Jan 31, 2010
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
You know them as masters of the kitchen in some of the area's most popular restaurants. But what do Lancaster County chefs cook on their days off?Do they bring their restaurant skills home, or do they make nothing more complicated than a ham sandwich?We asked some culinary wizards those very que...
Jan 31, 2010
ERIC STARK, Sunday Best
My wife, Cindy, was looking for a recipe to use zucchini from our garden and stumbled on this chicken chowder recipe.It's one of our favorite meals. Cindy likes to say, "It tastes good and it is healthy for you." I like to make it less healthy by using scoop-shaped tortilla chips to eat it. It's mor...
Jan 31, 2010
MARCI WATTERSON
Valentine's Day is just around the corner; special preparations are taking form. A small token of love: flowers, candy and, oh yes, dinner plans. OK, hang on before going over budget.Many years ago, a statement was made and to this day, I believe it holds true. Well, some of it anyway. "The...
Jan 24, 2010
JEANNETTE SCOTT
Age: 42Residence: Warwick TownshipProfession: French teacher, Warwick High School; adjunct professor, Millersville University.Originally from Quebec, Renée Campeau has fond memories of her grandmother baking bread and making vegetable soup, and of her parents making beignets (fried donuts wit...
Jan 24, 2010
DENNIS LARISON, Business Editor
The gardens at Lime Spring Farm, the setting for numerous weddings last year, now lie dormant, but the kitchens there will burst to life next week in the farm's latest commercial venture.Marilyn Berger, one of the partners who now owns the historic property on the western outskirts of Rohrerstow...
Jan 24, 2010
ANNE KOENIG, Living Editor
Age: 77Residence: DenverProfession: Retired U.S. Air Force chaplain"Raised by a single father, I had to learn to cook," noted Paul H. Wragg. "Courtesy of the Air Force," he added, "I lived in Turkey, France, Spain and the Philippines. I traveled extensively in the Middle Eas...
Jan 17, 2010
STEPHEN KOPFINGER, Sunday Best
I'm not a big soup-eater. I like it, but I have to be in the right mood for it. A really cold, gloomy day, however, does help.This potato soup, from my mother, Dorothy Kopfinger, is about as basic as it sounds, but it's an easy comfort food. Like many not-written-down recipes, you can pretty much ad...
Jan 10, 2010
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Age: 45Profession: Publisher of Fine Living Lancaster magazine and a loan officer with MNET Mortgage Corp.Town: LandisvilleMark Pontz sees cooking as a dual-natured asset."I love to eat and cooking is a great marriage of the two equally dominant parts of my personality," said Pontz, husban...
Jan 03, 2010
MARY BETH SCHWEIGERT
Heather Fenimore is convinced organic food is the best choice for her family.Fenimore, a Manheim Township social-services worker, first dabbled in organics more than 20 years ago, as a college student.Motherhood intensified her desire to protect the environment and her new family's health. Organ...
Jan 03, 2010
STAFF
Consumers pay a premium for organic food.Organic romaine lettuce can cost about 60 cents more than conventional. A pound of organic grapes runs 50 cents to $1 more.And at around $4, a half-gallon of organic 2 percent milk costs more than twice as much as its conventional counterpart.Organic food is ...
Jan 03, 2010
STAFF
Organic food is a relatively new area of research, emerging only over the last decade or two, with little funding and often-conflicting results.A headline-making British study, published last summer in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found no significant nutritional difference between or...
Jan 03, 2010
JO-ANN GREENE, Sunday Best
When I heard Living Editor Anne Koenig mention ordering baked oatmeal in a restaurant, I piped up, "I've got a recipe for that."I meant that I had a cookbook with a recipe for Baked Oatmeal.It appears in "The Central Market Cookbook," the 1989 edition by Phyllis Pellman Good and Louise Stoltzfus.Wha...
Jan 03, 2010
MARY BETH SCWEIGERT
• Who's buying?Seventy-three percent of U.S. families have purchased at least some organic products.• Market shareIn 1998, organic products represented less than 1 percent of U.S. food sales. A decade of steady growth later, nearly 3.5 percent of food sales were organic.• Go...
Jan 03, 2010
MARY BETH SCHWEIGERT
Originally, all farming was organic. But around World War II, the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers spread quickly, changing the face of agriculture. A sort of counterrevolution &tstr; the return to organic approaches &tstr; grew from there. • 1940: British agricultural scholar...
Dec 27, 2009
MARK KENNEDY, Associated Press
Julie Powell's new book is not for the squeamish, in more ways than one.It opens with her in the back of a butcher shop, flecked with blood and reeking of meat. She's busy slicing a raw, slippery liver with a foot-long knife.By the end of the book, another internal organ — her heart &m...
Dec 27, 2009
ANNE KOENIG, Living Editor
Age: 60Residence: QuarryvilleProfession: Self-employed with wife, Sherry Allamong, for 32 years as owners/operators of SGMC, or Solanco Glass & Mirror Co.; Solanco General Merchandise Co.; and Solanco Gentle Massage Co. We wear quite a few hats.Philip "Phil" Alamong said that, in 1994,...
Dec 27, 2009
MARCI WATTERSON
The time for holiday festivities is winding down. You have a few moments to enjoy all you've done, just before setting up once again to say goodbye to 2009 and welcome in 2010.Tradition ushers in the New Year with a meal of pork and sauerkraut for prosperity. Well, let's get a jump on that t...
Dec 20, 2009
BARBARA HOUGH RODA, Sunday Best
Early Christmas morning, my folks — Dad with his white beard and the Santa cap that appears to be permanently attached to his head this season — will venture to our home to open gifts and share in a holiday brunch. It will be the entree into a day of festivities culminating in a larger f...
Dec 13, 2009
JEANNETTE SCOTT
Age: 34Town: ElizabethtownProfession: Veterinarian, Companion Animal Hospital, ElizabethtownDr. Ben Zimmerman never complains about cooking."It's my way to relax," he said.The first thing he ever cooked by himself was an egg in the microwave. "Eww!" he said.He's moved on ...
Dec 13, 2009
MARCI WATTERSON
After leaving the nest, I returned to my mother's home each holiday to help her decorate and to share in the enjoyment of the twinkling lights, her window display of small ceramic houses and a pyramid of poinsettias tucked carefully in a corner, as well as in the individual poinsettias set about...
