There’s a fly in my soup: Chefs and food scientists at Le Cordon Bleu simmered, sauted and grilled insects in a research program called “Edible Insects in a Gastronomic Context.”
The bug cookery could open a new gastronomic frontier. It also might prove especially handy and economical for those restaurants that can source their product from the kitchen floor.
Short subject: Can’t wait until Sunday evening’s Academy Awards telecast? A show called “Countdown to the Oscars: An Insider’s Guide,” airing at 8 p.m. Saturday on Channel 4, is for you.
The thing is, the show is only 30 minutes long. That’s shorter than some of the acceptance speeches.
Bad month for first ladies: Maureen McDonnell, the former first lady of Virginia, was sentenced Friday to a year in prison for accepting $177,000 in bribes from a businessma. McDonnell thus is the only first lady in modern times to be convicted on felony charges arising from her occupancy in an executive mansion.
Meanwhile out West, depending on the outcome of official investigations former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber’s girlfriend, Cylvia Hayes, could become the only not-really-a-first-lady in modern times to be convicted on felony charges arising from her occupancy in an executive mansion.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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