| New French-Mexican eatery to open this fall
A new concept in Dallas eating will combine French technique with Mexican influence when it opens this November. "Soley!" (which rhymes with olé) will be a high-end restaurant serving cuisine from both countries, ringing in at 3,000 square feet. A $120,000 finish-out will give the space at 2405 Henderson Ave. a rustic look, with stained floors and wooden ceilings. It will accommodate 70 diners inside and on two patios. .
India firm's 'in-sourcing' creates jobs for Georgia
For critics of U.S. jobs outsourced to India, Azim Premji —- oddly enough —- may be your new hero. Premji, who has spent most of his career building a leading technology conglomerate in India, came to town Monday to announce a reversal of fortune: His Bangalore, India-based company, Wipro Technologies, plans to locate 500 to 1,000 jobs in metro Atlanta within the next three years. Better still, economic development officials say the kinds of jobs envisioned —- software developers and engineers —- are just what Georgia wants. "These are exactly the right kind of jobs we've been working on for a number of years," said Hans Gant, a senior vice president for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. "And Wipro is exactly the right kind of global company we have been trying to recruit.
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Eds: UPDATES with Bush quote; restores background. AP Photo LAAH101, LACG104, LAAH10, LAAH102 By CAIN BURDEAU Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, anger over the stalled rebuilding was palpable Wednesday throughout the city where the mourning for the dead and feeling of loss doesn't seem to subside. Hurricane Katrina made landfall south of New Orleans at 6:10 a.m. Aug. 29, 2005, as a strong Category 3 hurricane that flooded 80 percent of the city and killed more than 1,600 people in Louisiana and Mississippi. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. New Orleans churches staged memorial services, including one at the historic St. Louis Cathedral on Jackson Square, and ring bells in honor of the victims. People throughout the city will hold their own private ceremonies to remember where they were when Katrina hit, and what they lost.
Snack attack / With a new law and schools cracking down on junk food, what's left for kids to eat?
When I was growing up, my after-school snack almost always started with a triple-decker peanut butter and sugar sandwich on Wonder bread. When I got older, my sister, brother andI would hit the 7-Eleven after classes for a box of strawberry Pop-Tarts, which we inhaled on the way home. We had never heard of Type 2 diabetes, and the word "cholesterol" may as well have been a foreign word. At this time of year, there is a new crop of kids returning home from school ravenous for something to tide them over until dinner. So what do you have in your cupboards? Choosing from the plethora of products cluttering supermarket shelves can be mind boggling, food labels are often confusing, and knuckling under to the persistent pleas of a child conditioned by Madison Avenue is all too easy.
Chefs Hope To Create Culinary Destination
Chefs have earned a reputation from books, movies and television as temperamental, demanding tyrants prone to toss a spatula at an underling as easily as they do a salad. It's a portrait not entirely inaccurate, says one."Some chefs are very egotistical, but the best ones I've worked with are cool as ice," said Eric Lea, head chef at Hog Haus Brewing Co. restaurant in Fayetteville.Now Lea and his fellow captains of the kitchen have come together in a newly formed chefs association to encourage networking among the profession and also support a school whose goal is to help Northwest Arkansas become a culinary destination.The Northwest Arkansas chapter of the American Culinary Federation held its first meeting July 30 in Fayetteville. The first person to join was Tuesday Eastlake, manager of the delicatessen at Ozark Natural Foods in Fayetteville and former executive chef at the Plaza Tower in New Orleans."I've thought we needed a chapter of the ACF for a long time," she said.
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