Cookin' up a storm.The company that constructed the kitchen featured on the television show "Hell's Kitchen Hell’s Kitchen section of midtown Manhattan; notorious for slums and high crime rate. [Am. Usage: Misc.] See : Poverty " and has worked with Tyler Florence Tyler Florence (born Kevin Tyler Florence [1] on March 3, 1971) is a chef and television star of several Food Network shows. He graduated from the College of Culinary Arts at the Charleston, South Carolina, campus of Johnson & Wales University in 1991. of The Food Network will soon open a store in Hot Springs. Diane Surfas, who co-owns Surfas Kitchen Supply in Culver City Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. , Calif., said she and her husband, Les Surfas, are planning to open a store with at least 10,000 SF of retail space in an old building on Ouachita Avenue they are renovating at a cost of about $2 million. Taylor/Kempkes of Hot Springs, the architects behind the renovation of the Quapaw Bathhouse's renovation, are handling the project. The California store does $20 million a year in business. The Surfas' second store will be named Culinary cu·li·nar·y adj. Of or relating to a kitchen or to cookery. [Latin cul  n District and will
specialize in commercial and hard-to-find cooking equipment and
ingredients, following the lead of their store on the left coast, Diane
said. The store in California carries more than 12,000 pieces of cooking
equipment and various ingredients, including more than 50 types of
cooking knives and 30 different flours.
"It'll be very different from anything in Hot Springs and Arkansas," Diane said. The Surfases aren't going to impose California cooking on Arkansans, though, said Diane, who was born in Little Rock and grew up in Hot Springs. "We want to use many of these wonderful products, but in regional cooking," she said. One example: Apparently, fennel fennel, common name for several perennial herbs, genus Foeniculum vulgare of the family Umbelliferae (parsley family), related to dill. The strawlike foliage and the seeds are licorice-scented and are used (especially in Italian cooking) for flavoring. pollen tastes great on crappie crappie: see sunfish. crappie Either of two deep-bodied freshwater North American fish species (family Centrarchidae) that are popular as food and prized by sport fishermen. Native to the eastern U.S. . Visit the store's Web site at www.surfasonline. com. The Surfases, who are retiring to Hot Springs, plan to open the store by summer's end. |
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