Winning a blue ribbon for creating the top key lime pie at the recent American Pie Council National Championships is just the icing on the cake for Lola Giunta. Last month she and her mother, Cindy Giunta, moved their 2-year-old business, which turns out pies, cookies, cakes and other pastry items from an obscure warehouse location along U.S. 19 in Tarpon Springs. Key Lime Yummies is now in downtown Palm Harbor, at the newly designed kitchen inside the Witches Brew, on Florida Avenue. ...more

December 19, 2009

It was 18 years ago that I last saw then-Cmdr. Kevin Cosgriff. I was climbing (actually hanging on for dear life) down a rope ladder over the side of the USS Robert G. Bradley into a pilot boat that would haul me back to Egmont Key as the guided missile frigate moved slowly in the dawn light just beyond the Sunshine Skyway. ...more

October 22, 2008

A favorite parlor game, "Last Supper," asks guests to consider their final meal. Not to be confused with death row inmates and their fondness for final repasts of tacos and cheeseburgers, this version of Last Supper asks you to contemplate a life well-lived expressed by your most sensual food memories. ...more

September 28, 2008

Cody's Original Roadhouse, a steakhouse, is set to open in mid-August in the former Remington's Steakhouse. ...more

July 23, 2008

Cody's Original Roadhouse, a steakhouse, is set to open in mid-August in the former Remington's Steakhouse. ...more

July 23, 2008

UNIVERSITY AREA - Cody's Original Roadhouse, a steakhouse, is set to open in mid-August in the former Remington's Steakhouse. ...more

July 17, 2008

Tattoo artist Bo Mencarelli chills out on a sidewalk chair near Duval Street's fish restaurants and beer-soaked bars, dragging on a cigarette and saying, 'What's up, brother,' to those who recognize the thin man with ink paintings on his arms. ...more

October 14, 2007