| Business Owner Cooks Comfort Food For The Coast
Whether your definition of soul food is collard greens, cornbread or sweet potato pie, one Gulf Coast restaurant has it all. While Reynolds Gumbo House is not laced with fancy tablecloths or fine china, the Gulf Coast eatery has what some may consider to be world class cuisine. From banana pudding to corn bread, customers say it has all the soul food fixins. "I think it's a heart food. That's the way you feel when you come in here. It's something that you get a little tingly feeling over," says customer Tim Wold. Mary Reynolds is the brainchild behind the restaurant. Born in Vicksburg, the southern cook now calls South Mississippi home. But the owner says she'll never forget the story behind her success. "Yes it was hard, but we grew our own vegetables and we worked in the fields and that's why I learned to cook because I was small and my mom she just left me home to do the cooking so that she didn't have to do it when she got home," says Reynolds.
Smoke Out Delivery Dude for Fast Food
A knock on my door usually means one of two things: Either the Chinese food delivery man finally found my address, or my dealer wants to show off the latest Big Buddha strain he just got off some bro downtown for hella cheap. But unless Hermes is also sporting bloodshot eyes, I feel rude answering the door with a cloud billowing out of my living room. Smoking etiquette requires a sesh with my dealer for sure, but every time I'm handed my Kung Pao chicken, I wonder if a Trainwreck spliff would trounce my measly tip. Once in a while, some mad dasher from Domino's will give my roomies and me a "Smells good in here" or a "Looks like I got here just in time." I used to just neglect the small talk for what it was worth, but I've come to understand how easy it is to include your meal ticket into the rotation.
Cascadian Farms - Organic and Easy
Cascadian Farms started off as a small farm in 1972, farming organically on a few acres in the Upper Skagit Valley of Washington's North Cascade Mountains - hence the name. And now, they've expanded to become the leading grower, manufacturer, and distributor of a wide range of delicious organic products. Walk into any health food store and you can't miss them. Their name is on anything from granola bars, to breakfast cereals, to frozen blueberries, to pickles. That about covers all the basic food groups. It is reliable and convenient organic produce and food.
My favorite products are a staple for a weekend breakfast: frozen blueberries for pancakes and frozen Country Style Potatoes - they make hash-browns so much easier.
Dancing Dragon brings a taste of the Orient
RECEPTION pupils at Rookwood School celebrated the Chinese New Year in style by turning their classroom into a Chinese restaurant. They used traditional chopsticks for their meal of noodles with prawn crackers and spicy seaweed with lychees for pudding. The restaurant was part of their study of China and its culture. They had created a huge dragon for the classroom wall and even made their own Chinese hats for the occasion. Some also wore Chinese costume and made a banner for the grand opening of the Dancing Dragon Restaurant. They greeted every visitor to the restaurant' with very authentic cries of Gung Hay Fat Choy which means Happy New Year. "The Dancing Dragon restaurant was a wonderful way of bringing Chinese food alive for the children and rounded off a very interesting topic which they have all enjoyed very much.
Nobu's Recipe for Success: Serve Food the Way Mother Makes It
Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Slice 200 grams of raw yellowtail fillet into six, 4 millimeter-thick pieces; fan slices on plate, top with grated garlic and a slice of jalapeno chili; place coriander leaves at center and pour yuzu soy sauce around. Serve. Call it Nobu sashimi. That's how Nobuyuki Matsuhisa -- celebrity chef, cookbook author and actor (he played Japanese businessman Mr. Roboto in the 2002 ``Austin Powers Goldmember'') - - serves the dish at his Hong Kong outlet, which opened Dec. 24. ``It's how a mother would cook for her kid,'' Matsuhisa, 57, said in an interview at the restaurant in the Intercontinental Hotel in Kowloon. The ingredient that makes all the difference, he said, is ``kokoro,'' Japanese for heart. Matsuhisa needs a large heart to go around.
Fab food and fashion at Cape Town Festival
A host of South African stories will be screened at the Cape Town International Short Film Festival next week as part of the packed programme of the annual Cape Town Festival (CTF) launching this weekend. The film festival, which runs at the V&A Waterfront Amphitheatre on March 5 to 12 from 8pm-10pm, is one of numerous free public events during the CTF which ends on March 29. The eighth CTF kicks off tomorrow with a street festival happening in the central city as well as in Bo-Kaap from 12pm until 3am. Activities include an art route along galleries that will be open all night, outdoor art installations, food sculptures, night wrestling, ice sculpting and fashion parades. You've got to believe it The CTF's performance art schedule will include theatre and dance productions at all major theatres, including Artscape in town, the Baxter in Rondebosch and Athlone's Joseph Stone Auditorium.
SOCIAL IN BRIEF 2/3
“On March 1, we will destroy all of the unregistered Chinese soup spice confiscated from spice retailers on Nguyen Thien Thuat Street (Hanoi), as well as apply the highest fine," said Chief Investigator of Hanoi Department of Health Nguyen Viet Cuong.
According to Mr. Cuong, though testing results show that there is no prohibited ingredient in Chinese soup spice packages, smuggled products must be destroyed. Mr. Cuong also said that as late as February 28, investigators of Hanoi Department of Health still discovered another retailer selling this unregistered product.
Food and mouth diseases in Quang Binh has spread to 5 communes
According to Mr. Hoang Van Min, Vice Director of Quang Binh Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, 5 communes have been affected by cattle food and mouth diseases.
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