| For food lovers, dinner tastes Titanically fine
The original dinner may have ended in disaster, but exactly 95 years after the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, gourmet chef Adam Bernstein kept its first-class menu afloat. After taking the helm at Adam's Place in downtown Eugene, Bernstein instituted the dinner - now in its ninth year - selecting dishes similar to those that would have been served the night the White Star Line's luxury ship struck an iceberg during its maiden voyage in 1912. "I'm a little bit of a culinary history buff," Bernstein said Sunday as he prepared for the evening meal. "Historical menus are challenging: In this particular case, you're trying to go backward in time, trying to duplicate the world as it was, rather than make a new world." The former caterer for the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver, the Victorian-era home of the "unsinkable" woman who aided other passengers during the crisis, Bernstein said he enjoys cooking meals that harken back to the early 20th century.
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PIZZAS TOSSED WITH FUN
As a rule, I don't like barbecue sauce on my pizza. But at FatKats Extreme Pizza in Georgetown, I had to order the "Cowboy Extreme," barbecue sauce and all -- that's the pie that won the Midwest Regional Pizza Bake Off sponsored by Pizza Today magazine. I don't think I'd rate the Cowboy Extreme the best pizza in the Midwest -- but the combination of sweet barbecue sauce, tangy banana peppers, salty bacon and mild chicken surprised me. The flavors tangled well, making for a good, if non-traditional, pie. FatKats, which is just off Interstate 75 on Paris Pike in Georgetown, has been around for almost two years. The decor includes skateboards and roller blades tacked to the walls and helmets hanging from the ceiling. It's a casual atmosphere -- perhaps a bit too casual as the service is slow and there's a long wait for the pizza.
Business Report for Friday, April 20, 2007
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - A surprising stat for local tourism folks. Despite a nationwide slowdown in hotel use in February, Buffalo actually saw a bit of a spike. Already planned meetings and athletic events, helped push hotel occupancy rates up 7.3 percent, climbing from 50.6 percent last February to 54.3 percent this year. And for the two two months of the year, rates were up 10-percent. In Niagara Falls, it's a very different picture. Occupany rates dropped more than 16 percent over the same period. Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - The Buffalo metro area grew by 500 private-sector jobs in the past year. March employment data released by the state shows the area picked up 3,500 total jobs compared to 2006, an increase of just over a half-percent, but most of the jobs were added in the public sector.
No need to panic over Passover preparations
Colette Perfit prepared Moroccan chicken with olives, a Sephardic dish, and a roast with dried fruits, a nod to Ashkenazic tradition, for tonight's seder dinner for 13 at her Olivebridge home. "I'm a little stressed right now about it," Perfit said Thursday. "But it's worth it." The busy mother of a 5-year-old decided to enlist some help in the kitchen this year in the form of gourmet take-out. Perfit has purchased a layered roasted vegetable and matzoh terrine and an organic walnut apple haroset from New World Home Cooking in Saugerties, which made seder sides to go in the kosher style. The take-out menu, which included an Alaskan salmon gelfite fish and pans of potato kugel, advertised, "You make the brisket, we'll make the rest!" Perfit also asked her seder guests, many of whom are close family, to cook some Jewish specialties.
A Good Friday fish fry made special
During Lent, you can usually find a fish fry in most Metro Detroit neighborhoods. Chef Paul Hohendorf from The Ark at St. Ambrose in Grosse Pointe Park decided to give his parish's fish fries an upscale twist. Every Friday, he gathered several of his chef pals from various eating establishments and catering halls, and together they created seafood feasts. On Good Friday, Rob Imesch (Edibles Rex), John Fleming (Sindbad's/Zinc) and Fred Whaley (Roostertail) joined Hohendorf in mastering a spread that included baked and fried cod, sauted trout, an array of gourmet vegetable dishes, two soups, a salad bar and Cajun macaroni and cheese. "Usually, a fish fry means fish, fries and cole slaw," said Juliette Okotie-Eboh, who lives a couple minutes from the church.
Space Tourist Arrives Back On Earth
(CBS) KOROLYOV, Russia A Russian cosmonaut and an American astronaut returned to Earth on Saturday along with a U.S. billionaire whose paid voyage to the international space station ended with a landing on the Kazakh steppe.The capsule carrying Mikhail Tyurin, Michael Lopez-Alegria and Dr. Charles Simonyi, a Hungarian-born software engineer and former Microsoft executive, touched down after a more than three-hour return trip from the orbiting station, making what one spokesman at Mission Control outside Moscow described as a "soft landing."Dr. Simonyi looked ecstatic after rescuers helped him out of the capsule, which lay askew on the bleak grassland, and into a chair lined with fur for warmth. He smiled and grinned, shook a hand and spoke with the bustling support crew.He then crunched enthusiastically into a green apple a tradition after Russian space landings.Dr.
Taste of France awaits young chefs
Leading game and specialist food supplier, Braehead Foods, and wine merchant, Gourmet Classic, are inviting 50 young chefs from across the UK to join them on a 24-hour food marathon to visit Rungis, the world's biggest fresh produce market. The trip, which is targeted at junior chefs, will include dinner in Paris and a tour of the world-famous Rungis Market at 3am when it opens for trading. Managing director of Braehead Foods, Craig Stevenson, who regularly organises events to promote young talent in the industry, said: “Rungis Market is the world reference for wholesale produce. We work with chefs who are passionate about their produce and where it comes from, so we wanted them to see this incredible phenomenon. “It will be a fun 24 hour trip of seeing one of the food wonders of the world, eating out in Paris and sharing the experience with like-minded people." Rungis Market is spread over 232 hectares and is the major centre of commerce for chefs and food retailers from all over the world.
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