Food Events Spring Back

FROM FOR THE RECORD (Thursday, February 25, 1999): Correction No drive-through: Drive-through service at Temple Beth Shalom’s annual kosher dinner March 14 will not be available, but takeout meals will again be offered.

Like blooming crocuses and baseball spring training, a pair of perennial, familiar food events are coming soon to remind us that spring is nigh.

The 46th annual Uniontown Sausage Feed on March 7 again features a feast centered around pork sausage handmade by residents of the farming community about 100 miles south of Spokane on Highway 195.

The event takes place between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. at the town’s community building. Admission is again $8 for adults, $4 for ages 6-12 and $1 for kids under 6.

And the following Sunday, March 14, marks the 59th annual Kosher Dinner at Temple Beth Shalom in Spokane (1322 E. 30th), believed to be the only community kosher dinner of its kind in the country.

The menu remains the same: roasted brisket of beef with relishes, challah (braided egg bread), potato knishes, carrot tzimmes, Mediterranean spiced apples and apricot kuchen (cake). Cost is again $10 for adults, $5 for children 11 and under.

Takeout meals are again available, with one new twist: instead of having to go inside to pick them up, there will be drive-through service.

Meals will be served between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Advance tickets are recommended; for information, call 455-4543.

Galloping gobblers

Hungry for more fast, “speed-scratch” dinner ideas? Through May 1, Shady Brook Farms is offering turkey recipes that can be prepared in 30 minutes or less through its Dial-A-Chef “Gourmet-On-The-Go” toll-free hotline. Call (888) 723-4468 or visit www.dialachef.com.

Soul source

As part of its African American Heritage Month celebration, Gonzaga University is serving a “Food for the Soul” dinner Friday at the Jepson Center on campus.

Dinner begins at 6 p.m., followed by a play, “The Meeting,” dramatizing a dialogue between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., at 8 p.m. Tickets are $8.50 each for the dinner only or play only, or $15 for both. For information, call 323-5836.

Just desserts

Finally, before national Black History Month ends, we should note that the winning entry in this year’s National 5 a Day Salad Head Competition — in which elementary school classes create busts of famous figures using fruits and vegetables — was a rendering of Harriet Tubman, a leader in the “underground railroad” who helped hundreds of slaves escape to freedom in the mid-1800s.

Among the runners-up: Mona Lisa and Rosie O’Donnell.