Jennifer Wayland-Smith - Spa Director - Golden Door Spa - Boulders Resort - Scottsdale, AZ
Delight in the full organic food experience of The Boulders Resort. Our resort strives to serve only the freshest produce grown in the area and on the property. Inspiring dishes created by our own Chefs draw inspiration from the availability of abundant produce from the onsite garden. The Boulders Organic Garden includes design elements of eight elevated planter box areas separated by a flowing water feature down the middle. Each open-area plot will grow organic vegetables such as lettuce, carrots, celery, heirloom tomatoes, along with a variety of herbs and edible flowers. Five walls on the perimeter of the garden will be dedicated to a fragrant orchard of citrus trees that include grapefruit, orange, lemon, and lime trees. Allow our resort to provide you with the very best in healthy cuisine with refreshing ingredients thoughtfully
Rick Hoieninghausen - Director of Marketing Yellowstone National Resorts - "Old' Faithful"
Old Faithful is a cone geyser located in Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Old Faithful was named in 1870 during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to receive a name.
The geyser, as well as the nearby Old Faithful Inn, is part of the Old Faithful Historic District. Eruptions can shoot 3,700 to 8,400 U.S. gallons (14–32.000 litre) of boiling water to a height of 106–185 feet (30–56 m) lasting from 1.5 to 5 minutes. The average height of an eruption is 145 feet (44 m). The highest recorded eruption was 185 feet (56 m) high. Intervals between eruptions can range from 45 to 125 minutes, averaging 66.5 minutes in 1939, slowly increasing to an average of 90 minutes apart today. More than 137,000 eruptions have been recorded. Harry Woodward first described a mathematical relationship between the duration and intervals of the eruptions (1938). Old Faithful is not the tallest or largest geyser in the park; that title belongs to the less predictable Steamboat Geyser. Over the years, the length of the interval has increased, which may be the result of earthquakes affecting subterranean water levels. These disruptions have made the earlier mathematical relationship inaccurate, but have in fact made Old Faithful more predictable. With a margin of error of 10 minutes, Old Faithful will erupt 65 minutes after an eruption lasting less than 2.5 minutes or 91 minutes after an eruption lasting more than 2.5 minutes. The reliability of Old Faithful can be attributed to the fact that it is not connected to any other thermal features of the Upper Geyser Basin.
Graham Kerr - "The Galloping Gourmet" (New Electronic Book Coming)
Committed to Good Health, Good Taste, & Contributing to the Common Good. We’ve traveled around the world 28 times over the past forty-eight years of broadcasting, writing and speaking about food. I (Graham) have cooked for Treena over 40,000 meals, 23,000 of them were what we call NECK-UP (all about taste), 18,000 have been whole body foods (good health and good taste.) What we’ve done and still want to do . . . is what this site all about. We will never give up looking for better ways to eat and to live our lives and share with you.
Linda Jordan - GM Ruths Chris Steak House - Pasadena, CA
The chain was founded by the late Ruth Fertel, a single mother of two, in 1965, after she bought the existing Chris Steak House in New Orleans. In buying the restaurant, Fertel had to agree that the restaurant keep the "Chris" name for a specified period of time. After the original location sustained a kitchen fire, she relocated the restaurant about one-half mile (0.9 km) to the west on Broad Street and renamed the rebuilt establishment "Ruth's Chris." Under the purchase agreement, the name "Chris Steak House" could not be used at any other location, and she did not want to lose customers already familiar with the Chris name. Fertel started to franchise the restaurant in the 1970s to locations throughout the United States and the world. Advertising efforts are primarily focused in the talk radio market and its male demographic. The chain has cultivated paid endorsements from several radio celebrities, including Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, with the latter proclaiming Ruth's to be his favorite restaurant.Ruth's won the 2006–2007 Golden Icon Award for "Best Steak House Chain"; the Golden Icon Awards are presented annually by Travolta Family Entertainment.
