| This 11-year-old is a truly gifted cook | | Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 1:16:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | CONCORD -- Chloe Rosen has been cooking for about eight years. She has cooked her way through many books, has taken classes, has watched hour upon hour of cooking shows on TV, and has restaurant kitchen experience. Despite all this passion, however, Chloe isn't certain she'll have a career in food. But she has plenty of time to figure that out. She's 11. Chloe can't remember exactly when she started cooking, but, she says, "There's a picture of me making a chocolate cake when I was 3." Today, in her family's airy, bright kitchen, she's putting the finishing touches on French onion soup, which has a crusty top of bread and cheese. A casserole of noodles, bechamel sauce, and Gruyere is in the oven. Freshly baked profiteroles, the cream puffs, will be topped later with chocolate sauce.... | |
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| | | Old but good recipes | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:19:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | Stephanie "Stephie" Leonard is fascinated with the past, collects antiques with a passion and it even shows in her cooking. She shares favorite recipes from as far back as 1909 along with some of her up-to-date ones.She grew up in a small town in Virginia with three sisters. "Poor daddy didn't stand a chance," she says with a smile. Her grandmother, who had raised 15 children, lived with them and taught Stephie how to cook from the time she could hang onto grandma's apron strings. Her great aunt Flora also had a hand in instructing little Stephie how to cook.Flora believed that tea could "cure everything from nose to toes," as Stephie told it. Small wonder that Stephie has come to be a tea expert, using a dozen different spice teas, herbal teas - you name it, she has it. Stephie worked as an account manager until she was sidetracked into interior decorating.... | |
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| | | Despite job, not a life of convention | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:20:43 AM by Blog57 Team | | CANYON COUNTRY - He started out a stagehand, working small cast shows in little theaters on Broadway. Now he's produced the last four Republican National Conventions and says he's ready for anything - as long as it's fun. "I think I have one more convention in me," David Nash said. "I've made each one a little bit better and I think I can do it again. It's not about the politics, he said. "I don't control who's speaking," he said. "I just control how long. My job is to make it look good." An autograph from Babe Ruth encased in glass is just part of a floor-to-ceiling memorabilia wall in his Sand Canyon office. He remembers getting it, albeit second-handedly. "My father was a stagehand in New York and the theater was doing a fundraiser for bonds during the war (World War II)," he said.... | |
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| | | Excitement builds for Taste of Home Cooking School | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:16:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | Now is the time to make plans to attend the Taste of Home Cooking School that will be in Sparta beginning at 7 p.m., Oct. 26, at White County Agricultural Complex. Tickets are on sale and are moving fast. The event will be a sell-out so first come, first served. The Taste of Home Cooking School is a live demonstration offering practical cooking tips for those searching for economical, quick-to-prepare weekday meals for the family, and the demonstration also provides sensational meal ideas for entertaining. Culinary specialist Michelle Roberts conducts about 40 shows a year and will be cooking up Fall Flavors before a sold-out White County audience. Taste of Home Cooking School has been educating and sharing recipes for more than 50 years, and they credit their success to offering useful, practical cooking information that applies to everyone, not just the pros.... | |
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| | | Ballot questions an interesting readFarmers Forum | | Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 3:14:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | My wife took a well-earned vacation last week and sent me away. I wandered south to check in with the "old folks" and caught up on some of Mom's good home cooking. I was looking things over during the trip and the crops are kind of "spotty." I saw some really nice corn and about the same amount that looked pretty sick. Soybeans were somewhat the same. They are picking corn in the Carolina's and the cotton is getting pretty close. I thought the citrus looked pretty good but the locals tell me it is too soon to tell. The cheapest gas I saw was $1.87 and that was in South Jersey on the way home. I always find a good price shortly after I've stopped and filled up. Maybe I'll start filling it half way so that when the cheap gas shows up I can at least get half a tank.... | |
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| | | 'Ugly Betty' star is sitting pretty | | Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 7:30:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | You could choose to focus on the way "Ugly Betty" looks. After all, the title of this new ABC comedy prods you in that direction. But there's something more meaningful cooking on this series than the fact that its star, America Ferrera, is hiding her beauty under bushy eyebrows, braces and a mousy wardrobe. "Ugly Betty," which centers on 22-year-old Betty Suarez, a homely college grad who grew up in the Queens borough of New York, has been called both a Cinderella story and an ugly-duckling, fish-out-of-water tale. Betty dreams of landing a plum job in publishing in Manhattan, perhaps at a financial magazine, and in the pilot, Betty sort of gets what she wants: She's hired as an assistant to the editor of fashion publication Mode. It's a "Devil Wears Prada" sort of setup that will pit her against the pretty people and their superficial world.... | |
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| | | Culinary kid: Cookbook author navigates the kitchen with a teen's ... | | Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 5:13:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK - ``Sam Stern has been a passionate cook for as long as he can remember. This is his first cookbook. It's brilliant.'' That succinct review on the inside jacket of ``Cooking Up a Storm'' is accurate, if somewhat immodest, for it was penned by none other than Sam Stern. That it comes off as mischievous rather than arrogant is a tribute to the talents of this spiky-haired 16-year-old from England, whose self-styled ``teen survival cookbook'' is captivating multiple generations of readers on both sides of the Atlantic. With its bright print, ample photographs, easy-to-follow directions and versatile menus, the book (Candlewick Press, $16.95) is the perfect gift for a son or daughter heading off to college. The recipes range from homey (Silver Dollar Pancakes) to exotic (My Friend Joe's Thai Green Curry), with plenty of vegetarian options.... | |
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| | | SATURDAY'S CALENDAR | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 7:25:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | Cooking Demonstrations & Events Crescent City Farmers Market 700 Magazine St., 8 a.m.-noon. Call 861-5898 or see www.crescentcityfarmersmarket.org. . . . German Coast Farmers Market Ormond Plantation, 13786 River Road, Destrehan. Produce, specialty meats, seafood and advice from Master Gardeners, 8 a.m.-noon. Call (985) 758-2593. . . . Gretna Farmers Market Gretna Market Place, between 3rd and 4th streets on Huey P. Long Avenue, Gretna. Produce, baked goods, wine, seafood, ethnic food. Hours are 8:30 a.m.-12:30. . . . Covington Farmers Market, side lawn of City Hall, 609 Columbia St. Farmers Market staff prepares grilled hot dogs, 10 a.m. Hours are 9 a.m.-1. Call (985) 892-1873. Southern Decadence Various French Quarter locations. The gay and lesbian celebration continues through Monday with parties, costume and dance contests, talent shows, nightclub acts and a parade.... | |
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| | | Last Looks At Some National Treasures | | Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 6:17:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Smithsonian museums have long been considered "America's attic," but surely it's the Museum of American History, stuffed with mementos of wartime, peace, play, popular television shows and musicians, highways, byways and banquets, that most deserves that title. It's the sort of place one wanders at will, sometimes awed, sometimes amused and nearly always beset by a stray recollection or other. But at the end of business Sept. 4, the museum will close for a major renovation scheduled to take two years (but remember, the work on the National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum complex took more than six years instead of the planned three). When the American history museum reopens, it will have a central atrium with skylight and grand staircase designed to showcase the Star Spangled Banner, less labyrinthine exhibit spaces, new elevators and additional restrooms, improved electrical, ventilation and alarm systems -- and, one hopes, better lighting and more legible captions.... | |
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| | | Reminder - BakeSpace.com Launched as First True Social Networking Site for Cooking Enthusiasts | | Posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:12:31 AM by Blog57 Team | | BakeSpace.com launched today as the first niche online community for cooking enthusiasts that combines recipe sharing with comprehensive social networking. While many culinary-themed websites offer recipes and message boards, BakeSpace.com is unique in that members can post, search and share recipes, customize their own "online kitchen," raid the site's "virtual pantry," make new friends, create blogs, upload photos and video, download coupons, and communicate in real-time with other members via instant messaging and chat. Today's launch comes after weeks of beta testing. New members can register in just a couple of minutes, and the site is totally free. "BakeSpace is designed for just about anyone interested in cooking, whether they rely on the microwave or like to prepare gourmet meals from scratch," said television producer/director and BakeSpace.com Founder Babette Pepaj.... | |
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