Pack Your Taste Buds For This Journey
To take a taste trip around the world this weekend, you need travel no farther than north Spokane. The Whitworth College International Student Club, with members from 26 countries, is hosting its annual international banquet Saturday starting at 5 p.m. at the school’s fieldhouse.
Menu items include Armenian and Japanese salads, a Thai soup, Korean barbecue beef, a Kenyan stew, ginger pork, a vegetarian Chinese stir-fry and baklava.
Tickets are $12 for adults and $7 for children and students with identification. For information and reservations, call 466-3232.
Sentimental spuds
Attention, all you competitive cooks: Reunions magazine is looking for easy-to-transport “traditional family reunion potato recipes,” which must be accompanied by an anecdote about a family reunion or food tradition (like the time Uncle Elmer had four pieces of rum cake and passed out on top of the anthill and …). Photos are optional.
Deadline is March 15. Winners will have their recipes published, and receive a one-year suscription. Write to Reunions magazine, P.O. Box 11727, Dept. FD, Milwaukee, WI 53211-0727, or fax (414) 263-6331.
Winner’s circle
Elsewhere on the cooking contest scene: Betty Noel of Spokane won a statewide competition with her Gold Coin Chicken and will represent Washington in the National Chicken Cooking Contest in Atlanta on April 28.
Caroline Morasch of Endicott, Wash. took honorable mention for her Oriental Citrus Steak at the Washington State Beef Cook-off last month in Tacoma.
The food service team from the 1161st Transportation Company, Washington Army National Guard, based in Ephrata, Wash. - which includes Staff Sgt. Marleen Heller of Hayden Lake, Idaho and Spc. Perry Heupel of Spokane - was judged the best in the eight-state Region Six and advances to Army-wide competition (traveling, no doubt, on its stomach).
Bon appetit!
Last but not least, special kudos to Carol Wright of Waco, Tex., who won the National “Best Spam Recipe” Competition with her lipsmacking South-of-the-Border Spam Appetizer, replete with refried beans and tortilla chips.
An accompanying press release notes that Wright “routinely melts parmesan cheese and Spam in the microwave as a special treat for her husband.”
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