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T he P ortland O bserver • A pril 2, 1997___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ P age A 5 What's new with future chefs? To learn what future chefs believe the next big food trends are, the NPPC recently polled students at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) and asked them what’s hot in the kitchen. Their responses echoed the results from the Taste What's Next poll PACK THE PANTRY When stocking the pantry, respondents chose ingredients including: • Olive oil (37%) • Curry (34%) • Balsamic vinegar (32%) • Chile peppers (26%) • Infused oils (26%) • Cilantro/coriander (21%) • Basil (18%) DINING TRENDS F ordiningout, respondents from theC IA picked the following cuisines for the hottest restaurant trends: • Fusion (34%) • Thai (24%) • Regional American (24%) • East Asian ( 18%) COOK IT UP According to respondents, the hottest cooking techniques in restaurant kitchens are: • Grilling (53%) • Steaming (18%) • Sauteing (18%) The survey of students of the Culinary Institute of America was conducted in December 1996 in con junction with the national Pork Producers Council. A RECIPE IN TIME WITH THE TRENDS The pantry is brimming with new basics that add flavor to recipes. According to the recent Taste What’s April Adoption Conference Next a survey of food professionals, using a wide range of ingredients from the pantry adds new flavors and twist to home cooking. New pantry favorites — like olive oil, balsamic vinegar, chiles and cilantro -- com bined with ever-popular pork chops creates this new wave dish. PEPPERED PORK CHOPS WITH PEACH-VINEGAR GLAZE • 2 boneless pork chops. 3/4-inch thick • I teaspoon seasoned pepper (garlic pepper, lemon pepper or a pepper blend) • ! teaspoon olive oil • i/4 cup red onion, chopped • 1/2 (or to taste) jalapeno chile, seeded and minced • 1/4 cup chicken broth • 1/4/ cup peach jam • I tablespoon balsamic vinegar Fresh cilantro, chopped, as garnish Rub chops on both sides with seasoned pepper. Heat olive oil in nonstick skillet over medium-high heat and cook shops to brown on one side; turn chops and add onion and chile to pan. Continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is tender, about a minute. Add broth, jam and vinegar to pan; cover and simmer 8 to 10 minutes. Serve chops with pan sauce, garnished with chopped cilantro. Wear rubber gloves when handling hot chiles. Makes two servings. Preparation time is 20 minutes. Nutrient Inform ation per Serving: 330 Calories; 25g Protein; lOg Fat : 262 mg Sodium; and 70 mg Cholesterol. Menu Suggestion: Serve with baked sweet potatoes, wilted greens and corn muffins. Northwest Adoptive Families Irwin Johnston are "Parenting Af Association (NAFA) presents its ter Infertility” and "Children ’s De seventh Conference on Adoption veloping Understanding of Adop and Parenting Adopted Children, tion.” Other workshops include: Saturday, April 12 from 8:30AM "Search Issues;” "Open and Coop to 5:30PM. It will be held at the erative Adoption;” “Fetal Alco- Portland Conference Center, 300 hol/Drug Affected Syndromes;” NE Multnomah St. (across the Max “ Myths of International Adop line from the Oregon Convention tion;” "A Family’s Journey;” “At Center). tachment Issues;” and “A Male Keynote speaker Patricia Irwin Perspective.” Johnston will speak on "Growing Throughout the conference, at Your Family.” Pat is an educator tendees can visit informational ex on the subjects of infertility and hibits from local agencies and talk adoption, as well as an author an to professionals and family mem publisher. Her Perspective Press bers who have insights on adop titles focus exclusively on infertil tion. The keynote speech and most ity and adoption issues. Her own workshops will be audiotaped by works include "Adopting After In Limelight Audio and available for fertility,” “Taking Charge of In purchase at the end of the confer fertility," and recently published, ence. A Children’s Place book "Launching a Baby’s Adoption: store will also offer several related Practical Strategies for Parents and titles for sale. Professionals.” Pat is also the au A hot catered lunch is in thor of "Positive Adoption Lan cluded in the registration fee. guage" and “Adopt-A-Confusion.” Space is limited. Registration She and her husband have adopted fees: $65 NAFA member; $85 three children. N on-m em ber. Pieuse contact In addition to the keynote ad .N A F A fo r a conference bro dress, the conference offers nine chure and fu rth e r inform ation, workshops. Two led by Patricia 243-1356. THE EXPANDING PANTRY Make room... there's FROM CLASSICS TO NEW BASICS more in the pantry! A recent survey of food professionals shows that many new ingredients, such as balsamic vinegar, demand space in the pantry next to the cider vinegar. Because consumers crave a variety of cuisines, they require an array of edients to create flavorfully- i recipes at home. 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Mil lions of Americans in recent years have encountered the omnipresent radio and television advertisements for the Hooked on Phonics home reading program. An article in last December's Atlantic Monthly maga zine lamenting the neglect of phon ics has provoked new discussion of what long ago was dubbed the “Great Debate" among teachers of reading. “It’s the hottest issue in educa tion today,” says Robert W. Sweet Jr., president of the National Right to Read Foundation, a Washington- based advocacy group that promotes state legislation requiring phonics in schools. "Our phones are ringing nonstop, and we’re worn out from hearing tales of woe from around the country. As a nation, we’re spend ing billions to remediate a problem that we could fix in a flash.” The revived debate over how best to teach reading draws much of its urgency from a report on adult lit eracy released by the Education De partment in 1993. A startling 42 million adult Americans can’t read well enough to hold a job or manage their affairs, it said. An additional 50 million adults are stuck at a fourth- or fifth-grade reading level, which prevents them from writing a letter or interpreting a bus schedule. School reading scores released in April showed that only a third of fourth-graders read at proficiency levels, according to the 1994 Na tional Assessment o f Education Progress (NAEP), better known as the "Nation’s Report Card.” Only two states - Arizona and Mississippi - registered improvements over their 1992 scores while 10 states showed declines, the report said, including Pennsylvania. Massachusetts and Virginia. The whole-language, or "mean ing-first,” approach, conversely, en courages students to learn reading the way they learned to speak I hat means plunging in w ith whole words, sentences and stories and using news papers, magazines, child-selected books and even writing by other children. It discourages use of basal readers with controlled vocabular ies and is considered learner-cen tered rather than teacher- centered. Less a technique than a philosophy, it encourages teachers to use their own judgments about how to prod each student along. The whole-language method, ear lier versions of which have been labeled "whole-word” or “look-say,” is recommended by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the National Association for the Education of Young Chil dren and the Newark, Del -based International Reading Association, the method's foremost proponent. It is also used by the vast majority of adult-literacy programs. The phon ics camp objects to whole
