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CONCORD, Calif. — A student effort to come up with a special menu for Black History Month backfired at a Northern California high school. Interim President Sister Ann Bernard of Carondelet High School in Concord, Calif., said students who were members of the Black Student Union club at neighboring De La Salle High School planned a special lunch to celebrate the month. The menu included fried chicken, corn bread and watermelon. "They thought this was a very clever way, in their own way, of celebrating Black History Month. It was as simple, and naive as that," Sister Bernard explained. On...

Twenty years ago, as a struggling and penniless sous chef in Paris, Giorgio Locatelli once saved a month's salary simply to buy a cut of beef. But then it wasn't just any cut. It was Wagyu, and it was making its European debut as the world's most expensive meat. Yesterday he tasted it again, though this time it was free. Which was just as well, really, since the rare ingredient, imported from Japan, was the gourmet filling in Britain's most expensive sandwich - a speciality which goes on sale from tomorrow at the Sandwich Counter at Selfridge's, in Oxford Street....

An old oak tree blown down by Hurricane Katrina destroyed the home of Jessie and Sherry Krummel. Looters took everything else. But despite their misfortunes, the Krummels have been cooking dinner once a week . . . paying for much of the food out of their own pockets. "There's no way you can describe what they've done," said [one] National Guardsman. "To see someone that's still got their spirit, it makes it all worthwhile." The guardsman departed for home Saturday after one last feast. Krummel and a handful of volunteers cooked a Creole Thanksgiving dinner for the troops, complete with...

First the storm, then the floods. Now hell is apparently freezing over. Galatoire's is opening in Baton Rouge. The storied French Quarter restaurant, one of the steadfast symbols of New Orleans' singular cultural heritage, will, for the first time in its 100 years, regale customers with soufflé potatoes and trout amandine at a restaurant other than the one Jean Galatoire opened on Bourbon Street in 1905. Galatoire's Bistro, as the new restaurant will be called, should open in the capital city mid-November "maybe sooner," Rodrigue said. The Bourbon Street restaurant suffered roof damage, he said, and will need to have...

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