay Renz [ 4 ] Priscilla Verdugo, Susan Campbell, Carmine Bucci and Efren Oyer [ 5 ] Jacquelyn Marks, Kate Weissing and Alyssa Ramsey [ 6 ] Steve and Melissa Zickl

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Boca’s Ballroom Battle

Where: Boca Raton About the event: More than 750 guests attended Boca’s Ballroom Battle at Boca Raton Resort & Club to cheer for their favorite community dancer. The annual “Dancing With the Stars”-like competition, themed this year around popular movie scores, judged participants on technical merit, artistic expression and overall performance. Beth Osborne and Richard Pollack earned top honors, and the coveted Mirror Ball Trophy, in their respective categories. The event raised a combined $290,000 in pledges for the George Snow Scholarship Fund.

[ 1 ] Darci McNally and Ramphis Horta [ 2 ] Kristin Calder and A.J. Molter [ 3 ] Mariya-Khristina Shurupova and Bob Gittlin [ 4 ] Lisa Pechter and Ivan Rivera [ 5 ] Pam Casanave and Richard Pollock

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honorable men in uniform

Where: Boca Raton About the event: The G.W. Bailey First Responders Charitable Fund raised nearly $5,000 to support paramedics at Palm Beach State College. The “Honorable Men in Uniform Cocktails for a Cause” event was held at Morton’s The Steakhouse as part of Boca Festival Days. The nonprofit’s mission is to help the paramedic school at PBSC with equipment, financial aid and other academic support.

[ 1 ] David Levy, Holly Barba, Tom Barba and Peter McGrane [ 2 ] Joe Gandolfo, Jordon Enliss and John Atwater [ 3 ] Kristin DeMauro, Steven Churchill, Karine Smith, Anne Brown and Tess D’Armetta [ 4 ] Jen Lodge, Penny Gubbay, Patricia Goroway and Kirstin Marzbanian [ 5 ] Gregory Fried, MaryAnn Fried, Suzanne Hayward and Hope Bruens [5]

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his way. He had fallen immediately in love upon seeing his wife in a hospital emergency room. They had married and had a daughter he adored. They’d bought a great house. He had a solid job.

“It felt like walking on sunshine,” he says.

One by one, the obstacles began to overwhelm him. The job market. Post-traumatic stress. Marital woes. Severe drinking. Eventually, as his bank account withered away and he waited to be ordered to leave his home, he fell into a walking coma of sorts. Marc was numb.

“I didn’t care,” he says. “I literally shut myself in the house until it was time to leave. ... I ended up getting into self-pity mode. ‘Well, there’s nothing I can do about it then ... [So] come and get it.’”

Finally, sitting behind the Dumpster with a beer next to him on the ground—and not a dime to his name—Marc finally realized what his life had become. He wanted it to become something else.

He took two buses to get to Delray Medical Center, where he detoxed. Then he turned himself in on a probation violation related to his domestic violence charge. He spent 30 days in jail.

He contacted The Lord’s Place, an agency that helps the homeless. He eventually connected with someone and was given a place to stay at the campus in Boynton Beach. He sought counseling and used resources to help with a job search.

His marriage, he shares, is on the mend.

He has been reunited with his family, and they are living at the family campus of The Lord’s Place. Marc is now working and saving for a place that he and his family once again can call home.

“Things are going so well now I can’t even explain it,” he said, even before the reunification and finding work. “It’s miraculous all the way around.”

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speedbumps [ by marie speed ]

Beyond Men In Black The idea of men’s fashion can be a liTTle unseTTling.

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n this issue we have a special men’s fashion section (page 152), a notion I find as foreign as it is intriguing.

Fashion was not something one associated with men when I was growing up. I know my great great grandfather was a haberdasher in Memphis, and I know my father was the first young man to wear pearl studs at a Philadelphia debutante party, an innovation that was duly noted in the local society pages—and mentioned at least 750 times by my mother as we were growing up.

Beyond that, I do not recall either my father or my big brother being remotely fashionable. In fact, on more than one occasion I saw my mother yank my father back from the door as he was attempting to leave the house.

“You are not going anywhere like that,” she would say, marching him back to their room to lose the Ban-Lon or change the socks or pull on a “decent” pair of slacks. (The man in the tux on the deb circuit had either reverted to type or had succumbed to whatever happens to people when they move to Florida and gradually slip into the pale underbelly of subtropical fashion, the rubber flipflops, the Guy Harvey T-shirt.)

My father was ostensibly a colonel in the Army (but really worked for the CIA) and wore a full uniform to work every day. I can remember being in seventh grade and begging him to let me iron his uniform pants one morning; he let me, despite the fact that I made the creases on the sides, not down the middle. And he wore them like that.

I think this proves that my father was singularly uninterested in fashion. He was certainly my hero and a great man of honor and wit and sophistication, but by the time I knew him, the pearl studs were an obscure footnote in history. He did not wear jewelry—not even a wedding ring. He wore a simple watch, old-fashioned Army-issue eyeglasses, and he went to a barbershop. I cannot imagine what he must have thought of men who used blow dryers or hair mousse or Grecian Formula. He had a legendary weakness for soap on a rope, but the notion of men’s fashion had become an oxymoron at best.

My brother isn’t much better. All I remember about him in high school was a flat top and big shoes; today, he wears anything that says U.S. Marines, despite the fact that he hasn’t been a Marine for decades. That is my brother’s idea of style: olive drab, a few good men.

So when this whole metrosexual thing arrived in 1994,

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and then morphed into the mainstream, I was genuinely curious. For me, it was like the discovery of a new species: men who had facials and went to salons and spent big bucks on Cole Haan loafers. They wore scarves and alligator belts and had suits made. They were beautiful.

They were David Beckham.

I even married two of them. The first had a closet that was color-coded, a whole drawer reserved just for watches, and outfits that were thematically composed to reflect season, locale and specific occasion. This spiraled out of control every now and then, like the time he showed up in a seersucker suit and boater at my AT&T company picnic, but it was mostly fun to watch.

Number Two liked to change his whole look every 90 days, from ponytail to shaved head, clean face to beard, back to face again. This should have told me volumes, but again, fun to watch. The bottom line was that both of them almost always looked better than I did—which was another clue that something was deeply out of alignment.

After all that, I’m a little leery of the whole fashion plate thing when it comes to men. I love Oxford shirts and cowboy boots and aftershave and khakis and board shorts—guy stuff—but when it crosses into Ryan Seacrest territory I start wondering where it’s headed. I start wondering what my dad would think. I start feeling a little nervous about my own closet.

I guess these days I find myself more drawn to the kind of guy you might need to yank back into the house, who forgets to match his socks or to iron a shirt. Who might, happily, have more than fashion on his mind.

A caricature of the author’s father, Hugh “Sonny” Speed, back in his fashionable days in Paris

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South African track star Oscar Pistorius

BLADE RUNNER The meaning of hope Takes on a new dimension.

“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”

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very now and then, you run across people who leave an indelible mark stamped in your mind.

These are the people who are true warriors, with a badge of courage in their hearts and a fierce determination to overcome the adversity that faces them.

I found one such person while channel surfing during the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The event was the semifinal of the men’s 400-meter race, and the field included South African Oscar Pistorius—a name that would become legendary after the world saw him compete.

Pistorius, 25, was born without fibulas in his lower legs, which [ by john shuff ] were amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old. From the start, he was different—but that difference extended far beyond his being a double amputee.

He was different because he never gave in to his disability; it only strengthened his heart—and his drive to compete.

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Pistorius fought the athletic establishment for years in an effort to compete against able-bodied runners at track and field events around the world. Most of the members of these groups believed his carbon fiber prosthetic limbs gave him an unfair advantage over other runners. Then, in 2008, an international court ruled that the super-charged Pistorius could compete in that year’s Beijing games—carbon fiber limbs and all. This decision, along with Pistorius’ mettle, has opened up a whole new world for athletes with disabilities. In the grueling 400-meter semifinal in London, Pistorius finished last in a field of world-class runners with a time of around 46 seconds.

Watching Pistorius compete through the sheer force of his will gave me an epiphany, a reminder that life is about the courage to get in the hunt and go for it. When I watched the competitors in the 400—world-class athletes from around the world—approach Pistorius and hug him at the end of his race, the message was even clearer. Never give up; it’s not about winning—it’s about trying.

For me, Pistorius was the heart, soul and true inspiration of the 2012 Olympic Games. He has climbed from the dark valleys into new heights, showing us along the way that any limitation can be overcome.

If there is a symbol of hope look no further than Oscar Pistorius. He is proof that, one way or another, we can all climb the mountain; it just takes the courage to try.

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