| Invitation To Good Cooking-Create great meals for 'Great Gatherings ...
Taste of Home Cooking School invites you to come to the the Douglas high School auditorium on Wednesday, November 14, when The Daily Dispatch hosts anevening demonstration of "Great Gatherings". The only coast to coast traveling cooking show in the country, Taste of Home Cooking School's nine culinary specialists are ready to stir up a cornucopia of vibrant fall recipes. Packing spatulas, spoons and seemingly all but the kitchen sink in her van, each culinary specialist will drive hundreds of miles to share preparation tips, plating techniques and palate-pleasing meals.Come harvest ideas for your next gathering as Culinary Specialist Jamie Dunn blends ingredients to create a selection of recipes for both small get-togethers and large celebrations. We know people who come to our cooking schools love to cook and love to eat great food, so every recipe prepared on stage will be given away at the end of the demonstration.Dunn will begin the show with Bountiful Brunch Gatherings.
Blais ends ‘culinary sabbatical’ — now what?
Molecular gastro guru Richard Blais is pretty tight-lipped about where he's been for the past five weeks; let's just say the chef isn't talking while the flavor lasts. Meanwhile, Element, the Midtown restaurant where he was executive chef, closed Oct. 4. But as we all speculate as to his whereabouts ("Top Chef?" "Iron Chef?" The official term he's using for his absence is "culinary sabbatical") he's speculating as to where to get his next paycheck. "I just got back into town late last week to find out that the restaurant had closed," the chef told us by phone. Blais and his bad-boy take on molecular gastronomy took over the failed restaurant's kitchen last spring, immediately developing a small but passionate group of followers. Emmy for East Lake 'Miracle'? East Lake's enviable transformation from a crack den shooting gallery to an expanding revitalized neighborhood that's become a national model for urban redevelopment now has another distinction — it's up for an Emmy.
Now global warming is even affecting The Rooney Bin
Late-night talk show hosts have had fun spoofing the climate change issue. Jay Leno suggested that global warming was the current administration's way to offset rising heating bills. But I didn't realize just how serious the situation was until David Letterman pointed out that experts "are predicting now that by the year 2050, we will be out of party ice." Well, that certainly could cool down the social scene on Florida's First Coast. - Ponte Vedra Beach writer Pat Bright summed up the controversy in her poem Conference on Global Warming: It was deemed necessary to cancel, The Conference On Global Warming. The reason that they gave: Snow and ice were forming. Pat, whose witty verse is oft reminiscent of the late Dorothy Parker, recently self-published Sailors and Women on the Prowl, No.
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