CHECK OUT : NEWS AND TIPS NEW ON THE SHELF.Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Services Latest to join the Dreyer's ice cream line up is Godzilla Vanilla Ice Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1968), better known as Vanilla Ice, is a Grammy Award nominated, American Music Award winning American rapper and actor known mostly for the 1990 single "Ice Ice Baby. Cream featuring chocolate bite-size Godzilla pieces in vanilla ice cream with swirls of fudge. It's available in half-gallon cartons to gobble up to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. See also: Gobble now through August. Pick up some soon in supermarket frozen food aisles. Contest alert Grillers take note. You could win the $10,000 grand prize (or the $5,000 first prize or $3,000 second prize) in this year's Build a Better Burger Recipe Contest sponsored by Sutter Home Winery. Original recipe entries may consist of any combination of meats, fish, vegetables, cheeses, sauces and condiments, provided the main ingredients can be formed into a patty and fit inside a bun or other bread product. Entries will be judged on appeal, originality and ease of preparation. Seven regional finalists will be flown to Napa Valley Napa Valley, Calif.: see under Napa. Napa Valley greatest wine-producing region of the United States. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2990] See : Wine in early October for a cook-off on the winery's grounds. Send recipes by Aug. 31 to Build a Better Burger Recipe Contest, P.O. Box 844, St. Helena, Calif. 94574-0844. For entry rules, visit Sutter Home's Web site at www.suterhome.com or send a self-addressed, stamped No. 10 envelope to Build a Better Burger Rules, Sutter Home Winery, 303 Green Island Road, American Canyon, Calif. 94589. Food and wine expo The International Wine & Cuisine Expo will be held July 10-13 at Stoweflake Inn and Resort in Stowe, Vt. Set in the Green Mountains Green Mountains, range of the Appalachian Mts., extending 250 mi (402 km) from north to south and extending from S Que., Canada to Vt. Mt. Mansfield, 4,393 ft (1,339 m) high, in Vermont, is the tallest peak. of Vermont, the expo will explore the relationship of wine and food to healthy living. Celebrity authors, seminars, panels, tastings, demonstrations, theme restaurant dining and cooking demonstrations with celebrity chefs will be featured. A general admission expo pass for three days is $295 per person; a one-day pass is $175. There will be an additional charge for premium tastings, theme restaurant dining and evening activities. To register and for more information, call (888) 439-3329. Vintage Disney Who would have ever believed it? The Robert Mondavi Robert Gerald Mondavi born May 18 1913 in Virginia, Minnesota, United States is a leading vineyard operator whose technical improvements and marketing strategies brought Winery is the first outside sponsor of an attraction at the Disney theme park California Adventure, scheduled to open in Anaheim beside Disneyland in 2001. Mondavi will build a $10 million ``wine-country experience'' on one acre of the 55-acre park, which is aimed primarily at adults. The Mondavi attraction will feature educational films, a wine-tasting area and grapevines. Customers will be able to buy bottles and cases of wine but will have to pick them up at a site outside the park. Charming book ``Notes on the Kitchen Table: Families Offer Messages of Hope for Generations to Come'' by Bob Greene This article is about the modern journalist and author. For the personal trainer and fitness expert, see Bob Greene (fitness guru). For other persons named Robert Greene, see Robert Greene (disambiguation). Robert Bernard Greene, Jr. and D.G. Fulford (Doubleday; $16.95) is a collection of answers to the question ``If you had to write a note - one note - and leave it propped against the sugar bowl on your kitchen table for future generations to read, what would you say in that note?'' The book was an outgrowth of the authors' 1993 book, ``To Our Children's Children: Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come,'' which asked this simple question at the end of that book. Notes poured in from all over the country - on engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. stationery, lined paper, cards decorated with flowers and cats and more - and they came straight from the senders' hearts, wrote Fulford and Greene. ``They were messages from a world of hope, of kept promises and back screen doors. They are, we have found and truly believe, the values that families live by and wish to pass along.'' The new volume is a compilation of the notes received and features anecdotes and thumbnail profiles of many contributors and it is charming and heart-warming heart·warm·ing or heart-warm·ing adj. 1. Causing gladness and pleasure. 2. Eliciting sympathy and tender feelings: a heartwarming tale. . Fulford, a free-lance journalist, is a former Los Angeles Daily News The Daily News of Los Angeles, also known as the Los Angeles Daily News, is the second largest circulating daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California. It is published by the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which owns eight other Southern California newspapers columnist; her brother, Greene, is a syndicated columnist Inc.com defines a syndicated columnist as, "[A] person hired by publications or broadcast organizations to produce written or spoken commentary about specific feature subjects. for the Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Daily newspaper published in Chicago. The Tribune is one of the leading U.S. newspapers and long has been the dominant voice of the Midwest. Founded in 1847, it was bought in 1855 by six partners, including Joseph Medill (1823–99), who made the paper . CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1--Color) no caption (Dreyer's Godzilla Vanilla Ice Cream) (2--Color) no caption (The International Wine & Cuisine Expo) (3--Color) no caption (Book cover - Notes on the Kitchen Table: Families Offer Messages of Hope for Generations to Come) |
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