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Larry Lipson - Costa Rica wine correspondent
He's been the Daily News restaurant critic for 50 years, but Larry Lipson has finally called it quits: "Sure, there have been editors who have leaned somewhat heavily on me - especially during one period when I was the only restaurant critic/writer in America featured in a newspaper seven days a week." Talk about knowing the restaurant scene in LA.
Mike O’Connor Terry Farrell Firefighters Fund California Firehouse Cookbook
Mike O’Connor will be calling in for this interview. He submitted a recipe to the cookbook, is the co-founder of the Fund’s California chapter and a member of the Escondido Fire Department. Founded by the family of FDNY Rescue 4 Firefighter Terry Farrell, who perished on September 11, 2001, the Terry Farrell Firefighters Fund has been helping the families of fallen firefighters and underfunded fire departments across the United States since 2002. The charitable organization donates all of the funds it raises through various events, fundraisers, and private and corporate donations to firefighter families who are in need of educational and medical assistance and to fire departments in desperate need of fire apparatus and equipment.
Jim Beam's Support of the Terry Farrell Firefighters Fund. The largest corporate sponsor of the Terry Farrell Firefighters Fund is Jim Beam, distillers of America's best selling bourbon. In 2005, Jim Beam joined forces with the charity, and through 2008 they had donated approximately $250,000 to the Terry Farrell Firefighters Fund through the sale of specially labeled bottles of bourbon. In 2009, they added to this by donating another $100,000 from the sale of their bottles to the Terry Fund. Jim Beam Terry Farrell Fund Firehouse Cookbook
Always seeking creative means of raising awareness for the fire service charity, Jim Beam and the California Chapter of the Terry Farrell Fund partnered to develop "The Terry Farrell Firefighters Fund California Firehouse Cookbook and What Inspires Our Local Heroes". Slated for a September 2009 release, the special cookbook contains fifty recipes submitted by firehouses across the state of California, and will be sold to raise funds for and awareness about the charity.
Sean Greenwood "Grand Pubar of PR" Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
To show support for a new Vermont law legalizing gay marriage, the iconic ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's has renamed its popular "Chubby Hubby" flavor. The new flavor, which Ben & Jerry's is producing in partnership with Freedom To Marry, will be called "Hubby Hubby."
For the next 30 days, Hubby Hubby will be available across Vermont. The product's packaging will feature two men in tuxedos getting married.
Jonathon Grabowski - Research Scientist Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Lobster - Pacific or Maine? The difference and the taste/ cost? The Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) catalyzes community dialogue, interdisciplinary research, and science literacy to realize the natural and human potential of the Gulf of Maine bioregion. Our goal is to position the Gulf of Maine community to emerge at the forefront of a new era of maritime innovation, embracing creative strategies to harness the ocean’s productive capacity while sustaining the bioregion's vitality and character for future generations.
Our scientists partner with fishermen, environmentalists, and state and federal fishery managers to build knowledge of commercial fish species, critical habitats, fishing gear technology, and human behaviors to enable more effective fishery management in the Gulf of Maine. Our education programs engage students with the scientific method and encourage them to learn about Maine’s fresh and saltwater ecosystems