The World Affairs Council of Houston
is best known for holding public events featuring foreign policy
heavyweights such as former Secretaries of State Colin Powell and James
Baker III.
However two upcoming programs will extend the Council's reach into food-related subjects.
Photo courtesy Houston Food BankIf you think tossing out all the potentially tainted peanut products in your pantry sucks, imagine having to pitch two tons of the stuff.That's what the Houston Food Bank has been up to for the past month. Thanks to the salmonella scare, the organization has been forced to get rid of 4,000 pounds of food so far. But spokeswoman Betsy Ballard tells Hair Balls the lost food, which amounts to only a small fraction of the 36 million pounds HFB sends out yearly, isn't
More than anywhere else the country, children in Texas don't know where they'll get their next meal.That's according to a recent study by Feeding America, the nation's food-bank network, which analyzed stats on "household food insecurity" published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. According to the report, the rate of childhood food insecurity for Texas children under the age of 18 is 22.1 percent, the highest in the nation. The national average is 17 percent. The rate for Texas children un
The Bureau of Animal Regulation and Control vaccinated only eight percent of animals on entry between July 2008 and January 2009, according to a BARC supplement asking for additional funding from the city.
"Best industry standard is to vaccinate all animals entering a shelter, to minimize the spread of disease among the existing animal population," the report states (original emphasis included). "This management decision translates into concrete efforts to promote and create a populati
Photo by J.C. ReidA visitor to Macy's at Memorial City Mall last Wednesday would have been surprised at the more than 100 people -- many of them young women -- lined up in the Kitchen and Home area. Were the Jonas Brothers endorsing a line of tableware? No, but it was a rock star of sorts -- Chef Rick Bayless, hot off his recent win in the Top Chef Masters television series.
For those not familiar with Bayless, he's the chef/owner of Frontera Grill, Topolobampo, and XOCO in Chicago and s
