| Destination Dinners: Whip up global foods at home
If whisking your loved one off to an exotic locale isn't in the budget this Valentine's Day, bring a taste of it to them. San Francisco-based Destination Dinners makes it easy to whip up foreign feasts with recipe kits that span the globe, from Jamaica to Japan and Thailand to Lebanon. .
Leslye Louis' Latkes Named Winner of White Castle Recipe Contest
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Leslye Louis of New Melle, Missouri, was selected as the winner of the 16th annual White Castle recipe contest for her original creation, The Latkes You Crave. A self-described "White Castle Purist", Leslye has been a fan of White Castles since she was a young girl. Through the years, White Castle has remained a big part of her life. She collects White Castle items; she's taken White Castles to her faculty meetings; enjoyed Valentine dinners at White Castle; and wherever she travels, Leslye always makes it a point to make White Castle her first stop. "I'm really thrilled to have won the recipe contest," Leslye said. "My friends are calling me the 'Queen of the Castle.'" The Latkes You Crave won out over nearly 300 tasty entries from throughout the country at this year's extremely edible event.
For a 20th time, let Dobbses' Holiday Cookie Party begin
When they arrive home from work this evening, Dave and Peggy Dobbs plan to set their oven at 350 degrees and leave it at that temperature for about 10 hours.
The couple have purchased about 10 pounds each of flour and granulated sugar, 8 pounds of butter, several boxes of confectioner's and brown sugars, 6 dozen eggs and a large bottle of vanilla. They also will have on hand a wide assortment of spices and flavorings, chopped walnuts and pecans, semisweet chocolate chips, peanut butter, corn flakes and a lengthy list of other ingredients.
Oh, and table space - lots and lots of table space.
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The 2006 Top Executive Compensation Report
A separate group of 441 companies responded to a survey during April and May 2006 to obtain their 2006 salary increase budgets and 2007 anticipated budgets for the nonexempt, exempt, and executive populations. Industry Categories Covered The fourteen major industry categories included in the report are: Manufacturing Commercial Banking Communications (including Broadcasting, Printing and Publishing) Computer Services (including Software, Systems Design, Information Retrieval, Data Processing and Related Services) Construction Diversified Services (including Agricultural Services, Business Services, and Real Estate) Energy Financial Services/Investment Health, Life, and Property and Casualty Insurance Telecommunications Trade Wholesale Trade Retail Transportation (including Air, Motor, Rail and Water) Utilities (including Gas, Electric and Water) Data Presented by Industry Category For each industry category, the following information is presented: Distribution of companies according to size Median, low and high of the middle 50 percent range for total compensation, total current compensation and salary Regression equations for total compensation, total current compensation and salary Regression lines measuring the relationship between total compensation, total current compensation and company size Total compensation, total current compensation and salaries of the second through the fifth highest-paid executives as percentages of CEO pay Bonus awards to the five highest-paid executive related to company size The size of the bonus awards to each of the five executives Key Findings Compared with 2004 levels, 2005 median total current compensation (salary plus bonus) for CEOs was higher in all industries.
Bush's War On Terror Shifting Targets
The top two U.S. intelligence officials made a secret visit to Pakistan in early January to seek Musharraf's permission for greater involvement of American forces in trying to ferret out al Qaeda and other militant groups active in the tribal regions, a senior U.S. official said Saturday. Musharraf was said to have rebuffed an expansion of an American presence in Pakistan at the meeting, either through covert CIA missions or by joint operations with Pakistani security forces.
The number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan has grown over the past two years from about 20,000 to the current total of 28,000. That is the highest number of the war, which began in October 2001. The total is to jump by 3,200 this spring with a new influx of Marine reinforcements, including 2,200 combat troops who will bolster a NATO-led counterinsurgency force in the south.
Artful shopper: October is chili month
"Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind." -- Margaret Cousins I wonder if the folks who do all those PR alerts were familiar with Margaret Cousins' musings when they named October "National Chili Month?" Or maybe it's just that October is the moment when there is enough of a chill in the air that it brings to mind hearty flavorful dishes like chili. Whatever the reason, it's finally cooled off enough that I'm feeling Cousins' passionate yearning. A yearning that can only be satisfied at home. No restaurant can turn out chili that's as good as the version that comes out of your kitchen. If there are any secrets to making chili it's to use quality ingredients and to make it the day before you plan to serve it so the flavors can meld and deepen.
Donna Hay rejects 'celebrity chef' label
Walk into Donna Hay's test kitchen and you're instantly hit with great smells and a buzzing atmosphere. A bunch of young, friendly faces look up and smile and get back to stirring, slicing and tasting. One is cutting up warm macadamia nut brownies. Another is slicing a juicy, rare piece of lamb which has just left the oven. Herbs are being chopped. Blenders are whizzing. Pots are bubbling. Over in a corner, someone's photographing a fresh mango cheesecake. For a woman whose philosophy has been to simplify food, the light, airy space is very busy. That's because the Donna Hay empire is big business. With 14 cookbooks to her name, bi-monthly magazines, weekly newspaper columns, a homewares brand and a move into the UK market, there are a lot of recipes to create and test.
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Jill Tucker, Chronicle Staff Writer
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Christopher Heredia
An Alameda County Superior Court judge is expected to rule within two weeks whether to uphold Oakland's ban on plastic grocery bags. During a hearing Tuesday, lawyers for the city and plastic bag manufacturers squared...
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