RARE LIFE HONOR — SuEllen Fried is up for another honor. Eagle Rare Single Barrel Bourbon Whisky is honoring those with a passion for excellence with The Rare Life Award. The award was created to allow people to share amazing, inspirational stories about amazing people. Seven of those stories each year are awarded money to be donated to the charity of the winning nominee’s choice. Their stories are published on the website eaglerarelife.com and readers can vote for their favorites. Eagle Rare will donate $40,000 to the winner’s charity of choice and donate $44,000 to the other six finalists. Submissions will be accepted until Jan. 7, 2014. Last week Fried was one of 85 nominees so far. Her story is titled “A champion of children, an advocate for kindness, and a believer in the impossible.”
CROCK POT VERSION THREE — Reader Sam Kocherov, who now lives in Blue Ash, Ohio, sent in this tidbit to add to the continuing sage of the Crock Pot©, Rival Manufacturing and their ties to Jewish Kansas City.
In the 1960s, the news photographer for WDAF-TV, Sammie Feeback, invited Nate Accardo and Sam Kocherov, two fledgling photographers of the newly established Contemporary Illustrators studio, to a barbecue at his farm and an opportunity to meet his neighbor, Harry Truman.
Through Truman, they also were invited to meet Henry Talge, the original owner of the Rival Manufacturing Co. At that time, Talge, a World War I buddy of Truman, sponsored annual birthday parties for Truman at the Muehlebach Hotel.
Accardo and Kocherov were asked to photograph segments of those birthday parties for several years. They subsequently met Al Coleman and the Rival’s catalog production crews and an opportunity to provide catalog and sales sheet photographic services for Rival. Talge left Rival and started the Dazey Products Company. He was a noted benefactor of many fundraising activities in the Kansas City area.
NEW MANISCHEWITZ® APP — Yosef Silver of This American Bite has at least one recipe, Vegan Polenta & Black Bean Tamale Pie, featured on the Manischewitz® Company’s new free Kosher Recipe App, now available for download on all Apple® and Android™ devices. Notable chefs, cookbook authors, and everyday home cooks submitted hundreds of recipes for the app, which spans many occasions including Rosh Hashanah, Passover, Chanukah, Thanksgiving, Shabbat and Shavuot. Other categories of recipes include gluten-free, everyday meals, lunches, side dishes and desserts. In addition all recipes from finalists and winners from all past Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off Contests are included.
Besides being kosher and easy to prepare, all the recipes feature some of the most popular Manischewitz® products, including all natural broths, noodles, matzo, matzo meal, honey, and many more. It is very easy to find recipes by typing in keywords or searching through the categories. The app will be an easy way for families to find new favorite recipes that can be shared and enjoyed at holiday and everyday meals. Download it for free from the App Store for Apple® devices, and the Google Play Store for Android™ devices.