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FONTANA - Lights. Camera. Cook! Fontana residents can turn their televisions to cable access Channel 3 for "The Fast, Fresh and Fabulous Healthy Fontana Cooking Show with Saundra Moreno." The 30-minute show airs on KFON at 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. It is the condensed version of the healthy cooking classes offered through the city on the third Saturday of the month. "If you have a busy life, it gives you an opportunity to learn healthy cooking techniques without having to be there in the class," said Dede Benson, community service coordinator for Fontana Hosted by Moreno, a graduate of California School of Culinary Arts in Pasadena, the interactive class promotes the importance of eating five servings of fruits and vegetables each day as well as the benefits of eating healthy.
Man, Mango and Mojito
Kapolanialaimaka “Kapo" Kealoha is the Executive Chef at Tiki's Grill & Bar in Waikiki. Since he returned from culinary stints in Wyoming and Northern California to take the top job at Tiki's, he's worked to accomplish three things: create an all-new breakfast buffet service, expand the over-all level of food and service, and teach all employees how to pronounce his first name. We hear he's nailed the first two, but using the nickname “Kapo" just might indicate goal number three is a bit more elusive than first thought. Kapo's a local man, having attended Moanalua High School and then cracking the culinary arts books at the Travel Institute of the Pacific. He's got a ton of local experience under his belt, not including those two sojourns at the Four Seasons Hotels already alluded to in paragraph one.
Silver medals are just icing on the cake
California had a slice of superior Alabama cooking when Bob Jones High School culinary students attended a national competition this summer. Team members Brendhan Burleson, Christen Finley and Shachar Newton won silver medals at the National Family, Careers and Community Leaders of America Culinary Competition in Anaheim, Calif. Julie Bone and Michelle Bevis, who teach culinary arts at Bob Jones, also attended the competition. Cody Courtney, another Bob Jones student, won the silver medal in the hospitality division. "She completed her hospitality internship with the Four Points by Sheraton restaurant," Bone said. Courtney was required to rotate through all areas of the business. Bob Jones chefs won gold awards at the state contest and thus qualified for the Anaheim meet, which included about 45 teams from the United States, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Getting a taste of diplomacy in the kitchen
Francois Gauthier, the French consul general in Boston, knows well how food can foster relations. That's in part why he nominated Jacqueline Cattani, the chef who runs the kitchen at his home in Cambridge, for the Merite Agricole, France's oldest civil award. At a reception for Cattani celebrating the award this spring, Gauthier noted, "Over the last year, we have had the pleasure of hosting, in this house, more than 1,000 guests. And I would not be surprised to learn that even if they enjoyed the pleasure of a good conversation, the beauty of being in good company, the charm and the mystery of the French-American friendship, their most memorable experience was the two or three hours spent in the dining room, and this experience has a name: Jacqueline." You probably don't know who Cattani is, unless you happen to have met her at the home of Gauthier, or seen her with the previous consul and his wife, or their predecessors.
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This week, the MFA hosts the New Crowned Hope Series -- a collection of films originally commissioned as part of a festival organized by Peter Sellars in celebration of Mozart's 250th birthday, which should make up for the whole tossing-him-in-a-mass-grave thing. Participating filmmakers were requested to make films that respond to the themes of a handful of Mozart's final works, The Magic Flute, La clemenza di Tito and Requiem. The filmmakers agreed, and then proceeded to go do whatever the hell they wanted. Here's what to expect. .
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