NEW & NOTEWORTHY.A winner: Elizabeth Hirschfeld of Los Angeles was named the first-prize winner in the Design-A-Chef's-Jacket contest. Her jacket, with its mandarin collar and food-patterned fabric, was among more than 700 entries from across the country. The event was a collaboration between Chefwear, manufacturer of chef's jackets and other culinary clothing, and Share Our Strength (SOS SOS, code letters of the international distress signal. The signal is expressed in International Morse code as … — — — … (three dots, three dashes, three dots). ), the national not-for-profit anti-hunger organization. The winning jacket will be featured in the Chefwear catalog and a portion of the proceeds from sales will go to SOS. Chefwear also gave SOS $10,000, representing money raised so far from sales of the current line of SOS culinary wear in the catalog. - Associated Press New magazine: Williams-Sonoma just launched Taste, a new chic, upscale quarterly food, entertaining and travel magazine, with its holiday issue. Available by subscription, in Williams-Sonoma stores or on newsstands, for $5, the glossy publication - loaded with gorgeous photographs - is designed to redefine and complement many of the old lifestyle publications of the late '90s, notes editor in chief Andy Harris. Featured in the glitzy glitz Informal n. Ostentatious showiness; flashiness: "a garish barrage of show-biz glitz" Peter G. Davis. tr.v. premiere issue are a chef's holiday with Jean-Georges Vongerichten in his Manhattan home; Paris revisted by Chuck Williams, William-Sonoma's founder; Anada, the luxury resort and spa in India; ideas for gift wrapping and opulent holiday table settings; Paris flea markets; Chicago restaurant hot spots hot spots acute moist dermatitis. ; snow food for after a day on the slopes and holiday floral suggestions. The content seems to be along the same lines as some other epicurean food publications and many of the food writers are even the same. The next issue will focus on American cooking. A five-issue subscription is $20. Call (800) 541-2233. - Natalie Haughton Swell smells: Toss onion trimmings or a cantaloupe cantaloupe: see gourd; melon. rind in the kitchen trash can and your nose will soon be twitching. Glad's new Odor Shield kitchen bags are supposed to help neutralize unpleasant trash odors, not mask them. Glad says new technology enables a fragrance embedded in the plastic bags to interact with garbage odors to produce a pleasant scent. To see if the bags worked, canned spaghetti, vegetables and fruit, plus lunch leftovers, were dumped into a trash receptacle lined with the bag. It was tucked under an office desk and left for about four hours. There wasn't one stinking complaint. The bags come in a variety of sizes ranging from 20- to 100-count and in Quick Tie or Drawstring styles. A 20-count Drawstring or a 32-count Quick Tie box are $3.99 each. - Wire Services Freebie free·bie also free·bee n. Slang An article or service given free: "such freebies as subway and bus maps" New York. The Reynolds Kitchens is offering two colorful brochures - Great Meals! Great Turkey, Too! and Turkey Made Easy - filled with all kinds of recipes and ideas to ease the holiday cooking crunch. Included are ideas like Shortcut (1) In Windows, a shortcut is an icon that points to a program or data file. Shortcuts can be placed on the desktop or stored in other folders, and double clicking a shortcut is the same as double clicking the original file. Salsa Chicken, Easy Chicken and Rice Dinner, Foolproof Swiss Steak and more. For free copies, call (800) 745-4000 (and leave your name and address). - N.H. Dining out When the landmark Tower restaurant atop the Transamerica Center, 1150 S. Olive St., downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or , became Windows Steaks and Martinis late last year, just in time for the opening of Staples Center and the Lakers charge for the NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= championship, there were some initial problems. Much of the fare came to the table in sizzling siz·zle intr.v. siz·zled, siz·zling, siz·zles 1. To make the hissing sound characteristic of frying fat. 2. To seethe with anger or indignation. 3. hot skillets, causing jammed tabletops and possible accidental spillage. A new chef, Stephen Carrasco, was hired and subtle changes have been made. ``There are more seasonal items on the menu, some lighter pasta dishes, and each entree has its own accompaniments,'' Carrasco points out as the restaurant celebrates its first anniversary. A 21-day dry-aged New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of steak has been added along with pan-sauteed crab cakes, grilled black tiger shrimp, molasses-cured Atlantic salmon Atlantic salmon Oceanic trout species (Salmo salar), a highly prized game fish. It averages about 12 lbs (5.5 kg) and is marked with round or cross-shaped spots. Found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, it enters streams in the fall to spawn. and a retro dish, lobster thermidor. Dinner entrees range from $17 to $40, and the 175-bottle wine list has upped its low-end labels from an $18 to $25 minimum and its high-end from a $200 bottle to one listed at $1,800. Guess when you're this close to champions, you can raise your prices, too. Information and reservations: (213) 746-1554. - Larry Lipson CAPTION(S): 5 photos Photo: (1) L.A. resident Elizabeth Hirschfeld, left, and fashion designer Nicole Miller inspect the chef's jacket worn by sous-chef Vincent Astier. Designed by Hirschfeld, the jacket beat out more than 700 entries, winning top prize in the Design-a-Chef's-Jacket contest last week in 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. . (2) no caption (Taste) (3) no caption (Glad's new Odor Shield kitchen bags) (4 -- 5) no caption (Reynolds brochures) |
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