| Apples, wine and cheese
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. — MFK Fisher, culinary writer Our summer road trip turned into a surprisingly delicious gastronomical tour inspired, in part, by the World's Largest Apple. In August I flew to Toronto to meet my sister Lauren. She and her dog Eddie had departed Los Angeles a month before in her new Subaru to cross the continent at a leisurely pace. I had planned to meet her in Iowa, but was delayed. So we picked a city closer to the East Coast. The plan: shared driving, new experiences to refresh our work-weary souls, and quality time for sisters living on opposite coasts. Lauren is a city girl and award-winning animator inhabiting a loft in downtown L.A.
''Local, Sustainable, And Organic'' Panel At Western Food Service And Hospitality Expo To Be Led By Aaron Noveshen, ...
The Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo, held Aug. 18-20 at the Los Angeles Convention Center will, for the first time, host a Foodservice Forum designed by Chef Ferdinand Metz, who served as top Chef of the Culinary Institute of America for 20 years. Pledging to �go beyond food� in the design of the forum, Metz has asked Aaron Noveshen, founder of The Culinary Edge and president of Pacific Catch Restaurants, to design and lead a panel on the sustainable foods movement on Saturday, August 18 from 10:30 AM � 12:00 PM. The session builds on the standing-room-only panel discussion on organics, local food, and sustainability led by Noveshen at the NRA Show 07 in Chicago (May 20)., and features Laura Avery, farmers� market supervisor at the Santa Monica Farmers� Market; Michael Cimarusti, co-owner and executive chef, Providence; Andrew Hunter, vice president of culinary development at Wolfgang Puck Gourmet Express; and Anita S.
Learning Why the Cookie Crumbles
Melanie Wanders grew up in a family of cooks. She baked cookies and made caramel corn as a girl and worked in a country club kitchen during high school. She interned at the renowned Chez Panisse restaurant in California and received a bachelor's degree from the Culinary Institute of America. Then she jumped into chocolate making -- first in Los Angeles, then in Germany. .
Candidates pledge to fight cancer
Cedar Rapids, Ia. � Democratic presidential candidates vowed today to renew the "War on Cancer" that President Richard Nixon declared in 1971.
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich headlined the first-of-its kind forum, organized by the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
Armstrong, the cancer survivor and former bicycle racing superstar, helped question the candidates, who wore his group's yellow "Livestrong" bracelets.
The event at the US Cellular Center drew about 2,000 people, including many wearing the trademark yellow of cancer survivors. They watched as the Democratic candidates attacked the Bush administration for cutting research money to the National Cancer Institute.
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