| Entree into the kitchen
The question is a hot topic in certain food circles: Why are outsiders being hired to open certain top-drawer Washington restaurants? Isn't the reputation or education of home-grown talent good enough?
Celebrity chefs Eric Ripert and Wolfgang Puck are scheduled to head up two first-class eateries in the District next year, following others who have come to the region from other large cities.
It's not the quality of local cooking schools that is in question, suggest District chefs Jeff Tunks of Passion Food Hospitality, a restaurant group that includes Ceiba, DC Coast and TenPehn, and Vikram Garg of Indebleu, but the high stakes of being successful in an extremely competitive field where problems include keeping young chefs who often think moving from job to job builds a more impressive resume.
Back to School for Kids Means Fun for Parents: NYC & Company and WNBC's News 4 You Find Kid-Free Zones in the City
WNBC's Perri Peltz and Fred Dixon of NYC & Company, New York City's official marketing and tourism organization, recommended a few "back-to-school" activities for parents to enjoy during the August 17 NYC Visit segment on WNBC's News 4 You. The segment featured three activities parents can share with friends, spouses or just enjoy for themselves while their children are at school or away at college. .
Community Spotlight: Hicks has cajun flavor
When Darrell Hicks got a pink slip from the John Deere Co., it proved to be one of the best things that ever happened to him. "I was a regional manager for the John Deere Company for 29 and nine-tenths years," Hicks said. "Then they turned me out to pasture." .
Burned Nigerian girl keeps faith in miracles
The last thing Chinonye Omeje remembers of that day was checking on a pot of stew from its precarious perch over a cooking fire. She lifted the top of the pot and, at that moment, suffered an epileptic seizure. The girl, then 14, fell face first into the fire, and the tumbling pot dumped its scalding contents onto her head. Chi Chi, as she is called, was burned beyond recognition. Her pretty, smiling face vanished. Her eyes, nose, lips, and right ear melted away. Her hair went up in flames, and her scalp was scalded. Much of her right hand was disfigured, along with her neck and chest. Her family thought she was dead. But on the way to the hospital, she began to move. Thus began an incredible journey back from the brink of death, from a small village in Africa to a large village of Americans who have helped pave the rocky road.
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