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ET Fresh Open
East Texas Fresh Farmers Market, located in the parking lot of Bed, Bath and Beyond and the RoomStore at 4828 S. Broadway Ave., offers produce, plants and more all from local farmers.
ET Fresh Open
East Texas Fresh Farmers Market, located in the parking lot of Bed, Bath and Beyond and the RoomStore at 4828 S. Broadway Ave., offers produce, plants and more all from local farmers.
The market will be open Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon and will have free-range eggs, turnip greens, collard greens, mustard greens, kale, carrots, radishes, chard, asparagus, onions, mixed lettuce, spinach, fennel, wheat grass, herbs, tomato plants, potted herbs, blueberry and blackberry plants, rose bushes, Japanese maple, fig, and dogwood trees, handmade soaps and bath and body lotions available.
For more information www.easttexasfresh.com.
For more information www.easttexasfresh.com.
Extension Service Offers Food Manager Certification Training
CANTON - Texas AgriLife Extension Service, in Van Zandt County, is offering a food manager certification training course.
This program will be offered for $89 on May 21 and 22 at the Van Zandt County Fairgrounds Free State Building in Canton. Cost includes training, materials, hands-on activities, and the State food manager certification examination.
Contact Dee Lee Smith, County Extension Agent - Family & Consumer Sciences at 903-567-7859 or 903-567-4149 (office manager) to be registered before May 19.
Chef To Share Tips
Brookshire's on Rice Road continues its Celebrity Chef Program Saturday with Debbie Davis. Davis will prepare recipes from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Celebrate Cooking Tasting Station.
Davis owns two restaurants with her husband in Mineola, East Texas Burger Co. and La Waffleleta.
Eating Habits Linked To Colorectal Cancer
The American Institute for Cancer Research released information earlier this month indicating eating habits and cancer could be related.
The AICR report "Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective," concluded the scientific evidence linking red meat to colorectal cancer is now convincing.
The expert panel who authored the report recommends Americans limit consumption of red meat to no more than 18 ounces a week and to avoid processed meats.
The AICR says Americans typically consume far more than that weekly, and experts suggest substituting certain meals of red meat for hearty vegetable chili and a salad or preparing a fish dinner twice a week.
AICR also reports every 3.5 ounces of red meat eaten per day increases cancer risk by 30 percent.
The AICR is not calling for the elimination of red meat from U.S. diets, but is urging consumers cut back. For more information, log onto www.aicr.org/redmeat, or call 1-800-843-8114, ext. 466.
Share Recipes With The Housewives
Food plays an important role on Desperate Housewives, and now fans of the show can connect with their favorite characters by swapping recipes and kitchen tips directly with Bree, Edie, Susan and the other women of Wisteria Lane.
ABC has teamed up with BakeSpace.com on a unique program that enables viewers to interact with the show and its characters based on their shared interest in food.
By befriending the lead characters on BakeSpace, viewers automatically receive exclusive recipes inspired by the show and updated each week based on the latest episode.
For the current edition of the BakeSpace newsletter, which provides Desperate Housewives recipes and kitchen tips, log on to http://www.bakespace.com/index.php?mode=newsletter.
Making The Most Of School Lunch
A New Jersey based company, RecycleTech Inc. has created a line of polystyrene processing equipment that can recycle school lunch trays.
The machines use heat to reduce the size of the material by 90 percent, melting and compressing it into a solid plastic ingot. This ingot is then used as the raw material for other plastic products such as picture frames or CD jewel cases.
If companies and government were to consider polystyrene recycling in lieu of a ban, they would be in good company.
In 2004, Polk County Florida established a polystyrene recycling facility to save landfill space.
To date, officials claim companies that diverted their polystyrene to the recycling facility saved over $280,000 in disposal, transportation and labor costs while recycling over 1.2 million pounds. (Orlando Sentinel, Sept. 9, 2007)
Scholarship Help
ReluctantGourmet.com, an online resource dedicated to providing information on culinary schools as well as the hospitality and restaurant trade, recently launched a program to take on financial responsibility for future student success in the culinary world.
This opportunity arose through a partnership with Chefs4St-udents.org, a nonprofit organization responsible for putting students in contact with the funds they need to attend the culinary schools of their choice.
Chefs4Students.org has awarded nearly $75,000 in the form of individual $1,000 grants since its inception in 2003.
For more information on culinary scholarships, log onto ReluctantGourmet.com or Chefs4Students.org.
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