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Tis the season when the breads don't rise. During Passover celebrations this week, Jews around the world will be eating unleavened breads, to celebrate the haste with which their ancestors left captivity in Egypt — so hastily, according to Exodus, that God ordered them to eat the first Passover meal dressed and ready for travel. .
It’s almost time to close the curtain on another piece of Naples ...
Pet rocks were all the rage, the world saw the first joint space mission between the U.S. and Russia, and the record of the year was “I Honestly Love You," by Olivia Newton-John. It was 1975 and it became a year to remember in Southwest Florida, when Julius Fiske, a retired New York businessman, and other investors opened the Naples Dinner Theatre on Oct. 7 with the episodic saga of “George M." When the theater off Immokalee Road closes its curtain after a final performance Sunday night, Naples will lose another bit of its history. “It's sad to see. But I guess that's just part of progress," said Collier County Commissioner Frank Halas, whose district has been home to the theater for more than three decades. The dinner theater joins a long list of other landmarks that Naples has lost in recent years.
At lunch with Jonathan Gold
William Booth of the Washington Post phoned up the new Pulitzer Prize winner and offered to buy him a meal at the spot of his choosing. It's the fun read of the day. "I'll be the chubby white guy with long red hair," [Gold] says. "You can't miss me." He is, as promised, Falstaffian in proportion, but he carries his girth well. He looks like a man who has eaten professionally, and with tremendous gusto, for two decades. He is wearing a black leather jacket and a faded yellow T-shirt that reads "Evil Taco." He does have long henna hair streaked with gray and a perpetual squint. He'd make a good pirate. The lunch place, which he is planning to review soon, is classic Jonathan Gold, meaning it is a mom-and-pop dive in the working-class neighborhood of Highland Park, a cafe called El Huarache Azteca, which boasts of its "el Chicano dog," and its sopas, tortas, tacos, pambasos, sincronizadas and platanos fritos.
Fresh off the grill: Love at first bit
Churrasco Grill, 137 N. Beverwyck Rd., Lake Hiawatha; (973) 263-1590. Hours: noon to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday; noon to 10 p.m. Friday; 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday; 4 p.m to 9 p.m. Sunday. Closed Monday. BY PETE GENOVESE STAR-LEDGER STAFF My thought when I stepped inside Churrasco Grill for the first time: Is this the right place? When you hear about a South American restaurant specializing in grilled steak and rotisserie chicken, you envision a small, smoky joint with a spit or grill out front. Churrasco Grill is a cozy, pleasant little place, with 11 tables, a smattering of paintings and photographs on the wall, and a grill nowhere in sight. That's in the back, where you can find cook and co-owner Jorge Castillo.
Easter Egg Hunt with Interflora.co.uk for a Chance to Win a ...
Interflora are rapidly becoming as well known for their range of fantastic, high quality chocolate gifts as they are for their wonderful flowers. To celebrate this Easter, there's a chance to win a hamper full of delicious Easter chocolate worth over £65 in their online Easter Egg Hunt. (PRWeb) April 3, 2007 -- Play the Easter egg hunt game online at Interflora for a chance of winning a fantastic Easter hamper full of delicious goodies from luxury chocolatier Lily O'Brien. The chocolate hamper contains a yummy selection of gourmet chocolate including two luxury chocolate eggs, a delightful milk chocolate bunny and a selection of boxed chocolates guaranteed to make mouths water, all of which are presented in a pretty Easter basket. In fact there's enough chocolate up for grabs, the Easter bunny could put his feet up this year and have a well earned break.
Dining calendar
Today, Oakroom at the Seelbach Hilton executive chef Todd Richards will offer a special selection of new items, creative interpretations of comfort and snack foods. The three-course menu, with seatings between 5:30 and 7 p.m., will cost $45. The first course will be a choice of smoked quail breast, rock shrimp and scallop nacho with black bean puree or a grilled chicken satay with peanut barbecue sauce. .
Vallejo Deluxe, Estate of the Day
We are back on Vallejo Street in San Francisco (see a previous estate there here) to check out another gorgeous mansion. This home was build in 1919 by architect Clarence Tantau for Benjamin F. Schlesinger a prosperous department store owner. The current owner, Cinthia Coletti Haan is only the fourth owner of 2090 Vallejo in 88 years and she spent many years restoring this home to its former glory adding gilding, murals and more to complement the grand space.The home has six bedrooms and grand public rooms such as a formal dining room, living room, , library, a recreation room with a wet bar, billiard table, fireplace and lounging banquette. The eat-in gourmet kitchen has a butler's pantry, three sinks, granite counters and hardwood floors. There is also a wine cellar, fur storage, and a three-car garage.
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