GOOD TASTE.SAVEUR NAMES 100 FAVES: Saveur magazine has released its ninth annual 100 favorite foods, restaurants, drinks, people, places and things People, Places and Things is an unpublished collection of short stories by US author Stephen King, written in 1960 together with his friend Chris Chesley and published using their own press. in a special January/February issue on newsstands today. It makes for a lot of fun perusing. The Items are listed in random order, with a few recipes sprinkled in along the way. Among the listings are Chocolate Caviar ($29.95 for a 150-gram tin from Pierre Gourmet, (800) 595-8034; www.pierregourmet.com), Zankou Chicken Zankou Chicken is a small, family-owned chain of Middle-Eastern fast casual restaurants within the Los Angeles area. Their specialty is rotisserie chicken served with a unique and very popular garlic paste and pita bread. (a terrific Lebanese-American mini-chain in the L.A. area), Dimitri Dimitrov (maitre d' at the Tower Bar in West Hollywood's Sunset Tower hotel), Namkeen (a salty Indian snack mix available in various sizes and prices at www.patel brothersus.com), Kayak Cookies Salty Oats ($14.95 per six-pack, available from Formaggio Kitchen, www.formaggiokitchen.com), the Saturday Farmers' Market farm·ers' market n. A public market at which farmers and often other vendors sell produce directly to consumers. Also called greenmarket. in Stockton (www.stocktonfarmersmarket.org) and much more. You'll find a resource guide on all of the listings, many from throughout the world, in the back of the magazine, including phone numbers, Web sites, prices, etc., just in case you want to track any of them down. The dynamic list of things is designed to make your life richer, says Saveur editor in chief James Oseland. No doubt it might. -- Natalie Haughton GIADA FOOD GETAWAYS: Giada De Laurentiis' ``Weekend Getaways'' show premieres Friday with two back-to-back episodes from 9 to 10 p.m on the Food Network. The first stop is Seattle to sample mini burgers, an alpine martini, crispy crab cakes from ``the king of the crab cake'' and to visit some of the city's greatest sights, followed by a trip to South Beach, where De Laurentiis learns to salsa and samples some terrific Florida food creations. Future shows, on Fridays at 9:30 p.m., will follow her across the country to vacation destinations for food lovers, including Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. ; San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ; Jackson Hole Jackson Hole, fertile Rocky Mt. valley, c.50 mi (80 km) long and 6 to 8 mi (9.6–12.8 km) wide, NW Wyo., partly in Grand Teton National Park. Jackson Lake, 39 sq mi (101 sq km), a natural lake through which the Snake River flows, was dammed in 1916 to control , Wyo.; New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. ; Santa Fe Santa Fe, city, Argentina Santa Fe, city (1991 pop. 341,000), capital of Santa Fe prov., NE Argentina, a river port near the Paraná, with which it is connected by canal. , N.M.; and Austin, Texas. -- N.H. ROSSO BRUNO TOMATOES Here's a conversation piece for your next dinner party. Dulcinea Farms has introduced Rosso Bruno vine-fresh tomatoes, greenhouse-grown in Oxnard. Juicy and rich in flavor, these medium- size tomatoes, a wild European variety, are best eaten when they have a unique, reddish brown color with hints of green. Unlike many tomatoes purchased in winter or out of season that are bland and flavorless, these have a robust, full tomato taste. If you like your tomatoes firmer, you can also eat these tomatoes when greener, but they will not be quite as flavorful. They can also be eaten when they change to a dark red color with brown overtones and almost no green color, but when they reach this stage of ripeness, they are best used in cooking. Look for the tomatoes at Vons with a suggested retail price of $3.99 per pound, or in two-count mesh bags at $2.29. For additional information, go to www.dulcinea.com. -- N.H. RAISIN CALENDAR: If you enjoy raisins, you might like to order a copy of the colorful 2007 California Raisin calendar. It's filled with 12 glorious color photos of raisin creations, along with recipes. They range from Harvest Butternut butternut: see walnut. butternut Deciduous nut-producing tree (Juglans cinerea) of the walnut family, native to eastern North America. A mature tree has gray, deeply furrowed bark. Squash Soup With Golden Raisin Crostini and Baked Brie With Raisins and Port Wine in Puff Pastry to Ginger Steamed Salmon, Golden Raisin, Shaved 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. & Pickled Red Onion Salad. For a free copy, go to loveyourraisins.com (select the ``free raisins calendar'' icon), or send your name and address to California Raisin Marketing Board/Calendar Request, 3445 N. First St., Suite 101, Fresno, CA 93726. Order now, as supplies are limited. -- N.H. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- color) no caption (Rosso Bruno tomatoes) (2 -- color) no caption (Saveur magazine) (3 -- color) De LAURENTIIS (4 -- color) no caption (California Raisin calendar) |
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