| 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.
ELL students finish program
DALLASTOWN SCHOOLS — The Dallastown Area School District recently finished its summer program for English Language Learner students and their parents. Instructional Program Specialist Alma Row said 13 students, from first grade through high school, and two parents participated in the week-long program. The program helps the students and their parents to connect with the community and increase communication skills in English, Row said. The group took a virtual road trip through the United States to have a greater understanding of the country, she said. The trip started in York County and went to Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. Google Earth, literature, games and cooking were incorporated in the activities. "It was tons of fun," Row said.
'I really believe in it'
On her kitchen table, Jacki Walter spread out the photos dated June 9, 2005. Flipping through them, she laughed -- not arrogantly, but as if she were part of the joke -- at the tacky splatter paint on the walls and the dingy carpet. When Walter first saw the 95-year-old house on the East Side of Aurora, it had sat vacant for at least a year, and from the look of things, it was painfully clear that few had bothered to take notice. .
Good Causes
Bunco Party. 3-5 p.m. Little Flower Parish Hall, 907 Kentucky Ave. The Little Flower Altar Society presents its annual Fall Bunco Party. $6 per person for 21 games, refreshments and prizes. Tickets sold at the door. Ongoing Angel Food Ministries. Laurel Heights United Methodist Church, 227 W. Woodlawn Ave. The program offers boxes of high-quality food at a discounted price, $25 per box, which has an average retail value of about $50. There is a different menu every month. Payment by cash or food stamps only. For more information, call (210) 733-7156. Dress for Success San Antonio suit campaign. 9 a.m.-noon first and third Fridays, Crossroads of San Antonio mall, 4522 Fredericksburg Road, lower level. Donations also can be made at any Pilgrim Cleaners or Clothesline Cleaners location.
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