| Announcing New On-Line Chile Cooking Class
School celebrates 24th year of teaching Southwestern cooking. Albuquerque, NM (PRWEB) August 15, 2007 -- The world's first on-line chile cooking course "All About Chiles" is taking registrations. This complete, comprehensive course is focused solely on learning about chiles and how to cook with them. In a beautifully designed series of 40 lectures by Jane Butel (www.janebutel.com), participants will cook with chiles in Southwestern and Mexican dishes. Hints and tips for cooking with both green and red chiles will be completely spelled out. Also, the healthful benefits, history and lore will be taught. Jane Butel is an internationally renowned teacher, first to write and popularize Southwestern cuisine. The best-selling author of 18 cookbooks she conducts cooking schools, culinary tours and is now teaching online.
Baharuddin Aritonang: 'Writing is all about discipline'
Baharuddin Aritonang, 54, went to the Baitul Hasib mosque to the rear of the State Audit Body (BPK) office building after finishing his routine work one afternoon. He talked with five people -- all staff members at the audit body. They talked about chairs, food and the audience. They did not discuss auditing. They were preparing a venue for a book launch. Titled Orang Batak Berpuasa (The Fasting Batak), the book will be Aritonang's fourth since 2002. "Although the title is about fasting, it raises a variety of issues such as corruption and social harmony. I'll launch it before the fasting month (scheduled to start Sept. 13," Aritonang said. Orang Batak Berpuasa will be his fourth book after Orang Batak Naik Haji (Batak Goes on the Haj), Ketawa Ngakak di Senayan (Humor in the Legislature) and Dari Uang Rakyat Sampai Pasien Politik (a collection of short essays).
Apples, wine and cheese
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. — MFK Fisher, culinary writer Our summer road trip turned into a surprisingly delicious gastronomical tour inspired, in part, by the World's Largest Apple. In August I flew to Toronto to meet my sister Lauren. She and her dog Eddie had departed Los Angeles a month before in her new Subaru to cross the continent at a leisurely pace. I had planned to meet her in Iowa, but was delayed. So we picked a city closer to the East Coast. The plan: shared driving, new experiences to refresh our work-weary souls, and quality time for sisters living on opposite coasts. Lauren is a city girl and award-winning animator inhabiting a loft in downtown L.A.
Onalaska school budget set ... sort of
Onalaska's schools plan to spend $32,653,343 for the coming school year, a budget that's up a little more than 4 percent over last year. It is a budget that was approved by the Onalaska Board of Education Monday after a public hearing in which no one asked to speak, and for that matter, no one from the general public attended.One problem with the budget is no one knows where the money will come from or how much local property taxpayers will have to cough up for the year. That is because the Wisconsin Legislature has not come up with its own budget and set the amount it will give to local school districts. The state pays approximately two-thirds of the school budget."There are numbers on the page but we won't know the big numbers until October," said Larry Dalton, the district's finance director.
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