Sauce: Countdown to March gladness
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Quality control checks a wheel at the Parmigiano-Reggiano storehouse in Bibbiano, Italy. Whole Foods in Shadyside joins in on the cheesy fun Saturday when it cracks open a 24-month-old wheel.
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Three, two, one ... Not counting today, only three days until March. Let's hope it comes in like a lamb and leaves that way, too.
In celebration, I bought three potted primroses and put them in the middle of the dining room table. If I can't have spring for three more weeks, at least I can have a patch of color while we dine.
Colorful food-related events abound in the coming week or so, to usher in more of a spring feeling, and less of that brrrrrrish winter one. We'll all be glad to apply a snow boot to winter this year. Good riddance.
The third South Side Leprechaun Lap will be held from 2 to 10 p.m. March 6, featuring pints of Miller Lite for a buck-fifty and food and drink at 18 locations. Tickets: $8 at the door, $5 with donation of two canned goods for the Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank. Go to lindypromo.com for details.
Also on the South Side, Double Wide Grill, 24th and East Carson streets, will hold a Tofu and Seitan Wing Eating Contest in rounds to be held at 6 p.m. next Thursday, March 11 and 18. (Seitan is a wheat-based meat substitute). A $10 registration donation will go to the food bank. Finals will be March 25, where the winner will get a $100 gift card for Whole Foods. Doublewidegrill.com.
Yearning for Girl Scout cookies? Go to gswpa.org for a locator to tell you where booth sales will be held through March.
Curtis Stone, master chef, host of "Take Home Chef" on TLC and pretty easy on the eyes, will sign autographs and meet customers and -- oh, yeah, demonstrate cooking -- at Market District Settlers Ridge, Robinson, from noon to 2:30 p.m. March 6.
Also from TLC, this one for cake-decorating/movie/star-gazing nuts: "Ultimate Cake Off" at 9 p.m. Monday. It features three contestants who will create a 5-foot-tall cake that combines the themes of the 75th anniversary of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles with the facility's birthday celebration in May, called a "Cosmic Conjunction 2010: Diamond Nights• Northern Lights". You've seen the observatory in movies, most notably "Rebel Without a Cause," and TV shows. Read about the L.A. icon at griffithobs.org.
First Published February 25, 2010 12:00 am
