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New Columns appear each Tuesday. 16MAY06 Doral Chenoweth writes about the business of restaurants and the food industry in the Columbus, Ohio, Metro area. Reader comments are welcome by telephone. 614-538-1822. Email the Grump: thegrumpygourmet@wowway.com Send food stuff here: iPLATE@grumpygourmetusa.com Send weird stuff here: alferd_e_packer@wowway.com E-mail messages must include name and telephone for a reply. |
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16MAY06 At Last, a Calm, Rational Approach to Vegetarianism Vegetarians are with us in many forms. Two top brands are those who keep to the cause for health reasons and the others who tend to be militant under the banner of PETA. The latter group has an extensive public record of unruly picketing, calls to boycott steakhouses, and tossing pies into faces of corporate heads of major food producing firms not following PETA edicts. And today we have a Columbus-based group of vegetarians taking a different tact: Lectures, discussions and civil discourse. Mercy For Animals, with offices in Columbus and Chicago, has produced a 30-page guide, Vegetarian Starter Kit. Its national director is Nathan Runkle. His upfront statement of purpose: "MFA's main function is promoting a vegan diet." To do so, MFA conducts public gatherings over dinners - free vegan dinners - to hear about benefits of a healthy meatless diet. The next one with a limit of 50 convenes at 6:30 p.m., May 31, in the auditorium at Columbus Metropolitan Library, 96 S. Grant St. Reservations are not being accepted. However, Runkle says MFA welcomes inquiries at info@mercyforanimals.org. Registered dietitian Anya Todd, a Case Western Reserve University graduate with a degree in nutrition, is the dinner speaker. Attendees will receive recipes and literature on adopting the vegan diet. For food writers, restaurant reviewers, and hospitality students seeking rational information for the cause, ask for copies of the Starter Kit guide. For researchers now and in the future, the guide lists 99 references relating to vegetarianism - many of them US Government sources. Ninety-seven are rational sources from across the nation, newspaper stories, authoritative lectures, official reports, ag and farm reports. Ninety-seven of 99? Avoid Nos. 8 and 44. Both are PETA sources. Say you read it here. |
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Sushi Surge in Our City We need a sushi guide in Columbus - one that explains basics of the product. Time was when sushi was found only at the sushi counter of a Japanese restaurant. Otani, for example, introduced Columbus to sushi in the early 1980s. Patrons sat at the 14-seat sushi bar and were both served and entertained as experienced sushi chefs (all Japanese) rolled and packed the servings and placed them atop the glassed cool cases. In a matter of seconds, the customer was consuming. The key ingredient: Freshness. Today sushi is big in supermarkets, age unknown. A cardinal rule relating to sushi - it does not travel well. Secondly, sushi was never intended for lunch boxes. All this came to mind this week when a restaurant - House of Japan, started advertising they were serving "fresh sushi." That begs the question: As opposed to what. In the 1980s a Korean eatery, trying to break into the market, posted a sign outside that read: FRESH SUSHI EVERY WED. Again, how's that? Should we be concerned about sushi served there from Thursday through Tuesday? Nope. The place closed. by Doral Chenoweth 614-538-1822 |
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