| This is Southern cooking, Mama Westbrooks style
As Elizabeth Westbrooks chopped collard greens during a food demonstration, her goal was to get the young and old alike to begin thinking more about the way they prepared Southern foods. Westbrooks, lovingly referred to as "Mama," spoke to Gainesville State College students on Feb. 12 during the Soul to Soul food festival and cooking demonstration. The event was an effort between the Gainesville State College Black Student Association and the Office of Minority Affairs to celebrate Black History Month. Along with Westbrooks, the BSA cooked homestyle Southern food to share with guests. Students cooked items such as fried chicken, potato salad, fried corn and fried fatback. Brittany Williams, Gainesville State College student and BSA member, made a fatback and a fried corn dish.
Japanese cooking made easy
Japanese cuisine is deceptively simple. To the uninitiated, sushi is just fish and rice rolled together, but in Japan sushi chefs study for many years before even setting foot in a restaurant. There, preparing fish is an art -- and learning it cannot be rushed. That's not to say, though, that Japanese food can't be done easily at home, as these recipes for Sake-Steamed Tai Snapper and Tofu Miso Soup show. They're from Keiko and Toshi Sakuma of Kaygetsu restaurant in Menlo Park, who usually make these dishes on their day off from the restaurant. The sake-steamed snapper can be put together in minutes, making it the perfect everyday dish. "It's quick and good and simple," says Keiko Sakuma. "We just bring in whatever we have left over from the restaurant and steam it." The Sakumas' restaurant serves Tai snapper sashimi, so they'll often steam the leftover heads instead of the fillets called for in this version of the recipe.
Spencer Country Inn, Route 9 Spencer, Mass
Nice early 2 drawer painted pine blanket chest; 3 drawer pine blanket chest; pine open top 2 part cupboard, 3 drawers +2 doors; pine 2 door cupboard; painted blue 1 door cupboard; 2 country step back cupboards; painted yellow 4 drawer bow front chest; dry sink; nice set of 6 period Chippendale dining room chairs; large period Windsor chair carved ears; Centennial hand made low boy chest; pine painted blue 3 drawer chest; primitive early blue 3 drawer chest; several period arm chairs; tilt top and round top candlestands; period tap table in red wash; country tavern tables; 2 low cupboards, 1 white +1 blue; several country stands; grained painted blanket chest; half dozen other blanket boxes in paint and natural; Victorian 6 drawer lock side chest; Victorian center table with carved fox heads on the corners; inset marble top table; station masters desk; gate leg table; yellow country slant lid desk; pie safe in grungy white paint, as found; bakers table; drop leaf table; secretary desk; marble top dresser; oak bookcase; oak side by side; oak and mahogany dressers; square oak table; several antique beds; bird's-eye maple chest with mirror; custom furniture including corner cupboards some age; clean couches; parquet top table with chairs and china cabinet; cherry poster bed; brass and iron bed; 80-S Ralph Lauren style cow hide chair; rugs; 2 1970-S vintage grandfather clocks; and more antique furniture.
US to review food containers and baby bottles
The National Institute of Health in the United States announced Thursday they will meet on March 7 with independent experts to discuss whether exposure to a commonly-used chemical in food containers and baby bottles could be toxic. Bisphenol A, also known as BPA, is used in making polycarbonate plastic food and drinks packaging and is found in five of the leading baby bottle brands. As part of their Chemicals Management Plan, Health Canada initiated a review in 2005-2006 of all research and toxicological data pertaining to BPA. The most recent Health Risk Assessment, conducted by Health Canada's scientists, found exposure to BPA from food packaging and baby bottles is well below the Tolerable Daily Intake established in 2002.
They pack up caring in a carton
After a long career in retail merchandising and marketing, Joseph Bombara, of Mt. Lebanon, retired from the corporate world, but soon found a different kind of job. He's working 20 hours a month as volunteer coordinator for a monthly food distribution called the Angel Food Ministries at his church, South Hills Assembly of God Church in Bethel Park. .
Only milk foods, essential drugs for postal delivery in Jaffna
COLOMBO: Since there are adequate stocks of food items in the Jaffna Peninsula due to the streamlining of shipments from Colombo Port to Jaffna via Trincomalee, Post Offices will not accept any food items to be sent to the displaced people in Jaffna, Post Master General K. Senadheera said. However, Post Masters have been advised to accept only essential drugs and infant milk food in 1 kg parcels only for postal delivery in Jaffna, he added. Senadheera said that the Commissioner General of Essential Services had requested him to despatch the 5,0000 parcels held up in Trincomalee Port to Jaffna without delay and as such steps would be taken to despatch them in 5 stages. .
Traditional Turkish cuisine served in luxury restaurants
For reasons still unknown, many restaurants in Istanbul will invoke traditional Turkish cuisine during the month of Ramadan. Despite the fact that there are many restaurants that specialize in different kinds of dishes, the number of those considered fine dining serving a variety of dishes is very low. Feriye Restaurant, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last year, is a special one among these fine dining establishments. Vedat Baaran, the chef and manager of Feriye Restaurant, studied tourism in university and went to Britain in 1984 for his Master's degree. He was impressed by the well-educated people working in London's food sector and decided to study the art of cuisine. While working as an assistant chef on the BBC, a chicken pastry recipe from the Aegean region helped him rediscover his own cuisine culture and guided his interest towards Ottoman and traditional Anatolian cuisine.
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