| 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.
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At almost any given hour on any given day, a food show is being aired on your television. It could be a reality-based series in which very qualified executive and sous-chefs compete for $100,000, or a reality-based series in which mildly talented cooks vie for the prize of their own cooking show, or a reality-based series in which miscellaneous contestants, including a nanny and a cook for a retirement home, are browbeaten by a tyrannical English chef until a winner emerges who will be invited to run a restaurant in Las Vegas. But chances are, at this very moment, the show you will find devoted to food is on the Food Network, a channel now available in more than 90 million homes. And the person you are most likely to see on this network is a woman named Rachael Domenica Ray. .
Local groups to bring supplies, hope to Dean victims
Several local disaster relief groups are heading toward Hurricane Dean, hoping to aid those left in need.Hurricane Dean is already a category 4 storm and relief workers say there's no time to waste. With millions of people simply focused on surviving the storm, disaster relief groups know the devastation left behind will make for a long recovery. "We're talking homes that are flimsy compared to here, so this is going to be very very serious, very serious damage to homes and schools, hospitals," said Dean Owens with World Vision. "So World vision may be mounting a response that may take months in response to this kind of devastation."The Federal Way-based World Vision has more than 100 relief workers stationed in Haiti, where Hurricane dean has already hit and left in desperate need of basic supplies.
Kids reality TV series filming draws complaint from participant's mom, kudos from others
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A CBS reality series in which youngsters run their own town has prompted complaints from one of the children's parents, and may have skirted New Mexico's child-protection laws. "Kid Nation," slated to premiere Sept. 19, was filmed over 40 days during April and May in a movie-set town in the high desert just south of Santa Fe. While parents and children made available by CBS praised the production as safe, well-supervised and a learning experience, one mother has told authorities the conditions warrant an abuse investigation. Janis Miles of Fayetteville, Ga., said in a letter that her 12-year-old daughter, Divad Miles, was spattered on her face with grease while cooking potatoes on a wood stove, and that four other children required medical attention after they accidentally drank bleach.
Hispanic influx gives Liberal, Kan., a new face
Ignacio Rivas stands at his paletas cart chatting with another guy who also pushes frozen fruit treats on a three-wheel cart. It's about 7 p.m. in downtown Liberal, a town proud of its Yellow Brick Road and annual Fat Tuesday pancake race. But as Rivas tilts his straw cowboy hat down and pushes across the city's main drag before sundown, the scene looks like one out of Mexico. Perhaps a third to half of the independent business storefronts advertise in Spanish. Most others note that they habla español. This snapshot reflects what's happening in Liberal -- the heart of the first county in Kansas to officially become more than 50 percent Hispanic. But Liberal's story is about more than percentages -- and nearly everyone believes the town is 60 or 70 percent Hispanic anyway.
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