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PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE DULUTH, MINNESOTA JULY/AUGUST 2007 PAID DULUTH, MN PERMIT NO. 492 GARBANZO GAZETTE 610 East 4th Street Duluth MN 55805 Address Service Requested * CHECK YOUR CALENDAR Interior Decoration Space Planning * PUNCH YOUR PDA Lighting Design Green Fabrics, Furnishings and Finishes Window Treatments and Slipcovers * POST A NOTE ON YOUR FRIDGE The Whole Foods Co-op Annual Owners C DESIGNS Meeting will be held in our back parking lot Cheli Ruud, ASID, Allied Member 715-416-0825 on Sunday, September 16, from 1:30 pm to [email protected] 4 pm. This year’s meeting will be a little different — hopefully no torrential rains, violent winds or equatorial heat wave… Prior A 12 to the business meeting, an array of our In this issue Dean’s Report 10 New Members suppliers will be offering samples and tastes Gourmet to Go 2 Board Report 5 Book Review 10 A Day in the Life of their products in a first-time ever owner- 13 only demo-athalon. Your invitation and Herb Lore 3 Get Involved 5 Gonzo Gourmand 11 Management agenda for the business meeting will be Membership Savor the Report 14 inside the Annual Report, along with the Matters 4 Season Going Zuzu 12 ballot for election of Board members. 8 The Back 40 16 2 GARBANZO GAZETTE A JULY AUGUST gourmet to go cool recipes by Jane Herbert, Deli Manager ow it’s hot. The kind of hot Cool Chicken Salad 1/2 C Mango Chutney In large glass bowl, combine all ingredients, cover and refrigerate 4–6 that forces you to sit still, 1 C Annie’s Sesame Shitake salad 2 C Red Grapes hours to blend flavors. Makes 8 hang in a hammock, dressing 1 C Celery Hearts, chopped preferably under a ceiling servings 6 oz of Marinated Mushrooms 1/2 C Cashew halves Nfan, sipping a cold drink. You can (in deli grab ’n go case) 3 C fully cooked medium Shrimp, almost hear the garden growing. I’ve Cool Waters 3 C cooked Chicken, cubed cooked Turkey or Chicken turned the hot tub temp down to just 12 oz can frozen Lemonade above body temp — 100 degrees — 1 Red Bell Pepper, chopped In large bowl combine mayonnaise, Concentrate, thawed and in the moonlight under the 1/2 Red Onion, sliced yogurt, and milk; stir well. Add curry 1/4 C Lime Juice summer skies I think of how to eat 4 C Mixed Salad Greens powder and chutney. Gently stir in 8 Lime Slices cool. It’s so hot you don’t want to cook, 1 C Mandarin Oranges grapes, celery and shrimp. Chill well Strawberries and Melon Balls with but you still have to eat! It’s sweet corn Pumpkin Seeds and Dried Cranberries before serving to blend flavors. fresh Mint on ice time, cool tomatoes, and all the basil for garnish Garnish with toasted coconut, 48 oz Sparkling Lime Water you can harvest for any use. Check out cashews, and chopped mango. Serve these twists on the usual summer fare Combine salad dressing and the on chilled raddichio or romaine In a large glass pitcher, combine and see how you can improve on or marinated mushrooms, including hearts. water, concentrate and lime juice and add your own “cool” ingredients. liquid, in large salad bowl. Stir in mix well to combine. Garnish each The Fog City Deli can provide lots chicken and red pepper, red onion and Cool Picnic Pasta drink with lime twist slice and serve of the ingredients for these no cook oranges. Cover and chill well until 2 C Broccoli Florets immediately. Serves 8 GG recipes. I especially love the roasted ready to serve. Just before serving stir 1 C fresh Mushrooms, sliced Since moving to Duluth almost 2 years chickens and all natural roasted turkey in the mixed salad greens, toss gently, 1 C Kalamata Olives, pitted ago, Jane Herbert has experienced the heat and serve. Sprinkle pumpkin seeds, of the south, the blizzards of the north and breasts. Each provides about 4 cups of 1/2 C Artichoke Hearts and dried cranberries on top . now she’s hoping for a looong Minnesota perfectly cooked, tender meat perfect 1/2 C Basil, chiffonade lovely spring! She has to plant the yard and for use in salads and sandwich 1 pint Grape Tomatoes tend to the bulbs that will want to be spreads. And for sandwiches, nothing Cool On Curry sunning themselves soon. Her cat, 2 C fresh Sweet Corn, removed from beats the assorted all-natural meats 1/4 C Mayonnaise Peepers, is already sunning in the picture cob window and the dogs are wanting to walk sliced fresh in the deli, the cooling 1/4 C Yogurt down to the Big lake and sip the cold water. addition of olives and pepperdews, 1 C Annie’s Italian or Greek salad 1/4 C Sour Cream dressing She’s ready! Are you all? See you on the cheese choices for any cool meal and 1/4 C Milk Lakewalk! sweet cracker spreads to add another 1 C Feta Cheese, crumbled or fresh 2 T Curry Powder cool dimension. Mozzerella, cubed 3 C Radiatorre Pasta, cooked Brew • food • Music (218) 279-BREW • www.brewhouse.net 600 E. Superior Street • Duluth MN 55802 FRESH HANDCRAFTED ALES GOURMET SANDWICHES • VEGETARIAN MENU HOMEMADE SOUPS & CHILI GROWLERS TO GO • LIVE ENTERTAINMENT W H O L E F O O D S A C O M M U N I T Y C O - O P 3 Herb Lore ginger: a spice for life by Niki Young, member, Lake Superior Herbalist’s Guild ars were once fought physicians found that a majority of over the cinnamon and arthritis sufferers experienced a nutmeg now resting in noticeable lessening of pain and/or that adding an ounce of preventative Fresh, unpeeled ginger can be our cupboards. Pepper swelling when consuming ginger. spice in the delicious form of ginger is stored for up to three weeks in the Wand cloves were worth fortunes and Further research is underway. a wise idea. And not a single war must refrigerator or up to six months in the were even instrumental in the Spicy ginger also has been shown be fought to take advantage! Ginger is freezer. Dried ginger should be kept in development of our civilization. to offer antioxidant protection. available in several forms including a tightly sealed glass container in a However, as soon as these and other Gingerol has shown to significantly fresh, dried, crystallized, candied and dark, dry place. Dried ginger stored in spices became more plentiful, we inhibit the production of nitric oxide, a pickled. All have medicinal benefits, the refrigerator has a shelf life of quickly took them for granted, and highly reactive molecule that forms and ginger is stable when used in about one year. Enjoy! GG they have been relatively unimportant damaging free radicals. Animal cooking. Because ginger is so Niki Young is an herbalist and member of in American kitchens ever since. But studies have found that treatment with concentrated with active substances, Lake Superior Herbalist’s Guild. She has a Western science is beginning to ginger prior to radiation exposure may even small amounts will likely offer background in dietetics and nutrition and is discover new uses for these plants, not only prevent free radical damage some benefit. The spice may be used a certified nutritionist. and a spice renaissance may be to lipids in the body, but may also freely as a culinary treat and in Remember to use plants with respect and stirring. We’re learning that spices not protect levels of glutathione, one of beverages; when used in large with the wisdom of your own body. Each only taste and smell good, they are the body’s most important internally- therapeutic doses, however, ginger individual may react differently to also good medicine. They have been produced detoxifiers. Still other recent may cause stomach irritation. A good quantities. used medicinally for many centuries studies have preliminarily linked approach is to start with small doses Herbs are medicine and their use must be in other parts of the world, but now ginger to prevention of ovarian and and work up to tolerance. Herbalists taken with care and respect. Each individual those uses are being confirmed here colorectal cancer. Ginger is earning a recommend a range of doses: is different and may react differently to in the West, and people are taking reputation not only as a spice of life, certain herbs such as allergic reactions. Self- dried ginger — 250 to 5,000 mg notice. Ginger is an important but a spice for life. treat at your own risk. Consult a physician four times daily should symptoms persist. example. Ginger may provide health benefits Ginger is the underground rhizome by another mechanism as well: sweat! tea — 1 tsp. fresh ginger boiled in For more information on the Lake known as Zingiber officinale, from its Sweat serves some well-understood 2 cups water for 10–20 minutes Superior Herbalist Guild contact Sanskrit name singabera, meaning and important functions. Most Katie at 218-721-3065 or on the web: tincture — 1.5 to 3 ml per dose “horn shaped.” Warming and pungent obviously, sweat forms when we are www.diamon-naturals.us/Guild.htm ginger has been used by the Chinese exposed to high temperatures, then candied ginger — 1-inch square, for more than two-thousand years as a cools us as it evaporates. This effect 2 to 4 times per day (1 inch is digestive aid and anti-nausea remedy, can be forced by consuming spicy equivalent to 500-1,000 mg dried and to treat rheumatism, bleeding foods (most spicy foods are consumed ginger) disorders, and respiratory conditions.