| Chef's creative juices flow at steakhouse
Another man's name is over the door and 80 percent of his customers order a steak, but that doesn't faze Rick Gresh, recently appointed executive chef at David Burke's Primehouse. Named for its New York-based founding chef, the steakhouse in River North's James Hotel is known for beef produced from the offspring of its own Kentucky steer and dry-aged on the premises in a room tiled in Himalayan salt bricks. Gresh's contemporary American cuisine began attracting attention when he served as executive chef at Green Dolphin Street on Chicago's North Side. He was named a "Rising Star of American Cuisine" by the James Beard Foundation in 2001. A Round Lake resident, Gresh, 32, grew up in the Cleveland area. He studied at the Culinary Institute of America with an externship at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, and then came to Chicago to cook at the erstwhile Trio in Evanston.
Benedict XVI's Lenten Address
The Gospel highlights a typical feature of Christian almsgiving: it must be hidden: "Do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing," Jesus asserts, "so that your alms may be done in secret" (Mt 6,3-4). Just a short while before, He said not to boast of one's own good works so as not to risk being deprived of the heavenly reward (cf. Mt 6,1-2). The disciple is to be concerned with God's greater glory. Jesus warns: "In this way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven" (Mt 5,16). Everything, then, must be done for God's glory and not our own. This understanding, dear brothers and sisters, must accompany every gesture of help to our neighbor, avoiding that it becomes a means to make ourselves the center of attention.
Short takes
When friends bring her casseroles, she has to stifle a smile. But where does Frank's death leave her? Back home with her wildlife-loving hippie mom and beloved parrot named Sam. Authors Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack got raves for their first novel, "Literacy and Longing in L.A.," with its engaging combination of books and romance. This story, too, melds education and love. Because of her learning disability, Cassie barely made it out of high school and never went to college. Now, as she tries to find a job, no one will hire her. So she pads her resume and winds up getting hired at a nearby university as an assistant to a couple of professors. In a plot fit for a film, our Pretty Woman is busted when best bud Tiffany visits campus and lets slip that Cassie never went to college.
Immokalee's John Weber retires from coaching
But his focus will turn from trying to find a way to beat rival teams to helping his wife, Darlene, through her battle with kidney disease. “She needs me," Weber said. “Walking away from coaching is going to be hard but this is what I've got to do." Weber never set out to have a lifetime career as a football coach. He even tried to quit twice: Once, to be a pig farmer and another time to run a retirement home. And quitting could have been easy for Weber, especially after his first season as a head coach back at Bushnell-Prairie City (Ill.) High School. His team didn't win a game in 1975, going 0-9-1. He said the experience made him humble and hungry. “It was the best thing that ever happened to me," Weber said. “I was like every young head coach, thinking I was going to set the world on fire and that first season taught me a lot." Weber quickly thrived under the adverse conditions.
POTHOLE PITFALLS: Damage, time and money
And stop tailgating, he said. If there's a pit ahead, you won't have time to avoid it.Preventive maintenance is also helpful: Keep the correct pressure in your tires. As the temperatures vary, so can your tire pressure. When it gets really cold, you can lose two to three pounds of pressure a day.Said Dodgson, "Tires are built by combining pressure and heat. If you don't run the correct pressure, tires have a nasty habit of reverse engineering - i.e. they come apart."What if you hit a pothole?First, resist the urge to slam on the brakes."When you brake, you automatically shift the car's weight to the front of the vehicle," Dodgson said. "If you jump on the brakes, you increase force with which the car is going to hit that pothole."As soon as possible afterward, said Rich Ratliff, a tire specialist at Fat Boys Tire and Auto, take a good look at your tires and wheels.He already has had one customer come in with two blown-out tires, thanks to a well-executed strike on a road crater.If you see a blister - a pocket of air causing the side of the tire to bulge out - take it to a shop.
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