| Culinary artist
Chicago's loss has been Parsons' gain. Native son Taylor McCoskey has been putting the skills he learned at Chicago's Le Cordon Bleu culinary school and a four-star Italian restaurant to use at The Breakfast Nook and Bakery. For the past couple weeks, The Breakfast Nook has been open from 6 to 8 p.m. Fridays for dinner and McCoskey develops a three- to four-item menu of traditional Italian dishes. Owner Lee Ellis said the dinners have been so successful, the restaurant will start serving dinner Saturdays starting this week. "It's a nice additive. It's something special that we wanted to do for the town," Ellis said. "It's really paid off. A lot of people like it." McCoskey said he starts planning his meal early in the week and reads cookbooks for inspiration.
City Colleges may train for casinos
Chicago City Colleges will train students for jobs in the casino industry -- including blackjack dealers -- "when and if" the Legislature approves the on-again-off-again plan for a land-based Chicago casino, Chancellor Wayne Watson said Monday. No sooner had Ald. Tom Tunney (44th), owner of Ann Sather's Restaurants, suggested that City Colleges branch out into casino training than Watson embraced the idea. "A lot of people think of casino jobs as just being the person who deals the cards or runs the roulette table. That's a small portion of casino jobs. A larger part is wait staff and support staff," Watson said. "Moving from where we kick off our hospitality program to actually training front-of-the-house casino employees is an easy step for us. When and if Chicago is approved for casinos, City Colleges stands ready to provide capacity and quality training for front-of-the-house casino jobs -- all of it, including dealers." The newly rebuilt Kennedy-King College is home to the nation's oldest and, now, most modern culinary school in the Washburne Institute, which includes a world-renowned French pastry school.
Rockland people in the news
Corinne Schild was awarded a scholarship grant from the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI Inc. Schild of Valley Cottage is the granddaughter of former special agent Charles O. Davis. She is a recent graduate of Nyack High School and will attend Hope College in Holland, Mich. History scholar
Marc Spencer Appel was named a finalist in the Gilder Lehrman History Scholars program. Appel from West Nyack was one of 45 finalists who was chosen to meet with history scholars during a one-week program in New York City. Appel is a student at Yale University. Alston graduates
Daniel J. Alston has received a degree in Culinary Arts from the Art Institute of New York City. He is from Valley Cottage. Fouda graduates
Rana Fouda graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in marketing communications.
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