| Making lemonade out of a law degree
I used my law degree to start a food blog, says Adam Roberts, 28, describing the inception of his popular website, amateurgourmet.com, in 2004. Feeling burnt out during his first year of law school at Emory, in Atlanta, Roberts found solace in cookbooks and the satisfaction of homemade meals something he never had at home. He grew up in a family that went to a different restaurant every night, the result of an explosive fight between his parents that ended with his mothers never cooking again. So, following years of perusing menus and opening meals from packages (a la Uncle Bens rice bowls), Roberts culinary standards for himself were initially very low. For those of us who come late to the kitchen, he writes in the introduction of his book, this is how we begin we begin as miserable failures.
Inspired by his new delectable accomplishments but not willing to devote himself entirely to them Roberts decided to change his life.
State to probe care at Yountville veterans home
A legislative committee on Wednesday ordered the state auditor to investigate the nation's oldest and largest veterans home after residents and employees at the Yountville facility registered numerous complaints about the quality of service attributed mainly to understaffing. State Sen. Patricia Wiggins, D-Santa Rosa, said she requested the audit after her office received about 100 pages of letters complaining about the level of care at the Veterans Home of California at Yountville, a 123-year-old, state-run facility that includes a hospital and houses about 1,100 residents. One letter came from Ron Muzio, a disabled Korean War veteran who has lived at the Yountville home for eight years followed by five years at the hospital. "When you enter the grounds at Yountville, they look beautiful, but when you enter the hospital, it's a different story," Muzio told members of the Joint Legislative Audit committee during a hearing Wednesday.
Sonoma West News
OCCIDENTAL - Like Voltaire's Candide, a kid can learn a lot about life in a garden.Candide, the childlike character in the 18th Century French writer's novella of the same name, came to learn through tragedy and turmoil that cultivating one's own garden not only produces nutrition for body and soul, but the mind as well.Which is pretty much the point of a garden training program for teachers held each summer for the past 10 years by the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, according to OAEC's Lisa Preschel.“This program aligns really well with the idea of teaching ecological literacy in training teachers to grow food and develop a connection with nature they can pass on to their students," said Preschel, the program's coordinator. .
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