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Taste of Home cooking school returns Nov. 14 Culinary program comes to Newnan adding spice to the season Newnan Utilities and The Newnan Times-Herald bring the return of the Taste of Home Cooking School to the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts on Nov. 14. A specialist from the organization that produces Taste of Home magazine will add culinary kick to the season, sharing delicious recipes with local home cooks. The perfect recipe for creating new memories with loved ones includes good friends, good conversation a nd, of course, great food. Home cooks from across the country are heading back to the kitchen to prepare fall’s comforting favorites and the Taste of Home Cooking School plans to demonstrate seasonal recipes that are certain to delight. Taste of Home culinary specialist Michelle Roberts will return to share some tips and tricks while demonstrating step-by-step recipes for the sea-
son’s best dishes. The Taste of Home Cooking School is America’s leading program, inspiring more than 300,000 passionate home chefs at approximately 300 events nationwide. Attendees experience exciting recipe demonstrations using ingredients easily found at the local grocery store, and, best of all, the chosen dishes are submitted by home
Culinar y specialist Michelle Roberts returns to Newnan, Ga. to demonstrate seasonal dishes for 2013.
cooks from across the country. “From experienced home chefs to beginners learning their way around the kitchen, the Taste of Home Cooking School offers something for e ve r yo n e — putting a fresh spin on old favorites and See ticket add i n g new ad information recipes to ➤ PAGE 4 your seasonal repertoire,” The Taste of Home Cooking School is America’s leading program, inspiring more than 300,000 passionate home said Roberts. Spi nach Stuffed Ch icken chefs at 300 events nationwide. Pockets is just one of the recipes to be demonstrated at this includes recipes featured dur- $10 at the following locations: Branch only and at the Centre year’s show. “With their creamy ing the program, along with Newnan Utilities Main office at for Performing Arts on Lower filling and delightful crispy many more, as well as coupons 70 Sewell Road; Newnan Utili- Fayetteville Road. crust, these elegant entrees are The doors will open at 5 p.m. easy enough for weeknights, from participating national ties’ Wahoo Customer Service for ticket holders to visit vendor food companies. Attendees Center, located at 315 Millard yet special enough for comcan also enter for a chance to Farmer Industrial Boulevard; booths, and the show will begin pany, too,” she said. Attendees w i ll receive a win one of many door prizes, The Newnan-Times Herald at 6:30. For more information, visit gift bag including the Taste of including the recipes created office at 16 Jefferson St. downtown; at The Bank of North www.TasteofHome.com/CookHome Cooking School maga- onstage that night. zine. This 68-page special issue Tickets are on sale now for Georgia/Thomas Crossroads ing-Schools .
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Longhorn employee Greg Godwin helps load the weekly “’harvest” into the van for Shannon Arnold for the Newnan Housing Authority.
Local Longhorn ‘harvests’ food for those in need By Clay Neely clay@newnan.com
Longhorn Steakhouse’s parent company, Darden Restaurants Inc., created the Darden Harvest program 10 years ago as way to help feed the hungry in the communities in which they operate. Here in Newnan, the local Longhorn will “harvest” surplus, wholesome food t hat wasn’t served in its restaurant and donate it to the Newnan Housing Authority. Items such as fresh fish and other meats, soups and bread are donated. These items are never leftovers — just unused, fresh food. Rebeka Prater, managing partner for the Longhorn Steakhouse in Newnan, provided a glimpse of their “harvest”
operation. She explained that every Darden restaurant is strongly encouraged to participate in the harvest program and that the goal of the Longhorn Steakhouse in Newnan is between 50 to 100 pounds of food a week. “The food has to not only be safe but it has to be quality as well. For instance, if you’re trimming off meat, it has to be 70 percent lean. Anything and everything that we don’t have a use for but is completely safe is good to go.” All employees are trained how to prepare the “harvest” surplus. Prater walked through the preparation of the food for the harvest. Fresh meats, chicken, fish and breads are cooked, cooled, labeled and logged then stocked
in the cooler until the weekly pickup. If the designated amount of daily specials aren’t ordered, they will cook them regardless and then store them as well. She makes it clear that all the food that is used in the harvest is made explicitly for that purpose. “Once any food is served at the table, it goes directly in the trash. Leftovers have nothing to do with the food we prepare,” said Prater. Gly n i s Ta n ner f rom t he Newnan Housing Authority drops in to pick up the harvest each week. Prater emphasizes the company’s involvement within the local community. They don’t
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Delecta ble Desert Recipes ➤
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Delicious Desserts that have stood the test of time Each decade has its own distinct foods, including desserts. Yet some of these decadent treats — such as southern Lemon Chess Pie from the 1820s, Strawberry Shortcake from the 1850s, or New York’s Black and White Cookies, first baked up in the Roaring 1920s — have stood the test of time. To celebrate these nostalgic sweets, this “Decades of Decadence” recipe col-
lection serves up a delicious trip down memory lane with modern inf luence by Ellie K rieger, M . S., R . D., host of the Cooking Channel’s “Healthy Appetite.” “History shaped these desserts and they have stuck a round because they a re inherently delicious,” she says. “They were driven by the availability of ingredients in their day, advertising by food companies in wom-
en’s magazines and advancements in food technology or appliances.” To boost nutrition and keep saturated fat in check, the recipes are updated with hearthealthy ingredients, such as low-fat yogurt, whole-grain flour and canola oil, which has the least saturated fat and most omega-3 fat of all common culinary oils.
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