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Chef Mike Davis, of Terra in West Columbia, along with his pastry chef Jackie Strickland and two Go ProStart culinary students won the S.C. State Fair’s first famously Hot Chef Showdown. Hosted by former White House Executive Chef Walter Scheib, contestants were given a basket of mystery ingredients and 90 minutes to prepare four courses of Southern-inspired dishes. Ricky Mollohan of Mr. Friendly’s New Southern Cafe and Tim Peters of Motor Supply Company Bistro tied for second place. Davis’s $500 prize will be donated to Go ProStart, a culinary arts program sponsored by the S.C. Hospitality Association.
ContestFoodies, rejoice.
Changes are in store for Five Points, including a new urban-style Waffle House, a womens boutique and a move by a longtime surf shop.
As documentaries like “Food Inc.” and advocates like author Michael Pollan have emerged in recent years to show us the industrialization of our food supply, the term “real foods” has entered our vocabulary. The phrase refers to foods that are nourishing, whole and produced in a humane and sustainable way — an antidote to highly processed junk foods prevalent in our diets.
Chick-fil-A along Main Street in Columbia will shut down at the end of the month after more than 17 years as lease negotiations with the buildings owner have failed, according to interim manager Drew Caffrey.
LOS ANGELES - Not surprisingly, the public's appetite for Whitney Houston's music erupted in the hours after she died Saturday in Beverly Hills, as more than 100,000 albums and nearly 900,000 individual tracks sold in a little over 24 hours.