| Bosler Library auction returns for 50th anniversary
After a three-year absence, Friends of the Bosler Memorial Library is bringing back its traditional auction and gala for a very special occasion - its 50th anniversary.“We wanted to celebrate our birthday and a lot of people did ask for it," explains Carol Swift, who is co-chairwoman of this year's event.Indeed, for many years the elegant auction to benefit the library was a tradition in Carlisle. When the Friends stopped holding the auctions in 2004, Swift says, there was a public outcry.So when it came to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the organization's involvement with the library, the Friends committee decided nothing short of the auction would do.“I think it's really exciting to be a part of a commemorative event and bring back something that was always done in our area," says Kris Shulenberger, co-chairwoman.
Visit from celebrity chef is the Cat's meow
SPRING VALLEY -- For celebrity chef Cat Cora, walking into a Spring Valley home that she'd never before visited on Tuesday afternoon and whipping up a gourmet meal for 12 was a piece of cake. Actually, make that baklava. Pistachio baklava. "I do Iron Chef. This is fun. This is down time," joked the diminutive chef who turns into a powerhouse when she appears on Food Network's Iron Chef America, a cooking competition that pits celebrity chefs against guest chefs. Cora, with 11 wins and only three losses is tied for the best record with Mario Batali. Her appearance in Spring Valley was the prize awarded to John Handforth for winning the InSinkErator Dirty Dish Dash online sweepstakes. Handforth, who is retired after 38 years with a telephone company, played the contest every day from the time he learned about it in late January until the game ended in February.
Priceless projects
Walking through the doors of Liberty Christian School's elementary campus Friday was like walking straight into the 1950s. Decorations of vinyl records and old cars hung from the ceiling and even a table boasted ice cream sundaes and a red checkered table cloth just like the old soda fountains. .
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Gramercy Tavern
Recently, however, Anthony took over the kitchen at Gramercy Tavern (he replaced the divalike Tom Colicchio), and now, for the first time, he is conducting his own show on a big-city stage. With its calibrated, Pottery Barn-style dcor (twiggy flower arrangements; bright, Martha Stewart-type farmhouse murals; carefully stacked piles of wood along the walls), Gramercy Tavern has always been the most self-consciously twee of Danny Meyer's restaurants. In recent years, with Colicchio off starting restaurants and starring in a TV show, the cooking, especially in the main dining room, has been conspicuously adrift. But Anthony is an expert in the delicate arts of poaching and braising, and over the last several months, he has revamped the menu, filling it with subtle, slightly bucolic creations like lightly smoked lobster (decked with seasonal springtime ramps), crispy poached barnyard chicken, and delicious soups made with parsnips and strips of bacon or chunks of creamy heirloom cauliflower.
USEA Future Event Horse Symposium a Success
The USEA Future Event Horse Program kicked off its pilot program with a symposium featuring an impressive group of young sport horse prospects and their proud breeders who braved the blustery winds on April 9-10 at The Fork Stables in Norwood, North Carolina. The enthusiastic bunch gathered to listen and learn from some of the top professionals in the sport horse industry while sharing their own experiences working to find that next four-star champion. (Left: Denny Emerson speaks about the importance of breeding programs in the United States. Amy Daum photo)
This goal of this new pilot program is to help breeders and owners of future event horses promote and market their young stock from yearlings to three-year-olds. A second, and critical, feature of this program is the creation of a database of records, results, and pedigree information that will stay with the horse for its entire life.
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