| Mount Dora targets gourmet appetites
A smorgasbord of restaurant specialties and wines will be the main attraction at the sixth annual Taste of Mount Dora from 5 to 9 p.m. May 6.
Booths and tables and chairs will be set up outside the Mount Dora Area Chamber of Commerce and Child's Park downtown for the culinary event. Organizers will block off Alexander Street and Fourth Avenue so patrons can go from one booth to another tasting small portions of foods prepared by restaurants and wine purveyors.
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Internet, Information About Food and Cooking
JupiterResearch has found the Internet to be an indispensable channel for food advertisers because 50 percent of online users are looking for food and cooking information online. Detailed in a new report, "Targeting Online Food Lovers -- Identifying Segments and Online Advertising Opportunities," JupiterResearch reveals that food advertisers should fully leverage the online channel and explore emerging opportunities around video and mobile content. Advertisers in niche categories including organic foods and gourmet foods must pay particular attention to the online advertising opportunity. Online food lovers that prefer to buy and eat gourmet foods, organic foods and 'good-for-you' foods are significantly more likely to use online food web sites than are online food lovers that say they primarily buy or choose their foods based on price.
Social Circuit
Last week, "Social Circuit" dropped a zero from the number of students served by Settlement Music School. The school, which has six branches in Philadelphia and Camden, annually serves 15,000 students. "Social Circuit" appears in the daily Magazine every Tuesday. Contact Caroline Stewart at 215-854-5747 or at socialcircuit@phillynews.com .
Gourmet shop hires specialty chef
The Purple Gourmet in Tulare announced it has hired Francisco Cuevas as a specialty chef. Cuevas, originally from Hanford, has worked for the Tachi Palace Hotel and Casino, Vons and most recently at Max's Artisan Breads in Fresno. The Purple Gourmet features homemade meals and specialty breads. It is located at 1687 Hillman St. in Tulare. .
5th space tourist goes into orbit on $25 million ticket
A Russian Soyuz rocket hurtled into orbit from Central Asia on Saturday bound for the international space station with two cosmonauts and U.S. space tourist Charles Simonyi. The liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan placed the Soyuz capsule on a course to dock with the orbital outpost about 2 p.m. CDT Monday. Russians Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov are a space-station replacement crew for American Mike Lopez-Alegria and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin. Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin have staffed the station since late September as the commander and flight engineer. Simonyi, a 58-year-old, Hungarian-born computer scientist, paid the Russians $25 million to accompany the new station crew. He will return to Earth on April 20 with Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin.
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