The story of how one community, plagued by drugs and violence, where many children are fatherless, gave rise to so many stellar youth athletes.
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The simplicity of Cuban cuisine makes it surprisingly easy to prepare these bold and savory dishes for which the Versailles Restaurant is renowned.
Set the table and invite your family and friends to taste some of the most cherished recipes from Florida’s oldest restaurant--The Columbia.
Surfing Florida is a visual history of how the Sunshine State carved out a place for itself on the map of surfing meccas.
Furman shares his amazement at the beautiful and the bizarre of Florida, his adopted state. Over seventeen years, he and his family have shed their Yankee sensibilities and awakened to the terra incognita of their new home.
Divides the Miami metropolis into eight manageable neighborhoods, with helpful text boxes on deals, splurges, and inside scoops, so you can easily organize your trip and maximize family fun.
Peels back the actual and contextual layers of Walt Disney’s inspiration and vision for Disney World in central Florida, exploring the reasons why the resort has emerged as such a prominent sociocultural force.
By giving voice to these unsung individuals, Deeny Kaplan Lorber reveals the inner workings of Joe’s in this collection of fascinating, intimate vignettes.
With trenchant observations and witty prose, T. D. Allman takes readers on a tour of Miami’s people, cultures, politics, and neighborhoods. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition remains a classic guide to a city teeming with money, exotic cargo, illegal drugs, and immigrants from all corners of the world.
Gordon inspires the general and professional public to see Florida’s built environment as a rich continuum of history and identity that shaped and continues to impact Florida’s culture--from the mundane to the transcendent.