| Ahimsa is TrimSpa for vegans
I've always imagined the invention of cuisine following the invention of fire in close succession. A caveman experimenting with sticks creates the first blaze, unto which his wife immediately throws a chunk of boar and voila — a culinary trajectory you can trace right to pot roast! But Ahimsa, New Haven's new raw-food vegetarian restaurant, seemed like an interesting detour, and, open-minded, New-Age vegetarian that I am, it appeared to be a welcome reprieve from the carnivorous world of Yale Dining Services. However, veggie friendly is not necessarily hunger abating, and as Ahimsa proves, hippy food politics can only go so far in terms of flavor. Ahimsa is located in a large ground floor space on the corner of Chapel and Howe streets. With sexy candle lighting and silk scarves partitioning the tables, Ahimsa seems the perfect date setting for an enlightened hipster love affair.
Time to Cook Up Entries for 43rd Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest
Yahoo! Food will host the official 43rd Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest web site at bakeoff.yahoo.com. Creative cooks must enter online between now and April 22, 2007, for their chance at the million-dollar grand prize. Only entries submitted via the web site electronic form will be accepted. All rules and eligibility requirements can be found on this site as well. There are five contest categories, and the judges will award the top recipe in each category a prize. One of the five category winners will win the $1 million grand prize and a GE Profile(TM) Double Wall Oven with PreciseAir(TM) Convection, plus their choice of $7,000 in additional GE Profile(TM) kitchen appliances. Combined retail value of Grand Prize is approximately $1,010,000. The four remaining Recipe Category Winners each receive $5,000 and GE Profile(TM) Double Oven Freestanding Range with PreciseAir(TM) Convection and two self-clean ovens.
Start your own food diary with a favorite recipe
Fond food memories are what make James and Kay Salter's new book, "Life Is Meals," a volume to savor. It's all about keeping a record of good food, good times, good friends. Today's main food story in the Your Life section is all about just that. What follows here is a recipe that would be our first entry in a food journal if we were to start one. It's for corn pudding, and we prepared it to carry to an outdoor meal on Thanksgiving, 2005, not even 90 days after Katrina. We were grateful for a turkey (fried outdoors), family members who had lived to tell the tale and for corn pudding constructed almost entirely from packaged foods. No matter; it was great. P.S.: The cheese and jalapenos were not part of the original recipe. MEMPHIS CORN PUDDING 1 box (8-1/2 ounces) Jiffy or your personal favorite brand of corn muffin mix 1 can (15-1/2 ounces) whole kernel corn with juice 1 can (15-1/2 ounces) cream corn 1 stick of melted butter or margarine 1 cup sour cream 2 eggs 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese 1 small can chopped green chilis or 2 tablespoons minced jalapeno peppers Mix all ingredients until blended.
FDA Rejects Medtronic Heart Monitor
WASHINGTON -- Federal health advisers recommended Thursday that the government not approve a novel implantable device designed to detect worsening heart failure.The recommendation to the Food and Drug Administration against the Chronicle Implantable Hemodynamic Monitor came on a 9-2 vote. The FDA isn't required to follow its advisory committees' advice, but it does so most of the time.A study of the device, made by Medtronic Inc., suggested it isn't effective.The Minneapolis-based company's device works by taking heart rate, temperature, pressure and patient activity measurements. The data can be downloaded by doctors in the office or securely transmitted to the Web for viewing.Medtronic is studying a defibrillator that incorporates the monitoring technology."We continue to believe in the benefit of this sound technology and intend to work in close collaboration with the FDA to define the appropriate path for approval," said Dr.
Kitchen Dish
GREEK CHIC Anthos (36 W. 52nd St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-582-6900) will open this Monday, serving creative, high-end Greek food. The restaurant, where Acqua Pazza was until recently, is a joint venture of restaurateur Donatella Arpaiaand chef Michael Psilakis, the team behind the recently shuttered Dona. The cuisine and service style are expected to combine Dona and Onera, Mr. Psilakis's Upper West Side restaurant. It served "interpretive Greek food" until he remade it into a more casual, traditional Greek restaurant, Kefi. Although Anthos's food will not be traditional, Mr. Psilakis said the flavors of all of the dishes would be recognizable as Greek by his immigrant mother. ARBOR DAYS Tree (190 First Ave., between 11th and 12th streets, 212-358-7171) is open, serving moderately priced food in a downtown, exposed-brick setting designed and renovated by partners Colm Clancy and Andrew Robinson.
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. .
Archeologists discuss work at Blackbeard's supposed pirate ship
"Historians have really looked at it thoroughly and don't feel that there's any possibility anything else is in there that was not recorded," said Mark Wilde-Ramsing, director of the Queen Anne's Revenge Project. "And the artifacts continue to support it." Wilde-Ramsing said a coin weight recovered last fall bearing a likeness of Britain's Queen Anne and a King George cup, both dated before the shipwreck, further bolster their position. So far, about 15 percent of the shipwreck has been recovered including jewelry, dishes and thousands of other artifacts. The items are being preserved and studied at a lab at East Carolina University, and eventually more will become available for the public to view, Claggett said. Nearly 2 million people have viewed shipwreck artifacts since 1998, including at a permanent exhibit at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort and at a maritime museum in Paris, project officials said.
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