| WESLACO — Nancy Cantu’s days are filled with art and food. She does what many would consider a dream job — baking, ...
WESLACO � Nancy Cantu�s days are filled with art and food. She does what many would consider a dream job � baking, decorating and selling cakes and pastries. Her frost-filled world revolves around Honey�s Cakes and Pastries, her newly opened bakery in Weslaco. �I�ve been doing cakes at home and I thought it was time to open up something a little different,� the 24-year-old entrepreneur said. Just one glance at the cakes in the bakery makes �a little different� crystal clear. The lopsided, towering, colorful and abstract creations seem to have jumped right out of the pages of a Dr. Seuss book and onto her cake racks. �I do a lot of cook book stuff, I start from scratch, but I�ll change it and kind of make it mine,� Cantu said. �I guess I�m willing to do everything a little different.
The Most Innovative Corporate Cafeterias
For many workers, the company cafeteria offers all the appeal of airline or hospital food -- assuming, of course, you're not left dining from a vending machine. However, even in this era of rigorous corporate penny-pinching and wolf-a-sandwich-at-your-desk deadlines, some worker-diners enjoy a different mealtime experience. .
Beano's Cabin introduces Exec. Chef Steven Topple
BEAVER CREEK � Steven Topple is not a composer, but if he was, Thursday night would mark his debut at Carnegie Hall. Instead, as the executive chef at Beano's Cabin in Beaver Creek, Topple makes his symphonies with food and flavors, and on Thursday, he will prepare a five-course dinner at the James Beard House in New York - undoubtedly the culinary equivalent of Carnegie Hall for chefs, cookbook authors and winemakers.
"It's every chef's dream," Topple said last week during heavy preparations for the dinner. "It's an honor for any chef to cook there. It's like you've finally made it."
James Beard was America's first celebrity chef. Long before the coining of the word "foodie," he appeared in television's first cooking show on NBC in 1946, and demystified gourmet cooking for all Americans.
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