| Announcing New On-Line Chile Cooking Class
School celebrates 24th year of teaching Southwestern cooking. Albuquerque, NM (PRWEB) August 15, 2007 -- The world's first on-line chile cooking course "All About Chiles" is taking registrations. This complete, comprehensive course is focused solely on learning about chiles and how to cook with them. In a beautifully designed series of 40 lectures by Jane Butel (www.janebutel.com), participants will cook with chiles in Southwestern and Mexican dishes. Hints and tips for cooking with both green and red chiles will be completely spelled out. Also, the healthful benefits, history and lore will be taught. Jane Butel is an internationally renowned teacher, first to write and popularize Southwestern cuisine. The best-selling author of 18 cookbooks she conducts cooking schools, culinary tours and is now teaching online.
School of Medicine wins $5.2 million in grants
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has given two University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers cooperative agreement grants totaling $5.2 million. Dr. Eric Houpt, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, is using his half of the grant to develop a test to identify more than 20 food and waterborne pathogens like E. coli. Houpt will lead a team of researchers from the private sector, Michigan State University, the Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Tanzania. Dr. Paul Hoffman, professor of medicine at UVa, is using his half of the grant to create a single treatment to protect people from becoming infected with dangerous pathogens. Hoffman will work with pharmaceutical companies and UVa professor of chemistry Timothy Macdonald to stretch the abilities of drugs currently available to treat more conditions.
Builder in Spain Crashes, Founder Keeps New York Pad (Update1)
Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- From the looks of things at the newly built Aparta Hotel Residencia, you'd never know that it's the high summer tourist season in Canet d'En Berenguer, a town of 5,000 just north of Valencia on Spain's Mediterranean coast. The compound's 308 apartments, completed this spring, are all unoccupied. Grass has started to sprout between the red terra-cotta tiles that lead to the empty, peanut-shaped swimming pool. The residence is just one of a trail of buildings dotting the sandy coastline constructed by Enrique Banuelos as he amassed a fortune of more than 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion) over the past 15 years. Banuelos lost much of that money -- and shareholders' -- as the stock market punished the firm he founded, Astroc Mediterraneo SA, amid a rapid cooling of Spain's housing market.
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