| Locals make trek to W.Va. State Fair
LEWISBURG, W.Va. - West Virginia leads the nation in the percentage of family-owned farms, and its only fitting that the annual State Fair showcases these families and the approximately 1,000 agribusinesses which contribute to the state's economy.“Blue Ribbon Days and Nights" was the theme for this year's event, which featured youth and adult producers with a schedule designed for the whole family.Crossing the bridge over Route 219 into the fairgrounds, visitors were welcomed to the Reithoffer Midway of amusement rides and loads of vendors selling all kinds of festival foods. .
Tailgating: Party in the parking lot
Tailgating guru Joe Cahn has been traveling around the country in an RV trying to put an end to some stereotypes.
"I've been dispelling the myth that tailgating is a bunch of drunk guys in the parking lot" says Cahn, who is also known as the NFL's Commissioner of Tailgating.
For 11 months out of the year, Cahn travels to pro and college sports stadiums to eat in parking lots. Ever since selling his New Orleans cooking school in 1996, Cahn's life has been devoted to tailgating and what it represents in American culture.
"We talk football and we find we have more things in common with people than we do differences," Cahn says over the phone from Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. "It's a cross-section of America in the parking lot." It's also about the grub.
NAMES & FACES
Washington has been striking reality TV gold lately. First, there was Rahman "Rock" Harper, the associate chef at B. Smith's who beat 11 other culinary experts to win Season 3 of Fox's "Hell's Kitchen" earlier this month. Now there's 22-year-old DeAngelo Redman, who this Sunday will square off with nine other wannabe pop stars on the live season finale of MTV's "Making the Band 4." Redman, who grew up in D.C. and attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts before graduating from Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, won a radio contest that allowed him to bypass the line at a "Making the Band 4" audition in February at Platinum nightclub. After advancing through two more rounds, Redman earned the approval of Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, who helped producers choose the cast. Combs will also make the final decisions about which four contestants will win the show's prize: becoming part of a pop-R&B group with a record contract on his label, Bad Boy Records.
Pondering back-to-school lunches? Make sure you have a healthy plan
It is back-to-school time and, now that my kids are grown, I miss the days of assembling lunches. At least that's the way I feel now. During all those years of making my kids' lunches, I found it tedious, the last thing I wanted to do each night. .
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