| Dinnertime dash: Recipes, tips for speedy school-night meals
With the older of her two sons just off to kindergarten, Robin Miller may be new to the school-year drill, but she's more than ready for the daily challenge of fitting healthful, home-cooked dinners into a busier-than-ever schedule. When her boys were still in diapers, she was developing "Quick Fix Meals With Robin Miller," a wonderfully practical and appealing cooking show that debuted two years ago on The Food Network. This spring, Taunton Press published a companion cookbook. If you find Rachael Ray's hyper-perkiness grating and Paula Dean's butter-intensive recipes too rich, Miller may be just the ticket. She has a relaxed, upbeat manner that manages to convey both encouragement and calm. And with a master's degree in nutrition, she puts health front and center.
Wake up! The bees are on their knees
How strange is the hierarchy of our affections for other animals. The extinction of the Yangtze River dolphin is mourned extravagantly because in its round, intelligent eyes we saw ourselves, before we killed it off. Similarly, the bonobo ape of Central Africa has become the endangered animal du jour in America, on account of its supposedly human characteristics, or those we aspire to: peacefulness, intelligence and an abundant interest in sex. The bonobo is the subject this week of an 11,000-word profile in The New Yorker, in which it is described as a loveable cross between "a dolphin, the Dalai Lama and Warren Beatty". (I can confirm the highly sexed part because I once interviewed a female bonobo that had learnt to "talk" using a computer at the primate research centre in Georgia.
Local spa to offer free haircuts in exchange for food bank donations
On Sunday Romeo & Juliet Salon Spa will sponsor a food drive to help keep area families from going hungry. To encourage participation in the food drive, salon and spa owner Julie Katz and her team of hairdressers plan to provide area school age children (kindergarten through 12th grade) with complimentary back-to-school haircuts in exchange for a donation of four or more items for the Frisco Family Services Center and Little Elm food pantries."The food drive will be a great way to gather food for families in need and a rewarding way for us to thank those who participate," Katz said. "We wanted to do something to pay back the community who has been so wonderful to us."Romeo & Juliet Salon Spa, which opened in December, is committed to supporting the community and insuring that no one goes hungry.
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