| Gourmet coffee becomes latest office perk
The coffee break refuses to die. As more workers flee their cubicles to get a latte fix, the office coffee machine has become a forgotten stepchild. Of people who drink coffee at work, the percentage that drink the in-house brew dropped to 52 percent last year from 64 percent in 2003, according to the National Coffee Association, an industry group.Now, in hopes of keeping their employees on the premises - and sparing them the pain of a $4.95-a-day habit - some companies are trying new measures. First and foremost: upgrading the java.Employers ranging from Microsoft Corp. to law firms and plumbing contractors are ditching their old suppliers and hot plates and switching to Starbucks Corp. and its competitors. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc., a wholesaler based in Waterbury, Vt., says it saw a 29 percent increase in its office coffee sales in 2006.
Making the matzo
On the face of it, matzo brei is a humble dish -- so easy to make that a recipe is hardly needed: Matzo, the dry flatbread of Passover, is broken into pieces and meets briefly with water so it's damp, before being mixed with beaten eggs and poured into a hot frying pan sizzling with butter. Brei, which rhymes with fry, is from the Yiddish word briehn, or soak. And yet, no less august a food authority than Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, has called matzo brei "one of life's perfect foods." Reichl came to her post at Gourmet after many years as a restaurant critic, including several at the New York Times. The woman knows food.
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For aficionados, matzo brei is part-pancake and a kind of cousin to French toast.
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West Jordan team wins cast-iron bragging rights
SANDY -- When Scott Clawson was 12 years old, he saved his money and bought his first Dutch oven, practicing his culinary skills during camping trips with fellow Boy Scouts. "We would do all the cooking and the rest of the Scouts would do all the eating," said the 28-year-old West Jordan man. That youthful ingenuity paid off recently as he and younger brother Dave Clawson, 25, of Saratoga Springs, were named winners of the 2007 World Championship Dutch Oven Cook-off. Each two-person team had six hours to cook an entrée, bread and a dessert for a panel of local judges, which includes chefs, media and sports personalities. The Clawsons were the youngest of the 13 teams competing in the event, part of the International Sportsmen's Exposition.
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