| Great American Seafood Cookoff set for today through Monday in New Orleans
Seafood lovers, home cooks, and everyone looking to have a good time are invited to three days of cooking contests at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans today through Monday. Saturday, Aug. 4 - Day 1, 11:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Twenty of America's top seafood chefs will compete in the 2007 Great American Seafood Cook-Off presented by the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board. .
Enrollment numbers up at Lake County regional community colleges
LAKE COUNTY More local students than ever are seeking a college education, but high costs mean attending a four-year university may not be feasible for some. That's why students are turning in record numbers to get their first two years of education completed at one of Lake County's two community college's Yuba College has experienced a three percent increase in enrollment from last year, and Mendocino College is up nearly five percent. Each year the numbers climb, school officials say. It makes sense to local students, who pay approximately $780 in yearly fees for full-time enrollment at one of the state's 109 community college campuses. Compare that with the $7,300 in yearly fees it costs to attend one of the 10 UC campuses, and $2,520 in fees to attend one of the 23 CSU's, and the savings are clear.
Chef Gutierrez Driven By Growing Business Ventures
The work day at Chef Jose Gutierrez's year-and-a-half-old Downtown business, Encore Restaurant & Bar, begins at about 3 in the afternoon. Some of the kitchen staff already are in place doing prep work for the French-style bistro in Peabody Place. The rest of the staff, and Gutierrez himself, come into the restaurant in the early afternoon, drink their 2:30 espressos and ease into the daily frenzy of activity that surrounds a successful restaurant: signing invoices for deliveries, greeting stray customers who pop in to say hello, and making sure everything is in order for that night's crowd. And for Gutierrez, those daily responsibilities are just the tip of the iceberg. This summer, the master chef has been teaching cooking classes, preparing to launch a new catering business and planning for a wedding - his own.
Adams County's two colleges show student works
There's a new kind of art called pun pie. Stephen Bruer, sculpted an igloo and put it in a sculpted pie pan. It's an Eskimo Pie. Margaret Carter made a white hen with red head feathers and a cooking pot - a chicken-pot pie. Courtney Leith did the same with a key and a lime. These projects were part of the basic design 3-D course taught last year at Gettysburg College, and these works, along with a mud pie, are on display at the annual Student Exhibition at the college's Schmucker Art Gallery. Gallery director Shannon Egan said the works among the 90 or so displays in the student exhibition were the best of the best of last year's classes, selected by professors throughout the visual arts department. They represent the works of future career artists and those of students in other majors who showed some talent in an art elective.
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