CHECK OUT CHERRY PICKING SEASON.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services The Leona Valley Cherry Growers are gearing up for the season and will kick off festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. with a Cherry Parade, craft fair, bike ride and barbecue June 10. The parade begins at 9 a.m. so plan to arrive in the Leona Valley (12 miles west of Palmdale) by 8:30 a.m. More than 20 orchards will offer consumers the opportunity to pick their own cherries. Most orchards provide all the equipment needed for picking the fruit, including buckets, bags and containers. U-pick cherry prices will range in the neighborhood of $1.50 per pound. Cherries should be available through the second week of July. For a copy of a brochure with a map of specific U-pick orchard locations, send a self-addressed stamped envelope A self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE), or just stamped addressed envelope (SAE) in the UK, is often just that: an envelope with the sender's name and address on it, with affixed paid postage and mailed to a company or private individual. to Leona Valley Cherry Growers Association, P.O. Box 817, Leona Valley, Calif. 93551-7110. For more information, call the cherry hot line at (661) 266-7116. New magazine debuts A new publication - Better Homes and Gardens Hometown Cooking magazine - debuted with the June issue, which is on newsstands now. Published bimonthly bi·month·ly adj. 1. Happening every two months. 2. Happening twice a month; semimonthly. adv. 1. Once every two months. 2. Twice a month; semimonthly. n. pl. (the size is 5 1/4 by 8 3/4 inches), the magazine - designed for those who are passionate about cooking - is devoted to recipes from community cookbooks and the people who contributed them along with recipes from festivals and other good home cooks. The editors of the magazine will be traveling the country in search of delicious local dishes. The June issue includes 50 recipes ranging from meals from residents of Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). (including barbecue creations) to Tex-Mex suggestions from Brownsville and potluck ideas from Indiana. In addition there are numerous color photographs of the recipes. Look for the magazine on newsstands ($3.50) or subscribe via the Web site www.hometowncook.com or by calling (877) 339-0509. A year's subscription is $11.97. Waffles in a jiffy A fraction of time that has numerous interpretations depending on who uses it. It may refer to one computer clock cycle, one nanosecond, one millisecond or one AC power cycle. There may be others. See nanosecond. 1. EdgeCraft's Chef'sChoice WafflePro, an electric wafflemaker, has lots to recommend it: adjustable settings that give cooks the choice of crispy or chewy chew·y adj. chew·i·er, chew·i·est Needing much chewing: chewy candy. chew  i·ness n. waffles, a non-stick surface, a 90-second cooking time and a buzzer that lets you know when the waffles are done. What's more, the wide flat hinge area lets you store the appliance upright to save space. WafflePro costs $60 to $70 at department stores This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. and cookware shops. If you can't find it locally, you can order online: www.chefscatalog.com.
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