22 Questions From Yahoo!Answers That are So Dumb They're Awesome The world is a mysterious and perplexing place.The internet is an incredible wealth of information, though, and when dum-dums have a dumb question they need answered, they turn to the one source they can trust -- Yahoo!Next Don't ask me again.By Mitchell Nover YAKU by La Mar (500 Brickell Key Dr, Miami) is a chic outdoor bar and lounge from the Mandarin Oriental Miami’s award-winning restaurant, La Mar by Gaston Acurio.Giving Chef Diego Oka the space to be a little more playful on the outdoor terrace, YAKU blends multicultural ingredients with Peruvian cocktails, light bites, and a cozy waterfront gathering place from Thursday to Saturday nights.Conceptualized and designed by Chef Oka himself, the lounge is furnished with a selection of Peruvian-inspired textiles, sleek communal seating and bronze, terracotta, and colorful accents.Continue reading By Melanie Galarce Ceviches by Divino (46 Curtiss Pkwy, Miami Springs) is an inviting Peruvian eatery brought to you by the same chef behind the Divino Ceviche restaurants that you can find in Doral and Coral Gables.

The restaurant serves the best of classic ceviches and South American cuisine in an unassuming, relaxed ambiance with incredibly affordable prices.Continue reading Hi foodie friends, happy Friday!We’re excited to chill out this weekend and celebrate all things Dad in honor of Father’s Day!Do you guys have any fun foodie plans to share with your dad?If you’re anything like us, you’ll be hanging out in a backyard with some cold beer and some delicious grilling from the men in our lives that are always there to save the day.We hope that you have an amazing weekend with those special dudes and get to munch on a few extra calories.In the meantime, we leave you with a few fun foodie links from around the web!Continue reading By Mitchell Nover Looking for a new take on brunch?Well, the 52 by CORSAIR, the new signature brunch at Turnberry Isle’s CORSAIR Kitchen + Bar (19999 W Country Club Dr, Aventura) is a creative mix of buffet standards and rotating weekly a la carte menu that is waiting to be discovered.

Served from 11:30AM to 3PM on the weekends, the $45 per person package includes unlimited buffet access, choice of a made-to-order brunch classic, and bottomless mimosas or bloody marys.vaporizer pondok indah mallContinue reading Chef Masamoto Hamaya — Executive Chef, Dragonfly Izakaya and Fish Market Chef Masamoto Hamaya was born and raised in Japan.vaporizer pen paypalHe went to college in Arizona, but returned home to Tokyo to go to culinary school.pax vaporizer paintHe came back to the United States to embark on an impressive culinary career: Hamaya was Head Sushi Chef at Uchi, James Beard Award Winner Tyson Cole’s restaurant in Austin, Texas, and he has played key roles as Executive Chef at Ozumo and Executive Sous at the Michelin starred Ame in San Francisco.e cigarette vaucluse

Continue reading Hey there foodie friends, we’ve made it through what has felt like an eternal week with these gloomy Miami days and non-stop rain.e cigarette culver cityWe’re so excited that the weekend is here, even if the weather persists we’ll at least get to grub on some take-out and snuggle in bed while watching Netflix.mechanical e cigaretteIn the meantime, we leave you with a few fun foodie links from around the web to lighten things up a bit!herborizer vaporizer - sphereContinue reading By Mitchell Nover & Melanie Galarce For a second year in a row, Pubbelly Noodle Bar (1418 20th St, Miami Beach) has partnered with The James Beard Foundation’s Blended Burger Project to raise awareness for and benefit the project’s mission of healthy and sustainable cooking.relion vaporizer walmart

This year the series will feature an all-female chef lineup of guest chefs serving up their Summer Burgers from June 5th (today) through August 3rd.saige vaporizer x6 ktaGuest chefs include: Susan Ungaro, President of The James Beard Foundation, Roxanne Vargas of NBC 6-in-the-Mix, Alejandra Cangas of The Hungry Post, Chef Lorena Garcia, Chef Michelle Bernstein, Chef Ingrid Hoffman, Chef Dena Marino, Chef Janine Booth, and Laine Doss* of the Miami New Times.Continue reading By Melanie Galarce On March 1, the team at The Ritz-Carlton, Key Biscayne opened their newly renovated oceanfront restaurant, Lightkeepers (455 Grand Bay Drive, Key Biscayne).With modern, beachside décor, Lightkeepers aims to bring to life the history of Key Biscayne.Executive Chef Raul A.Del Pozo crafted an inviting menu influenced by the local fresh seafood and the fertile soils of the Florida Keys.A few weeks ago, Mitch and I were treated to a sneak peak of the newly launched menu and indulged in a tasting that left us dreaming of an endless escape by the sea.

Continue reading You guys, where has the time gone?June is here and so is the sweltering heat and humidity that accompanies the summer months in Miami.Good thing for us, there’s plenty of foodie fun to partake in – mostly in the comfy confines of the air conditioned indoors.On that note, check out our round-up below for the best of the Miami food scene this month.Continue reading By Caitlin Marino As a staple in the Coral Gables culinary scene and having recently expanded to a second location in the ever-growing Downtown Doral area, Bulla Gastrobar (5335 NW 87th Ave, Doral) is pushing to the forefront with a new, exciting offer to make Mondays the day you look forward to the most.Who looks forward to a Monday?” you say?Ladies and gentlemen, I present: Noche de Lechón.Yes, a night specifically dedicated to honoring Miami’s favorite dish, and – how I like to think of it – a reward for surviving the hardest day of the work week.If you have followed The Weed Blog for awhile, then you know that I love a good gravity bong hit.

In Oregon, my friends and I take ‘liters’ as we call them.It’s not the same as the traditional water-in-a-bucket style where you cut the soda bottle in half.We merely poke a hole in the bottom, which is much easier to operate, and the hits are massive.A lot of people refer to them as ‘aqua lungs’ or ‘waterfalls.’ For a step-by-step tutorial on how to make one, check out this link here.If you are like me, you have made caps for these smoking devices many, many times.They are a common gift for my friends when they have housewarming parties.They are also my favorite thing to bring on the road, because the caps are small and all I need is a 2-liter bottle and a knife and I’m riding the higher high.It doesn’t seem like they are that common, so it’s always exciting to introduce the device to someone new.The caps are not that easy to make.Punching a perfect hole into a cap so that it fits the metal bowl snuggly is not an easy task.Most of the ones that my friends make are not air tight, which affects the quality of the hit quite a bit.

When the bowl gets hot, it can affect the seal too as it melts the plastic.I’m not a doctor, but I’d imagine inhaling melting plastic is not a good thing.Another issue is burning your hand on accident when you untwist the cap.There are drawbacks to the gravity/waterfall bong, but I’m excited to say that with a new product on the market, you don’t have to experience those problems anymore.A company called AC Greebs created a product called the ‘Smoking Steel’.It’s a simple, yet genius invention.To be clear, I am not being paid for this endorsement, although I did get my hands on one of these for free.I am giving this product my full endorsement because I love waterfalls, and specifically, I love this product.It has improved my smoking experience significantly, which is a rare thing these days.Just when I thought I have seen it all, something like this blows my mind.If you are a fan of gravity/waterfall bongs, you will love this product.Plus, if your friends are big fans of gravity/waterfall bongs too, you will knock their socks off and they will consider you a legend.

I certainly know that was the case for me.Below is more about the Smoking Steel, which can be purchased at this link here:The Smoking Steel is portable, practically indestructible, and easy to clean.The design allows for an airtight fit in most plastic bottles of two liters or less without any threading or melting.The jetted airways provide efficient, milky pulls.It is made from the same material surgeons tools are.Carrying a Smoking Steel turns every corner store into a headshop.In short, it works really, really well, lasts forever, and is travel friendly.The first prototype of our Smoking Steel gravity bowl was created in 2001.More than a decade later, those first prototypes are still used daily.That’s a pretty rare thing.Where did the name AC Greebs come from?Like a lot of things in smoking culture, the gravity technique goes by many different names depending on where you are in the world.In Oregon, they are called ‘Aqua Lungs’ or ‘Liters.’ In our hometown of Richmond, VA the root form ‘Gravity’ eventually morphed into ‘Geeb’ which later became ‘Greeber’ or simply, ‘Greeb.’ Around that time in the late ’90s our neighborhood friend and Machinist-at-Large Andrew Crowder, affectionately known as AC, decided that a socket piece and a melted cap was not the full evolution of gravity smoking technology.

So on a lathe in his father’s machine shop, just like in a fairy tale, he made the first AC Greeb piece.It was made from brass, fit any bottle without threading, and it was a revolution.As evidenced by the amount of steel bolted to his bones, AC is not the type to go easy on anything.Like our ancestors, the piece has evolved from its rustic brass beginnings into the sleek, powerful workhorse that it is today; made from surgical-grade stainless steel, ready for anything, and always down.How do I use it?If you are not familiar with Gravities, Waterfalls, AquaLungs or Liters, you are in for a treat.The general premise is based on upcycling a resource almost anyone can easily find: a PET plastic bottle.From there, the idea is to use pressure from water escaping at the bottom of the bottle to pull smoke from a bowl that is lit at the mouth of the bottle.In this sense the water does the work for the lungs.From there you only need to remove the bowl and inhale.However, the Smoking Steel bowl is made to be versatile and modular, and as such your imagination is really the only limitation.

The two most common approaches are the Gravity method and the Waterfall method.A Gravity is more for the stay-at-home type, the Waterfall supports a little more mobility.What sized bottles does it fit?The Smoking Steel bowl fits almost any standard water-bottle sized plastic container you might find at any convenience store anywhere in the world.Is smoking out of a bottle unhealthy?PET is very stable at the temperatures the Smoking Steel is meant to operate at.The thermal mass of the bowl keeps heat from the direct flame and cherry from reaching temperatures high enough to cause PET to give off gas or melt.Any smoke that’s cool enough to put in your lungs is not going to be anywhere close to the temperatures that would affect PET.There is no difference between inhaling air or smoke (at room temp) out of a bottle and inhaling water or some other beverage out of a PET bottle.Some people have probably had experiences with PET where it smelled like chemicals – this is because they got the PET hot enough to melt or burn.

The Greeb is engineered to keep the heat away from the PET as opposed to old school methods that make it easy to melt the bottle with your lighter.That said, smoking anything isn’t exactly healthy.If you have concerns about some trace amount of nanites or some other chemical goblins getting into your smoke you may want to think about another form of consumption.We use the same high quality food-grade stainless steel used every day by food and pharmaceutical makers.Stainless steel was developed not to leach any chemicals or corrode in even the harshest environments.It’s what hypodermic needles and most surgical tools are made of.Best of all, it is suited for high temperatures well beyond what a lighter flame can reach.The other main reasons we chose steel are these: Steel will not shatter.Throw it in your backpack, drop it on the ground.Back over it with your car.Besides being food-safe and sanitary, you will not need to replace it.The weight of the Steel creates an airtight seal when dropped into a standard sized bottle without needing to thread anything.

Thread sizes can vary widely.The Smoking Steel skips that inconvenience with an exacted shape, diameter, and weight.Does the piece get hot during use?In our experience and through feedback from over 10 years of testing, you need to take at least 6 or 7 Gravities back to back (and we mean rapid-fire back to back) in order to get the piece even warm enough to notice.If that is something you are repeatedly doing, we should hang out sometime.Where are your products made?The AC Greebs Smoking Steel is an American product manufactured in our hometown of Richmond, Virginia.Many of today’s “high tech” smoking devices like vaporizers and e-cigarettes are often marketed as being somehow healthier or higher quality because of big price tags and the promises of new technology, but are often made from questionable parts and materials overseas and usually require burning synthetic materials or concentrates.Our design is as simple as it can get, extremely effective, requires no batteries or charging, lasts a lifetime, and our factory floor is about five minutes away from our front door.