| Workshop on safe food practice today
Staff Reporter
THE Communicable Disease Control Section of National Health Authority�s Department of Preventive Health will host a safe food practice workshop today.
The exercise aims to develop a national food quality and safety system in Qatar at par with international standards.
The Ministry of Municipality and Agriculture Affairs, Qatar National Hotels Company (QNHC), and major hotels and food and beverages establishments outside QNHC are among the participants.
Qatar Airways and civil aviation catering, Qatar Petroleum, fast food chains, schools and labour camp caterers, and Qatar Foundation and its affiliated teaching and training centres are also among the attendees.
�This workshop is intended as a brainstorming session for executive and manager level decision makers to establish a focus group and an action plan to ensure implementation of the guidelines and recommendations,� an official said.
Lunchtime tradition ceases in Burl. City
BURLINGTON CITY � Some students at Burlington City High School are accustomed to leaving school grounds during lunch period to head home or to a fast food restaurant. But this year, the school district has decided to keep all students confined to the cafeteria. Business Administrator Craig Wilkie said the decision was made after the state Supreme Court ruled in June that schools could be held responsible for student safety after students leave school grounds. The case, Jerkins v. Anderson, involved a third-grader from Pleasantville, Atlantic County. In 2001, an elementary school dismissed its students early at 1:30 p.m. The third-grader, Joseph Jerkins, left school unattended and several hours later was hit by a car and paralyzed. The student and his parents filed a complaint against the Pleasantville Board of Education and the school principal.
Local award-winning pitmaster perfects barbecue
Amy Anderson had a winning recipe right from the start.The first time the Olympia native took her barbecue cooking on the competition circuit, she won Washington state's grand championship. That meant she earned high scores in all four barbecue categories: chicken, ribs, pork shoulder and brisket.Anderson was in her mid-20s at the time, when female pitmasters were even more rare than they are today.Many other awards followed: Anderson has earned grand championships in Arizona, California and Nevada and at international competitions in Canada and Ireland."I was pretty lucky right off the get-go," said Anderson, 39, who opened South Sound's Ranch House BBQ restaurant with co-founder Melanie Tapia three years ago.And where barbecue is concerned, that luck has continued.A 1986 Olympia High School graduate, Anderson grew up cheering on her mother, Judy, who also competed on the barbecue circuit.
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