Best Burger Beef? Chicago, Of Course March 13, 2008
Posted by Steve in : Weblog , add a commentMore than 1,500 burger buffs, who paid $150 each for the privilege of tasting and judging eighteen chef-created versions of America’s favorite sandwich, have voted: The winner of the Amstel Light Burger Bash, held during the 2008 Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival in Miami Beach (Feb. 21-Feb. 24), was Radius, one of Boston’s most acclaimed fine-dining restaurants. Chicago’s own Art Smith of Table 52 restaurant (Oprah’s personal chef) was one of the participants.
The burger was made with USDA Prime aged beef from Allen Brothers, from right here in Chicago, the leading supplier of America’s finest beef, USDA Prime, to the nation’s top steakhouses and restaurants. I love their meats and you can drive down to their store or get it delievered direct to your door. Click here to order your own burger deliveries! http://www.allenbrothers.com/
The star-studded, event-packed annual festival, arguably America’s premier culinary happening, was hosted by Rachael Ray and is and attended by celebrity chefs, wine and spirits producers, culinary personalities, food lovers and the major media. It attracted 30,000 visitors this, its seventh year.
Eighteen of the nation’s most talented restaurant chefs fired up their grills and unleashed their culinary creativity in a heated competition that Allen Brothers president Todd Hatoff described as “the World Series of the burger world.” . After each chef’s mini-burgers were sampled by the burger lovers and the votes tabulated, the coveted Burger Bash People’s Choice Award went to Radius chef and co-owner Michael Schlow for his “Schlow Burger.”Mr. Schlow selected his prime ingredient, Prime beef, from Allen Brothers. His prize-winning burger’s toppings were cheddar cheese, crispy onions and black pepper horseradish sauce.
Curtain Call August 11, 2007
Posted by Steve in : Tour De France , add a comment
Wow! What a difference 750 days or so makes….Looking back just two years ago, we go from total euphoria in watching Lance Armstrong, one of the premier athletes in the world, win his seventh straight Tour de France to the announcement yesterday that the Discover Channel cycling team would disband at yearend.
I am sad and disilllusioned by a sport that I love so much. It is painful to watch some of these athletes tarnish the sport so greatly, that no sponsor will step in and take the reigning tour de France championship team. Cycling is at a new low. Can it recover?
SUNDAY: Why Me? Why Did I Survive? March 24, 2007
Posted by Steve in : Chicago, Sunday Services, Church , add a commentUnited Airlines Flight 232 was a scheduled flight operated by United Airlines between Denver and Philadelphia via Chicago. On July 19, 1989, the Douglas DC-10 operating this flight suffered an uncontained failure of its number 2 engine (mounted in the tail), which destroyed all three of the aircraft’s hydraulic systems. With no controls working except the power levers for the two remaining engines, it broke up during an emergency landing on the runway at Sioux City, Iowa killing 110 of its 285 passengers and one of the 11 crew members. See the video. Owing to the skill of the crew and a DC-10 instructor pilot, 175 passengers and 10 crew members survived.
Why me? Why did I survive? Why did I receive life why others died? These are some of the questions survivors were asking after surviving the crash. Our own Teaching Pastor, Ron May, was among those who survived the harrowing experience, while traveling at the time to take a deposition in a legal case, and will talk about God’s grace among the wreckage. This is an awesome opportunity for you to invite your non-churched friends to answer some of life’s real questions. Join us at Park Community Church this Sunday —we meet at Francis Parker School at 2233 N Clark Street at 9:00 am, 11:00 am and 5:30 pm.
