| Food briefs: Chipotle to offer BurritoEZ program to mark Income ...
To mark Income Tax Day, if you're a Chipotle customer this weekend, you can estimate another $6 or so coming your way. Here's how it works: Buy a Chipotle burrito, taco, bol or salad on Saturday or Sunday; save your receipt; and fill out the 2006 BurritoEZ form at Chipotle. Then on Monday, bring back your receipt with the Chipotle tax form and get a free meal.New products GOURMET FISH: Chicken of the Sea International introduces its Genova brand of premium Italian-style tuna and salmon. Rich in omega-3 and low in fat and calories, the four canned products are solid light tuna in water, solid white tuna in olive oil, solid white tuna in water, and skinless boneless red salmon in water. The fish, in 6-ounce cans, is all wild-caught from deep waters. Suggested retail price is $1.99 to $3.99.
Pet lovers fire up the stove for Fido
That's been the reaction of many owners to the recalls recently of numerous pet-food brands manufactured by Canada-based Menu Foods. Millions of cans and packages of food have been yanked off store shelves - roughly 1 percent of the nation's pet-food inventory. Even if their animals haven't ingested any of the tainted food, the owners are panicking anew at this question: What will I feed my animal now? Christie Shaver of New York's Healthy Pet Gourmet (www.thpg.com), which makes custom fresh-food meals for dogs, has been deluged with calls from people who now are ready to make home-cooked meals for Fido. While the Menu Foods crisis was a powerful catalyst, she thinks common sense should prompt many to reconsider commercial foods, whether they are on the recall list or not.
Homes on Kitchen Kaper tour exude charm, individuality
Visitors to this year's Kitchen Kaper Tour will be delighted not only with the homes to be shown, but also its move from a weekday to a Saturday. And visitors also will walk away with lots of decorating ideas and a peek into the unique lifestyles of their owners. The five homes can be viewed during self-directed tours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 28. .
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.
PostScripts: Notes from the food world
On the Wilton company Web site, there's this line: "Cupcakes are the hottest trend on the planet." It links to www.cupcakefun.com, featuring Wilton's creative cupcake ideas with recipes and decorating directions. We'd like a taste of Wilton's Snickerdoodle Cupcakes with a bonus of cinnamon cream cheese filling - because snickerdoodle cookies are so great (and one of the most inexpensive of cookies to bake because butter is not required). As for equipment, Wilton offers Silly Feet! silicone baking cups. A package of four of the reusable flexible cups in bright colors costs $9.99. Reason for the price is that each cup stands on two big clown shoes. OK, some might prefer traditional pleated-paper cupcake liners, and Wilton has a bunch, large and small, some printed with celebratory themes.
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