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Give us the finger-lickin'

So why are we thinking about barbecue in this frigid weather? How could we not? It's everywhere: Gourmet magazine recently touted Chicago's saucy sensation Smoque. Sheffield's is about to launch its own smokehouse. Even Carson's is expanding in Lincoln Park. To get you up to speed, we did a quick survey of top 'cue spots.

Lem's Bar-B-Que-House
The 'hood: Chatham
The scoop: This cue-stitution, started in 1953, has been slathering on sauce at this locale since 1967. "It's all in the sauce," says 78-year-old James Lemon, brother of the founders.
The meat: Sorry, brisket fans, only chicken and pork here.
The sauce: Mother Lemon's recipe from Mississippi, modified to fit Chicago tastes
The smoke: hickory, oak and charcoal
The special: None; but you can get a gallon of the famous sauce for $15.

International Chocolate Salon Comes to San Francisco in July

Chocolatiers prepared to satisfy the Chocolate Lover's every dream at the International Chocolate Salon event in San Francisco.

The Salon's participants include NEWTREE Gourmet Belgian Chocolate, Cosmic Chocolate, Lillie Belle Farms Artisan Chocolates, Cocoa Vino, Theo Chocolate, San Francisco Chocolate Factory, XOX Truffles, Grand Avenue Chocolates, MarieBelle Fine Treats and Chocolates, DeBrito Chocolate Factory, The TeaRoom Chocolate Truffles, Terra Nostra Organic Chocolate, Gelato Classico, Quady Winery, Le Creuset, Swissmar, Putumayo World Music, Chocolate Television, and much, much more.

This is hospital food?

Fruit cocktail isn't cutting it anymore. Neither are the salisbury steak and boiled peas.

Hospital patients have made it clear -- if they're going to have to eat food off of a plastic tray, it better not taste like one.

Perhaps the fastest way to solve that problem is with a chef -- not a food service manager, but a bonafide bechamel-sauce making chef.

That's exactly what happened at Bailey Medical Center in Owasso. Before the hospital was even constructed, officials decided that food would be a priority, and that Ryan Woodward would be the one to make that happen.

Woodward, fresh off a management position at Pei Wei, was hired as the dietary and catering manager at the hospital. His first responsibility? Hire a chef. Woodward talked to Barry Rashford, then executive chef at the Doubletree Hotel Downtown, about coming to Bailey.

County calendar - 4/5/07 Burlington County Times

Southern New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Net-work Connection lunch, noon, Caffe Aldo Lamberti, Route 70, Cherry Hill. No reservation required. Registration fees: $18; $30, nonmembers. Call (856) 424-7776.

"Sculptures, Monuments and Memorials of Burlington County," lecture presented by Joseph Laufer, 7 p.m., Burlington County Library, 5 Pioneer Blvd., Westamp-ton.