Newsletter Has Our Fresh Spin
Imagine The Fresh Sheet, only a lot longer, without all the stupid jokes.
That’s sort of the idea behind the Cook’s Discounts & Resources Newsletter, a new quarterly publication out of Pennsylvania.
It’s stuffed full of addresses for free recipes and food newsletters, catalogues of unusual or discounted cookware, information on home-based food businesses and more.
Also available through the newsletter are comprehensive lists of food publications, recipe sources and toll-free telephone numbers for cooking advice.
An annual subscription costs $8. For a free sample issue, send your name and address to: Page One Cooks, Free Newsletter, P.O. Box 194, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-0194.
Choice cut
The next time you fill your stomach, you could help fulfill a dying child’s dream.
Through Sept. 24, Spokane’s Golden Corral Steaks, Buffet and Bakery Restaurant, 7117 N. Division, will donate $1 from every 7-ounce steak dinner sold to the Wishing Star Foundation.
The foundation grants wishes to area children who are suffering from life-threatening diseases. For more information, call 325-9803.
Take five
Don’t look now, but we’re already halfway through National 5 A Day Week.
That, of course, is when everybody is supposed to make sure they eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, like the food police recommend that we do all the time.
So who really does that? About one in four adult Americans, according to a National Cancer Institute survey. The older you are, the more fruits and veggies you’re likely to eat. Women average four servings a day, compared to three for men.
Want to do better? For a free brochure, “Fast and Easy Fruits and Vegetables for Busy People,” call 1-800-422-6237.
And if you’ve totally blown it so far this week, don’t worry. You only have to eat 20 today to catch up.
Justice desserts
Following almost a full year’s worth of slime, you probably thought it was impossible to bring good taste to the O.J. Simpson trial. Enter “Eat-A-Ito,” a life-size gelatin mold in the shape of Judge Lance Ito’s face. The instructions call for three 6-ounce packages of peach-flavored gelatin and nonfat or skim evaporated milk. After the mixture sets, red and blue food coloring combine to serve as a black paint for hair, eyebrows, beard and mustache. Dark-rimmed glasses - not edible - are included.
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MEMO: We’re always looking for fresh food news. Write to: The Fresh Sheet, Features Department, The Spokesman-Review, P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210. Call 459-5446; fax 459-5098.