| Customers rally behind restaurant singled out on government website
Customers are rallying behind a Charlottetown restaurant singled out on the Department of Health's website for environmental health infractions.
Sam Rashed has been in the restaurant business for more than 30 years. His St. Peter's Road restaurant has been operating since 1991 when the old Mary Brown's fried chicken restaurant closed.
Rashed has built up a steady and loyal clientele over the years so when the province posted a page on its website saying his restaurant had received warnings for things like sanitation in the kitchen he was shocked.
His son, Fadi Rashed, speaks on his father's behalf.
“Dad grabbed his chest and he turned white," Fadi Rashed said in an interview from the restaurant's dining room Thursday.
“Customers should know that where they're eating is safe and secure.
Food File
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Great Cajun food Ozarks style
Take one festival, add 23 good cooks and throw in some prize money, and you've got the recipe for a successful cooking contest. The first Mardi Gras Cajun Cook-Off Sunday in Lakeview was just that a great success. Edna Fusco of Mountain Home walked away with first-place honors with her Crab and Shrimp Bisque. The judging team rated Fusco's bisque as top-notch with it's creamy, smooth texture and flavorful taste created from shrimp and real crabmeat. .
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US to review food containers and baby bottles
The National Institute of Health in the United States announced Thursday they will meet on March 7 with independent experts to discuss whether exposure to a commonly-used chemical in food containers and baby bottles could be toxic. Bisphenol A, also known as BPA, is used in making polycarbonate plastic food and drinks packaging and is found in five of the leading baby bottle brands. As part of their Chemicals Management Plan, Health Canada initiated a review in 2005-2006 of all research and toxicological data pertaining to BPA. The most recent Health Risk Assessment, conducted by Health Canada's scientists, found exposure to BPA from food packaging and baby bottles is well below the Tolerable Daily Intake established in 2002.
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
It sounds idyllic and, Jaffrey assures us, in many ways it was. But, as she manages to remind her readers, dark shadows from the adult world are bound to flicker across the face of even the sunniest childhood. "The innocent Indian honey of my infancy," Jaffrey concludes, "was now mixed with the pungency of Indian spices, the sour and bitter, the nutty, and the tingingly aromatic." As a child, Jaffrey (who is today both an actress and a noted food writer) was blessed in many respects. She was born in 1933 into a sprawling family complex set in an orchard of "jujubes, mulberries, tamarind, and mangoes" in Dehli. Her family were members of a subcaste of Hindus known as Kayasthas ("writer-warriors.") She grew up with a tribe of cousins, watched over by a phalanx of aunts and uncles.
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