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Jordan has followed up with families after dinner parties. The experience, she says, "changes the way families think about their lives." The project also seems to have a lasting impact on the teachers who help lead it. Many say it inspires them to continue to integrate food and cooking into their curriculum. "We've had teachers from Pennsylvania to California tell us, 'We now cook at home differently. We value food differently.'" And so the next step for Spoons is teacher training. This fall the first group of teachers will attend national training at the Culinary Vegetable Institute in Milan...
Instead, creativity is channeled into the company's $1 million R&D kitchen. There, Okura and his staff of 10 chefs, line cooks and pastry chefs have free rein to experiment. Brandon Cook, one of three R&D chefs and the only one who has cooked in a Cheesecake Factory, is riffing on the lobster roll--subbing crab and shrimp for lobster and thick white bread for the traditional top-split hot-dog buns in this classic New England sandwich. Before setting out samples--one on grilled bread, another toasted--he has gone through half a dozen iterations, playing with...
...session and takes a bite. He is wondering about the anchovies. "Karl wanted to put them in," he says. "But some people are allergic to fish." And Overton doesn't want to scare off the anchovy averse who don't realize the fish melt into the tomatoes as they cook, leaving behind a pungent bite that this sauce is missing. "You think it needs more capers?" he asks. Perhaps their tangy saltiness will compensate...
...kept himself open to new ideas. In California in the 1980s, they were everywhere. Early on, he added burritos and a stir-fry to the menu. He loved casual Asian-inspired restaurants like Spago and soon started spending some time each day developing new recipes with his best line cook...
...While Busby's 45% of the vote was just about the same percentage as John Kerry got in that district in 2004, Bilbray's 49% was more than five percentage points behind President Bush's re-election total there. Amy Walter, who analyzed the vote totals for the Cook Political Report, says that suggests the moderates and independents who usually vote GOP in the district were "sitting on the hands," while "Democrats don't have to worry about their voters coming out and staying motivated...