| Jada's Soul Food is Southern fare with a history
Call it Southern cooking, comfort food or soul food, it does more than nourish the body; it feeds the spirit with food made from family recipes passed down through the generations. Such is the case at Jada's Soul Food, owned by Linda and Jackie Clash. Jackie Clash's family is from Arkansas and he grew up in Chicago. Like many cooks, he grew up watching and learning from two gifted cooks (his mother and grandmother) as they prepared family meals. Linda Clash is Madison born and bred and handles the customer side of the operation. Together they prepare and serve "Southern cookin' with a difference you can taste," as the restaurant's sign states. "Jackie's passion for cooking began when he was 5 years old. He learned all the basic recipes and builds on them," says Linda.
Dollar Finally Responds To Strong Manufacturing Data
The US data coffers have been bursting at the seams for the past three sessions. However, where extraordinary surprises from some of the top market movers in the past two days have failed to budge the dollar, today's ISM report reestablished the connection and sent the greenback climbing. When the action started, EURUSD responded with a 40-point slide that broke through a short-term rising trendline and brought the pair to a 1.3155 low. For USDCHF, the pair moved to within a few points of marking a double bottom with the 2-month low 1.2145 before rallying 90 points. Against the British pound, the greenback pulled in for 90 point run peak-to-trough move to 1.9555, though the pair is still tracing out a wedge on the higher time frames. Finally, carry trade unwinding took USDJPY for another ride worth 190 points for those short from Asian session highs around 118.90.
Japanese takeout restaurant and grocery store to open
Haruki East, a Japanese restaurant on Wayland Avenue, will open Haruki Express, a small takeout restaurant and Japanese grocery store, at 112 Waterman St. in about a month, said manager Kazu Kondo.
The location, adjacent to Subway, will offer Japanese cuisine - mainly sushi - prepared on site for prices similar to those at the Wayland location, where a sushi entree costs about $10. There are no "definite" plans for food delivery, Kondo said, adding that he does not know how many people the location will be able to serve in a day.
Ben Wong, owner of Thai restaurant Spice - located nearby at 110 Waterman St. - said he wasn't worried about competition because Thai and Japanese cuisine are different. "I like it," Wong said of the new Haruki site. The restaurant is owned by his friend, Haruki Kibe.
Schools can turn to healthier fundraisers
Despite record levels of obesity in children and their family members -- and the health problems associated with excess weight -- school fundraisers regularly pressure children and their families to buy and consume junk.It's time for that to stop.Other aspects of the school environment are already improving. Schools are removing soft drinks from vending machines and lunchrooms are cutting the sodium and bad fats in the meals they serve.They have to.When Congress renewed funding for federal child nutrition programs in 2004, it for the first time required that school districts participating in the national school meals program put into place new wellness policies addressing nutrition and physical activity. Wellness policies must include guidelines for all foods served on school grounds during the day, with input from students, parents, school administrators, food-service workers, the school board and the public.Guidelines agreed on for school districts have to conform to -- or do better than -- federal-level guidelines for healthy eating.Foods served outside the school, however, are exempt.
FOOD-CUBA: Anxious About What to Eat
HAVANA, Mar 2 (IPS) - One of the main worries of the average Cuban family is food, which costs about two-thirds of their income, according to several studies.
"From the time I get up and go out to work every morning, I think about what I'm going to cook for supper at night," said a 40-year-old teacher, who is married, has two children, and looks after her elderly father.
The problems are different now than when she was first married in the 1990s, at the time of the economic recession when shortages were generalised. As critics of the U.S. blockade of the island, which has lasted four decades, have noted, it continues to have a deeply negative impact on Cuba's economy.
"Now there are many more goods in the shops and the agromercado (fruit and vegetable market), but we just can't afford them," said the woman, who spoke to IPS on condition of anonymity.
Tray feeder for the food industry
Advanced Dynamics is targeting the UK food industry with an exciting hygienic stainless steel version of its best selling LB-2 friction feeder. The company has been selling KoRa-Packmat friction feeders for many years, but this is the first time that it has introduced a food variant. Simple to operate, the trays for dispensing are placed onto a conveyor which then allows them to be filled with sliced food. The trays can be filled with a variety of food products including slices of cheese, vegetables and cut meats, all at a controlled feeding rate. The system then feeds the foam filled plastic trays through to a packaging machine for over-wrapping with a transparent or re-closable flow pack. In a recent German cheese installation, the machine was able to attain a massive 100 cycles per minute.
What's missing from many kitchen utensils? Just utility
Food writers are kept endlessly apprised of "advances" in cooking equipment. Unfortunately, the winners -- Microplane graters, left, and horizontal-blade vegetable peelers -- are far outweighed by the losers. I asked myself: What are the most useless kitchen tools I've come across? .
Wild Oats buyout a natural move
IT'S easy enough to bemoan the acquisition of Boulder, Colo.- based Wild Oats Markets by Texas-based Whole Foods as another case of a smaller company unable to cope with outside competition. In fact, however, the merger of two leaders in the natural-foods market strengthens a trend that not only offers a healthier food supply to American tables but a fairer financial return to farmers and ranchers in the bargain. After World War II, chain stores crowded out the "mom and pop" corner markets. These giant retailers were in turn supplied by a relative handful of food processors - and farmers often received low prices. The food was then often highly processed, losing much of its natural nutrition while jumping in price. A good example is the nation's meat supply, with most poultry and pork raised in giant facilities like the hog factories in eastern Colorado and shipped long distances.
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