| City Life-Healthy Choices
While true that Hoboken boasts several gourmet health food stores and numerous yoga studios, New York City is the ultimate destination for finding healthy foods and taking care of yourself.
For example, a chain of stores called the Whole Foods Market are located near Union Square, Columbus Circle and in Chelsea. These stores provide a wide variety of organic products. Whole Foods Market resembles Hoboken's new Garden of Eden store, but is bigger, therefore providing a greater variety of baked goods and other healthy essentials.
In addition to healthy foods, the Chelsea Whole Foods Market has a separate store next door, Whole Body at Whole Foods Market, devoted to non-food items. The Whole Body store stocks vitamins and supplements. Exercise DVDs of all kinds, including yoga, tai chi and weight training can be found there.
Detailed report into business continuity practices in the UK food ...
An independent report by Cranfield University on business continuity management in the food and drink industry has been published. The study was commissioned by Defra to strengthen the evidence base for government policy and to encourage business continuity planning in the sector. The report concludes that the drive for efficiency and the just-in-time philosophy has progressively reduced stock levels throughout the supply chain with consequences for its resilience. The security of the supply chain as a whole is therefore more dependent on the availability of a range of sources and supply routes. Robust and resilient business continuity plans provide food and drink retailers with the measures needed to deal with any threat of disruption. The report also sums up the current state of business continuity management in the food and drink sector, finding that: * Business continuity is recognised as a rising discipline and is a growing concern.
Finally, Africa gets culinary attention
THE AUTHOR: Chef Marcus Samuelsson was born in Ethiopia, raised by adoptive parents in Sweden and now runs three Manhattan restaurants. THE BOOK: Hardcover, 344 pages, 250 colour photographs, 200+ recipes, Wiley, 2006, $47.99. THE FOOD: African, sometimes interpreted for Western cooks. THE POINT: Samuelsson doesn't offer this as a "definitive encyclopedia of African cooking," but as his "interpretation of Africa and its cuisines." THE QUOTE: "As life in the United States and Europe gets faster, more convenient and more isolating, Africa reminded me about the things that matter – friends, family, community and the sheer enjoyment of life. It's a state of mind that I hope this book will help you tap into wherever you are." THE GOOD: It's about time somebody paid significant attention to the unexplored diversity of regional African cooking.
BBC Announces Asia-Pacific Deals
SYDNEY/BRIGHTON, March 2: At the BBC Showcase in Brighton, BBC Worldwide announced that it had secured a deal with Korean mobile television broadcaster TU Media for Top Gear and had licensed more than 300 hours of lifestyle content into New Zealand. The Korea deal calls for the distribution of 39 hours of Top Gear programming on TU Medias Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (S-DMB) service. Launched in May 2005, TU Medias S-DMB service currently attracts almost 1 million subscribers. In New Zealand, meanwhile, BBC Worldwides Australasian arm has licensed more than 300 hours of cookery, lifestyle and factual programming to the Living Channel and its sister network, Food TV, including over 100 hours of first-run programming. Starting from March, some of the titles expected to premiere on Food TV are Celebrity Masterchef Goes Large (15x30), Saturday Kitchen 2006 (20x30), James Martin Digs Deep (10x25), Rick Steins Betjeman and Me (1x49) and United States of Reza (12x23).
Forum held on osteoporosis diet
Diet has a lot to do with minimizing the effects of osteoporosis. A public forum on the topic, and aspects of arthritis, is set for Saturday, March 10, 1 - 4:30 p.m., at the Cedar Hill Recreation Centre. The keynote speaker is endocrinologist and researcher Dr. David Kendler. To register, call 475-7121. Cost is $10 and includes refreshments. Below is a calcium-rich (approximately 290 milligrams per serving) recipe sent by Pearl Stewart, who helping to organize this event. IMPOSSIBLE SALMON AND BROCCOLI PIE Makes: 6 servings FOR THE FILLING 2 6 1/2-oz. cans salmon, drained 1 10-oz. pkg. frozen broccoli 1 1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese 1 cup milk 3 eggs 1/2 cup Bisquick baking mix 1/4 tsp pepper 1/8 tsp dried thyme FOR THE TOPPING 1/2 cup Bisquick baking mix 1/4 cup sliced almonds 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese 1/8 tsp garlic powder 2 Tbsp firm margarine or butter.
Former Wal-Mart Vendor Team Member Opens Recruitment Firm
SPRINGDALE -- If you're someone with no experience in selling to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. but have a notion you'd like to work for one of its vendors, don't come knocking on Marvelyn Stout's door."Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the world. This is not an account that you can just break into. You have to earn your position within the Wal-Mart supplier community," she said.Stout knows whereof she speaks. She spent 18 years working for two Wal-Mart/Sam's Club vendors and now has opened her own recruiting firm, called Stout Executive Search, in Springdale."We specialize in locating top-tier talent that currently sells to Wal-Mart and Sam's Clubs in all supplier categories. We connect the best and the brightest with companies that want the best and the brightest," Stout said.Her agency operates a little "below the radar" to protect its clients' privacy, meaning Stout doesn't interview candidates in public places but insists on meeting them one on one in the office.Taking a personal approach is what makes her agency different from other executive recruiting firms, she said.
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