| Chef finds TV cooking frenzy is no act
You'd never know that up-and-coming New York chef Tony Liu is a local boy at heart. Until you listen to his mild-mannered, modest speaking style. He put green peppers on his menu because they remind him of visiting Shirokiya in his younger years. "Food is such a strong memory for anybody," Liu said recently from his West Village restaurant after he finished service in the middle of the night. "Cooking always comes from the heart." The 1992 Kaiser High School graduate, born and raised on Oahu, opened his restaurant, August, in 1994. Though he and his restaurant garnered attention when the New York Times published a review, millions of people are getting to know him this week as he challenges Mario Batali on the Food Network's "Iron Chef America," a dream come true for Liu. "I watch 'Iron Chef' religiously," Liu said.
Viking helps promote catfish
GREENWOOD — The Catfish Institute (TCI) and Viking Range Corporation recently entertained New York chef and author David Pasternak at a lunch at the Viking Cooking School in Greenwood. Pasternak, winner of the 2004 James Beard Foundation/American Express Best Chef: New York City award, and Ed Levine, co-author of their new book "The Young Man and the Sea," were served "Paper Sack Catfish," a special U.S. farm-raised catfish recipe by Viking's eexecutive chef Martha Foose. TCI president Roger Barlow says, "TCI's partnership with Viking allowed us to introduce catfish to Chef Pasternack, who otherwise might never have heard about, or tasted, the South's favorite fish." .
Capsule movie reviews
By Carrie Rickey and Steven Rea -- BECOMING JANE 2 1/2 stars. Anne Hathaway stars as the budding 18th century scribe in this speculative romance, writ with one hand on the dog-earred pages of a Jane Austen biography, the other on Austen's own "Pride & Prejudice. It's moderately engaging pseudo Brit-lit piffle, but no substitute for the real thing. 1 hr. 50 PG (nudity, adult themes) -- Steven Rea THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 4 stars. This clench-jawed thriller based on the Robert Ludlum book -- with Matt Damon back again as the somebody's-messed-with-my-head secret agent known as Jason Bourne -- is unstoppable, gear-grinding, globe-hopping fun. 1 hr. 51 PG-13 (violence, action, adult themes) -- Steven Rea DEATH AT A FUNERAL 3 stars. For those in need of a splash of bathroom humor, nervous-ninny gay jokes and a naked guy on a roof stoned out of his gourd, this well-crafted British farce is just what the doctor, or the mortician, ordered.
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