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NAIT grad gets a surprise
2010. 21 April
by Liane Faulder
(edmontonjournal.com)
NAIT culinary arts graduate Andrew Newman, 22, has been selected by the federal government as one of six chefs to cook in the Canadian pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai, China. The government will be promoting Canadian products and cuisine at the pavilion.
Expo 2010 runs from May through October and is expected to be the biggest international exposition ever, with 242 countries and organizations taking part, according to a news release issued by the Department of Canadian Heritage. The Canadian pavilion is bracing to host some five million visitors, roughly 30,000 per day.
While on the way to Shanghai earlier this week, Newman, along with other NAIT grads including Chris Tom-Kee (a chef at Unheardof), stopped in Singapore with members of Team NAIT to compete at an international culinary competition. In March, Newman returned from the Escoffier Society of Toronto Culinary Salon 2010 with a gold medal.
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The Sherwood Park meal-assembly studio, Cena (which means "dinner" in Italian), has expanded its offerings to include gourmet soups and sandwiches at midday. Cena Fresh Bistro will serve lunch Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at #152, 2693 Broadmoor Blvd. (just north of Costco). Customers can pick up lunches to go, or eat in. Go to sherwoodpark. cenatogo.com
to see what's on offer.
Sandwiches on the new lunch menu, launched Monday, include a Mediterranean Chicken ($8.50) with sun-dried tomatoes, artichokes and fresh spinach on a fresh herb garlic bun, as well as a fresh vegetarian wrap ($7.50) of red pepper, green pepper, pineapple and rice rolled in a tortilla. Two signature soups change regularly and are available in 12-or eight-ounce servings (the latter goes with a sandwich).
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Local beekeeper Patty Milligan -- a.k.a. Lola Canola Honey -- is teaching a two-day class on how to raise bees, albeit on a small scale. Milligan promises to cover topics such as the urban beekeeping movement, bee behaviour and choosing a hive site.
The workshop is called Bust into Beekeeping and it's being held at Village Lifestyles at 10429 79th Ave. on May 15 and 16 at a cost of $225. E-mail Milligan with your contact information, including phone number, at pattijo@telusplanet.com.Information about Lola Canola is at lolacanola.com.
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The University of Alberta's school of public health and its faculty of agricultural, life and environmental sciences will once again offer a range of weekly fresh vegetables to those who want to eat well, and, at the same time, support a non-profit organization in Rwanda. The vegetables come from a plot at the U of A's south campus, completely supported by volunteer gardeners and donations. Last year, the plot yielded enough fresh produce to send $16,000 to Tubahumurize, which supports impoverished women through counselling, life-skills coaching, heath-care education and employment opportunities. According to the U of A's website, those who benefit from Tubahumurize are often genocide survivors, widows and orphans.
For more information, or to sign up, e-mail tuba humurize@shaw.ca.
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I spent one evening last week in the west end, attending two food events. One was an evening of food and film put on by Trinity United Church, and a number of local food purveyors, to promote local food and raise money for the Canadian Food Grains Bank. There were yummy appies from Leva, the Dish and the Runaway Spoon, as well as numerous food sample tables set up by local farmers and other producers.
I sampled great bread from Breadland (the organic bakery in Oliver), as well as Prairie Mill Bread Co. (an excellent bakery in the city's southwest). Smokin' Iron Farms provided a savoury smoked pork and I finished off the night with a generous scoop of coffee ice cream from Foothills Creamery.
Tables were set up by groups such as the Good Food Box and Just Food Edmonton, to spread awareness about the different ways to get good food in our city. We all watched a film about the local food movement called Tableland, an inspiring look at people who put their all into producing healthy, tasty food.
That same evening, I also stopped in at L1, the new lounge on the ground floor of the Fantasyland Hotel at West Edmonton Mall. It's a chic joint, all orange highlights and dark wood, with gigantic black lamps -- stylish, but not such a big space as to be overwhelming or intimidating. The food hadn't come out when I was there, but I caught a look at the menu and it had a couple of twist-y takes on lounge nibbles. I liked the look of the Micro Ahi Tuna Club sandwiches ($15 for three patties) and the fish and chips starring halibut cheeks with saffron fries and caviar tartar ($12).
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Budding chefs JayCee Ward and Neesa Loewen of Jasper Place Senior High School have scored big in the Edmonton Regional Skills Competition.
Ward and Loewen have risen to the top as the best culinary arts students in Edmonton and are now training for the provincial skills competition at the Edmonton Expo Centre, which will be held May 12 and 13. It will feature 42 different trade and technology competitions and 650 students.
Two other local students, Travis Poseluzny of Paul Kane High School and Ryan Biglow of St. Joseph High School, grabbed third and fourth places in the regional contest (held on April 10) and will also compete in the provincials. Gold-medal winners there will go on to compete at the nationals in Waterloo, Ont., later this year.
The competition requires students prepare and present a three-course meal for two and a platter of three courses for two people. The three-course meal is gazpacho soup, pork loin with prunes, roesti potatoes and green asparagus, with crepes (any style) for dessert.
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Don't forget tonight is the Big Garlic Night at all Sorrentino's locations. That's when Carmelo and Stella Rago, the restaurant chain's owners, will donate five per cent of all food sales to the Campaign for Prostate Health, a fundraiser that will benefit both the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation and the University of Alberta Hospital Foundation. The Big Garlic Night is the last major event of Garlic Month, which runs until May 7 and sees all Sorrentino's locations adding generous helpings of garlic to their menus in support of the Campaign for Prostate Health.
l faulder@thejournal. canwest.com
Source:www.edmontonjournal.com