| Feeding sailors on a US aircraft carrier is an art of war
Manama (Bahrain), Aug 21: When Roman writer and military strategist Flavius Vegetius Renatus wrote in his Military Institutions of the Romans, in AD 378, that famine causes greater havoc in an army than the enemy, he never envisioned how the US Navy would address that concern in the 21st century. For the USS Enterprise, America's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier that went into service in 1961, feeding its sailors is one the largest daily operation on board. The carrier, with some 5,000 sailors on board, is currently sailing through the Gulf supporting the US military occupation of Iraq and ongoing maritime security operations. "We keep a food stock worth between $1.5 to 2.8 million on board and we get replenishments every seven to 10 days," USS Enterprise Food Service Officer Ken Howard said.
Here's the beef
Mr. Beef
"Without comparison, the best place for Italian beef in Chicago. One has to take into account, though, that Italian beef is just about the most unhealthy, messy food ever invented. So if you are ready to eat an extraordinarily filling meal and then take a nap afterward and wake up two pounds heavier, look no further than Mr. Beef. It's the only place worth the masochism." --E.E.
"The beef is great, the giardinera is homemade, too. The sandwich should be slightly bigger. I could eat two, sometimes I think about it. Too bad you can't get one and a half." ?Dan L.
Portillo's Hot Dogs/Barnelli's Pasta Bowl
"The best Italian beef in the city. For big eaters, order the big beef and substitute fries with a big Chicago dog!" ?Christian V.
Max's Famous Italian Beef
"Man, the beef here is the only place in the whole city that's as good as Mr.
She's a Wonder worker
Marcelle Poche Robert, a junior at Louisiana State University, is pursuing a business major with a concentration in marketing. At LSU, where she was named to the dean's list, she was appointed chapter house manager by her sorority, Delta Delta Delta. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marc Lewis Robert II. Her mother is the former Darlene Poche. During high school at Isidore Newman School, Marcelle was on the tennis team all four years, serving as co-captain her senior year. She was a cheerleader, a Summerbridge committee member and teacher, an American Cancer Society Relay for Life committee member and a member of the yearbook committee. She also worked on the Wonder Week Committee, a group that plans a specific week of school that includes alternative enrichment classes taught by students, and she participated in the Trinity Episcopal School Alumni Handbell Choir.
Pelser to head Whittier public works
WHITTIER - For the last two months David Pelser has been commuting from Sacramento to his home in La Mirada. That will all end on Sept. 4 when Pelser, 51, will become the new public works director for Whittier. He succeeds David Mochizuki, who retired after 21 years with the city. Pelser and his family moved to La Mirada two months ago in order to allow his 18-year-old twin daughters, Laura and Leanna, to attend Biola University. "We wanted them to be able to go away to school and have that experience, but they have a medical condition called celiac where you're intolerant to gluten," Pelser said. They can't eat food-grain antigens that are found in wheat, rye and barley. "That makes it difficult to travel and deal with institutional food," he said. "If they had to eat in a dorm cafeteria, they would get sick and wouldn't be able to continue." But with Pelser and his wife, Julie, moving to La Mirada, their daughters can eat at home.
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