| 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.
Take it easy on the butter, Herbs
There is no underestimating the serviceable restaurant. Foodies may flock like lemmings to the latest fab gourmet palace, but is that the place you're going to turn to when it's Friday after work, you're exhausted, there's no food in the fridge, and you need somebody to ask whether you'd like white or red? .
Bread pudding made in jiffy
Bread pudding doesn't have to be difficult. What started as a budget dessert to use leftover or ``day-old'' bread has become a gourmet, complicated dessert. But it doesn't have to be that way. Even a desperate cook can bake a beautiful bread pudding -- in fact, 12 of them. Today's recipe for Individual Cinnamon-Raisin Bread Puddings makes 12 servings with only about 15 minutes of active work. No double boilers, no standing over pots whisking and stirring, no temperamental, unpredictable maneuvers and no weird ingredients. It's just uncomplicated comfort food that even a novice baker can pull off in a jiffy. INDIVIDUAL CINNAMON-RAISIN BREAD PUDDINGS 1 lb. loaf cinnamon-raisin bread (see note) 4 tbsp. ( ½ stick) butter 2 cups heavy or whipping cream 1 cup low-fat or whole milk, or half-and-half .
Somi's closes down
Jenny Berven and Greta Krafsur of Fort Collins were disappointed Tuesday when they arrived at Somi's restaurant for lunch. The women, taking two friends out for lunch, pulled into an empty parking lot at 1544 Oakridge Drive, the corner of Harmony Road and McMurry Avenue. .
Priceless projects
Walking through the doors of Liberty Christian School's elementary campus Friday was like walking straight into the 1950s. Decorations of vinyl records and old cars hung from the ceiling and even a table boasted ice cream sundaes and a red checkered table cloth just like the old soda fountains. .
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