| Political coverage presented challenges from many quarters
As we, election reporters, toiled over our profiles, we kept an eye out for habits or themes in our candidates personalities that would explain to the readership something about who they are. Jerry Wade has his umbrella. Gary Kespohl has his Little League. Karl Skala has the vest. I covered Mike Holden, and Mike drinks yellow Gatorade. It was the first thing I wrote down about him at our first interview. He had it with him at his office, at candidate forums, nearly every time I saw him. No Rain, Frost or X-Factor flavors for Mike. Not even coffee, tea or soda. Of all the flavors and types of drinks in the world, Mike drinks the original lemon-lime Gatorade developed in 1965. That is Mike Holden. .
New Restaurant, New General Manager Put Sam & Harry's at ...
Just outside of Chicago, enjoy prime steak and fresh seafood flown in daily at the fourth Sam & Harry's restaurant in the U.S. -- part of the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center. Schaumberg, IL (PRWEB) April 19, 2007 -- Just outside of Chicago, enjoy prime steak and fresh seafood flown in daily at the fourth Sam & Harry's restaurant in the U.S. -- part of the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center. "We are very excited to have this restaurant as part of our hotel here in Schaumburg," said John Lampa, director of operations for the Chicago, IL hotel. "Sam and Harry's has a great reputation for delivering delicious cuisine, great wines, as well as impeccable service to its guests." Sam and Harry's started in Washington D.C.
Rotary Club delivers on service
Hamilton-Wenham Rotary Club has been heavily involved in community service since its inception about 25 years ago - living up to the objective of Rotary, which is to encourage and foster the ideal of service.
Dave Carey has been a club member for the past three years. "It's been a very easy way to get involved in community service and there are lots of programs going on," he said.
Carey said the club has a number of ongoing community service programs in the works, while many other programs have been completed.
"We recently painted and put a new star on the tank in the middle of Patton Park and we restored the gazebo in the middle of the park as well. We also painted and spiffed up the Wenham Museum," he said. "And we do a lot with the high school.
Bluffton mom loves keeping meals ‘Simple’
Brittany Kitt enjoys all aspects of cooking. From talking about recipes and food-related topics to preparing a meal for her extended family, she's all about cooking. "I grew up around cooking," says the Bluffton mother of four (Ethan, 10; Eli, 8; Evan, 6; and Elayna, 4). "Our whole family grew up with food, and we're just that way." Kitt's mother, Vickie Boots, owned the Sugar Shack in Poneto and made wedding cakes. Kitt would help her from time to time. Her mother is still creating wedding cakes. In fact, the children of those former clients are now calling on her for their weddings, says Kitt, who has 20 to 25 cookbooks and numerous food magazines. "I save all those Home Cooking and Taste of Home magazines. It's embarrassing," she says, laughing.
View from the Kitchen
In honor of our first chef-focused issue of QSR, we queried chefs inside the industry and out about what might replace the chipotle pepper as the next big ingredient in foodservice; which world/ethnic cuisine would most influence quick-service kitchens; which flavor trends stood a chance in the limited-service market; and which gourmet cooking technique was most likely to trickle down. The response we received contained common threads—Latin and Asian cuisine, sous vide, and braising. But there were some unique takes, too: references to sea salt, cherries, figs, and pestos. Rather than paraphrase, we decided to let the chefs speak for themselves. Here's what they had to say about… .
Visit from celebrity chef is the Cat's meow
SPRING VALLEY -- For celebrity chef Cat Cora, walking into a Spring Valley home that she'd never before visited on Tuesday afternoon and whipping up a gourmet meal for 12 was a piece of cake. Actually, make that baklava. Pistachio baklava. "I do Iron Chef. This is fun. This is down time," joked the diminutive chef who turns into a powerhouse when she appears on Food Network's Iron Chef America, a cooking competition that pits celebrity chefs against guest chefs. Cora, with 11 wins and only three losses is tied for the best record with Mario Batali. Her appearance in Spring Valley was the prize awarded to John Handforth for winning the InSinkErator Dirty Dish Dash online sweepstakes. Handforth, who is retired after 38 years with a telephone company, played the contest every day from the time he learned about it in late January until the game ended in February.
Tom DeLay gets Busted for Hypocrisy after calling Harry Reid a ...
Yesterday he accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of "getting very, very close to treason" for "announcing that we had lost the war" while soldiers are still "dying on the ground." Turns out he is a dirty, dirty hypocrite (thanks to the fine work of ThinkProgress). During the 1999 U.S. campaign in Kosovo, DeLay had no qualms about calling the mission "a mistake." He went even further on the House floor: "I cannot support a failed foreign policy. . . . President Clinton has never explained to the American people why he was involving the US military in a civil war in a sovereign nation, other than to say it is for humanitarian reasons, a new military-foreign policy precedent. Was it worth it to stay in Vietnam to save face? What good has been accomplished so far? Absolutely nothing." Replace "Clinton" with "Bush" and throw in something about WMDs and you've got a great critique for the current administration - precisely the same kind of critique Republicans are now blasting from Democrats.
Photo: Food Network Host Sandra Lee and Market Day Learn What Moms ...
ITASCA, Ill., April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Move over George Clooney! You may be America's Sexiest Man Alive, but dad remains the love of mom's life on Mother's Day. To view the Multimedia News Release, go to: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/marketday/27544 In a national Market Day poll, moms across the country were asked "what they want most on Mother's Day" and a special meal prepared by their husbands and children topped the list - beating out time spent with Hollywood's leading man George Clooney. "Moms today are too often caught up in the fast pace of a family's busy schedule or the financial constraints of motherhood, leaving them with little time to spend with the people they love most," says Sandra Lee, Food Network host, New York Times best-selling cookbook author and nationally acclaimed life and style expert.
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