| Tommy Bahama Rum to Debut at South Beach Wine & Food Festival
21/02/07 Tommy Bahama Rum, the new ultra-premium rum from Barbados, will make its much-anticipated debut at The 2007 Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival, February 22-25. This will be a chance for consumers to be among the first to "taste paradise." This exciting new entry into the rum category comes from Sidney Frank Importing Co., Inc. and Tommy Bahama. Tommy Bahama Rum comes in two delightfully distinct flavors: Tommy Bahama White Sand and Tommy Bahama Golden Sun. Each begins with the best blackstrap molasses and the cleanest, clearest water naturally filtered through coral stone. Tommy Bahama White Sand Rum is aged a minimum of two years in American white oak barrels. A clear, light-bodied rum, White Sand has a smooth entry and clean finish with hints of tangy, tropical fruit.
Overall Globe South listings
The following activities are taking place in the area this week. Future events are included as space allows. To list your organization's event, send information three weeks before the event to Miele@globe.com or mail to Pamela Teehan Miele, Calendar, Globe South, The Boston Globe, 1165 Washington St., Hanover 02339.Concerts Braintree: Borders Bookstore, 255 Grossman Drive. Feb. 16, 7-9 p.m. Randolph singer-songwriter and guitarist Patti DeRosa performs original acoustic music. Free. 781-356-5111, bordersstores.com. Canton: Open Book Coffeehouse, Canton Public Library, 786 Washington St. Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m., Friends of the Library host City of Roses, a folk music group featuring Linda Picceri, Michelle Tanguay, and Stephen Gilligan. Doors open 6:45 p.m. Admission $8.
Family, calories and support
Familyrapp.com is the perfect guide for family-based information on the Internet. The creators of this site like many Internet users became frustrated following endless links to nowhere on sites supposedly containing relevant material. The result of their efforts is this site, an online magazine for parents and carers of children between the ages of 3 and 13. Their overall aim is an admirable one, the aim to 'build a community of readers who would like to keep the idea of the family unit alive in a world which makes this very difficult to achieve'. Familyrapp is a weekly online magazine bursting with parenting articles to help you enjoy family life. There are nine sections including bookclub, healthrapp, rapp&go, kids books, pack&go, drugrapp, edurapp, foodrapp and e-shopping. So if you are looking for inspiration in the kitchen, advice on understanding Children's Medicine, or educational material for your children then this is definitely one site you should add to your Internet favorites.
Food calendar
Send information at least two weeks in advance to Food Calendar, The Detroit News, Features Department, 615 W. Lafayette Blvd., Detroit, MI 48226, fax to (313) 222-2451 or e-mail acooper@det news.com. Please include the date and time of the event, address and city, admission charge and a daytime telephone number for information. .
Archeologists discuss work at Blackbeard's supposed pirate ship
"Historians have really looked at it thoroughly and don't feel that there's any possibility anything else is in there that was not recorded," said Mark Wilde-Ramsing, director of the Queen Anne's Revenge Project. "And the artifacts continue to support it." Wilde-Ramsing said a coin weight recovered last fall bearing a likeness of Britain's Queen Anne and a King George cup, both dated before the shipwreck, further bolster their position. So far, about 15 percent of the shipwreck has been recovered including jewelry, dishes and thousands of other artifacts. The items are being preserved and studied at a lab at East Carolina University, and eventually more will become available for the public to view, Claggett said. Nearly 2 million people have viewed shipwreck artifacts since 1998, including at a permanent exhibit at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort and at a maritime museum in Paris, project officials said.
Pet ownership can be a pricey proposition
SAN FRANCISCO - Few pet owners consider the years of spending ahead of them when they first pick up that puppy with the limpid eyes, but the costs add up quickly. U.S. consumers spent $36.3 billion on their animals in 2005, up from just $17 billion in 1994, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association. That jump hasn't been fueled so much by pet-cost inflation as by human shopping weakness. ''There's a whole lot of new ways to spend money that you don't need to,'' said Stephen Zawistowski, executive vice president for national programs at the ASPCA in New York. ''All of the basic stuff you need for your dog or cat, they haven't really changed,'' he said, pointing to good food and veterinary care. But ''all of the other bling that's come out - that's for you, it's not for your dog.
A NEW CAMPAIGN FOR FOOD AID
A variety of politicians and activists are making a new attempt at tackling the perennial challenge of ensuring that needy New Yorkers can get the food to which they're legally entitled. From bureaucratic red tape to misinformation about eligibility, barriers stand between citizens and food stamps and efforts to lower the barriers and boost participation are underway. According to the Human Resources Administration (HRA), a total of 1,081,331 city residents were enrolled in the food stamp program as of this November. But there are another 700,000 New Yorkers eligible for food stamps and not receiving them, according to a report released last month by FoodChange, a nutrition advocacy group. Recent activist and political efforts are focused mainly on increasing participation among legal immigrants, because approximately a quarter of those eligible but not involved more than 180,000 people are legal immigrants.
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.
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