| Delicious memories
Each and every one of us can remember a food-focused time - a holiday dinner, an anniversary, a birthday party - that was special, either because it approached perfection or because something bizarre marked the occasion. That culinary history bears preserving. Author James Salter and his wife, Kay, a journalist and playwright, have done just that in a book that will inspire lovers of food to attend more closely to those times and places they enjoy good things to eat. Think of it as "foodie scrapbooking," and seriously consider picking up a copy of the Salters' recent "Life Is Meals - A Food Lover's Book of Days" to get you started. That said, you really can begin your own food journal with nothing more than the suggestion of how it's done. Be advised that to get it as right as these two have will take time.
Broome, Tioga schools to serve the same lunch menu
Starting in September, elementary school students in Broome and Tioga counties will eat the same school lunch on the same day under a plan being developed by food service directors in Broome and Tioga counties. A coalition of 12 food service directors, who administer programs in 15 public school districts in Broome and eastern Tioga, plan a single, coordinated lunch menu in September for all kindergarten-through-fifth-grade students, officials said. The directors will prepare the daily menus that will be reviewed by Molly Morgan, a certified dietitian-nutritionist based in Vestal, said Mark Bordeau, director of food services for the Broome-Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services. Financial considerations are one reason for the centralized menu, Bordeau said.
THE FLINT JOURNAL FIRST EDITION
KATT WILLIAMS/MELANIE COMARCHO/LUENELL/RED GRANT, 7:30 and 11 p.m. April 7 (late show just added), Fox Theatre, 2211 Woodward Ave., Detroit. $48.50, $63.50, $68.50. (248) 433-1515. STEPHEN LYNCH, 7:30 p.m. April 14, State Theatre, 2115 Woodward Ave., Detroit. $29.50, on sale today. (313) 961-5451, www.livenation.com. Music =DIERKS BENTLEY/MIRANDA LAMBERT/ERIC CHURCH, 7:30 p.m. March 31, Dow Event Center Theater, 303 Johnson St., Saginaw. $27.75-$32.75, on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. (989) 759-1330, www.doweventcenter.com. BRIAN VANDER ARK, 8 p.m. April 5, Magic Bag, 22920 Woodward Ave., Ferndale. $12. (248) 544-3030, www.themagicbag.com. TYPE O NEGATIVE/BRAND NEW SIN, 6 p.m. April 7, Harpo's, 14238 Harper St., Detroit.
North San Diego County Times Community News Briefs: Anger seminar ...
RANCHO BERNARDO -- The Church at Rancho Bernardo will host an anger seminar for women called "I Am Woman ---- Should I Roar?" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 24 at the church, 11740 Bernardo Plaza Court.Noted author, speaker and marriage and family therapist Jesse Dillinger of TruSoultions Ministries will teach ways to identify the reasons why one becomes angry, how to handle anger (from one's self and others) and practical methods to overcome anger. Tickets cost $25 if purchased by March 11; $35 after. Register at http://www.trusolutions.org/calendar.asp. .
Pusser's going nationwide with Painkillers
Fans of the popular Pusser's Painkiller will soon be able to sample the fruity rum cocktail at locations up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Owners of the Annapolis dockside restaurant are creating a national Pusser's chain, with plans to launch two new locations a year for the next five to six years.
"Pusser's has a wonderful panache, a wonderful history," said Clyde Culp III, chairman of Caribbean Restaurant Concepts Inc., the company that runs the restaurant in the Annapolis Marriott Waterfront Hotel and holds the rights to develop Pusser's sites throughout the United States and the Caribbean. "We're not a made-up concept with a made-up story. We have a depth behind the brand that really has character to it. There's really an opportunity in my mind to have a national brand."
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