| Wine. Dine. Donate
Epicurious.com, the premier award-winning website for people who love to eat, announces the second annual Wine. Dine. Donate restaurant series to mark National Hunger Awareness Day-- Tuesday, June 5, 2007 -- with a weeklong series of benefit dinners held at five of the country's top restaurants. Epicurious.com's editor-in-chief Tanya Steel will host each dinner, which will feature courses cooked by the host chef and celebrity chef friends. Proceeds will benefit each city's local food bank through America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest charitable hunger-relief organization. This year's restaurant series schedule is: For more information and to purchase tickets to the dinners, visit http://www.epicurious.com/donate Epicurious.com, a CondeNet site, is a premier award-winning food Web site, which incorporates more than 30,000 professionally tested recipes from the premier brands in food journalism, Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines, as well as web-exclusive original recipes from top chefs and cookbook authors around the world.
Norwich: Orgasmic
With a name like Orgasmic this gastro-bar puts itself in a position where it's got to deliver - and good food is something you simply cannot fake. This is one of those places that attempts to appeal to all comers. On Friday and Saturday nights its rammed with lively revellers, but at lunchtimes and early evening, when food rather than lager and cocktails are the most common orders, there's an altogether different, laid-back vibe.Facing new competition on its doorstep, Orgasmic has recently undergone a bit of a facelift. A new spacious upstairs has been created giving extra leather sofa lounging space and room for more tables. While downstairs the place has become noticeably more restaurant than bar.To go with this there's a new menu - but don't worry, the gourmet pizzas, which you can actually watch being cooked in the wood fired oven, are still the star of the show.
Souflez whets appetite for cooking enjoyment
"(Cooking) is a dying skill that people are just getting excited about learning about again," co-creator Robyn Wilson said. If you need to learn a few cooking tips, Souflez offers classes for adults and children on how to make pastries, sushi and healthful meals. .
Real hunger more than an experiment
Often our "salad days" in college featured a constant menu of Top Ramen (10 for $1) on special and not that much healthy salad. Some of us might have been guilty of a little creative mooching, showing up at home right around meal time. Thankfully, most of us have forgotten the feeling of being hungry with nothing to eat. For most of us, hunger is what we experience now when we're trying to shed extra pounds from too much food.Oregon has made progress against hunber. According to Oregon State University's Rural Studies program, we were among the top nations for "food insecurity" in the 1990s, with about 5.2 percent of our population going hungry at least once a month. As of last year, that percentage is closer to the national average of 3.8 percent.As admirable as the First Couple's attempt to lead by example is, we wonder how many peole who make unflattering assumptions about povery and hunger (it would go away with some bootstraps-pulling) would try this challenge.Imagine a budget that allows nothing for coffee, fresh milk, ice cream, juices or butter.Protein comes from beans, peanut butter sandwiches and government cheese.
Dining room diplomacy on the menu
Assembly members and their staff may have been disappointed that they were unable to access their dining room offering such gourmet delights as pan fried monkfish with pancetta and pea risotto and grilled fillet of beef with celeriac roast, spinach and wild mushroom gratin.
But many were more than happy to swallow the previously unthinkable image of the Rev Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams sitting beside each other, having concluded a deal which will see power-sharing in six weeks. .
Business calendar
Best Home Based Businesses to Start: Greece Community Education. 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Greece Apollo Middle School, 750 Maiden Lane, Greece. $26. To register, call (585) 865-1010 or go to www.greece.k12.ny.us/commed.
Gregg Layer Xerox RIF Employees, Managing your Xerox 401(k) and RIGP while on continuance/Understanding your RIGP options/IRA rollovers: Marathon Financial. 6:30 p.m. 179 Sully's Trail, Pittsford. Free. To register, call (585) 419-2280. Job Corps Orientation: U.S. Department of Labor job training for 16-24 year olds. Call for details. Today and Thursday. Sibley Tower Building Suite 1125. To register, call (585) 454-5130, (800) 760-4577. Tuesday
Become a Notary Public: Greece Community Education. 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and May 1. Greece Olympia High School, 1139 Maiden Lane, Greece.
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