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Cooking for a husband and three kids is challenging at the best of times. For Kumiko Drinkwater, the challenge comes with a twist. "We don't have hot water in the kitchen," Drinkwater says. "There's only a tiny sink, an old stove, and [until recently] we didn't have a microwave." Drinkwater lives with husband Grant and her three children in a "shack" on the beach at Stanwell Park, just north of Wollongong. A shortage of kitchen facilities hasn't dented the supply of hot meals from her kitchen, however. "She's one of the people in this area at home [while others are at work] and has made a big effort to look after the kids and make sure they have good food to eat," says Grant, Kumiko's husband of 17 years. KFC, or Kumiko's Fried Chicken, is a favourite with the Stanwell Park kids.
New gourmet pet supply will bake treats on site
A new gourmet pet treat and supply retailer Fort Collins Wagz plans to open at 132 N. College Ave. in the former home of Courtesy Pawn Shop (across the alley from the Town Pump). Wagz, owned by Matt and Christin Gauthier, plans to bake its own dog biscuits on site and offer a pet art gallery, organic and high-end pet food and accessories for people who love their pets. .
Kitchen provides recipe for tasty team building
The sales force and some managers here at CSBJ participated in an interesting team-building exercise last week at the Paragon Culinary School. The learning lab combines team-building strategies and techniques within a fun and practical hands-on culinary experience. After we all took the DISC (dominance, influence, steadiness, conscientiousness) profile administered by Dick Siever, director of the Paragon Learning Lab, we split up into groups to prepare a gourmet meal. Members of the staff whose test results indicated they are highly dominant were assigned to prepare the entrée; the folks tabbed as high influence prepared the soup and salad. As in real life, some people were given instructions about how to complete their tasks and some people were not. The soup-making team was given complete instructions.
• Carolinas on their minds Learn what your neighbors say are their ...
We asked veteran Carolina vacationers to share their secrets of the region: where to eat, when to go, what to see, where to stay. Plain Dealer readers responded with hundreds of recommendations, from the best Mexican restaurant in Corolla, the northernmost coastal town in North Carolina, to the best places to ride your bike on Hilton Head Island, in southern South Carolina. Suggestions included everything from the best time to go (September, when the crowds start to thin) to hurricane evacuation preparedness (September, remember, is also the heart of the hurricane season). Turn to pages XX and XX for readers' top picks along the Southeast shore. And then prepare to answer the call of the Carolina coast for yourself. To reach this Plain Dealer reporter: sglaser@plaind.com, 216-999-4240 .
Delta renaissance Community welcomes new growth while staying true ...
Downtown Pittsburg, long a fading and largely vacant pocket of Contra Costa County, was a bustling commercial center for a thriving industrial port in the early 20th century. Then -- about the same time the local Army base closed in 1954 -- commercial fishing ended, the canneries vanished and suburban malls began luring shoppers away. Eventually, what remained was a remarkably intact but underused collection of buildings, some quite grand. And poverty and crime filled the nearby residential areas. Now, three decades after 70 percent of Pittsburg was declared blighted and was included in a redevelopment zone, close to $500 million worth of public and private construction is under way or being planned at or near Pittsburg's historic core, and many locals believe a renaissance is at hand.
Can you have an ethical Easter?
IT'S EASTER, it's a bank holiday weekend - and best of all, it's predicted to be sunny. But celebrating Easter has a huge ethical cost, experts claim. Our insatiable demand for chocolate (we are expected to consume 80 million Easter eggs) raises serious concerns over waste levels, fairtrade and sustainability. Then there's the hundreds of thousands of Scots whose flights abroad are pumping pollution in every direction. Even the Easter dinner is under fire as the food miles clock up. Supermarkets are clambering over one another to show their green credentials, yet their Easter offerings fall short. A Sunday Herald survey found that Tesco and Sainsbury's have just one own-brand Fairtrade chocolate egg each, while Morrisons has none. Marks & Spencer has been quicker off the mark with a full range of organic children's lines, some 30 different products).
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