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Great Chefs, Culinary Gala, Tours At Monterey Bay Aquarium
Renowned chefs from across North America, including The French Laundry’s Thomas Keller and Food Network all-star Alton Brown will share their passion for fine dining and environmentally sustainable living when they’re honored at the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s “Cooking for Solutions 2009” on May 15-16, 2009. At the two-day celebration, celebrity chefs – selected and recognized by the Monterey Bay Aquarium for their leadership in promoting food practices that protect the health of the ocean and the soil – will create gourmet dishes, host food and wine adventures, and offer cooking demonstrations that feature sustainable seafood and organic ingredients. All proceeds support the nonprofit aquarium’s Seafood Watch program, which has worked for the past decade to transform the seafood market in ways that preserve healthy ecosystems and sustain ocean wildlife. Title sponsors of Cooking for Solutions 2009 are Bon Appétit Management Company, an award-winning food service company recognized internationally as a leader in promoting sustainable cuisine; and Coastal Living, a national magazine that celebrates life along the coast and serves as the source of inspiration and information for people who live or dream of living a coastal lifestyle. Cooking for Solutions 2009 is part of the aquarium’s 25th anniversary celebration. Monterey Bay Aquarium opened on October 20, 1984 with a mission to inspire conservation of the oceans. Thomas Keller, chef/owner of The French Laundry in Yountville, California and one of the most respected and honored chefs in the United States, will receive the Conservation Leadership Award – Chef of the Year at the eighth annual Cooking for Solutions celebration. A leading advocate of sustainable seafood and building menus around local, organic ingredients, he’ll be honored along with Educator of the Year Alton Brown – chef, author and host of Food Network’s Good Eats program, and a lead commentator and judge on Iron Chef America. Thirteen other noted chefs from across the United States and Canada will also receive honors.
They’ll be joined by four renowned chefs who return as Special Guest Celebrity Chefs: John Ash (cookbook author and teacher, Santa Rosa), Sam Choy (Sam Choy’s Big Aloha Brewery, Sam Choy’s Breakfast, Lunch & Crab, all Honolulu, Hawaii; and Sam Choy’s, Guam, USA), Jim Dodge (Bon Appétit Management Company, Palo Alto) and Michel Nischan (The Dressing Room and Wholesome Wave Foundation, Fairfield, Connecticut). All have been recognized in past years as Celebrity Chef Ambassadors. Also attending as a Special Guest Celebrity Chef will be Tracy Griffith (Sushi American Style, Los Angeles) – one of America’s first female sushi chefs and the author of Sushi American Style, who acquired her love of sushi through her half-sister, actress Melanie Griffith. The Friday gala on May 15 – the signature celebration at Cooking for Solutions and a sell-out event every year – offers gourmet dishes from appetizers to desserts, created by the celebrity chefs, their local host chefs and 60 exceptional regional restaurants. In addition, 55 premium vintners from California and the western U.S. will pour organic and sustainable wines. The gala will be preceded by a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception with Alton Brown. Thomas Keller will sign his cookbooks during the gala, and will host a deluxe food and wine adventure on Saturday, May 16 along with winemaker Jim Fetzer and Monterey Bay Aquarium Executive Director Julie Packard. Saturday’s lineup of Food and Wine Adventures includes culinary outings with other Cooking for Solutions chefs. Several chefs will also present morning cooking demonstrations at the aquarium, featuring sustainable seafood and other ingredients. Saturday evening brings the fourth Sustainable Seafood Challenge, an “Iron Chef”-like event in which four Cooking for Solutions chefs prepare tasty seafood dishes from the same sustainable ingredients in a tournament-style kitchen set-up. Sam Choy and Alton Brown will provide lively commentary, and will serve on the judging panel that recognizes the chefs in four fun categories. The aquarium’s Seafood Watch program, which inspired creation of Cooking for Solutions, gives consumers, retailers and restaurateurs the tools and information they need to make seafood choices that help assure a future with abundant ocean wildlife. Seafood Watch creates regional and national pocket guides to sustainable seafood that consumers can use to guide their seafood buying decisions at the restaurant or market – including a new consumer guide to sustainable sushi that debuted last fall. Since 1999, Seafood Watch has distributed 27 million pocket guides, all featuring seafood items popular in different regions of the United States. It also partners with zoos, aquarium, conservation organizations, retailers, restaurateurs and seafood purveyors to shift the seafood market in directions that reward fishing practices that protect ocean ecosystems and the marine animals that depend on them. Seafood Watch recommendations are also available for the iPhone and iPod touch, and for internet-enabled mobile devices. Tickets for Cooking for Solutions 2009 are available by calling the Monterey Bay Aquarium toll-free at 866-963-9645. More details about Cooking for Solutions are available online at www.cookingforsolutions.org. You can request event brochures by sending an email to events@mbayaq.org. In 2009, the nonprofit Monterey Bay Aquarium celebrates 25 years of inspiring ocean conservation. To learn more, visit www.montereybayaquarium.org. COOKING FOR SOLUTIONS 2009 EVENTS AT A GLANCE: Friday, May 15 Saturday, May 16 EVENT DETAILS: Reception with Alton Brown – SOLD OUT Cooking For Solutions Gala Celebrity Chef Cooking Demonstrations Food & Wine Adventures Tour 1: The Art of Food – SOLD OUT Tour 2: Paradise Found Tour 3: Scheid Vineyards Celebration Tour 4: A Culinary Affair Tour 5: Bernardus Bound Deluxe Adventure: The Legends Tour Sustainable Seafood Challenge – SOLD OUT Sustainable Seafood Information Fair EVENT PACKAGES: Cooking for Solutions Gala + Cooking Demonstrations Cooking for Solutions Gala + Food and Wine Adventures (Tours 2-5)
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By Kasia Deuel 
Eight culinary greats will be recognized as Celebrity Chef Ambassadors: Nate Appleman (A16 and SPQR, San Francisco), Floyd Cardoz (Tabla, New York City), Regina Charboneau (Twin Oaks, Natchez, Mississippi), Xavier DeShayes (Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, DC), Joyce Goldstein (chef, food writer, consultant, San Francisco), Alexandra Guarnaschelli (Butter, New York), Paul Rogalski (Rouge, Calgary, Alberta) and Frank Stitt (Bottega, Birmingham, Alabama).
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Irresponsible Board of Management
Maybe , just maybe The Toronto Zoo Board Is In The Middle Of A Financial Crisis And There Is No Place To Go But To City Council like a wayward son go to Mom and Dad for more money...
Although it was made clear by Shelley Carroll (the City's Budget Chief) that the Toronto Zoo has to behave more financially responsible, perhaps the problem is that there is no place else to go. The $250 Million fund-raising plans are a pipe dream (especially after firing the Zoo Foundation), it is not possible to raise admission prices any longer (or face a significant drop in attendance) and the "junkets" (especially to China for the Giant Pandas) by members of the Zoo Board can not be cut significantly for any reason. In other words, there is no place to go but City Council. What a crock! The Toronto Zoo Board needs a reality check, as it has become clear that they do not understand the problems they are facing. Perhaps the thousands of free Zoo passes given to Councillors on the Zoo Board could be cut to zero, perhaps the Zoo Foundation could be re-instated, and perhaps a citizen's advisory committee could be formed to provide much-needed guidance to the existing members of the Board.
This is Proof positive
that citizens should have more direct say in the budget process. Line item veto by a citizen's budget committee might get the desired cuts we must attain. The citizens of Toronto should stand with one voice that we just won't allow a property tax increase this year.
By Latinoboy in TORONTO
Ethyl Mercaptan
I would be quite interested in any reference you might have to the presence of ethyl mercaptan in carrion. Most literature indicates that dimethyl sulfide and methyl mercaptan are the sulfur containing entities involved. I had also thought that vultures, like many carrion eating and inhabiting species (flies, etc) were attracted to the rather bad smell of the nitrogenous materials (cadaverine, putresceine, etc) produced during decomposition.
Ant farms
Very nice ant exhibit! I wrote a small ant farm post with a reference to your article.
Train Business Directory Available for Visitors
A "Train Business Directory" shows over 850 locations near all of the Portland MAX light rail at PortlandLightRail.net.
Happy Birthday, Boomer!
You are a great ambassador for your cousins in the wild, Boomer!
Orangutans are critically endangered because of rapid deforestation and the expansion of palm oil plantations.
If nothing is done to protect orangutans, they could be extinct in just a few years!
Your fans can visit the Orangutan Outreach website to make a difference!
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Reach out and save the orangutans!
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Venemous snakes?
What is it with people that want to exterminate venemous snakes? If they weren't an integral part of the food chain and ecosystem, they wouldn't be here! Evolution and natural selection has chosen them as survivors! The fact that they are "harmful" to humans is only a result of humans encroaching on their territories and habitats. Be mindful of your surroundings and situation and you can safely live with the so called "harmful" species that we share this planet with!
Local wildlife day
Good luck with the event. We have some fabulous wildlife in Devon that's really worth celebrating. We recently had a botanical survey of our small Devon nature reserve, which recorded more than 180 species in about 3.5 acres. And even more amazing was the depth of local knowledge the visiting naturalists had to share - on everything from obscure moths to lichens.
Local wildlife day
Good luck with the event. We have some fabulous wildlife in Devon that's really worth celebrating. We recently had a botanical survey of our small Devon nature reserve, which recorded more than 180 species in about 3.5 acres. And even more amazing was the depth of local knowledge the visiting naturalists had to share - on everything from obscure moths to lichens.
Sadly, a lack of common sense is the trend
What is sad to me is the lack of common sense regarding venomous snakes that seems to becoming more commonplace.
It has become trendy for government agencies to defend venomous snakes, saying they kill rodents, etc., but non-venomous snakes also kill rodents. I have not heard one logical argument as to what a venomous snake contributes to an ecosystem that a non-venomous snake doesn't.
Any non-biased biologist can affirm species extinction has always happened naturally. It's common sense to kill a venomous snake, rather than let it continue breeding and increase the potential for harm.
The unfortunate consequence of naturalists defending venomous snakes is they make them appear so necessary and harmless that both people and agencies--hospitals, for example--do not expect or prepare for snake encounters.
It's doubtful that many hospitals near the snakes stock the expensive antivenin. Governments should help fund snakebite treatment rather than fund snake protection.
Skype Usage
Very cool and novel way to use Skype. Glad to see that people are thinking outside the box with its collaborative application. If it's not too late, you may want to submit this to Skype as a good use of their software for the Skype in business contest they're running.
Shawn
OnState Communications
Word Oceans Day - June 8
And don't forget to "Wear Blue and Tell Two"
Another great way to celebrate World Oceans Day is to wear blue in honor of the ocean and tell people two things they likely don't know about the ocean and two ways they can take action. For more Information check out this website:
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