Food: It's in the news !
Letter to the Editor read in a recent Brownwood Bulletin:
To the Editor,
I have lived in a lot of places in my life and in so doing I have also been to a lot of different restaurants. There have been some really bad ones and really good ones. There is one thing about the places to eat here in Brownwood: most of the people who serve you your meal are under the age of 25, they are usually gum smacking, talking to their friends there or on the phone and generally ignoring the customer. They seem to have no concepts of how to treat a paying client. Most of the time they are doing several things other than what they are supposed to be doing.
I have been exposed to head scratching, zit picking, scratching private parts, handling money then food, playing ...behind the counter between customers, young girls coming from behind the counter to be fondled and groped, kissed and kissing a boyfriend and then returning to the counter with, “Hi, may I help you?”
Yeah, sure I want YOU to handle my food. I have been in a restroom when an employee walks in and does her business and leaves without washing, to return to serve food to the unsuspecting public. And we all shake our heads in wonder at the outbreak of e. coli and the fact that there are so many viruses going around. HELLO, where are the health inspectors ?
I have asked to speak to the manager many times and get some little twit who hasn’t been on the planet long enough to even know what e.coli is or how it is spread. Are we so complacent that we are willing to settle for the type of service we receive, just let someone else make the waves, we will just go home and wait for the next virus or bout with e.coli? If you have ever been poisoned by bad food or nasty employees hands you might be a little more picky.
I have and I am. I, in the past would never have spoken up, I was poisoned by a plate of seafood in another place and I have never been so sick. Not even the flu is that bad.
Now I speak up and I don’t mind who hears me. You are paying for good service that is clean and prompt, if it isn’t let your voice be heard.
As the old saying goes “You get what you pay for!” So if you want clean make it happen. WASH YOUR HANDS! And wash them again!
Nancy Jones
Brownwood
source:
www.brownwoodbulletin.com
Letter to the Editor December 31, 2006 page 4a
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Reported in the Brownwood Bulletin:
" Police arrested Negal Johnson, 20, on an assault charge. Officer Sky Self was dispatched to a home in the 1500 block of Second Wednesday on a report that a man had assaulted his girlfriend. The woman told Self her boyfriend came home upset because he was sent home from his job at a local restaurant for “playing at work,” Self’s report states.
The woman said the man yelled about his day at work and she told him to stop yelling at her. The woman, who is seven months pregnant, said the man kicked her in the ribs, Self’s report states.
The man told Self he was upset about work and said he did not kick her hard, the report states."
source: http://www.brownwoodbulletin.com/articles/2007/01/05/news/news02.txt
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Note from Steve Harris:
I'm sure the owners of the Restaurants that she is referring to would like to know of her issues. If she get's no satisfaction from their managers, I would recommend that she go directly to the owners ! Q: Are these Corporate Restaurant Chains or are these Independent "Mom and Pop" Restaurants that she if referring to ? Either way, she brings up very relevant
observations !
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Posted on Sun, Jan. 07, 2007
Preparing meals of biblical proportions
By STEPHANIE SIMON
Los Angeles Times
HARTSDALE, N.Y. -- The Bible contains just one true recipe, for a bread of wheat, barley and lentils cooked over a fire made from burning human excrement. The ingredients were a direct revelation from the Almighty to the priest Ezekiel. The taste?
"Like moldy bean sprouts," says the Rev. Rayner Hesse Jr., an Episcopal priest. "You don't want to eat it. Never, ever. Let me emphasize that: Never."
OK, Ezekiel bread is out. But what about the stew that Jacob cooked in the Book of Genesis?
It was a lentil stew, the Scriptures record, and it smelled so good that Jacob's brother, Esau, traded his inheritance for a bowl of it. Ancient scribes did not record Jacob's recipe. Hesse has always wished they had.
So four years ago, he set out to re-create Jacob's lentils -- and other biblical meals -- with the help of his partner, Anthony F. Chiffolo, editorial director of a nonfiction publishing house. The couple's curiosity led them on a theological, historical and culinary quest that would expand their understanding of Scripture and introduce them to such novelties as curdled camel's milk and crispy lotus root.
Hesse and Chiffolo combed seminary libraries and at least 60 translations of the Old and New Testaments to figure out who ate what -- and make an educated guess as to how the dishes were spiced.
They have packaged their findings in an encyclopedic new book, Cooking With the Bible: Biblical Food, Feasts and Lore.
The recipes use modern kitchen equipment -- no need to fry the fish on hot stones -- but draw heavily on ingredients mentioned in the Bible or known to have been available in the ancient Middle East.
There is stewed ox meat, dried fig cake, barley-apricot salad and sardines with sesame sauce, as well as the proverbial manna from heaven.
As he read through the Bible looking for mentions of food, Hesse realized that hospitality -- specifically, generosity with meals -- was a sign of righteousness across the ages.
Food is so central to biblical relationships that when Christ reveals himself after the Resurrection, his disciples recognize him in the context of a meal. In another account, Jesus hails the disciples by the Sea of Galilee; again they do not recognize him until he catches a bounty of fish for breakfast.
"I don't think I ever understood until I did this research how central the meal is to Christianity, and how that tradition goes all the way back to Abraham," Hesse said.
"Some of these stories I've preached 100 times. Now I'm able to bring them to life."
source: http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/16404484.htm
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