| Newcomers Sweep Chowderfest Judges' Awards
North Adams - A trio of first-time WinterFest Chowderfest participants captured the top awards decided by a judge panel during yesterday's day-long celebration of winter. Two of the winning restaurants are new to the city as well. First Time's The Charm Judges Award chowder winners are first place, Freight Yard Pub, second place, Red Sauce Ristorante, and third place, the Hot Dog Ranch. The pub is at the Western Heritage Gateway State Park, the "ristorante" is on Ashland Street, and the "ranch" is on State Street. The chowder-tasting event drew a large crowd to the Holiday Inn. Event organizer Rod Bunt, of the Mayors Office of Tourism and Culture, mixed and mingled with the crowd. "I'm ecstatic with the turnout," Bunt said. "This is one of the biggest crowds we've ever had." The crowd had their say in the chowder competition.
SUPER DREAMS: Nick Turnbull lives his childhood dream
Chicago Bears backup safety Nick Turnbull used to ride his bike past Joe Robbie Stadium as a child and tell his mother how he would be playing in that stadium one day. However, he never thought he'd be playing in Joe Robbie - now Dolphin Stadium - in a Super Bowl.
The former Golden Panthers safety's road to the Super Bowl XLI has been full of twists and turns.
Coming out of high school, Turnbull wasn't even eligible to play due to his grades and SAT scores.
Although he was taking night classes and studying to retake his SAT's, it reached a point in which he started working at Publix as a produce assistant. The former All-Broward safety drew interest from schools, such as Georgia, until they found out about his academics.
Although Georgia and other major universities stopped persuing him, former FIU head football coach Don Strock continued to show interest in Turnbull.
After ATV got stuck, dog was man's best friend
A Labrador retriever, Suzie helped rescue a Wise County man stuck in the mud and muck Friday morning on Eagle Mountain Lake, taking him blankets and hot packs to keep him warm. Chris Cromer, a first lieutenant with the Newark Volunteer Fire Department and proud owner of Suzie, said firefighters were called to the northwest side of the lake near a closed county boat ramp about 9:30 a.m. They found a man in his 20s stranded about 500 feet off the lake's bank, sitting atop a sunken all-terrain vehicle on land that is usually under water when the lake's levels are not so low. "You get that mud in your clothes, it sucks the heat out of you fast, and hypothermia can set in real fast," Cromer said. Unable to reach the man by vehicle, Cromer drove to his nearby home and picked up someone that he was certain could.
Whole Foods Market Moving Into Town
Whole Foods Market, an international retailer of natural and organic foods, signed a lease agreement with a Norwalk developer to open up shop at the former Handy & Harman factory. Handy & Harman, which operated in Fairfield for 87 years as a precious metals manufacturer at 1770 Kings Highway, announced it was shutting down in the summer of 2002 due to poor business and finances. In 2004, the company sold its 10.7-acre property to Summit Development for $8 million. The defunct factory was demolished two years ago. Summit Developers Director of Development Laura Woznitski confirmed that a lease agreement was signed early last week. "We are very excited about Whole Foods as a tenant, they have a wonderful reputation and we're excited about the level of quality they will bring as a tenant," Woznitski said.
Recipes and remembrances
A quick breeze through these tempting books and you'll want to add more vegetables to your plate. Midwestern fare just does not offer the variety of produce -- or uses of it -- that you'll find in any of these books about East Asian foods. Most of the new cookbooks offer more than recipes. Rich tales of family and historical notes, as well as beautiful photos, make them as fun to read as they are to cook from. "Bento Box in the Heartland/ My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America/ A Food Memoir," by Linda Furiya (Seal Press, 308 pages, $15.95). This is a memoir of growing up Japanese in an Indiana farm community, where the author was the only Asian in her school. While her school friends ate bologna sandwiches (which she envied), her mother provided rice balls and chopsticks in the lunchbox.
Nobu's Recipe for Success: Serve Food the Way Mother Makes It
Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Slice 200 grams of raw yellowtail fillet into six, 4 millimeter-thick pieces; fan slices on plate, top with grated garlic and a slice of jalapeno chili; place coriander leaves at center and pour yuzu soy sauce around. Serve. Call it Nobu sashimi. That's how Nobuyuki Matsuhisa -- celebrity chef, cookbook author and actor (he played Japanese businessman Mr. Roboto in the 2002 ``Austin Powers Goldmember'') - - serves the dish at his Hong Kong outlet, which opened Dec. 24. ``It's how a mother would cook for her kid,'' Matsuhisa, 57, said in an interview at the restaurant in the Intercontinental Hotel in Kowloon. The ingredient that makes all the difference, he said, is ``kokoro,'' Japanese for heart. Matsuhisa needs a large heart to go around.
Health and Wealth Lecture Draws Many in Chinese Community
More than 250 people flooded the auditorium of the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco to attend a lecture organized by UCSFs Asian Heart and Vascular Center. Part of the Health & Wealth Lecture Series, the Feb. 24 event commemorated the seventh day of the Lunar New Year of the Boar, which is known to many in the Chinese community as everybodys birthday. .
REO Horror Story: The Family Pet
The REO Horror story of Richard Williams, REO director with Annalee's Realty in Ohio, begins with a distressed property and a family that refused to give up. "We tried everything including cash for keys," said Richard. "But, these folks just wouldn't leave."Unfortunately, when the family did leave, they left a few precious belongings behind – namely their family pets. The pets, a few of which died of starvation, were not found until Richard checked on the property."We found an unlocked window," remembers Richard. "And, I started to put my son through the window so we could check inside the home. A few seconds later, my son shouted 'there's a dog in here.' " The neglected family dog, which is part pit bull, had been starved within days of his life. The sad thing for Richard was finding a few other pets that had already died.When a police officer arrived on the scene to file an animal cruelty report, he granted Richard's family an early Christmas present by declaring the dog -- there's.
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