| Paula Deen Encounters 'Proud' Naked Man; Rats, Sysco Takes Over
Paula Deen is confronted with a naked man in a hotel and kindly gives him her newspaper to cover up with. Not the Food Network star we would have expected this story to be about. [NYP] Rats, big ones, have taken up residence at the KFC-Taco Bell on West 4th Street and Sixth Avenue, and WNBC has the video to prove it. [WNBC] A lot of New Yorkers are cooking up a storm for their Oscar parties. Personally, we think they would do better to heed Rob and Robin's advice, and just order out. [NYDN] Related: Oscar Night Delivery: East Side Edition Oscar Night Delivery, Part II: West Side [NYM] .
Barefoot Contessa likes to keep things simple
All of her professional tasks - shooting 20 episodes of Barefoot Contessa every year, testing recipes for her cookbooks, even "road-testing" meals for some (very lucky) friends - unfold at her Long Island, N.Y., home.
And with her trademark hearty chortle, ready smile, a vocal delivery with equal doses of natural warmth and "come hither-ness" and frequent recipe recitations that begin with "get out two sticks of butter," Garten makes Food Network viewers feel, well, right at home. If she doesn't like people as much as she likes food, she's one heck of an actress. Hers is the rare Hamptons abode where the hoi polloi might consider themselves welcome.
So the title of Garten's fifth book, Barefoot Contessa at Home, might seem a tad redundant. More telling is the subtitle, Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again.
This is Southern cooking, Mama Westbrooks style
As Elizabeth Westbrooks chopped collard greens during a food demonstration, her goal was to get the young and old alike to begin thinking more about the way they prepared Southern foods. Westbrooks, lovingly referred to as "Mama," spoke to Gainesville State College students on Feb. 12 during the Soul to Soul food festival and cooking demonstration. The event was an effort between the Gainesville State College Black Student Association and the Office of Minority Affairs to celebrate Black History Month. Along with Westbrooks, the BSA cooked homestyle Southern food to share with guests. Students cooked items such as fried chicken, potato salad, fried corn and fried fatback. Brittany Williams, Gainesville State College student and BSA member, made a fatback and a fried corn dish.
Photo: Edwina Pickles
As she finishes her postgraduate degree in teaching, Caroline Haid finds home cooking is the best way to entertain her food-loving friends. "I cook a lot because I've been at uni and not had heaps of money, so cooking's been an entertainment thing for us," she says. "All my friends are working as professionals and they like to go out to restaurants. I just don't have the money to do that, so when it gets around to my turn to host I'll buy a big fish and heaps of vegies, something like that." Her simple, eclectic home-cooked food is so good, Haid, 24, is often called upon to cater for friends' dinner parties. "For my friend's dad's birthday a few weeks ago, I cooked for 12 people. We stuffed and baked a big ocean trout and made these great mussels that my sister and I cooked with chilli and butter and white wine," she says.
Lilly Announces Changes For Storage of Diabetes Medication
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved new storage instructions for a diabetes medication developed by California-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Company. BYETTA injection pens can now be kept at a room temperature not to exceed 77 degrees F after first use. The new instructions will be provided to patients and healthcare professionals during the next few weeks.
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'A victim of fiscal fundamentalism'
With the jury out within Congress on the FM's fate, Left added to it by calling his Budget a "disappointment", a "victim of fiscal fundamentalism" which fails to "deliver resources to warrant its rhetoric that the Budget serves the cause of a crisis-ridden peasantry, the working people and poor"and address unemployment and inflation.
CPM even said it would move enough amendments since none of its advice has been heeded. There is also an indication that CPM was waiting for the budget to make a concerted attack on UPA's reform agenda and reform actors. Budget has only strengthened its resolve.
CPI said budget fails on two counts, mobilising additional revenue as well as making growth inclusive.
Party leader Gurudas Dasgupta said budget remains unconcerned about plight of agriculture and farmers committing suicide.
Potato soup uses coupon savings
Beverly Mills writes: It was my best coupon day ever. Thanks to those simple slips of paper clipped from the newspaper, my grocery savings (half the total bill!) locked up the cash register. The checkout clerk had to page the store manager to approve the sale. Grocery coupons can save you a bundle on food. But it's not always as simple as reaching for the scissors and the Sunday newspaper. Alicia and I did months of research on the ups and downs of couponing while writing our latest cookbook, Cheap. Fast. Good! (Workman, 2006). Some of our favorite tips: -You can save big when stores double (and sometimes triple) coupons. Many stores double only on certain days and for certain amounts, so watch the ads and plan accordingly. -Supermarkets coordinate frequently with manufacturers to put an item on sale the same week a coupon is offered.
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