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My husband is the chef in the house and he loves cooking shows (especially Top Chef). I don’t generally know who the famous chefs are but I do know one person I’m rooting for for the James Beard Foundation Awards.
Presented by Southern Wine & Spirits of New York
A winemaker, brewer or spirits professional who has had a significant impact on the wine and spirits industry nationwide. Candidates must have been in the profession for at least 5 years.
Sam Calagione
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Milton, DEMerry Edwards
Merry Edwards Winery
Sebastopol, CAPaul Grieco
Hearth
NYCRajat Parr
Mina Group
San FranciscoJulian P. Van Winkle, III
Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery
Louisville, KY
Delaware represent! Maybe our state can sweep some awards. We have an Oscar winner. It would be nice to have a JBF award winner too.
Donald Trump really is ridiculous. I don’t think he’s really serious about running for president but he’s entertaining in a weird way.
This morning, the hosts of Fox & Friends asked real estate mogul and presidential hopeful Donald Trump how he planned to gain the national security credentials necessary to sit in the Oval Office. An indignant Trump responded that “I probably have more experience than anybody” in the GOP field because of his international business dealings, and said that the way he “screwed” Col. Muammar Qaddafi on a land deal is a blueprint for how the United States should deal with foreign leaders:
TRUMP: I’ve been interacting with leaders of countries and leaders of business all over the world for all of my life. I think you guys probably know that better than anybody. I think I probably have more experience than anybody, whether I sell them real estate for tremendous amounts of money, I mean I’ve dealt with everybody. And by the way I could tell you something else — I dealt with Gaddafi. What’d I do with Gaddafi? I rented him a piece of land, he paid me more for one night than the land was worth for the whole year, two years, and then I didn’t let him use the land! That’s what we should be doing. I don’t want to use the word ‘screwed,’ but I screwed him!
Trump says he’ll be a good president because he’s done dirty deals. Well, at least he’s honest.