| Wine And Food Fest Thinks Latin | | Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:57:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | This weekend's passport into a wondrous world of flavors starts with a wine glass. When you enter the grand tasting room (a grand room, indeed) of Mohegan Sun's Sun Winefest '07, you start by grabbing a wine glass. How you fill that glass, and what you eat to accompany the staggering array of wine, spirits and beer is up to you. The state's largest wine and food show - which is becoming one of the premier wine and culinary events on the East Coast - offers so much that you couldn't possibly take it all in over the course of its two days (Saturday and Sunday). It's part of what makes Sun Winefest so daunting. And so exciting. .... | |
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| | | Ethnic Food Retailer Churro Station Taps Into Sweet Franchise Business | | Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:58:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | Zoila Aldana and Melanie Farkas are expanding their ethnic food retail business after customers repeatedly asked if their business could be franchised. The original premise of Churro Station was a simple one – to offer the best tasting churros in Northern California, but with such high demand for the ethnic food concept, Churro Station will be opening three franchises based in Southern and Northern California.According to the research group Global Information, Inc., "The growing Hispanic population is exerting a profound cultural effect upon the U.S. as a whole, and consumers from many regions and ethnic backgrounds have developed a craving for "el sabor Latino." As their palates become fluent in Spanish, consumers are moving beyond Mexican to explore a host of Hispanic foods and flavours."Mrs.... | |
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| | | British Asian Week starts in Brum | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:59:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | AFTER months of planning British Asian Week finally gets under way, showcasing the very best of Birmingham's largest ethnic group. The five-day event, billed as Britain's biggest-ever celebration of Asian culture, was being launched in the city today. Organisers are promising to shine a spotlight on every aspect of British Asian life from food and fashion to Bollywood and business. During the course of the week events have been planned throughout the city, culminating in the three-day Mela 06 at the NEC from Friday. Kicking-off the initiative, members of the Institute of Asian Businesses were joining forces with Aston Pride today to offer business advice for the local community. .... | |
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| | | Nun gets 30 years for aiding Rwandan genocide | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 11:05:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A Roman Catholic nun has been sentenced to 30 years for helping militia kill hundreds of people hiding in a hospital during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, an official said Friday. Theophister Mukakibibi was sentenced by a traditional Gacaca court for helping Hutu militiamen kill ethnic Tutsis seeking refuge from the slaughter in Butare hospital where she worked. She was jailed Thursday. "She was responsible for selecting Tutsis and would throw them out of the hospital and the militia would then kill them," said Jean Baptiste Ndahumba, president of the local gacaca court in Butare town. "This nun was organizing people to be killed." She would also hold regular meetings with Hutu extremist groups and denied food to Tutsis hiding in the hospital, he said by telephone.... | |
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| | | Ethnic Food Retailer Churro Station Taps Into Sweet Franchise ... | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:07:26 AM by Blog57 Team | | San Rafael, CA - Zoila Aldana and Melanie Farkas are expanding their ethnic food retail business after customers repeatedly asked if their business could be franchised. The original premise of Churro Station was a simple one to offer the best tasting churros in Northern California, but with such high demand for the ethnic food concept, Churro Station will be opening three franchises based in Southern and Northern California. According to the research group Global Information, Inc., The growing Hispanic population is exerting a profound cultural effect upon the U.S. as a whole, and consumers from many regions and ethnic backgrounds have developed a craving for "el sabor Latino." As their palates become fluent in Spanish, consumers are moving beyond Mexican to explore a host of Hispanic foods and flavors.... | |
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| | | Many ways to be boss | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:00:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES-There was doggie day care and fast-food fondue. There was something called Monkey Joe's play centers and Maggie Moo's treateries, whose ice cream claims to be so fresh, it moos. If you want to own a piece of it, chances are someone had it here at the West Coast Franchise Expo, a buyer's bazaar of everything franchiseable. The three-day trade show ended Sunday, drawing about 9,000 would-be franchise owners to the Los Angeles Convention Center in search of their ticket to small-business ownership. "You have the opportunity to take a close look at something that could change your life," said Richard Rennick, the expo's opening-day speaker, who recently sold his nationwide franchise chain, Palm Springs-based American Leak Detection. .... | |
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| | | Completely obsessed with food | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 11:09:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | You Probably think that because I'm writing a food column, I'm obsessed with eating. Well, you would be wrong, my friends. I'm obsessed with everything associated with food. Going to a farmers market can be an out-of-body experience for me. Just walking among those beautiful products of nature is an inspiration. I have to control myself or I'll end up with 20 bags of produce that beg to be turned into appetizers and salads, main dishes and side dishes and. . . ummm yum, desserts. In addition to farmers markets, I'm absolutely addicted to ethnic markets. I've been known to bring home products that are a total mystery to me. I have no idea what they are, let alone how to prepare them. Thank God for the Internet. I have spent many hours Googling food names, trying to figure out what to do with them.... | |
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| | | Readers share their favorite secrets of good cooking | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:03:54 AM by Blog57 Team | | Not only does the San Antonio area have plenty of good cooks, they're willing to share the secrets that put their food a notch or two above the norm. A couple of months ago, the Taste staff shared some of our favorite tips for making food special and asked readers to send us their favorites in return. Share, they did. Here's what they told us. .... | |
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| | | Selective police action on ethnic grounds inadmissible - Putin | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:56:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | MOSCOW, October 25 (RIA Novosti) - President Vladimir Putin said during a televised question-and-answer session Wednesday that selective law enforcement on ethnic grounds by police is inadmissible. Following a diplomatic row with Georgia over the September arrest of four Russian officers in Tbilisi on espionage charges, Russian authorities cracked down on businesses thought to be related to the ethnic Georgian mafia in Russia. As a result, at least three large casinos in Moscow were shut down, and scores of illegal immigrants from the South Caucasus state were deported. The move caused a wave of criticism from Georgia and international human rights advocates. "I cannot approve of selective actions on ethnic grounds," Putin said, answering a question on measures against Georgian criminal groups in Russia.... | |
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| | | Sodexho says outside catering available | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:55:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | Beginning in March of this year, student groups wishing to hold catered events were limited to using Sodexho, Portland State's food service provider. Concerns about students' inability to contract outside catering services have continued, but Sodexho employees say students have had few problems securing outside services. For catered events through Sodexho, the university asks for one week's notice, although Sodexho said that they have been able to respond to requests with less notice. If a student group wants catering from an outside vendor, the group must give a two-week notice. Student groups must also fill out an outside vendor waiver form, stating how they intend to cater their event. “Some groups are supported by donations from local vendors like Hot Lips or Baja Fresh.... | |
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