taste of cincinnati
May 29, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
That’s the amount of planning most of us put into Taste of Cincinnati, this weekend’s free-wheeling foodie event that ushers in summer.
Freewheeling, that is, unless you’re Bob and Sue Traut.
They are the creators and purveyors of this year’s http://is.gd/crMg4″ target=”_new”>Best Damn Dish, the lyrically named Raspberry Cloud Pie.
As Taste’s grand winners, they know hundreds of hungry Cincinnatians will soon be circling their booth like coyotes. And as Sue Traut well remembers, “When we have won Best Dessert in the past and not had enough pie, it wasn’t pretty.”
While the average Taste-goer only has to remember to bring plenty of dollar bills and wear pants with an elastic waist, restaurant owners plan for weeks for an event that draws 500,000 people – and is susceptible to heat, cold, high winds and downpours.
The Trauts committed to their Taste offerings in April and immediately started planning logistics.
Along with more than 200 Raspberry Cloud Pies, they will schlep 40 gallons of beer cheese, 75 gallons of potato soup and 40 gallons of black beans for burritos.
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It will take three freezers alone to transport the pies, which are made of whipped raspberry sherbet and vanilla ice cream and must stay hard-frozen. “If the electricity goes off,” Bob acknowledges, “it’s two weeks’ worth of work in a big puddle.”
That’s two weeks of work wedged around the Trauts’ very full-time job of running du jours restaurant in Walnut Hills and Courtyard Café in Over-the-Rhine.
When Taste rolls around, extended family members are called in for triage, Bob Traut’s back begins to ache from cutting stacks of frozen pies, and 10-year-old Lily Traut divides her time between homework and shuttling pies to the freezer.
Jefferson County Public Schools
Latest news for Jefferson County Public Schools, Jefferson County Public Schools reprimanded David Wilson more than three years before recent serious incidents led to his early retirement.
We got a tip from a Male High School employee that Wilson had been repeatedly investigated for inappropriate conduct while serving as principal.
So we asked for records involving prior disciplinary action and we discovered a long account of an incident more than 3 years ago in which administrators say Wilson’s actions put students’ lives and the school district’s security at risk.
The faded pictures from a disposable camera show evidence of what looks like a school prank.
Books are scattered and furniture is stacked into a pyramid but the prank that took place at Male High School in May 2006 was different.
According to the investigation report, Principal David Wilson was one of its masterminds.
“We’d never had a principal that had helped assist in a senior prank that could have potentially turned out to be so dangerous,” said JCPS Spokesperson Lauren Roberts.
According to investigators, Wilson met with students and encouraged them to break into the building.
He even promised that if they were caught by police, he would get them out of trouble and handle the situation.
Wilson also advised students to prank the band tower, told them how to climb onto the roof and to encouraged them to target the library.
“Mr. Wilson had informed the students how they could get into the school after hours as well as how to compromise the security system,” said Roberts.
On the night of the prank, students broke in through a window left unlocked and pulled hundreds of books off the library shelves as well as risked life and limb vandalizing other parts of campus.more
Hot Mormon Muffins Calendar Pictures
Hot Mormon Muffins Calendar Pictures, The latest installment in a series of calendar that mocks Mormon stereotypes put a twist on motherhood.
The “Hot Mormon Muffins: A Taste of Motherhood” calendar features 12 mothers belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the image vintage pinup poses. Each month also has a recipe for muffins.
A new timetable makes fun of what its creator calls a Mormon stereotype housewives mothers from another era. “Hot Mormon Muffins: A Taste of Motherhood” with 12 mothers belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and each month has a recipe for muffins.
