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“Some Red Caviar chips, please.” A SLIGHTLY fishy aftertaste, but after all, these aren’t being made for Americans. At least not yet.
A New York fourth-grader and self-proclaimed junk food aficionado named Bob Marley Jones was one of seven taste testers who recently got to sample some new and, shall we say, creative, snacks.
The taste testers gathered recently at the headquarters of The Associated Press in New York and represented varying levels of culinary pedigree.
In addition to Bob Marley Jones, the testers included food bloggers, famed French pastry chef Jacques Torres and Marilyn Haggerty, and an 85-year-old North Dakota newspaper columnist whose high praise of the Olive Garden went viral earlier this year.
The spread of international snacks didn’t consist of any barbecue-flavored Lay’s chips or black-and-white Oreo cookies. Instead, the menu included “Forest Mushroom” and “Grilled Meat” Lay’s from Russia, fruity Oreos from China and lemon-peppered flavored Tang drink from Saudi Arabia. The reactions were mixed…quotes include “it tasted like an old garden hose” and “food poisoning”.
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http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120506/business/705069856/
After scraping together a mound of zucchini, broccoli, beef, pineapple and noodles on a big round Mongolian grill, Kevin Wallace measured out a shot of grapeseed oil infused with hashish and poured it over the steaming food, setting off a sizzle.
Thirteen years after Oregon became one of the first states to make medical marijuana legal, Wallace and business partner Michael Shea think they’ve found a way to fit in the big gray area between making a living from medical marijuana and going to jail.
Marijuana is indelibly associated with food, whether it is chemotherapy patients using the drug to try to develop an appetite, or, farcically, a couple of stoners with an overpowering case of the munchies in “Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle.” Secret “herb dinners” with appetizers, entrees and desserts are reported in newspaper food sections. One restaurant chain, CHeBA HUT, is based on a marijuana theme. And patrons of the World Famous Cannabis Cafe in Portland can get a burger or lasagna packing a pot punch in between choruses of karaoke.
But restaurants where marijuana is the focus have had trouble gaining traction. The customer base is, after all, limited to medical marijuana cardholders. And any enterprise associated with medical marijuana will quickly come under scrutiny.
At the Earth Dragon Edibles Restaurant & Lounge in Ashland, Wallace and Shea are trying to bring Mongolian barbecue dosed with medical marijuana to a higher level, though they are still feeling their way through the fuzzy legalities of it all.
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120504/business/705049833/
Did she REALLY think she could get away with it? Jake Griffin of the Daily Herald writes: An Elgin woman is facing felony charges alleging she fraudulently claimed to have a winning ticket for the record $656 million Mega Millions jackpot March 30. This is the first time someone has used the Illinois lottery’s new online purchasing system to attempt to “game” the lottery. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart on Tuesday announced 28-year-old Leandria Williams is now charged with attempted theft and forgery to go along with a wire fraud charge filed after her initial arrest about a week ago.
Williams is accused of buying online lottery tickets about eight minutes after the March 30 drawing and manipulating the documents to make it look like she had purchased the tickets before the winning numbers were chosen.
Sheriff’s police said Williams went to the lottery claims office in Des Plaines on April 4 with the falsified ticket trying to claim a share of the $656 million jackpot. Three winning tickets for the record jackpot were sold nationwide, but none in the Chicago area, officials said.
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120501/news/705019855/
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Parents of a northwest Indiana youth baseball team are scrambling to put together a season for their 11-year-old sons, after a South Elgin man who was coaching the team skipped town with nearly $8,000 of their funds.
The Hobart Deep River Devils had been promised a schedule of up to 60 games under their new coach who took over in the fall, but when the first real game rolled around April 15, he sent a text message saying it was canceled.
Suspicion mounted, the parents checked where their $675 per CHILD went, and discovered the dude skipped town.
Story by Paul Biasco
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