| Old Colony Culinary Students Prepare Monthly Senior Lunch
Mondays, like most days at the Senior Center in Rochester, are a very busy time. In the mornings a group of about eight or nine artists gathers in the large communal room to paint together, sharing their work with one another as they create new pieces. One Monday a month at noon they finish up what they are working on to take a lunch break for the Rochester Council on Aging's soup and sandwich luncheon. The lunches are a part of a cooperative effort between the Rochester COA and the culinary arts program at Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School. Once a month during the school year a group of about a dozen culinary arts students from Old Colony, under the supervision of the program's director Scott Botelho, take over the kitchen at the Senior Center to share their cooking talents with the residents of Rochester.
Preserve Your Valuable Documents
(Family Features) - Top-secret, classified, highly sensitive, available only on a need-to-know basis. These descriptors conjure up images of CIA spy flicks and prime-time police dramas, but everyone has their own "classified" file - or should.We all have vital documents that should be treated with the utmost care and concern. Marriage licenses, birth certificates, wills, deeds, mortgage papers, insurance information, stock and bond certificates - these are just a few of the essential papers most Americans have on hand, but probably aren't caring for or storing properly.According to the document service experts at The UPS Store , there's no time like the present to update, copy and store your personal documents. In fact, The UPS Store franchisee Donna Evans recommends that people make copying important documents a yearly ritual.
Young chefs compete in Culinary ProStart Cup
Award-winning chefs Joshua Manzo, Belen Dorado and Samantha Sansom could soon be creating mouth-watering masterpieces at the finest Merced County restaurants. But don't offer them anything from the bar -- they're not old enough. The three chefs-in-training are juniors in Atwater High School's ProStart culinary program, where they learn all about the restaurant industry from a classically trained chef. "A lot of times (high school food classes) focus only on the cooking," said Mark Tadros, an executive and research chef for Foster Farms based in Turlock. "This program also teaches them hospitality management." Tadros' training was put to the test last weekend when his students competed in the California Culinary ProStart Cup in Sacramento. There the students were pitted against 34 other groups of high school chefs in an "Iron Chef" type of contest.
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Properly known as the Salesians of Don Bosco,
Today's trash is tomorrow's treasure, and nowhere is this truism more applicable than in the field of culinary anthropology: if you don't take your bottles out quickly, they'll soon form a big, stinking mess. But if you wait long enough, that pile of recycling could become a priceless collection of art, as well as a storehouse of historical information about the way we live and what we consume. This, effectively, is what happened at the Salesian Beer Museum in Prague. Properly known as the Salesians of Don Bosco, the Salesians are a Roman Catholic religious order known for their work with young people, running community centers and outreach programs around the world. In Prague, they have a youth center at Kobyliské náměstí, a beautiful functionalist complex housing a theater, soccer fields, basketball courts, a climbing wall and rehearsal spaces for young musicians.
Italy defends mozzarella, Japan blocks imports
ROME/TOKYO (Reuters) - Italy said on Wednesday only a small number of buffalo mozzarella farms had been found to be using milk tainted with cancer-causing dioxin, seeking to avert a food scare over one of its most famous culinary treats. Japan and South Korea have suspended imports of the cheese while the European Union has asked Italy for safety assurances after reports some of the cheese was made with contaminated milk. Brussels told Rome to respond by Wednesday at the latest. "Checks have been made on 132 producers and only in nine cases traces of dioxin have been found," Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema told reporters, saying international alarm over the mozzarella was "totally exaggerated and unjustified." .
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