| Best Find: Snacks by the lb.
What it offers: Lots of candy stores have nut-caramel turtles and butter creams, but if you're looking for that candy necklace that made your neck sticky when you were 7, Snacks by the lb. is for you. The Feasterville store offers new-school and old-school candy. There are the gourmet chocolate-covered pretzels with toppings such as Oreo-cookie crumbles, but there are also Mallo Cups, Necco Wafers, and the wax bottles with the juice inside. The candy shop stocks sweets that cost between 10 cents and $24, the price tag for a pound of chocolate truffles. There is creamy homemade fudge made by co-owner Tracey Laiken that is decadently rich, and a wide variety of nuts, plain and roasted. There's more: Snacks by the lb.'s inventory goes beyond the sweet. There are greeting cards, gifts, candles, balloons, and jewelry made by Laiken, who studied glassblowing in Italy.
Kitchen provides recipe for tasty team building
The sales force and some managers here at CSBJ participated in an interesting team-building exercise last week at the Paragon Culinary School. The learning lab combines team-building strategies and techniques within a fun and practical hands-on culinary experience. After we all took the DISC (dominance, influence, steadiness, conscientiousness) profile administered by Dick Siever, director of the Paragon Learning Lab, we split up into groups to prepare a gourmet meal. Members of the staff whose test results indicated they are highly dominant were assigned to prepare the entrée; the folks tabbed as high influence prepared the soup and salad. As in real life, some people were given instructions about how to complete their tasks and some people were not. The soup-making team was given complete instructions.
Gourmet Chocolate Truffles Offered Online from Treat Mountain ...
Kansas City based chocolate shop, Treat Mountain, opens their online shop to offer selections of gourmet chocolates and truffles to customers nationwide. Treat Mountain Chocolates, a Kansas City based chocolate shop, announced this week the grand opening of its web shop at http://treatmountain.com. The new site will offer gourmet chocolate truffles, both dessert and bite-sized, and imported Belgian chocolate collections to shoppers that appreciate the convenience of shopping from home. Future offerings will be added as the website matures, and according to customer reviews and requests. In an effort to expand their services to a larger customer base, Kansas Citys Treat Mountain Gourmet Chocolates is now online at http://treatmountain.com. The online move comes as a result of Treat Mountain's business model, which is dedicated to reducing overhead costs and providing premium chocolates to their customers at prices that reflect that reduction.
Culinary calendar
Future Cougars of Color Dinner - Presented by Washington State University Future Cougars of Color, with Dr. Samuel H. Smith, WSU President Emeritus, Dr. V. Lane Rawlins, WSU President, keynote speaker, and Dr. Elson S. Floyd, WSU President Designate. Business attire. Thursday. 7 p.m., Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Road, Airway Heights. $150. (509) 335-7301. Spring Market - Downtown Spokane - Held Thursdays through May 3. Fresh-baked goods, flowers, pasta, wooden treasures, fresh eggs and more farm-fresh goods. 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Community Building lobby, 35 W. Main Ave. (509) 232-1950. .
Aged to Perfection
People who know Colby Hatch understand that she hates to cook. But she wasnt going to let that stand in the way of helping Alexandrias seniors.
Hatch, who is the supervisor of Aging Services, worked with Companion Coordinator Carol Stilley to put together Cooking with Friends, a collection 177 recipes from 30 staff members of the Department of Human Services. Proceeds from the $10 book will benefit the Eleanor Ager Host Fund, which supports the purchasing of food, medicine, clothing and other necessities for needy senior citizens.
We are always looking for new ways to raise money, said Hatch. And we thought this would be fun.
Hatch came up with the idea about a year ago, then began soliciting her colleagues at her Mount Vernon Avenue office building.
Pet food recall grows to include first dry products
A major pet-food label was added today to the expanding list of recalled brands while government investigators worked to determine why a substance found in some of has been sickening and killing dogs and cats.
Nestle Purina PetCare Co. said it was recalling all sizes and varieties of its Alpo Prime Cuts in Gravy wet dog food with specific date codes. The product also sells under the name Alpo Prime Entrees. Purina said some the food contained a wheat gluten contaminated with melamine, a substance not approved for use in food.
The gluten was provided to Purina by the same company that supplied Menu Foods, of Canada, which has already recalled 60 million containers of wet dog and cat food it manufactures under 100 different brands.
The recalled 13.2-ounce and 22-ounce ALPO Prime Cuts cans and 6-, 8-, 12- and 24-can ALPO Prime Cuts Variety Packs have four-digit code dates of 7037 through 7053, followed by the plant code 1159.
Chain Reaction
There's a new Peet's Coffee and Tea under the white sheet, which doesn't exactly rank up there with the democratization of the Eastern bloc in terms of global import. But it has rocked the world of one downtown business owner. Ali El-Afifi has owned various incarnations of the independent Taza Bistro and Café, located just across the street from the new Peet's, for the last decade. He says he was offered 66 W. Santa Clara St.—where Peet's has opened—for $6,000 per month, but turned down the offer. "Can you imagine," he asks, "how much coffee I'd have to sell?" This won't be the first time El-Afifi has gone head to head with a chain. In October, he restructured his business with new menus, décor and equipment, after another Starbucks opened in the downtown area.
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